BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Read about the people who provide strong leadership for the Peace Museum.
Peace through Teamwork
Sergio Kopeliovich Efrato
Director NYCPM
Peace through
Planning
Architect and Painter, Kopeliovich is Director and Founder of the international “Journeys for Peace” program committed to the Clinton Global Initiative and recognized by the Peres Peace Center. Sergio cooperates with global peace initiatives including the United Nations "International day of Peace", and the "Three Dot Dash Just Peace Summit" as a coalition partner for which he postulates GTL's (Global Teen Leaders) for its anual meeting in New York.
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Education
He is an art profesor for the ICAF Interational Childern Art Foundation World Children Festival, which held an exhibition in the Delegates' Lounge of the United Nations celebrating the "Universal Children’s Day" where he directed a panel to discuss "Children`s Art for Peace" a Global Peace Initiative, focused on the use of the arts in promoting dialogue, fostering peace, and initiating mutual understanding among world cultures and civilizations.
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Meditation
Alejandra Palafox
​Alejandra Palafox has over 20 years of experience in the public/private sector in the fields of Brand Marketing and International Trade. Experienced in Planning and Execution of Marketing Programs for Fortune 500 & Private Companies.
For the past 4 years she worked for the Mexican Trade Commission of New York. Skills include: Excellent writing and verbal communication skills, P&L and Budgeting. Fluent in English, Spanish, French and Italian. Alejandra volunteered for SFK in a program that gave empowerment to outreach kids.
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Design
Rosa Amanda Tuiran
Rosa Amanda Tuirán is a consultant in SPIN Taller de Comunicación Política; she has worked as a research assistant in Mexico’s Autonomous Institute of Technology (ITAM) as well as its development programme with the United Nations.
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She volunteered in the first World Youth Conference of the United Nations in Mexico, and was a member of the organizational committee of the First National Public Health Case Competition. Additionally, she worked at the Mexican Embassy Moscow as an assistant.
Peace through Empowerment
Shulin Zhang
Shulin Zhang, who is recognized as a Global Teen Leader and
Peacemaker by WAFF Foundation, municipal and federal government of
Canada, is president and co-founder of R.A.I.N. Realize Awareness in
Nations. She has worked on the Realize Canada Tour, demonstrating
meditation in universities, charitable organizations, corporations and so
on.
She has also co-launched the “R.A.I.N. with Sunshine Tour with a team
of volunteers and rapidly obtained the support of several artists (such as
Yoann Freejay), bringing in Ontario communities the transformative
experience of meditation in a unique and highly creative way.
Peace through
Architecture
Mariel Madrigal
Mariel Madrigal is an architect and coordinator of Journeys for Peace.
During her studies she worked on ecological planning and construction
of a private house as an architectural assistant.
She also serves as Construction Supervisor at ‘El Globo’
bakery’s, managing day-to- day operations and taking decisions
about design and construction for openings and refreshing the look of
existing locations in several states of Mexico; previously, she worked on
interior design and conceptual design projects as freelancer.
Peace through
Coaching
Robert Galinsky
Robert Galinsky is founder of GalinskyCoaching.com, is head speaker coach at TEDxTeen and TEDxFultonStreet, works with teenagers in Rikers Island Jail and jails and prisons throughout NY State via the organization Literacy for Incarcerated Teens, and also teaches at Getting Out Staying Out (GOSONYC) a re-entry program for formerly incarcerated young men. He is the founder of the Galinsky Volunteer Vanguard where he gathers folks to take on missions at prisons and jails throughout NYC. Robert Galinsky is proud to be a founding member of the We Are Family Foundation's Three Dot Dash Just Peace Summit and his work as an activist and artist has been chronicled in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Advertising Age and on NPR, the View and many more media outlets. Galinsky made his Off Broadway debut (at Cherry Lane Theatre) as both a playwright and actor in the fall of 2017 with his one-person play "The Bench, A Homeless Love Story”. The show also marks the New York directorial debut of Jay O. Sanders and is presented by Golden Globe Nominated Chris Noth, Drama Desk, Obie, Olivier Award winner Barry “Shabaka" Henley and is produced by Tony Award winning producer Terry Schnuck. “If you enjoy the work of Anna Deavre Smith or 'Humans of New York’ you’re in for a treat!” Theater is Easy.
