Jean-Philippe Austin left Haiti at the age of 9 and moved to Queens, New York joining his parents, who escaped Papa Doc Duvalier’s bloody dictatorship. Growing up in NY’s community of Haitian exiles…

Patrick Gaspard is the president and chief executive officer of the Center for American Progress and the Center for American Progress Fund’s chief executive officer. During the Obama Administration…

Larry Pierre was born and raised in Haiti and moved to the United States in his teens. In 1978, he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology at Barrington College and went on to obtain a medical degree at the prestigious …

Michelle Austin Pamies, Esq. was born in Port-au-Prince Haiti and migrated to Queens, New York at a young age. Michelle’s love for Haiti, can be traced back to her frequent trips there as a young adult. Her attachment …

South Florida is home to Tamara Beliard Rodriguez entrepreneur, children’s book author, impact speaker and Haitian American maverick, blazing many trails locally, nationally and transnationally. Tamara, an accountant with over 20 years of experience…

Mona Rigaud migrated from Haiti to Queens, New York in her teens. As an undergraduate at Princeton University, she was a romance language major with minors in African American and Latin American Studies. She went on to study medicine…

The Reverend Father Reginald Jean Mary, lovingly known as Father Reggie, was born in Jean-Rabel, Haiti where he spent his early years. In his teens, he moved to Port-au-Prince and returned to his hometown after earning a degree in accounting. It was…

Born in Haiti, Dina immigrated to the United States at the age of nine with her family and grew up in Brooklyn and Long Island, New York. An advocate for social change, Dina Simon is the Chief Human Resources Officer at the Teachers’ Retirement…