Listed below are the Board of Directors and decision-makers of the Light Millennium. The Board of Directors is elected during the last Board Member Meeting held on Thursday, September 30, 2009 in New York City.
However, there has been some changes since then. As first, Civil Society Institute (Yerevan) has withdrawn itself from the Turkish-Armenian Synergy Initiative of the Light Millennium as of February 6, 2010. Moreover, the organization's Vice President Prof. Samuel M. PALEY passed away on March 31, 2010.
The Light Millennium hold its latest BoD Meeting at the Baruch College on April 24, 2010, and Selçuk ACAR, TurkishJournal.Com has joined to the Board of Directors of the Light Millennium during the meeting.
Based on our latest Board of Directors Meeting (April 24, 2010, NYC), 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:
Samuel Paley, Professor in Classics, Buffalo University (passed away on March 31,2010)
General Secretary:
Azime AYDOGMUS, Dramaturge & Freelance Writer
Treasurer:
Korcan YURDACAN, Graphic Designer, Journalist
- BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
*Bircan Ünver, Founding President (continuing)
*Azime Aydogmus, General Secretary. Dramaturge and Freelance Writer in Theater.
*Korcan Yurdacan, Treasurer. Graphic Designer, Journalist.
*Sultan Catto, Member. Professor and Executive Officer - Natural Sciences of the Baruch College (moved from the Advisory Board to the BoD during the September 30, 2009 BoD Meeting.)
*Irmak Karayal, Member, Youth representative. High School senior.
* Selçuk Acar, Member, Editor of the TurkishJournal.Com (joined to the BoD during the April 24, 2010 BoD Meeting).
- TURKISH-ARMENIAN SYNERGY INITIATIVE built-in to the LMBoD
UPDATE:
Civil Society Institute-CSI (Yerevan) has withdrawn itself from the TAS Initiative of the Light Millennium as of February 6, 2010.
-For the TAS Initiative Programs in Yerevan
-Hightlights from the Yerevan trip
*Diana Khachaturyan (http://www.csi.am/), Online Member and equal partner for the *Turkish-Armenian Synergy Initiative
*Marianna Khachaturyan, Online Member, and equal partner for the Turkish-Armenian Synergy Initiative.
Disclosure: Despite the CSI's withdrawn from the TAS Initiative of the Light Millennium, Diana Khachaturyan and Marianna Khachaturyan have not sent in their resignation from the TAS Initiative up to date (May 9, 2010), which was brought up to their attention.
Update: Marianna Khachaturyan sent in her resignation as of December 30, 2010; and Diana Khachaturyan sent in her resignation as of December 31, 2010.
- ADVISORY BOARD:
-For Description of the Advisory Board, please see the June 6, 2006 MINUTES:
* Figen Bingül, Translator (Turkish-English), Editor, New York.
* Kalman Angus-Clark, Investor / Business Entrepreneur
* Etem Erol, Professor in Middle Eastern Studies, Columbia University, New York.
* Edward Foster, Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey.
* Talat S. Halman, Professor in Literature Department of the Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
* Hayrettin Kilic, Founder, Green Think Tank for Turunch Foundation, New Jersey.
* Stephen Kinzer, Former New York Times Foreign Correspondent, Author and Professor, Boston University, MA.
*Akif Kireççi, Associate Professor, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
Executive Producer & Director:
Bircan Ünver
The Light Millennium's representatives for the Department of Public Information of the United Nations (UN/DPI-NGO) 2009:
* Main Representative: Bircan Ünver
* Alternate Representative: Korcan Yurdacan
* Youth Representative: Irmak Karayal, Senior, High School student
COMMITTEES:
* TURKISH & ARMENIAN SYNERGY INITIATIVE (NOT ACTIVE):
Bircan Ünver (Co-Chair), Diana Khachaturyan (Co-Chair), Marianna Khachaturyan, Azime Aydogmus & Korcan Yurdacan, Gokhan Kilinç (STBM, Denizli, Turkey), Maia Gachechiladze (Budapest, Hungary).
Update: Marianna Khachaturyan sent in her resignation as of December 30, 2010; and Diana Khachaturyan sent in her resignation as of December 31, 2010.
*EDITING, COPY EDITING & PROOFREADING COMMITTEE:
Figen Bingul, Janet Ekstract, Irmak Karayal, Stephanie Wein
*TRANSLATION COMMITTEE (From Turkish to English; English to Turkish; or from any other language to English or Turkish):
Figen Bingul, Irmak Karayal, Fatos Simsek, Janet Ekstract
*TRANSCRIPTION COMMITTEE (transcribing audio or video interviews as verbatim for the LM or Isikbinyili e-publications):
Azime Aydogmus, Irmak Karayal
* GRANT-PROPOSAL WRITING & GRANT SEARCH COMMITTEE:
Janet Ekstract, Bircan Ünver
* EVENTS & FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE (combined with "fundraising")
Sultan Catto, Bircan Unver, Janet Ekstract
* SUPPORT GROUP & $1 OPEN ON-LINE MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE (through NYCharities.Org):
Bircan Ünver
*MEDIA & OUTREACH COMMITTEE
Figen Bingül, Janet Ekstract, Fatos Simsek, Bircan Ünver
* INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE with NGOs, CSOs, EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, and PRIVATE SECTOR:
Janet Ekstract, Bircan Ünver
* SPECIAL PROJECT/s COORDINATOR:
Janet Extract: Turkish Women Project (work in progress).
*WEB DEVELOPMENT, DESIGN & INTERNET PROMOTION COMMITTEE:
Bircan Ünver
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Banner & Logo for both Lightmillennium.org & Isikbinyili.org; LMTV Logo & Seal Designed by:
Ayhan M. Duman, Istanbul, Turkey.
- For the September 30, 2009 joint MINUTES of the LMBoD and Annual Meetings>
- PARADE OF FACES: Who Speaks for Turkey? With Stephen KINZER
A Six Part of Documentary Project
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.
Submissions any time...
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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The Light Millennium e-platform, ISIK BINYILI e-platform (Turkish counterpart of the LM), and Light Millennium TV Series ("LMTV") are under the umbrella of The Light Millennium, 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.
