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Thanks to Resources
Thank you to the professional resources that met with our international guests from February through May, 2010.
Abu-Bakr Mosque - Imam Omar Suleiman
Agenda for Children - Ms. Olayeela Daste, Child Care Resources Parent Counselor and Complaint Manager
American Red Cross, Southeast New Orleans Chapter - Ms. Kay Wilkins, Chief Executive Officer
America’s WETLAND Foundation - Ms. Amy Dye, Accounts Assistant, Marmillion + Co.; Mr. John Hill, Senior Media Consultant, Marmillion + Co.
Amistad Research Center of Tulane University - Mr. Lee Hampton, Executive Director; Mr. Christopher Harter, Director of Reference and Library Services
Mr. Sidney Arroyo, Political Media Strategist
Arts Council of Louisiana - Mr. Gene Meneray, Director, Arts Business Program
Art Spot Productions - Mr. Sean LaRocca, Managing Director; Ms. Kathy Randels, Artistic Director
Beacon of Hope - Ms. Heather Huth, Director of Volunteers; Ms. Denise Thornton, President; Ms. Connie Uddo, Director
Belle Reve - Ms. Vicki Weeks, Executive Director
Blue Iris Sangha - Mr. Andrew Holbein; Ms. Dolores Watson
Bollinger Shipyard - L. Clifton Dickerson III, General Counsel; Kimberly Theriot-Smith, Counsel
Bridge City Center for Youth - Chef Ron Sonnier; Ms. Cassandra Washington, Administrative Program Director; Mr. Rickey Wright, Assistant Director; Youth Guides Blake and Joseph
Hon. Olivier Brochenin, Dean of the Consular Corps, Consul General of France
Mr. Greg Beuerman, Political Consultant
Broadmoor Improvement Association - Ms. LaToya Cantrell, President
Bureau of Governmental Research - Mr. Peter Reichard, Projects Manager
Cabildo (Louisiana State Museum) - Dr. Charles Chamberlain, Museum Historian
Café Reconcile - Mr. David Coy, Development Assistant; Chef Craig Cuccia, Founder
Carrollton United Methodist Church Shepherd’s Center - Ms. Sylvia Warren, Director
Children’s Bureau of New Orleans - Ms. Paulette Carter, President/CEO
Children’s Hospital - Mr. Rodolfo E Bégué, MD, Chief Infectious Diseases and Professor of Pediatrics, LSU Health Sciences Center; Ms. Barbara Brown, Program Director/Department Head, Family Advocacy Care and Education Services (FACES)
Children's Museum - Ms. Simonne Robinson, Operations & Human Resources Director
US Coast Guard Sector New Orleans - Mr. Bob Mueller, CAPT USCG (Retired) former Deputy Commander
Common Ground Health Clinic - Dr. Antor Ndep, Executive Director
Community Center of St. Bernard - Mr. R.M. "Iray" Nabatoff, Founder and Executive Director
Congregation Beth Israel - Rabbi Uri Topolosky
Congressman Joseph Cao’s District Office - Mr. Murray Nelson, District Director
Crescent City Lights Youth Theatre - Ms. Julie Condy, Director
Criminal District of Orleans Parish Elections Division - Mr. Arthur Morrell, Clerk of Court
Dredging Supply Company - Mr. Bob Wetta, President
EngageNOLA - Mr. Michael Grodsky, Coordinator; Mr. Morgan Williams, Founder
Entergy Corp. - Mr. Brent Dorsey, Director, Corporate Environmental Programs
Episcopal Community Services of Louisiana - Ms. Liz Carrier, Rebuild Coordinator
Episcopal Diocese - Ms. Nell Bolton, Director
Family Service of Greater New Orleans (The Hate Crimes Project) - Mr. David Haynik, Clinical Director; Ms. Mary McClure, Program Coordinator
Fashion Instituteof New Orleans - Ms. Blane Clayton, Director
Federal Agency for Technical Relief, Bonn, North Rhine-Westfalen, Germany - Mr. Jan Garbers, Former Division Head
