The Indian-American was one of the real sheroes at the awards.
Yale and Harvard-graduate Saru Jayaraman, a professor and an advocate for low-wage restaurant workers, has been named to Crain's annual '40 under 40' list. She co-founding the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York to help former employees of Windows on the World get back to work after September 11, 2001. Her battles with powerful restaurateurs like 'Daniel Boulud' and 'Alan Stillman' have netted workers $5,80,000 in back pay.
The 'power of women' resonated all through the evening in the most emphatic fashion.
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