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Initiative
Deborah Jacob
Deborah Jacob studied the degree in social communication at the University of Communication. She has collaborated writing in different media about social entrepreneurship, politics and society. She actively participates in international forums on entrepreneurship and youth leadership .She worked in Ashoka, innovators for the Public in which she served as logistics coordinator, leading a team of 45 employees who evaluated over 56,000 initiatives to solve social and environmental issues. After her time in Ashoka Deborah joined SHARE Foundation in order to organize programs that inspire children and youth to work together to better our world.
Nelly G. Hernández Reyes
Estefanía Rosales
Nelly is part of the World Youth Alliance, which works at international
institutions such as the UN and helps to build a culture that supports
and nurtures the dignity of each human person.
As President of USEM Joven (Social Union of Businessmen in Mexico), she
is focused on forming generations of youth businessmen, human,
competent and committed with the transformation of their companies
and with society.
She has worked as a Vice-director in “Comedor Santa Maria”, foundation
to help the poorest children in Mexico, as in ASUA (Accion Social de la
Universidad Anahuac), where she labored as President for two years.
Estefania Rosales is an architect
from Mexico City. As a student she participated in workshops with architects such as Mauricio Rocha and Gabriela Carrillo alongside Domus magazine, and
Japanese architect Makoto Nakayama, where her team won first place with “Casa Habitacion Valle de Bravo”. She has also worked alongside Raíces de México, a New York based magazine, which focused on displaying the multiple activities of the Mexican community in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey.
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Peace through
Art
Peace through
Sustainability
Alyona Badalova
Alyona Badalova is the Founder, President and Director of non-profit organization Child and Youth Development Center "My Way",a multi - cultural organization that brings communities together through art, dance, music, sports and heritage.
She has graduated with a Masters Combined Bachelor Degree of Arts in Teaching. Along with this she has a deep understanding and knowledge of working
with children, as a former teacher and assistant principal
of many years along with working as a program coordinator
for children in orphanages and special needs
facilities. She also has extensive experience working in
leadership and coordinator positions. Alyona has conducted many concerts, festivals, art exhibitions, and tournaments between different communities. One of her annual projects includes the Silk Road Festival NYC. Alyona uses her knowledge to bring people together,serve various communities, and to best help children learn and reach their full potential. She has been awarded by several agencies for her outstanding work in this field.
José Oldak
Yosi, a father of three, is a parallel entrepreneur holds two bachelors degrees, one in business with a specialty in finance and one in economics, from ITAM, Mexico´s top institution for these fields. He also holds a Masters Degree in Environmental Management from Duke University, a Joint Tulane-ITAM MBA and has completed other studies and programs that include Singularity University’s executive program and Universidad del Medio Ambiente executive program for environmental entrepreneurship, as well as courses in Tel-Aviv university, Georgetown, and Harvard. He has started over 16 startups in fields that include material science, biotech, aerospace, and IT. He is a strong believer in innovative solutions to everyday problems and a strong believer in seeing problems from different angles, which also explains why two of his passions are flying and scuba diving.
Peace through
Responsibility
Doug Singer
Doug Singer is a lifelong entrepreneur and innovator whose prolific endeavors include the founding of a national wellness bureau. Additionally, he was instrumental in the development and launch of Brain Power, an organization that provided educational tools designed to offer a brighter future for a wide array of individuals in the Philippines. He is currently an internationally published food and wine writer, Travel Editor for Jetset Magazine and founding partner of Singer New York Real Estate. Doug is a passionate businessman and creative problem solver who is deeply committed to everything with which he is involved. His skills with using cutting-edge tools and editorial coverage to further his causes have proven significant results time and time again.
Peace through
Music
Alan Zundelevich
Alan Zundelevich, composer, arranger, producer, songwriter and music educator. Highly acclaimed music composer, arranger and performer with over 30 years of experience in the entertainment industry including the recording industry, motion picture production, theater, radio and television. Graduate of Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Received full tuition scholarship from the college based on prior achievement. Studied under legendary teachers. More known as a jazz composer and arranger in the San Diego and the Los Angeles area. He received a balanced education in both contemporary and traditional studies in composition. Has an extensive record working with, and helping, non-profit, charity organizations. Produced tracks of promotional music for the Peres Children’s For Peace organization, as well as the Journeys for Peace non-profit organization.
