Getting Out and Staying Out, the New York City reentry and anti-violence organization known as GOSO, honored former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and its own East Harlem violence-interruption unit at the group’s annual gala on Wednesday, April 29, at the New-York Historical, according to a media advisory the organization distributed through the public relations firm Geto & de Milly.
The event marked 22 years of what GOSO described as transformative work for court-involved and at-risk individuals, the advisory said. The organization said its participants, staff, volunteers and supporters gathered to celebrate the milestone while recognizing Lynch, who served as the nation’s 83rd attorney general, along with investment manager Kane Brenan and FOX Sports 1 commentator Chris Broussard.
GOSO’s Cure Violence team, Stand Against Violence East Harlem, known as SAVE, was honored as the gala’s 2026 Advocate for Change for work the organization said spans a decade of service to the community. According to the advisory, GOSO is one of the only reentry and diversion programs partnered with a unit of Cure Violence, the national program that seeks to eradicate shootings and other forms of violence in underserved communities.
In the ten years since SAVE began, the team has conducted thousands of violence interruptions and expanded anti-violence services in the area, the organization said. GOSO described itself as one of the most effective reentry programs in New York City, citing a commitment to education, employment and violence prevention, and said its youth anti-violence work, literacy program and mental health clinic are grassroots approaches to addressing systemic issues facing city communities.
