Welcome! This special event is designed to showcase various profiles in internationally oriented work, and to offer a personalized and unhurried setting in which to converse individually with a distinguished group of panelists and guest presenters. While discussions will be firmly focused on international and global perspectives, they may also dispel the notion that a global career automatically means expatriation or intensive travels. The guests featured in the program illustrate how business people, lawyers, nurses, activists, artists, doctors, programmers or other professionals expand their talents and their reach to meet the needs of the global community.
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PROGRAM OF ACTIVITIES
Please plan to arrive at the Theater by 1:45PM, as the panel will begin promptly at 2PM.
2:00 PM – 3:15PM
Panel Presentation , followed by Questions and Answers
Location: Nelly Goletti Theater, 3rd Floor, Marist Student Center
3:30PM – 5:00 PM
Information Forum with the Presenters and Panelists
Refreshments
Location: Student Center 349
GUEST PANELISTS:
Vice President, HALO International, the leading humanitarian organization dedicated to landmine-clearing.
Has worked most recently in Angola, Cambodia and Afghanistan.
International Vice-President for Calvin Klein Apparel/WARNACO
Formerly Vice-President, Liz Clairborne Co. Has worked and lived in Brazil, France and Central America.
Mr. Normand LAUZON
Executive Secretary,United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
Formerly UNDP Deputy in Sudan, Burkina Faso, Morocco, the Ivory Coast; former Economic Adviser in Niger
International Corporate Law; represented US clients in China, Western Europe and Japan
Founding Director, Wihelm C.Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot.
Creator and Producer, AFROPOP WORLDWIDE (Public Radio International) hosted by Georges Collinet
World music journalist and producer of the Web resource www.afropop.org, and the Afropop e-Newsletter.
Program Director, International and Public Health, New-York Medical College
Member of the Board and representative to the UN for Physicians for Social Responsibility
Mrs. Marie José MONTANEZ,
Asst. Principal, Nyack High School
Specializing in the educational needs of Haitian American children and programs of outreach abroad.
Admissions Officer, West Point Academy; US. Army.
Served as Military Police Officer in South Korea.
HUDSON VALLEY GUESTS PRESENTERS
Mr. Geoffrey AUNG
High School activist and fundraiser for Amnesty International, and
Free Burma Coalition. Poughkeepsie, NY
Dr. Catherine BOKOR
Linguist, translator, and co-founder of Accurapid Translation Service, Poughkeepsie, NY
Assistant Dean of Advanced Cooking, Culinary Institute of America, former chef at “Chez Panisse” Berkeley,
world traveler, researcher on the historical connection between the culinary traditions and agricultural practices of different cultures.
Project’s editor, Poughkeepsie Journal
Award-winning co-author of "From Poverty to the Green Valley",
a report on Mexican immigrants in the Hudson Valley.
Mr. David VIOLANTE
Assistant Director of EMS for the Arlington Fire District, Poughkeepsie, NY
Volunteer for S.H.A.R.E International, an NGO helping hospitals in Kenya.
Mr. Dino QUINTERO
Project Leader, International Technical Support Organization, IBM,
Marist Alumnus.