|
Developing a National Haitian-American
Agenda: Moving Forward Together
The
First National NCHR Conference
NCHR
The National Coalition for Haitian Rights
275 Seventh Avenue
17th Floor
New York, NY 10001
Phone: 212-337-0005
Fax: 212-741-8749
●
nchr@nchr.org
●
http://www.nchr.org
|
Economic Development And Community Wealth
Plenary Session
I
What is community wealth, and
why is it important?
Alix Cantave
● Economic Development Program Officer, Local Initiatives
Support Corporation (LISC), Boston, MA
Lavinia Limon ● Executive
Director, Immigrant Refugee Service of America (IRSA) and Immediate
Past Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), Washington, DC
Rene Bryce-Laporte ●
Senior Program Manager, Corporation for Enterprise Development,
Washington, DC
What are our assets? What
are the best avenues to economic empowerment for our community? What
resources, opportunities, etc. are available to us?
Public And Higher Education
Plenary Session
II
How is our community faring
in the US educational system?
Fabienne Doucet
● National Science Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow,
Harvard School of Education, Cambridge, MA
Flore Zephir
● Associate Professor of Roman Languages and
Literature, University of Missouri at Columbia
Eddy Bayardelle, Ph.D.
● First Vice President -- Global Philanthropy,
Merrill Lynch and Board Chair, NCHR, New York, NY
Marc Prou
● Professor, Department of African-American
Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston
How is our community faring in the US educational system? What is
the role of the culture/generation gap in educational achievement?
What are the critical issues/dynamics/trends affecting public and
higher education today and in the years to come?
Building Strong Haitian-American
Organizations
Plenary Session
III
What are the elements of a
successful nonprofit organization in the United States?
Jocelyn, McCalla
●
NCHR, New York, NY
Mark Handelman
●
Executive Vice President, New York
Association for New Americans (NYANA) and Board Member, NCHR, New
York, NY
Alexandria Douglass
●
Executive Director, Alliance for Human
Services, Miami, FL
What role does culture play in the effectiveness of Haitian
organizations? What types of leaders are needed to take our
community to the next level?
Haitians, American Democracy And Civic Participation
Plenary Session
IV
What is behind the dramatic and
sudden increase in citizenship numbers, voter registration and
Haitian-American elected officials?
The Honorable Marie St. Fleur
●
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Rick Swartz
●
President, Swartz and Associates, and
Founder, National Immigration Forum, Washington, DC
Suman Raghunathan
●
Immigrant Voter Mobilization
Coordinator, New York Immigration Coalition, New York, NY
What is the context for this trend? How can we build on and use our
emerging political voice to meet the needs of the community? |
|
 
Days-at-a-Glance
Brochure PDF
Register PDF
NCHR
The National Coalition for Haitian Rights
is a nonprofit, non-governmental organization that seeks to promote
and protect the rights of Haitian refugees and Haitian-Americans under
U.S. and international law, and to advance respect for human rights, the
rule of law and support for civil and democratic society in Haiti.
NCHR
National
Coalition for Haitian Rights
275 Seventh Avenue
17th Floor
New York, NY 10001
Phone: 212-337-0005
Fax: 212-741-8749
●
nchr@nchr.org
●
http://www.nchr.org
For further inquiries
regarding the conference and/or registering, please call (212) 337-0005
ext. 13, or email us at
register@nchr.org. All information is available on NCHR’s website,
www.nchr.org.
"Moving Forward Together"
was designed and published
by
InterMedia &
PromoInter
to sponsor & support
The First National Conference of
The National Coalition for
Haitian Rights:
"Developing
a National Haitian-American Agenda:
Moving Forward Together"
|