Peace through
Faith
Rabbi Yakov David Cohen
Rabbi Yakov David Cohen is the founder and director of Institute of Noahide Code (www.Noahide.org) UN NGO Universal Noahide for all people with Universal Peace, born in Brooklyn, New York USA. Rabbi Yakov D Cohen received his Rabbinic Ordination from the Chief-Rabbi Piekarski OBM Bachelor’s Degree at the Rabbinical College of America and was ordained as a Dayan / Jewish judge UL Yeshiva NY, and a graduate degree from Monash University Australia. Renowned Talmudic scholar , a writer on various Jewish subjects, most recently worked on a compilation of the works for Noahide practice, NY TV show “One People One World under G-D” and a book titled “Divine Image”. Met with the President and world leaders, an experienced lecturer who travels the world including China , Korea and Africa. Rabbi Cohen serves as the head of a delegation to the United Nations NGO ECOSOC, relishes the questions of both the perplexed and not so, of all backgrounds and ages.
Peace through
Dance
Elisa Yael Hernández
Elisa Yael Hernández is Co-Founder and Public Representative of non-profit organization RELEVE ("Centro de Formación y Promoción de Danza Clásica Isaac y Esteban Hernández, A.C”) an organization whose principal purpose is to change lives through Classical Ballet, giving them opportunities to become professional dancers or teachers of this discipline. She has been trained by her father, Professor Háctor Hernández, also father and former of Isaac Hernández, who won the Benois de la Danse in Moscow this year 2018, being formerly named “The best dancer of the world”. Along with this, she has a deep understanding, love and knowledge of working with children, as a former ballet teacher and principal assistant many years, working along with this as a program coordinator for children in Social Projects of this Center with unprotected social classes. She also has extensive experience working in Leadership, public relationships, cultural promotor and coordinator positions. Yael has conducted many festivals, public exhibitions, in public places and theaters. She is trying to find the way to keep pushing talented people, and helping them to have opportunities all over the world. Yael uses her knowledge to bring people together, serving others and various communities. Her main goal is to help children learn and reach their full potential as humans and dancers, promoting peace trough dance, helping them evolve, share their experience and love trough arts.
Peace through
Conservation
Hannah Chavez
Hannah Chavez is an artist dedicated to helping spread a message of peace and compassion for animals, and all living beings. She uses her art to demonstrate how we are all interconnected, to spread awareness about issues surrounding endangered species and environmental conservation, and to give a voice to the voiceless. A portion of her profits is donated to various animal rescues, sanctuaries, and conservation organizations.
Peace through
Activism
Bethanne Haft
Bethanne Haft is a New York based attorney and actor and has experience in marketing, communications training and activism. A graduate of Harvard University and of Duke Law School Bethanne has worked as a corporate bankruptcy attorney in a large firm, as an entertainment attorney in-house, and as a consultant in international law. She reads Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian. Additionally, Bethanne has worked as a financial consultant and as a commercial real estate broker. As an actor she has performed on many of New York’s off off Broadway stages and in several independent films and webisodes. Bethanne has also combined her knowledge of professional environments and of acting and improvisation to privately coach clients in corporate communication, interview preparation, negotiation and arbitration technique. In the past year she has turned her attention to activism and to a commitment to cultivate and maintain the peace and civility for which America is known.
Peace through
Psychology
Dr. Judy Kuriansky
Dr. Judy Kuriansky is an international psychologist who is a United Nations NGO representative for the International Association of Applied Psychology and the World Council for Psychotherapy, as well as a Psychology Professor at Columbia University Teachers College, and an award-winning journalist. A traumatologist, she has provided psychosocial support for Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon, and for survivors and families after 9/11, among others. She has organized many events at the UN addressing peace, including a conference is in observance of the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, declared by UN General Assembly resolution 57/249 to explore how differences in unique culture and cultural heritage of nations and communities can be a vehicle for promoting sustainable development and economic growth. She also co-produced a Panel Discussion in observance of World Interfaith Harmony Week on the theme “Building Bridges Across Boundaries” considered essential for countries to achieve the UN SDGs, to tackle global health emergencies and realize the dream of Peace and Harmony; with speakers including ambassadors, UN Agency staff and religious leaders Two of her many books address the Middle East crisis: Terror in the Holy Land: inside the Anguish of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” and “beyond Bullets and Bombs: Grassroots Peacebuilding between Israelis and Palestinians.”
