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We Stand United in Support of Dean Deniosky Pena-Mora / Unidos en Apoyo a Dean Feniosky Pena-Mora
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Contact: 646-250-2175
Feniosky Pena Mora (Photo by Eduardo Hoepelman)
The Dominican American National Roundtable and the National Dominican American Council join NYC Councilmember Ydanis Rodriguez, New York City community leaders, residents and students to stand together in support of Dean Feniosky Pena Mora and in opposition to the current effort to remove him from his position as Dean of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University.
Since assuming the position of Dean in 2009, Feniosky Pena-Mora has demonstrated his talents as a Latino leader fully capable of leading the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science.
His list of accomplishments include:
1. Improved the Fu Foundation School of Engineering National ranking from 21 in 2009 to 15 in 2012.
2. Diversified both the faculty and student body by adding more women and minorities to the school.
3. Attracted and brought on board new faculty with high standards of excellence.
4. Increased the support for Columbia University Engineering Endowment.
COME AND BRING OTHERS TO SUPPORT!
What: Rally/ Press Conference denouncing removal of Feniosky Pena-Mora as Dean of Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University
When: Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 2pm
Where: In Front of Columbia University- 116th Street & Broadway in Upper Manhattan, NY
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Contact0: 646-250-2175
UNIDOS EN APOYO A DEAN FENIOSKY PENA-MORA
Feniosky Pena Mora (Photo by Eduardo Hoepelman)
La Mesa Redonda Dominico Americana y el Consejo Nacional Dominico Americano se unen a Ydanis Rodriguez, Concejal de la Ciudad de Nueva York, líderes comunitarios, residentes y estudiantes de la Ciudad de Nueva York en apoyo al Decano Feniosky Penalty Mora y en oposición al esfuerzo para sacarlo de su posición como Decano de la Fu Foundation School of Engineering y Applied Science de la Columbia University.
Desde que asumió la posición de Decano en 2009, Feniosky Pena-Mora ha demostrado su talento como un líder Latino plenamente capaz de dirigir el Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Su lista de logros incluyen:
1. Mejorar el ranking nacional de la Fu Foundation School of Engineering de 21 en 2009 a 15 en 2012.
2. Diversificar tanto la facultad como el alumnado añadiendo más mujeres y minorías a la escuela.
3. Atraer y enlistar nuevos profesores con altos estándares de excelencia.
4. Aumentar el apoyo a la Columbia University Engineering Endowment.
VENGA E INVITE A OTRAS PERSONAS A APOYAR!
Qué?: Rally / Conferencia de Prensa denunciando eliminación de Feniosky Pena-Mora como Decano de of Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University
Cuando?: Jueves 10 de mayo de 2012 a las 2 pm
Donde?: Frente a la Columbia University- 116th Street & Broadway in Upper Manhattan, NY
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Background articles posted by DANR about Feniosky Pena-Mora
http://danr.org/tag/feniosky-pena-mora/
2012 National Youth Fellowship Program in Washington, DC: Deadline for applications is May 18, 2012
Online application form: Apply Here
2012 DANR National Youth Fellowship Application Form
Washington, DC (March 20, 2012).– Applications are now available for the Dominican American National Roundtable’s 2012 National Youth Fellowship Program. This year’s theme is: Civic Engagement: Leading the Next Generation towards Advocacy and Reform.
The program will take place in Washington, D.C. from July 22 to July 29, 2012.
This training will bring together college students of Dominican descent both at the undergraduate and graduate levels who are interested in taking on leading roles in becoming agents of change in their communities though civic engagement.
DANR Fellows will engage in a 1-week leadership development training in Washington, D.C. where they will learn about the current state of policies affecting the Latino community and how to take action towards reform throughout a series of workshops, events, site visits, and congressional visits, and project development.
In the fall of 2012, fellows will then participate in advocacy projects for 12 weeks where they will put forth their training and knowledge into practice. Projects may include self-produced community workshops, a DANR.org online newsletter initiative on topics such as education and literacy, housing, immigration, economic development and others. Fellows will develop a deeper understanding of how they can affect positive change in their communities and their nation. All majors welcome. Travel, lodging, and selected activities will be covered.
