The 2024 Paul Ramsey Award Dinner honoring Jeffrey Bishop, M.D., Ph.D., will be held on
Saturday, June 15, 2024
East Bay, CA
Featuring Keynote Speaker
Riley Gaines
Who Is Jeffrey P. Bishop?
Jeffrey P. Bishop, MD, PhD is Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University, where he also holds the Tenet Endowed Chair in Bioethics in the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics. He is the author of The Anticipator Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying (University of Notre Dame Press, 2011), which was named the most important book published in 2011 by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Religion and Ethics Page. His second book, Biopolitics After Neuroscience: Morality and the Economy of Virtue (Bloomsbury 2022; co-authored with M. Therese Lysaught and Andrew A. Michel), was published in June 2022, winning the Expanded Reason Award from the Benedict XVI/Joseph Ratzinger Vatican Foundation.
Bishop has published on matters of spirituality and medicine, chaplaincy and health care, and theology and medicine. His previous work explores the historical, political, and philosophical assumptions that animate contemporary medical and scientific practices and theories. Bishop’s current projects are exploring the dynamism of biological systems, the limitations of scientific truth-claims, and the role of intuition in uncovering the goods of living beings.
Who Is Riley Gaines?
Riley Gaines is a leader defending women’s single-sex spaces, advocating for equality and fairness, and standing up for women’s safety, privacy, and equal opportunities.
Gaines graduated from the University of Kentucky, where she was a 12x All-American swimmer.
Riley has made waves for speaking out after tying UPenn’s Lia Thomas, a biological male swimmer on the women’s team, at the 2022 NCAA Division 1 Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships.
After Riley directly experienced competing against a man in women’s sports, being forced without warning or consent to undress before the fully intact male, and subjected to discrimination by the NCAA, she became one of the most powerful voices to speak out against the injustice, challenging the rules of the NCAA, USA Swimming, International Olympic Committee (IOC), and other governing bodies.
Riley is now the director of the Riley Gaines Center at the Leadership Institute, she is an ambassador for Independent Women’s Voice, and the host of the podcast, “Gaines for Girls.” Through all her various efforts she is making real change to defend women’s rights and single spaces.
Who Is Paul Ramsey?
Paul Ramsey (1913–1988) is regarded by many as one of the most important ethicists of the twentieth century. He served as Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion, Princeton University and was a distinguished and prolific writer on bioethics during the advent of the field in the early 1960s. Ramsey’s commitment to the sanctity and dignity of human life has shone with clarity and brightness as a beacon in the general darkness of academic bioethics for the past fifty years.
2024 Ramsey Dinner Sponsorship Levels
The Paul Ramsey Award is a project of the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network, marked with an annual event to honor those among us who have demonstrated exemplary achievement in the field of bioethics. Our awarded guests are actively equipping society to face the challenges of the twenty-first century, profoundly defending the dignity of humankind, and enthusiastically embracing ethical biotechnology for the human good. This year, Jeffrey Bishop, MD, PhD, will receive the2024 Paul Ramsey Award and Riley Gaines, 12X NCAA All-American Swimmer, will give our keynote address. Join us this June 15, 2024 to learn about the work of the CBCNetwork.
Paul Ramsey Sponsor.………………………………..……………………………………………….….$20,000
Recognition in the evening’s program as a Paul Ramsey Sponsor and two complimentary tables for 20 of your guests. Each of your 20 guests will receive a signed copy of Jennifer Lahl and Kallie Fell’s new book, The Detransition Diaries, a copy of Riley Gaine’s new children’s book, Happy No Snakes Day, and admittance into a VIP cocktail event prior to the dinner with Dr. Bishop and Ms. Gaines.
Edmund D. Pellegrino Sponsor.……………..…………..……………..………………………….….$10,000
Recognition in the evening’s program as an Edmund Pellegrino Sponsor and one complimentary table for 10 of your guests. Each of your 10 guests will receive a signed copy of Jennifer Lahl and Kallie Fell’s new book, The Detransition Diaries, a copy of Riley Gaine’s new children’s book, Happy No Snakes Day, and admittance into a VIP cocktail event prior to the dinner with Dr. Bishop and Ms. Gaines.
Lifetime Sponsor.……………..…………………..…………………………..………………………….….$5,000
Recognition in the evening’s program as a Lifetime Sponsor and a complimentary table for 10 of your guests. Each of your guests will receive a signed copy of Jennifer Lahl and Kallie Fell’s new book, The Detransition Diaries, and a copy of Riley Gaine’s new children’s book, Happy No Snakes Day.
President’s Circle Sponsor…..……………………..…………….……………..……….…………….….$2,500
Recognition in the evening’s program as a President’s Circle Sponsor and a table for 10 of your guests. Each of your guests will receive a signed copy of Jennifer Lahl and Kallie Fell’s new book, The Detransition Diaries.
For more information about the 2024 Paul Ramsey Award Dinner, or to reserve or sponsor a table, please contact Kirstin Wallace, Development Director at Kirstin.Wallace@cbc-network.org
Limited Seating • Business Attire
An Appeal for Financial Support will be Given