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Archi-Photography
Linxiaoyi Wan
Linxiaoyi Wan is an architecture student from Columbia University in the City of New York. He participated in ASW Studio with architect Lei Yu, and MR Studio with architect and theorist Mark Rakatansky. As the founder of TEDxBeijing Jiaotong University, he also works with speakers coming from diverse fields and spreads peaceful ideas among peers. At the same time, Linxiaoyi Wan puts his thoughts into practice through photography to amplify awareness of art and peace. He tries to use various skills to present peacefulness in his architecture works and photographs. With that intention, he treats his projects and designs as carriers to fan out harmonious belief between human and animal around world. What’s more, he empowers buildings with comforting identity by transforming and renovating them in hope to rebuild a peaceful environment all over the city.
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Open Spaces
Leslie Silvera
Leslie Silvera, old 36, architect. Studed in french at Ecole d architecture de la Villette at Paris. Qualified in 2007 with mention. Since then she worked in a architect firm in French and Israel. In her speare time she teaches art therapy and art lessons for young people. In 2004-2007 firm architects in paris Alain Dolle architecte. public building 2008-2010 Firm architect in Jerusalen Hook. Residence building 2010-2014 firm architects in jersalem Sergio Asderban. public and residence building 2014-now firm architects Robinstein-Ofer architects. Hospital building
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Yoga
Ina Sturlis
Ina Sturlis has a diverse background and has worked in multiple industries, varying from retail, fashion and finance. She holds a degree in Financial Economics from Columbia University and has been in banking over the last 6 years. She is originally from Lithuania and is fluent in Russian, Lithuanian and has basic knowledge of Polish and Swedish. She has lived in Europe for 20 years, while the rest of her time has been split between Florida, New York and California, where she currently resides. Ina serves on multiple boards: Columbia Alumni Association of San Diego, Columbia Venture Community of San Diego and also volunteers through Corazon de Vida Foundation at different orphanages in Baja. She is passionate about leadership, personal and professional development and female empowerment, that’s why her past experience also includes board membership at the Upward Executive Female Organization in Los Angeles and Smart Woman Securities in New York. One of her biggest passions is yoga, which has been an integral part of her life for more than 10 years. Ina is a certified Kundalini Yoga instructor who loves sharing the beauty of mindfulness and peace with others through her kundalini yoga classes, where she teaches guided mediations and educates people on proper breathwork.
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Economics
Angelique Wynants
Angelique is a strategy consultant based in Mexico City working with multinational companies investing in developing countries. She holds a Bachelor´s degree in Economics and a Master´s in International Political Economy from the LSE. She has lived, worked and studied in 4 different countries and is fluent in English, French and Spanish. Throughout her studies, she has written extensively on the effect of Foreign Direct Investment on standards of living and the democratization process in developing countries. Her professional career spans both public and private sector. Angelique worked for an NGO in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) developing and monitoring a microfinance program to help female war survivors re-integrate their communities and gain financial independence. She then went on to the private sector where she helped large companies plan for Brexit, before moving to Mexico City to work in Strategy Consulting where she strives to contribute to economic development through the private sector, which she believes is a key element of sustainable peace building around the world.
Peace through
Effort
Erez Cohen
Erez Cohen is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Urbium Property Group, a real estate investment management and development group based in Mexico City. He co-oversees all fundraising efforts, acquisitions, dispositions and development at this firm. Prior to Urbium, he worked at Thor Urbana where was directly involved in the acquisition and development of almost 12 million square feet of real estate. He also participated closely in all asset management, fundraising and investor relations efforts. Previously, he worked in investment positions at Apollo Real Estate Advisors, the Carlyle Group, the Trump Organization and Evercore Partners. In over 13 years in real estate, he has been involved in multiple real estate transactions in Mexico, the United States, and Brazil in the residential, retail, office, hotel and mixed-use sectors. Mr. Cohen is a Board Member of the Urban Land Institute where he was recognized as a Rising Star and serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for an Orphanage in Mexico. He graduated summa cum laude from Manhattan College and received his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he was a Bucksbaum Fellow.
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Innovation
Lazaro Burak
International consultant, serial entrepreneur, worked as a diplomat in new york and latin america, skills in development through technologies and renewable energy proyects as well as sustainability and microcredits in rural and indigeneus areas.
Peace through
Inclusion
Maksimiliana Zabunova
Maksimiliana Zabunova is an intelligence research associate at Acuris Risk Intelligence, a global independent provider of data intelligence for Third-Party-Risk, Enhanced Due Diligence, Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Corruption, Identity Theft Protection and Cyber Security.