Online applications are now available: Apply here.
Deadline for applications is May 18, 2012 11:59 P.M. (Eastern Time)
Become an Agent of Change in your community! Apply today and take advantage of this great leadership development opportunity.
“Being able to participate in the DANR National Youth Fellowship Program inspired and motivated me to become even more involved.” said Dahiana Tejada – 2011 Fellow Alumni. ” Now more than ever is the time to advocate and work towards the betterment of the Dominican-American community. This fellowship provided me with the necessary tools to become a leader in my community.”
SPONSOR A FELLOW: DONATE
For more information contact:
Maria D. Moreno, DANR National Youth President & Fellowship Program Director
(202) 505-4693
Ms. Pierina Sanchez
National Youth Fellow Alumni
917-727-4190
This program is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Ford Motor Company Fund, and the National Supermarket Association (NSA).
Ford Motor Company Fund & National Supermarket Association (NSA)
The Dominican List / La Lista Dominicana
Washington, DC (April 13, 2012).– La Mesa Redonda Dominico Americana (DANR) está elaborando una lista de dominicanos de éxito en Los Estados Unidos de América para crear “La Lista Dominicana“, una publicación y documental sobre la contribución dominicana a los Estados Unidos. La Lista estará accesible al público en el sitio cibernético de DANR: www.danr.org. Veinte (20) de los más destacados serán parte del documental “La Lista Dominicana“, que será estrenado el 28 de julio del 2012 durante el evento 100 Mil Dominicanos en Washington, DC.
Favor de tomar unos minutos y nominar dominicanos/as que usted estima deben ser incluidos en “La Lista Dominicana” antes del viernes 18 de mayo del 2012 a las 12am.
DANR is putting together a list of accomplished U.S. Dominicans to create “The Dominican List,” a publication and audio visual account of Dominican past and present contributions to the United States. The List will be accessible to the public at the DANR website www.danr.org, and, twenty of the top accomplished Dominicans will be featured in the documentary “The Dominican List,” to be released on July 28, 2012 at the 100 Thousand Dominican Gathering in Washington, DC.
Please take a few minutes and nominate those Dominicans you deem should be included in “The List” by Friday, May 18, 2012 at midnight.
Participe / Take this survey
Dominican American National Roundtable (DANR)
National Dominican American Council (NDAC)
1050 17th Street NW Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036
202-238-0097
dominicanlist@danr.org
PRESENTACION EXCLUSIVA CON EL DR. RAMON ANTONIO VERAS DEL DOCUMENTAL LOS PANFLETEROS DE SANTIAGO
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El Concilio Nacional Dominico Americano de Lynn, Massachusetts, en trabajo mancomunado con el Instituto Para Estudios Latinos y el Common Roots Project haran una presentacion exclusiva del documental original Los Panfleteros de Santigo producido por Nestor Montilla el sabado 28 de abril del 2012 a las 7:00 pm en el 25 Exchange Street Lynn, MA 01902.
El documental trata sobre la historia de 27 jóvenes que fueron apresados, torturados, asesinados y sus restos cortados en pedazos por órdenes del dictador Rafael Leonidas Trujillo.
El Dr. Ramon Antonio Veras (El Negro Veras), considerado como uno de los jovenes panfleteros que sobrevivio, viajara desde la Republica Dominicana para participar en la presentacion y contestar preguntas del publico.
“Agradecemos la generosidad del Dr. Veras por apoyarnos y viajar desde la Republica Dominicana a Lynn, MA para dar testimonio acerca de la historia de los Panfleteros de Santiago y su significado historico”, dijo Dinorah Mendez, Directora del Concilio Local Dominico Americano de Lynn, MA.
Para ver el trailer y escuchar el testimonio del Dr. Ramon Antonio Veras respecto al significado historico del documental, pulse en los siguientes links.