Federal Bureau of Investigations - Ms. Tracey Harris, FBI Special Agent; Mr. Steve Parker, Assistant US Attorney; Mr. Howard Schwartz, Assistant Special Agent in Charge; Ms. Sheila Thorne, FBI Special Agent
Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Louisiana Transitional Recovery Office - Mr. Manuel Broussard, Public Affairs Lead; Ms. Nora Huete, Individual Assistance Section Chief; Ms. Stephanie Moffett, Communications; Mr. Jeremy Rose, Public Assistance Representative; Ms. Gail Tate, Intergovernmental Affairs Lead; Mr. Charlie Tobelman, Mitigation Representative
French Quarter Festivals, Inc. - Ms. Marci Schramm, Executive Director
Councilmember Arnie Fielkow, President of the City Council
TheGambit Weekly - Ms. Jeanne Foster, Marketing Director
Mr. Eric Granderson, Chief of Staff for Councilmember Fielkow
Greater New Orleans Inc. - Mr. Austin Marks, Chief of Staff
Greater New Orleans Disaster Recovery Partnership
Greater New Orleans Foundation - Ms. LaToria Willis, Manager of Donor Relations
Hands On New Orleans - Ms. Kertrina Watson Lewis, Executive Director; Ms. Geneva Marney, Director of Development
Hispanic Apostolate Community Services of Catholic Charities - Ms. Maria (Tuly) Guitart, Immigration Services
Human Relations Commission of the City of New Orleans - Mr. Larry Bagneris, Executive Director
Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies (IWES) - Ms. Rheneisha Robertson, Executive Director; Dr. Denese Shervington, Co-Founder and President
Interfaith Communications - Mr. William Mackintosh, Executive Director
Interfaith Works - Ms. Allison Bailey; Ms. Nancy Murray; Mr. Erik Schwarz
Jefferson Parish Children and Youth Planning Board - Dr. John Ryals, Member; Mr. Christopher Trosclair, Assistant Director, Department of Juvenile Services
Jefferson Parish Juvenile Court - Mr. Justin Hollister, Supervising Court Attorney
Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office - Captain William Boudreaux, Internal Affairs Commander; Lieutenant Grey Thurman, Personal Violence Commander
Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans - Mr. Neil Schneider, Director of Planning, Allocations & Community Relations
Junior Achievement of Greater New Orleans - Ms. Susie Dudis, Director of Education
Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana - Ms. Sarah Covert, Models for Change Program Coordinator
Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation - Ms. JoAnn Burke, Education Coordinator
La Source Ancienne Sosyete (Vodou Ounfo) - Ms. Sallie Ann Glassman; Mr. Edgar Jean Louis
Leake & Andersson, LLP - Mr. Edward T. Hayes, Attorney
Levees.org - Ms. Sandy Rosenthal, President
Lockport, town of - Hon. Richard Champagne, Mayor; Chief Warren Vedros, Chief of Police
Louisiana Board of Ethics - Mr. Michael Dupree, Attorney Supervisor and Staff Attorney
Louisiana Clearinghouse for Missing and Exploited Children - Mr. Walter Fahr, Manager
Louisiana Department of Economic Development - Mr. Dane Revette, Director of Energy Development
Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality - Mr. Jeff Dauzat, Environmental Scientist
Louisiana Department Health and Hospitals - Dr. Raoult Ratard, Louisiana State Epidemiologist
Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (LDNR) - Ms. Monique Edwards, Assistant Secretary, Office of Mineral Resources; Mr. James Welsh, Assistant Secretary and Commissioner of Conservation
Louisiana District Export Council (LADEC) - Mr. John Hyatt, Member and Vice President of the Irwin Brown Co.
Louisiana Office of the Legislative Auditor - Mr. Thomas Cole, Director of Financial Audit Division; Mr. David Greer, Director of Performance Audit Division; Mr. Paul Pendas, Director of Financial Audit Division; Mr. Daryl Purpera, Assistant Legislative Auditor and Director of Compliance Audit Division
Louisiana Office of Juvenile Justice - Ms. Jerel Giarrusso, Communications Director; Dr. Mary Livers, Deputy Secretary; Mr. Girard Melancon, Assistant Secretary; Ms. Michelle Smith, Deputy Assistant Secretary
Louisiana State Senate - Senator Sharon Weston Broome, President Pro Tempore; Mr. Jerry Guillot, Chief of Staff
Louisiana State University Law Center - Ms. Lucy McGough, Professor of Law
Louisiana Public Health Institute - Ms. Susan Bergson, Program Manager
Louisiana Tuberculosis Control Program - Mr. Tyrone London, Regional TB Program Manager
Loyola University New Orleans - Mr. Josh Daly, Associate Chaplain and Director, Immersion Programs; Mr. George Gallien, Director of Interfaith Center and Black Student Ministry; Dr. Angel Parham, Professor of African American Studies; Dr. Robert Thomas, Senior Scientist & Chairman, Loyola Center for Environmental Communications
Luke's House Medical Clinic - Ms. Giselle Bock, Interim Executive Director
Lusher High School Key Club
Mr. John Maginnis, Journalist and Author
Mahalia Jackson Early Learning Center- Dr. Pat Cooper, Director; Ms. Mindy Hawes, Communications Director
Mr. Greg Malveaux, former Election and Registration Fraud Liaison Director, Louisiana State Department of Elections and Registration
Masjidur Rahim - Imam Rafeeq NuMan
Mayor's Office of Environmental Affairs - Ms. Wynecta Fisher, Director; Mr. Brad Case, Hazard Mitigation Specialist
Mayor's Office of Health Policy (OHP) - Ms. Fran Lawless, Director of Office of Health Policy
Mayor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness of East Baton Rouge Parish - Ms. JoAnne Moreau, Director
McMain High School Based Health Center - Ms. Gwen Collins, School Nurse
Metropolitan Center for Women and Children - Ms. Dale Standifer, Director; Mr. Wayne Barnes, Community Educator
Metropolitan Crime Commission - Mr. Anthony Radosti, Vice-President
New Orleans City Councilmember Shelley Midura
New Orleans Crime Coalition - Mr. Michael Cowan, Executive Director
New Orleans Health Department - Ms. Willie Mae Martin, Director, Health Care for the Homeless
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation, Inc. - Mr. Scott Aiges, Director of Programs, Marketing and Communications
New OrleansLevee - Mr. Rodney Montz, Publisher/President
New Orleans Museum of Art - Mrs. Lisa Rotondo-McCord, Assistant Director for Art/Curator of Asian Art
New Orleans Office of Inspector General, Ethics Review Board - Mr. Edouard Quatrevaux, Inspector General
New Orleans Police Department - Lt. Lynn Fletcher, Commander of the First Platoon of the Seventh District
New Orleans Regional AIDS Planning Council (NORAPC) - Ms. Brandi Bowen, Program Director
NO/AIDS Task Force - Mr. Enrique Moresco, Director of Operations
Orleans Parish Criminal District Court - Honorable Laurie A. White, Presiding Judge Section A
Port of New Orleans - Mr. Robert Landry, Director of Marketing
Prevent Child Abuse Louisiana - Ms.Amanda Brunson
Project Home Coming in New Orleans - Rev. Jean Marie Peacock, Associate Presbyter for Congregational Development and Disaster Recovery
Radha Radhakantha Mandir (ISKCON New Orleans) - Anata Gopal; Joy Guhasarkar
Recovery School District (RSD) - Mr. Ramsey Green, COO
Rivarde Memorial Home - Mr. Christopher Trosclair and Staff
Roots of Music - Ms. Allison Reinhardt, Founder and Program Director
Senator Mary Landrieu’s Office - Mr. Wes Kungel, Regional Representative
Shell Robert Training and Conference Center - Mr. Thomas Broom, Operations Director
Sierra Club Delta Chapter - Mr. Darryl Malek-Wiley, Regional Representative
Sikh Society of the South (Gurdwara Sahib N.O.) – Mr. Raj Pannu
Southeast Louisiana Legal Services - Ms. Bernadette D’Souza
Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) - Mr. Ron Lospennato, Litigation Director, School-to-Prison Reform Project
Sri Veera Venkata Satyanarayana - Dr. CV
St. Anna's Medical Mission - Ms. Celeste Lewis, RN; Mr. James Morris, GSW
Sweet Home New Orleans - Ms. Kate Benson, Program Director; Mr. Jordan Hirsch, Executive Director
Touro Infirmary - Ms. Denice Eshleman, Director of Emergency Management and Safety
Trinity Episcopal Church - Ms. Sharon Alexander, Director of Community Ministries/Outreach; Father William Barnwell, Community Ministries; Mr. Albinas Prinzgintas, Director of Music Ministries; Ms. Manon Prinzgintas, Musical Director, Trinity Art Series; Mother Phoebe Roaf, Associate Rector
Trinity Episcopal School - Father Michael Kuhn, Headmaster
Tulane University - Dr. Alla Rosca, Professor of International Relations; Ms. Marion Wieser, PhD Candidate and Instructor
Tulane University Center for Public Service - Ms. Dominica Garza, CPS-based AmeriCorps VISTA member Social Media Liaison; Ms. Jodine Gordon, AmeriCorps VISTA member, CPS liaison based at The Idea Village, Entergy Innovation Center; Mr. Michael Pizzolatto, CPS AmeriCorps VISTA Program Manager; Mr. Matt Sweeney, AmeriCorps VISTA member, CPS liaison based at Alliance for Affordable Energy
Tulane University Freeman School of Business - Dr. Lina Alfieri Stern, Director, Levy-Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship; Dr. John Trapani, Professor of Economics
Tulane University Homeland Security Studies - Mr. Keith Amacker, Capt., US Navy (Retired), Director
Tulane University Law School - Dr. Adam Babich, Director, Tulane Environmental Law Clinic; Dr. Mark Davis, Director, Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law and Policy; Mr. Vernon Palmer, Professor of Law; Ms. Tania Tetlow, Associate Professor of Law and Director, Domestic Violence Clinic
Tulane University Office of Multicultural Affairs - Ms. Carolyn Barber-Pierre, Assistant Vice-President for Student Affairs/Intercultural Life
Tulane University Public Law Center- Dr. David Marcello, Executive Director
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine - Dr. John Clements, Director, Center for Infectious Diseases; Ms. Penny Jessop, Senior Program Coordinator; Dr. John B. Mason, Professor, Int’l Health & Development; Dr. Dominique Meekers, Chair of Int’l Health & Development; Dr. Stacey Gage, Associate Professor; Ms. Tory Taylor, MPH, Research Associate
Tulane University Section of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics - Dr. Karen B. DeSalvo, Professor of Medicine
University of New Orleans - Dr. Raphael Cassimere, Professor Emeritus of the History Department; Dr. Ed Chervenak, Professor of American Politics; Dr. Charles Hadley, Professor of Political Science; Dr. Walter Lane, Professor of History
University of New Orleans Center Austria - Professor Gűnter Bischof, Chair of History Department; Dr. Peter Moser, Diplomat in Residence and Professor
WWL Radio - Mr. Dave Cohen, News Director
WWL TV - Mr. Michael Perlstein, Managing Editor
WWNO - Mr. Paul Maassen, General Manager
WWOZ Radio – Mr. David Friedman, General Manager
Xavier University - Dr. Marcellus Grace, former Dean of Pharmacy; Father Phillip Linden, Associate Professor, Theology; Dr. Michael White, Traditional Jazz Clarinetist and Professor of Music
Young Aspirations/Young Artists (YA/YA) - Ms. Baty Landis, Executive Director
Youth Rebuilding New Orleans - Mr. Bob Whitman, Coordinator
Thanks to Hosts
Thank you to all who welcomed visitors with home hospitality, sightseeing, or transportation from February through May, 2010.
