Nicholas Feeney, Director (Washington, DC)

• Director of Communications at USA for UNHCR (the National Partner for the UN refugee agency).

• Nic leads content and story production at USA for UNHCR, amplifying the voices of newly arrived refugees in the U.S., as well  as crisis situations around the world.

• Nic has traveled many times to both sides of our southern border.

 

Dory Waxman, Director and Officer (Portland, Maine)

• Former Portland, Maine City Council member.

• Local activist at the center of numerous contentious issues from homelessness to access to equitable education and economic    development.

• Founder of Common Threads, a nonprofit that taught industrial stitching skills to an immigrant community and facilitated  their employment.

​Terry Tourville, Co-Founder and Officer (Portland, Maine)

• Former consultant providing strategic planning to corporate clients, government entities and citizens alike to reach consensus  on public/private initiatives.

• Former on-camera host for HGTV’s Dream House series.

• Co-owner of Publik Pictures, LLC, a boutique film production company.

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Drs. Harriett and Ricardo Romo, Advisors (San Antonio, TX)

• Published authors in Sociology and Urban History respectively.

• One of the largest collectors and patrons of Chicano and Latino art in the U.S.

• Two Presidential Councils (Obama and Bush).

• The Romos have served in many academic roles, from inner-city schools to University President

• Currently Ricardo writes and Harriett edits “Latinos in America,” a weekly news feature about Latino art for La Prensa (San  Antonio newspaper) and on Substack as well.

 

Luis Valderas & Kim Bishop, Advisors (San Antonio, TX)

• U.S. and internationally exhibited artists.

• Over sixty years of combined experience in the arts, public education and community engagement through their production  company Bishop & Valderas, LLC.

• Kim is an Adjunct Professor of Drawing and Visual Culture at the University of Texas, San Antonio.

• Luis is on the board of The New York Foundation for the Arts/Immigrants Artist Program.

• Together they developed a K-12 Chicano Art Curriculum through the support of the U.S. Department of Education.

 

Alan Brewer, Advisor (Portland, Maine)

Nearly fifty years experience as a journalist, political press secretary and speech writer.​

• Reporting appeared in the Washington Post, New Times Magazine, Politicks Magazine and Elected Public Official Magazine. 

• Served as Press Secretary for Senator William S. Cohen.

• Conceived and wrote fundraising packages cultivating donors for the ACLU, Amesty International, The Nature Conservancy  and others.

• Currently hosts and produces a YouTube channel, Indications and Warnings, that is dedicated to on the ground coverage of  Russia’s genocidal invasion of Ukraine.

 

Lindsay Aouled Ezzine, Advisor (Laval, Quebec)

• Traveled the globe as a freelance cultural journalist from Asia to Africa and Europe and beyond.

• Conversant in multiple languages.

• Currently she is the Senior Digital Content Strategist for Telus Health, a partner of TELUS International, managing web  content, and SEO strategy for domestic and international audiences.

 

Alison Gorman MD, Advisor (Portland, Maine)

• Spent a year with Jesuit Volunteers Corps working at a free-standing community health center in Los Angeles.

• Worked in health clinics throughout the U.S, Kenya and Honduras. 

• Currently a primary care doctor at Greater Portland Health, working with immigrant families and individuals.

• Spearheads Arts in Healthcare, a national alliance producing projects at Greater Portland Health.