Trailer Los Panfleteros de Santiago
Para mas informacion llame a Dinorah Mendez, Directora del Concilio Nacional Dominico Americano de Lynn al telefono 978-210-4028.
Se sugiere donacion a su discrecion para auspiciar la participacion de jovenes estudiantes en la primera congregacion masiva de 100 Mil Dominicanos en Washington DC el 28 de julio del presente y en el programa de pasantia de la Mesa Redonda Dominico Americana conocido como DANR National Summer Fellowship Program que se llevara a cabo en Washington, DC del 22 and 29 de julio.
Haga su donacion deducible de impuestos online pulsando aqui:
Para proximas presentaciones del documental contactenos via thecommonrootsproject@gmail.com.
RESERVE LA FECHA: 2da Cumbre Anual del Liderazgo Dominicano en Puerto Rico e Islas Virgenes – 25 de Agosto del 2012
Reserve la Fecha e Inscríbase aquí
Quedan 109 Dias Para Celebracion 100 Mil Dominicanos en Washington, DC
Acentuacion Omitida
Washington, DC (10 de abril del 2012).– Quedan 109 dias para la gran celebracion historica de 100 Mil Dominicanos en Washington, DC.
“La fecha es sabado 28 de julio del 2012 a las 11:00am”, dijo desde su despacho en Washington, DC, la Dra. Maria Teresa Montilla, Presidente de la Mesa Redonda Dominico Americana, la unica organizacion sin fines de lucro y no partidaria que representa mas de 2 millones de dominicanos en los Estados Unidos y sus territorios, incluyendo Puerto Rico y las Islas Virgenes Americanas.
“Mas de 100 mil compatriotas dominicanos se reuniran en el corazon de Washington, DC para celebrar mas de medio siglo de presencia dominicana en USA y para destacar sus logros”, enfatizo la Presidente Montilla.
El evento es coordinado por cientos de organizaciones, lideres y voluntarios en USA, incluyendo La Mesa Redonda Dominico Americana, el Concilio Nacional Dominico Americano, Hispanics Across America, Voxxi.com, Comite Provincial Puerto Plateno USA, The Institute for Latino Studies, the New Jersey Latino Leadership Alliance, Quisqueya International, El Instituto Duartiano, Concilios Dominico Americanos de Puerto Rico, and among others, the New Jersey Conference on Dominican Affairs.
Para mas informacion e inscribirse, pulse aqui.
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English Note
Washington, DC (January 4, 2011).– For the first time, thousands of like-minded Dominicans and Dominican Americans, their families, friends and supporters from the U.S. Latino diverse communities will join DANR, the National Dominican American Council, hundreds of local organizations and leaders on the National Mall in Washington, DC, for a massive national gathering to celebrate Dominican contribution, accomplishments and over fifty years of continuous presence in the United States of America.
This historic national gathering is slated to take place on Saturday, July 28, 2011 at 11:00 AM on the Washington Monument.
Organizers advise to make early transportation and lodging arrangements.
Those who prefer traveling in groups are encouraged to sign up for affordable bus ride to Washington, DC. Reserve your bus round trip by sending an e-mail to nationalcouncil@danr.org.
The program will feature a comprehensive report about the State of Dominicans in the US, a wide variety of speakers, including scholars, dignitaries, leaders and students, special audio visual presentations, music and well-known entertainers.
To register visit www.danr.org or click here.
Video message from DANR President Dr. Maria Teresa Montilla, click here.
For more information contact 202-238-0097 or via e-mail at nationalcouncil@danr.org.
U.S. Senate Confirms Dominican from the Bronx as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Republic of Uruguay
March 30, 2012 by DANR
Filed under Advocacy, Featured, Immigration, Press Releases
Washington, DC (March 30, 2012). The U.S. Senate confirmed attorney Julissa Reynoso, born in the Dominican Republic and raised in the Bronx, New York, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Oriental Republic of Uruguay in South America.