Ms. Susan Bouchon hosted a German journalist and a Greek visitor studying juvenile justice at a local restaurant for dinner.
Ms. Susannah Coolidge & Mr. Fred Diegel hosted five Georgians studying elections for a Mardi Gras parade and nine visitors from Africa studying the administration of justice.
Ms. Peg Culligan was a volunteer driver for a Swedish and an Italian visitor studying volunteerism.
Mr. Kanwal Dhir hosted visitors from India and the Philippinesstudying juvenile justice at a Covington restaurant for lunch.
Mr. Mike Dunn, president of the New Orleans Japan Club, hosted two Japanese visitors studying juvenile justice at a local restaurant for lunch.
Ms. Heather & Mr. John Farnsworth hosted three visitors from Senegal and one visitor from Togo studying the administration of justice in their home for dinner.
Ms. Rosemarie Fowler hosted two visitors from Guinea and Tunisia studying the administration of justice in her home for dinner.
Mr. Robert Freeland hosted visitors from Venezuela and Brazil studying juvenile justice, and a visitor from Angola studying public health in his home for dinner.
Dr. Louis & Mrs. Janie Glade hosted visitors from Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, and Tanzania studying public health in their home for dinner.
Ms. Machelle & Mr. Keith Hall hosted two visitors from Armenia studying American legislatures, and visitors from Benin, Burkina Faso, and Central African Republic studying the administration of justice.
Mr. Richard & Ms. Marrietta Herr hosted visitors from Trinidad and Tobago and Panama studying U.S. trade policy in their home for dinner.
Dr. Najoua Hotard hosted visitors from the Philippines and the Democratic Republic of Congo studying U.S. trade policy, an imam from France, and visitors from Germany and Turkey studying juvenile justice at local restaurants.
Mr. Jerry Jeane & Ms. Nicole Jeane hosted a Swedish visitor studying volunteerism in their home for dinner. Mr. Jeane was a volunteer driver for the Swedish and an Italian visitor.
Dr. E. Ralph Lupin, Honorary Consul of Romania, hosted a doctor from Romania.
Hon. Arnaldo Partesotti, the Honorary Consul of Italy in New Orleans, hosted an Italian visitor studying volunteerism in his home for dinner.
Ms. Jen Ponce and Mr. Peter Gardener hosted a group of nine Chinese visitors studying environmental protection in their home for dinner.
Ms. Vesna Sigel hosted a visitor from Australia studying U.S. trade policy.
Ms. Lois & Mr. Martin Simpson hosted an Indonesian journalist in their home for an overnight stay.
Ms. Fran and Mr. Larry Sisung hosted visitors from Estonia, Hungary, and Serbia studying trade at a restaurant for dinner.
Dr. Alla Rosca & Dr. Ed Chervenak hosted three visitors from Armenia studying American legislatures at a local restaurant for lunch.
Ms. Cheryl Streit & Ms. Ginger Parsons hosted six visitors from Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Oman, Sierra Leone, and Chile studying juvenile justice in Ms. Streit’s home for dinner. Ms. Streit was a volunteer driver for a Swedish and an Italian visitor
Dr. Mohammad and Dr. Tasneim Suleman hosted six Pakistani visitors studying infectious diseases in their homes for dinner.
Ms. Nancy Turner was a volunteer driver for two U.S.trade policy visitors from Trinidad and Tobago and Panama.
Mr. Edmund Wright, Honorary Consul for Belize in New Orleans, hosted a visitor from Belize studying juvenile justice in a local restaurant for dinner.
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