Maksimiliana has over 10 years of extensive experience in corporate relations, communications and corporate finance, previously working for a French publishing house Helios International, and prior for Piraeus Bank Group. She holds a Bachelor degree in Business Administration from University of Plovdiv and a Master degree in Corporate Finance and International Accounting from Berlin School of Economics and Law (FHWR Berlin).
Living in extensively multicultural environment in Berlin, Germany, she is a passionate believer in building lasting relations between communities, cultures and individuals through promoting cooperation, tolerance, openness, communication and transparency; in cultivating culture of inclusion, which impacts creativity and engagement, by educating students across all academic domains and in creating positive, engaged systems that embrace the ever growing cultural, economic, linguistic, and cognitive diversity, not only in the world, but in our daily environment. Through the years Maksimiliana volunteered in NPO and community initiatives focused on improving relations between people from different cultural and religious backgrounds and on sustainable development of her communities.
Peace through
Belief
Fadi Elsalameen
Adjunct Senior Fellow, American Security Project. Previously, Non-Resident Fellow, The Foreign Policy Institute @SAISHOPKINS.
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Leader of new generations, of his people for issues as delicate as peace in the region, educated in Washington DC.
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Cultural Management
Cynthia Granados Posada
Mexico City, 1982 She studied a Master of Arts, Art in Public Space and a Postgraduate Diploma in Arts Management, both at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, holding an Arts and Culture Fund scholarship from the Mexican government for the last one. Her artistic practice started while living in Australia (2009-2012), with an exploration around the sense of touch through tactile installations that led to performances where her body was painted by the audience. She created a series of ritual performances such as Unmarriage and Monarca to get rid of hurtful ideas, and a series of actions about long distance love and migration. She was the winner of the first RMIT-Salvo Art Award 2009, for her design Life Lines. Her actions were presented in public spaces, at events such as The Light in Winter Festival, Renaissance Village Festival and independent spaces in Australia and the Spanish Cultural Centre, the Center for the Arts in San Luis Potosí, the Mexican Institute for Justice and others in Mexico. Regarding her work in arts management, she was part of the organizers for two exchange residencies between Australia and Mexico, and going back to her country in 2012 she created the artistic network ViceVersa Cultural, working with other artists in projects such as an arts and nature workshop for women, artistic collaborations with feminist themes with Colectivo Propósito Inmediato and the organization of the feminist event Nasty Women México. She was also a performance teacher for adults with intellectual disability at La Pirinola, part of the Art and Feminisms Seminar at the Arts Centre in San Luis Potosi, speaker at the First Public Art Symposium of Yucatan and the Tecnologico of Monterrey Women Leaders Symposium. She was also a member of the founding team of Tlacopac Artist Residency Mexico City. At the moment she manages the all-women artist collective Colectivo Habitación Propia (Own Room Collective) and is coordinating the project Evocaciones (Evocations) with the aim of creating homages for women artists who didn't get proper recognition for their life and art.
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Interfaith Dialogue
Lahoucine Khabid
Lahoucine Khabid was born in Southern Morocco, he graduated from University of Utrecht in Netherlands majoring in Conflict Resolution and Meditation Skills; as well as Kwazulu-Natal University in South Africa. Lahoucine is the founder of Atlas Center for Diplomatic Studies in Morocco, where he serves his community promoting the Culture of Peace, youth and women empowerment. Lahoucine believes in interfaith dialogue as a tool to combatting violent extremism . He has also been a guest for local and regional media debates on the Sahara conflict. Lahoucine was nominated by the Swiss renowned Crans Montana as a Young Leader of Tomorrow in June 2015 in Brussels, a 2016 alumni of the year at the European Academy of Diplomacy in Warsaw, Poland. Lahoucine is a founding member, together with imminent former President of Romania H.E Emil Constantinesco and other UN diplomats, a „Multi track Council for SDG’s and the Culture of peace in New York”. Lahoucine currently lectures at Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakesh, Morocco.
Peace through
Cartoons
Chari Pere
Cartoonist Chari Pere is known for breathing artistic life and voice into some of the biggest ad campaigns in the country for companies like Red Bull and Budweiser. As an independent artist, Chari is known for her unmistakable visual style and perspective, telling heartfelt, impactful, real stories. Her most widely recognized cartoon, ”Miscarried, The Comic,” went viral after being shared by a number of celebrities and online publications in May 2017. Chari enjoys using her cartoon-y powers for good! From creating coloring books for children’s health organizations, to storyboards for network TV, and working with everyone from #1 New York Times Bestselling authors, to showrunners at Comedy Central, Chari Pere is making the world a happier, more connected place - one cartoon at a time. A member of the National Cartoonists Society, and the Comic Art Professional Society, Chari lives in Los Angeles with her husband, and three kids.