“This appointment in Uruguay, makes Julissa Reynoso the first Dominican to occupy the position of United States Ambassador in the history of this country; it is a further sign of our integration into the fabric of this society,” said Dr. Maria Teresa Montilla, President of the Dominican American National Roundtable. “To have a person with her professional background, character and humanity serving as U.S. Ambassador speaks well of the United States of America.”
Reynoso was nominated by President Obama on October 17, 2011.
She was born in January 1975 in Salcedo, Dominican Republic. In 1982, she emigrated with her family to the United States. Her U.S. immigration experience started in the South Bronx in New York City where she attended Catholic schools, and learned English.
Her high school guidance counselor encouraged her to apply to top schools. Reynoso earned a B.A. in Government from Harvard in 1997, an M. Phil. in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge in the U.K. in 1998, and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law in 2001.
After law school, she clerked for Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York from 2001 to 2003, was a fellow at Columbia Law School in 2005, and practiced international arbitration and antitrust law at the New York law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett from 2006 to 2009. She served as Deputy Director of the Office of Accountability at the New York City Department of Education in 2006, and was a part-time legal fellow at the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law from August 2008 through July 2009, when she received her first State Department appointment.
Prior to her appointment, Reynoso served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central America and in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs.
Reynoso has published widely in both Spanish and English on a range of issues including regulatory reform, community organizing, housing reform, immigration policy, and Latin American politics for both popular press and academic journals. She is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations.
For more information about her confirmation by the U.S. Senate, visit:
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/one_item_and_teasers/nom_confc.htm
You Are Invited to Attend the 6th National Dominican Student Conference at Brown University – April 6 – 8, 2012
Each year, NDSC strives to bring you the highest quality in educational and empowering workshops, prominent and inspirational speakers, culturally influential movie screenings, art exhibitions, networking events, and parties – all of which serve to educate, uplift, and unite the Dominican college student community.
Keynote
Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and is the author of Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao which won the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, African Voices, Best American Short Stories (1996, 1997, 1999, 2000), in Pushcart Prize XXII and in The O’Henry Prize Stories 2009. He has received a Eugene McDermott Award, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, a Lila Acheson Wallace Readers Digest Award, the 2002 Pen/Malamud Award, the 2003 US-Japan Creative Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the fiction editor at the Boston Review and the Rudge (1948) and Nancy Allen professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
More information: www.dominicanstudentconference.com
About NDSC
NDSC is an annual conference that brings together Dominican college students and alumni from throughout the United States. Each year the NDSC Board undergoes a selection process in which it accepts bids from potential host schools and selects where the next NDSC will be held.
DANR 2011 Fellows attending the National Council of La Raza 2011 Conference in Washington, DC.
DANR 2011 National Fellows attending the National Council of La Raza 2011 Conference in Washington, DC.
Quedan 109 Dias Para Celebracion 100 Mil Dominicanos a Washington
Acentuacion Omitida
Washington, DC (10 de abril del 2012).– Quedan 109 dias para la gran celebracion historica del 100 Mil Dominicanos en Washington, DC.
“La fecha sera el sabado 28 de julio del 2012alas 11:00am”, dijo desde su despacho en Washington, DC, la Dra. Maria Teresa Montilla, Presidente de la Mesa Redonda Dominico Americana, la unica organizacion sin fines de lucro y no partidaria que representa mas de 2 millones de dominicanos en los Estados Unidos y sus territorios, incluyendo Puerto Rico y las Islas Virgenes Americanas.
“Mas de 100 mil compatriotas dominicanos se reuniran en el corazon de Washington, DC para celebrar mas de medio siglo de presencia dominicana en USA y para destacar sus logros y planes socio-economicos y politicos”, enfatizo la Presidente Montilla.
El evento es coordinado por cientos de organizaciones en USA, incluyendo La Mesa Redonda Dominico Americana, el Concilio Nacional Dominico Americano, Hispanics Across America, Voxx.com, Comite Provincial Puerto Plateno USA, The Institute for Latino Studies, and among others, the New Jersey Conference on Dominican Affairs.
Para mas informacion e inscribirse, pulse aqui.
