Listed below are the Board of Directors and decision-makers of the Light Millennium. The new term Board of Directors were elected during the last Annual Meeting, which realized at the Baruch College in New York City on July 10, 2013.
We are seeking ways to expand and empower the BoD. We welcome new participants from various cultural and professional backgrounds in order to establish diversity within the BoD. We aim to increase the sustainability of the organization with a diverse and inclusive participation from different professional disciplines and cultural backgrounds globally.
If you are interested in joining the organization: you may take part in the Governing Body, or the Advisory Board; you may serve as a Pro-Bono Professional, a Volunteer Representative, a Volunteer Staff Member, a Translator, or get involved in the Production/Program aspects of the organization, or in one of its Committees. If you would like to be a part of the LM, please send us an email indicating your interest area in the subject line along with your resumé to: contact@lightmillennium.org
We are looking forward to gaining your participation.
We WELCOME all new potential members, volunteer representatives, staff members, and participants to the Light Millennium organization.
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Founding President:
Bircan Ünver, Independent TV Producer, On-Line Publisher & Freelance Writer (continuing)
Vice President:
Sultan Catto, Vice President. Professor and Executive Officer - Natural Sciences of the Baruch College.
- BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
* Bircan Ünver, Chair, Founding President (continuing);
* Prof. Sultan Catto, Natural Sciences of the Baruch College, Vice President;
* Müjgan Hedges, Member;
* Wale Idris Ajibade, African Views, Member;
* Dr. Gül Celkan, Member (On-line), Middle Georgia State College, Atlanta;
* Isa Alemdag, Member - IT Consultant - (On-line), Horon Networks, England.
- ADVISORY BOARD:
-For Description of the Advisory Board, please see the June 6, 2006 MINUTES:
* Figen Bingül, Translator (Turkish-English), Editor, New York.
* Etem Erol, Professor in Middle Eastern Studies, Yale University, CT.
* Edward Foster, Professor, College of Arts and Letters at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey.
* Talat S. Halman, Professor in Literature Department of the Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
* Stephen Kinzer, Former New York Times Foreign Correspondent, Author and Professor, Boston University, MA.
* Akif Kireççi, Associate Professor, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
STAFF:
Executive Producer & Director: Bircan Ünver
Editor to the Executive Producer & Director: Emily Joyce
Assistant: Cora Fernandez
SOCIAL MEDIA:
Bircan Ünver, Dr. Sebattin Devecioglu, Isa Alemdag.
The Light Millennium's representatives to the Department of Public Information of the United Nations (UN/DPI-NGO) 2013: |
* Bircan ÜNVER, Head of the Organization
* Müjgan HEDGES, Main Representative
* Hande SUBASILAR, 1st Alternate Representative
* Kaushalliya SIRIWARDANE, 2nd Alternate Representative, (Helping Hands Inc. TX)
* Erman Hakan SENER, Youth Representative
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COMMITTEES:
*EDITING, COPY EDITING & PROOFREADING COMMITTEE:
Figen Bingül, Alana Bache
*TRANSLATION COMMITTEE (From Turkish to English; English to Turkish; or from any other language to English or Turkish):
Figen Bingül, Müjgan Hedges
*TRANSCRIPTION COMMITTEE (transcribing audio or video interviews as verbatim for the LM or Isikbinyili e-publications):
Cora Fernandez, Hande Subasilar, Erman H. Sener.
* GRANT-PROPOSAL WRITING & GRANT SEARCH COMMITTEE:
Bircan Ünver & Figen Bingül
* EVENTS & FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE (combined with "fundraising")
Bircan Ünver, Prof. Edward Foster, Prof. Sultan Catto
* SUPPORT GROUP & $1 OPEN ON-LINE MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE (through NYCharities.Org):
Bircan Ünver
*MEDIA & OUTREACH COMMITTEE
Bircan Ünver, Figen Bingül
* INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE with NGOs, CSOs, EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, and PRIVATE SECTOR:
Bircan Ünver
*WEB DEVELOPMENT & DESIGN
Bircan Ünver
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Banner & Logo for both Lightmillennium.org & Isikbinyili.org;
LMTV Logo & Seal Designed by:
Ayhan M. Duman, Istanbul, Turkey.
* TURKISH & ARMENIAN SYNERGY INITIATIVE (NOT ACTIVE):
Ongoing Projects:
- LM Website - Issue#29 - 2013
- Pioneer of the Millennium Development Goals: Atatürk - E-publishing process continues.
- Book project based on the MDGS & Atatürk International Conference
- Mini series based on the above mentioned conference.
- LMTV Series (Citizens of Nowhere - Statelessness in the U.S. as work in progress.)
- PARADE OF FACES: Who Speaks for Turkey? With Stephen KINZER
A Six Part of Documentary Project
(Based upon availability sponsorship, accordingly, this project will be re-activated.)
ASSOCIATION:
* Department of Public Information of the United Nations effective on December 12, 2005.
* MEMBER: Non Profit Coordination Committee of New York effective on February 2008 to June 2010.
CONFERENCE PLANNING COMMITTEE OF THE
PIONEER OF THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS: ATATÜRK
Two-Day International Conference - April 19-20, 2013
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CO-CHAIRS: Bircan Ünver, The Light Millennium; and
Prof. Edward Foster, College of Arts and Letter at Stevens.
MEMBERS: Figen Bingül (Editing), Dr. Sebahattin Devecioglu (Outreach and Social Media), Dr. Gul Celkan (Outreach), Dr. Aysegul Durakoglu (Outreach), and Mujgan Hedges (Outreach & hosting a speaker from Turkey).
Special Thanks to: Ülkü Ünsoy for her contribution into the Sponsorship Package.
VOLUNTEERS (alphabetical order): Erman Erhan Sener (4/19), Xia Hau (4/19-20), Erkan Senses (4/19-20), Ya Sun (4/19), Khady Sylla-Ba (4/19-20) and Elizabeth (Liz) Lennon (4/19).
Volunteer & Coordinator (Stevens): Erkan Senses
OUTREACH SUPPORT: Radyo Turkum, Ataturk New York Art Cultural Center, Erkan Senses, Associations of Turkish-American Federation (FTAA), International Networking, Ataturk Society of United Kingdom, and through several social media groups.
VIDEO PRODUCTION CREW: Rene Valdivia (Technical Director, Camera), Richard Graziano (Lighting, Camera), Cora Fernandez (Production Assistant)
PHOTOGRAPHY: Cora Fernandez, The Light Millennium
DISCLOSURE:
1: All manuscripts submitted
become the property of the Light
Millennium, Inc. Contributers
are solely responsible for the
content of their own works.
2:
Once ideas/manuscripts have been
submitted and have appeared on
the organization's web site/s,
these ideas/manuscripts CANNOT
BE REMOVED from the organization's
Web site/s AT ANY TIME. The organization
has aimed to create an "archive
of our time". From the inception
of the Light Millennium until
the present, all submitted ideas
and written works have been presented
on the Web, including the Introductory
Issue. These are all available
from the organization's Web ARCHIVE.
(Please also read the "Letter
of the Summer-2006 Issue")
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