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Well-being
Judith González Ham
Judith González Ham is the founder of ​Sana tu Tiroides, a startup​ based in Mexico City and online to educate, inspire and support people with thyroid and hormonal imbalances through holistic practices like yoga, holistic nutrition and embodiment practices in collaboration with MD’s. With a background in design, business, nutrition, Thyroid yoga, and an entrepreneurial background Judith has cofounded a wine brand, worked in the design and cultural industry, and reversed her own thyroid condition after applying the knowledge obtained from studying nutrition, yoga and embodiment practices and now shares her experience and knowledge with other people going through the same challenges.
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Adversity
Daniel Rajunov
Daniel Rajunov has a Master in Divinity from Naropa University, and worked as a Buddhist Hospital Chaplain ailing the sick. He co-wrote and directed Pedro Reyes' 'the Permanent Revolution' at the Museo Jumex in Mexico City. At 31 years of age, he has a career in the performing arts in TV, Film, and Theater.
BOARD OF ADVISORS
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Strategy
Audrey E. Kitagawa J.D.
Strategy Advisor
Audrey E. Kitagawa J.D. practiced law in Honolulu, Hawaii for 20 years. She is the former Advisor to the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict at the United Nations. She is President of the Light of Awareness International Spiritual Family, a nondenominational, ecumenical, spiritual community. She travels widely and speaks extensively as an advocate for peace, human rights, the protection and advancement of women and children, spirituality, and interfaith cooperation and understanding. She has authored several articles and chapters in published works, and has been listed in Who’s Who of American Law, Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World,and Prominent People of Hawaii.
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Advice
Malko Ebers
Advisor for UN Culture of
Peace Panels
Malko Ebers is the Chief Executive Officer of New York Business Consultants LLC.
He also serves as board member of the Global Alliance of Artists. Malko worked as a business analyst on Wall Street, for the United Nations Fund for Int. Partnerships and as a process/risk manager for AXA in Switzerland. He was board member of the German Association for the United Nations, and founder of the green NGO oikos Konstanz. Malko studied at Konstanz University, Yale and ETH Zurich and received an M.A.in public policy and management as well as an M.A. in sociology and political science.
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Documentaries & Movies
Laurence Singer
Legal Advisor
Laurence is an attorney and producer who has served the spiritual community for many years, working with non-profit organizations to foster the expression of a new consciousness for the planet. Laurence also is active at the United Nations where he represents non-governmental organizations. With extensive production experience, he was the founder and Managing Director of Global Beat Music and has produced major concerts for world music artists. Past productions include the Fight Against Malaria Concert in the United Nations General Assembly Hall as part of the Global Youth Summit. He’s currently producing a feature film in Ghana that is a showcase for African music.
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Spirituality
Liberato C. Bautista
Spiritual Advisor
Liberato C. Bautista is the Assistant General Secretary for United Nations and International Affairs of the General Board of Church and Society of The United Methodist Church and serves as its main representative to the United Nations worldwide. He is the Immediate Past President and currently a member of the Board of Directors of CoNGO. He was Chair of the Council of Organizations in New York of the United Nations Association of the USA. He studied political science, history, and international studies in the Philippines and did doctoral studies in religion and social and political ethics at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.His biography appears in Who’s Who in the World and in Who’s Who in Religion.
Our Peace Ambassador
Iran Nazario
Peacebuilders Program Director Iran Nazario is an expert in gang prevention and mediation. Mr. Nazario has been working in the youth outreach, engagement and support field for 18 years. He began his career as a volunteer on the streets of Hartford Connecticut and is now the Director of the Peacebuilders Program. Mr. Nazario is trained in both conflict management and crisis intervention, is a graduate of the National Youth Employment Coalition (2001), a Certified Violence Mediator, a YO! Leadership Institute Graduate (2001), and a trained Drugs and Alcohol prevention counselor.
He has trained and presented for youth service agencies, court support services, schools and many other organizations that operate on a local and national level. Mr. Nazario has dedicated his life to helping Hartford’s youth for which received the CATCH (Committed Adult to Children in Hartford) award from the City of Hartford Human Services Department in 2001. He is currently the Peacebuilders Program Director for COMPASS Youth Collaborative.
