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, Jean-Phillipe was immersed in a world where ideals of social…

Monique Clesca is currently an international consultant after a career of more than 25 years specializing in high-level policy dialogue, human rights, youth and women programming, development, and crisis communication and writing. A feminist pro-democracy…

As a lifelong democracy advocate, Mr. Leslie Voltaire has held several high level positions in government since the 1990s: Minister of Education, Minister of Haitians Living Abroad, Special Envoy to the UN, Chief of Staff to President Aristide, Member of Transitional…

Jocelyn McCalla served for over twenty years as Executive Director of the National Coalition for Haitian Rights (NCHR). He has long campaigned in favor of human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Haiti, as well as for the rights of Haitians abroad. He consults…