WHO WE ARE

AFRICAN REFUGE STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS:


Director

Jacob D. Massaquoi, II


Partnership in Community Health Program

Cheryl Nadeau, Coordinator

Wendy Russo


Administrative Coordinator/Consultant

M. J. Todd


Research Assistants

Nilofer Naqvi


Volunteers

Tamba D. Aghailas

Solomon Brisbane

Juma Brumskine

Jessica E Coyle

Augustine Jacobs



AFRICAN REFUGE ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS:


Gerald Brumskine

Community Advocate, Staten Island.


Ernest B. Cassell

Founding Member, African Refuge

Staten Island, NY


Ernesto Castillo,

Chilean Community Leader Staten Island


Serena Chaudhry, MSW.

Executive Director, Peace and Justice Center

Burlington, Vermont


Janice Cooper, Ph.D.

Director, Child Health and Mental Health

National Center for Children in Poverty

Assistant Clinical Professor Health Policy and Management

Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University


Bobby Digi

CEO Thello Entertainment, President Island Voice

Staten Island, NY


Natasha Johnson-Lashley, JD

African Community Liaison

Sanctuary for Families Center for Battered

Women's Legal Services

New York, NY


Wilma L. Jones

Associate Professor

Chief Librarian, College of Staten Island Library


Eugene Prisco

Educator, Community Leader, Staten Island


Eileen Reilly

Director, Workforce Development and Refugee Services

Church Avenue Merchants Block Association, CAMBA

Brooklyn, NY


Jack Saul, PhD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Population & Family Health

Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Executive Director, Refuge/International Trauma Studies Program


Rev. Philip S. Saywrayne

Mission Developer, African Immigrant Ministry

Staten, Island, NY


Nancy Wallace, LCSW

Faculty, School of Social Work

New York University

NGO Committee on Mental Health


Barbara Toy

Development and Public Relations Specialist