We are honored to introduce our 2017 Conference guests, including chairs, speakers, moderators, panelists and keynotes. Click on a speaker for a full bio, contact and session information.
2017 Honorary Co-Chairs
Honorary Congressional Host Committee
Host Committee
Assemblymember Rodneyse Biochotte
Assemblymember and State Committee Woman / District Leader, New York State’s 42nd Assembly District
Cassandre Theano
Associate Legal officer for for Equality and Inclusion at the Open Society Foundations (The Justice Initiative)
2017 Featured Speakers
Ambassador Kenneth Merten
Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Haiti Special Coordinator, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State
2017 Speakers
Anide J. Eustache
Marketing consultant, professional coach, & speaker, trainer
Founder of Overcomer Consulting
Christina Pardo Maxis, MD MPH
Assistant Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Medicine, StonyBrook Medicine
Christine Souffrant Ntim
Co-Founder of Global Startup Ecosystem
Host of the Haiti Tech Summit & Ghana Tech Summit
Dr. Wilkerson Compere
Chairman of the Board, National Alliance for the Advancement of Haitian Professionals (NAAHP)
Ernest J. Barthélemy, M.D., M.A.
Resident Physician in Neurosurgery, Mount Sinai Health System
Paul Farmer Global Surgery Fellow 2017-2019
Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Dept. of Global Health and Social Medicine
Jean Marie Altema
Senior IT Specialist
Commissioner of the National Commission for Innovation and Socio-professional Integration of the Youth
Advisor to the Minister of Finance
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, PhD, MBA
Technical Advisor in Innovation, Science and Competitiveness, Office of the President of the Republic of Haiti
Jeffrey R. Gardere, Ph.D., ABPP
Board Certified Clinical Psychologist and Associate Professor and Course Director at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine
Joseph Makhandal Champagne
Chairman of the National Haitian-American Elected Officials Network (NHAEON.)
Lee Parker
Vice President and Private Client Associate at U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management
Lesly Kernisant, M.D., FACOG
Chief Medical Officer, Broooklyn Plaza Medical Center, Inc Brooklyn, New York
Ludovic Comeau, Jr
Professor, Economics, DePaul University
President, GRAHN-USA
Vice-President, GRAHN-Monde
Lyne Vanessa Alexandre
US Alumni, YLAI 2016
Medical practitioner, Leader, Activist, & Entrepreneur
Former president and general secretary of youth association or medical foundation
Marjorie Brennan, MD, MPH
Chair of the Advisory Board, NAAHP
Medical Director of Children’s National Health System Ambulatory Surgery Center in Montgomery County
Michele V. Boisrond
Data Center - Plant Engineering Supervisor / Social Entrepreneur / Diversity Advocate
Nadege Dady, Ed.D
Dean of Student Affairs & Assistant Professor, Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine
Noel Jonathas, Jr., M.Sc., LL.M.
Managing Director of INSSI Group (a boutique management consulting firm)
Raymond Janvier
Vice President and Private Client Associate at U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management
Sandra Florvella-Pierre
Public Administrator
CEO & Founder of Haitian Businesses, LLC
Co-Founder of Haitea
Usha E. Pitts
Foreign Service Officer & Diplomat in Residence for New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania