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Below, the Board of Directors and decision-makers of the Light
Millennium. The Board of Directors elected
during our first official Board Members
Meeting of 2008 & Annual Meeting on
March 28, 2008 in New York City.
We are thankful for the commitment and dedication of the previous
Board of Directors Burak ALPASLAN, Assoc. Prof. Akif KIRECCI and Prof. Edward FOSTER, and welcoming to Ms. Humeyra KOÇAK as a newly elected board member.
We formed an Advisory Board during the 2006 Annual Meeting in order
to create new bridges and collaborations
with other institutions such educational
institutions, Non-Governmental and Civil
Society organizations, academicians, professionals
as well as corporate world and the government
agencies.
Assoc. Prof. Akif KIRECCI and Prof. Edward FOSTER now joined to the Advisory Board.
Based on our latest Board of Directors Meeting (October 3, 2008),
we are seeking to expanding and more empowering
the BoD from various cultural and professional
backgrounds in order to establish diversity
representatives within the BoD as well
as for the sustainability of the organization
with a diverse and inclusive participation
from various professional disciplines
and cultural backgrounds globally.
Our Annual Meeting will be held during the third week of May 2009 (details
TBA). If you are interesting to join to
the organization's Governing Body, or
to the Advisor Board or as a Pro-Bono
Professional, or Volunteer Representative
or Volunteer Staff, or as Translator,
or Production/Program aspects of the organization,
please indicate your interest area in
the subject line among your resume, and
e-mail it to us: contact@lightmillennium.org
We are looking forward to receive your resume in this regard.
WELCOME to all new potential members, volunteer representatives,
staff and participants to the Light Millennium
organization...
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Founding
President:
Bircan Ünver, Independent TV Producer & Freelance Writer
Vice
President:
Prof.
Sam Paley, Buffalo University
Secretary
General:
Figen
Bingül, Translator
Treasure:
Humeyra Koçak, Finance Sector
Board
of Directors:
Bircan Ünver, Independent TV Producer & Freelance Writer
Prof.
Sam Paley, Buffalo University
Figen
Bingül, Translator
Humeyra Koçak, Finance Sector
Advisory
Board
(For Description of the Adivsory Board
- Please
see the June 6, 2006 MINUTES):
- Etem Erol, Professor in Middle
Eastern Studies, Columbia University,
New York.
- Sultan Catto,Professor and Executive
Officer - PhD Program in Physics, The
Graduate Center The City University of
New York
- Talat S. Halman, Professor in Literature Department of the Bilkent
University, Ankara, Turkey
- Hayrettin Kilic, Founder, Green
Thank for Trunch Foundation, New Jersey.
- Stephen Kinzer. Former
New York Times Foreign Correspondent and
Professor in Journalism in Northwestern
University in Illionis.
Executive
Producer & Director: Bircan
Ünver
* Light
Millennium's representatives for the Department of Public Information of the United Nations:
- Main Representative: Bircan Ünver
- Alternate Representative: Kurt Heyl
- Youth Representative: Merve Arabaci, NYU - Student
* Editors/Proof
Readers Committee for the Light Millennium:
- Emily Alp
- Ayça Bahçe
- Figen Bingül
*
Translator committee:
We
are forming "Translator Committee",
and seeking additional translators from
English to Turkish & Turkish to English.
For more information>
contact@lightmillennium.org
Indian-American
Community Representative:
Nivedita Bangolore
Chaprandra
Special
Project Coordinator @Stevens
Prof.
Edward Foster
Documentary Projects (depending on availability of required fundings):
-
Cadirhoyuk
- Documentary Project's Principal Advisor:
Dr. Samuel Pamuel
Dr. Ron Gorny
- Parade of Faces: Who Speaks for Turkey?
With Stephen Kinzer
Media
Relations:
Bircan Ünver, Figen Bingül
Charities
& Annual Report of 2006-2007:
Sixto Lopez, EA
H & R Block
(Professional Service)
Transcriptions
of this issue:
Beatrice Almonor
Aysel
Toprakli
Translations from Turkish to English for
this issue:
Figen
Bingül
Special
Thanks To:
Richard Brooks
Representatives
& Correspondents of the LM & Isik
Binyili (Turkish version):
US:
New York City: Humeyra Imirzalioglu Kocak, Nivedita Bangolore
Chandrappa, and Emily Alp
NY - Youth Representative: Merve Arabaci, NYU - Student
Chicago: Marianne Angersbach
Kinzer
North Carolina: Emin Pamucak
- LM-South
Seattle - Washington: Asli Omur
New York (Isik Binyili): Aysel Toprakli
New Jersey (Isik Binyili): Arzu Kaya Uranli
LM-Kids & Youth Coordinator:
Fatos Us
LM-South
Kid Representatives:
Irem Lara Unal
LM-South
Teenager Representative:
Burcu Bozkurt
Canada:
Ottawa: Mehmet Ali Sulutas
Europe:
London, UK: Dursaliye Sahan
France: Cuneyt Ayral
Cumbria, United Kingdom: Geraldine Green
Turkey:
LM - Istanbul: Babur Albayrak
ISIK BINYILI - Istanbul: Çigdem Yorgancioglu
ISIK BINYILI - Istanbul: Ali Sarikaya
Australia:
Dmetri Kakmi
St.
Petersburg - Russia:
Dina Televitskaya
Asia
Pasific & Sri Lanka:
Nalaka Gunawardene
ISIKBINYILI.ORG
- Web Master & Development:
Pelin Bali
Logo originally designed by:
James
Fisher
&
Developed by:
Ayhan M. Duman
Banner for both Lightmillennium.org & Isikbinyili.org; LMTV Logo & Seal Designed by:
Ayhan M. DUMAN (www.amdphotodesign.com)
Association: Department of Public Information of the United Nations
Member: Non Profit Coordination Committee of New York
Registered with: NYCharities.Org; Guidestar.Org; Idealist.Org
For the revious year, please visit>
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Submissions any time...
Please
email your suggestions, comments and written
& visual materials to:
contact@lightmillennium.org or
bircanunver@lightmillennium.org
-
For the profile of the organization>
- For the Publishing Policy>
- For
the Publishing Criteria>
- Description of the Advisory
Board>
- Board of Directors & Representatives>
The Light Millennium e-platform, ISIK
BINYILI e-platform (Turkish counterpart
of the LM), Light Millennium TV Series
("LMTV"), and TURKISHGREEKSYNERGY.NET
are under the umbrella of The Light Millennium,
Inc., A Charitable/Public Benefit, with
501 (c) (3) Status, Not-for-profit organization
based in New York.
Introduced on the WEB with its Introductory
Issue in August 1999; and officially
formed on July 17, 2001.
*Please
note: Louise Mercado is no longer with
the Light Millennium. Effective on December 31, 2003.
Important
Notes
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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