Happy International Women’s Day!
We invite you to a celebration of our outstanding Romanian-American women in arts and sciences, an occasion to highlight and commend the leading ladies of our diaspora for their contributions to our communities and to our host American society. Our annual event on March 8th is an occasion to highlight the most recent work of Romanian-American writers and resident artists, researchers, physicians, medical health professionals, attorneys, community leaders, all accomplished professionals. Here are their stories of resilience and accomplishment, their testimonies and motivational messages.
Featured speakers:
IRF adviser Andrea Deletant; Award winning author and IRF adviser Ioana Ieronim; Speaking on behalf of Blue Heron Foundation’s Mentorship Program Dr. Diana Girnita; IRF board member, historian, theatre artist, and poet Cristina A. Bejan; Novelist, playwright and director Domnica Rădulescu; Poet and translator Roxana L. Cazan; Heritage Organization of Romanian Americans In Minnesota President Eugenia Popa, Cultural Center Director Raluca Octav, Vice-President Dana Voller and Treasurer Monica von Geldern; ARCS-USPTO Vice-President Gabriela C. Craciun; Honorary Consul of Romania to Connecticut Dana Roxana Bucin; Cultural sociologist Sonia Coman-Ernstoff; Poet Mihaela Moscaliuc; poet and editorialist Alina Cumpan; Human rights activist, sociologist, and author Dr. Nina Smart; Physicist, Professor, Science Communicator, Filmmaker and Inclusion Activist Ágnes Mócsy; Roma Peoples Project founder Cristiana Grigore; Playwright, poet, and ARTivist Saviana Stanescu; Writer Dr. Carmen Bugan; Ezra Review Editor Clara Burghelea; Poet Dr.Lucia Cherciu; Poet Anca Mizumschi Simion; Playwright Dr. Catalina Florina Florescu; Clinical Psychotherapist Mihaela Campion; Poet, fiction and play writer Carmen Firan.
Welcoming remarks: Teodor Stan, President and Founder of Immigration Research Forum
Andrea Deletant, IRF Board of Advisers, Former URBED director:
Ioana Ieronim, Award winning author, Washington, DC resident poet and IRF adviser:
Speaking on behalf of IRF advisor Stefania Magidson, the founding president of Blue Heron Foundation in Los Angeles, the following is a Mentorship Program testimonial offered by Diana Girnita MD, PhD.:
Denver, CO resident historian, theatre artist, and poet Cristina A. Bejan, founder of Bucharest Inside the Beltway (BiB), IRF Board of Directors Member:
Novelist, Playwright, Theater Critic and Director Domnica Rădulescu, Distinguished Service Professor of Comparative Literature, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA:
Oklahoma resident poet and translator Roxana L. Cazan, co-editor of Voices on the Move: Writing by and about Refugees (2020)
Heritage Organization of Romanian Americans In Minnesota:
Eugenia Popa – President
Raluca Octav – Cultural Center Director
Dana Voller – Vice President
Monica von Geldern – Treasurer
Gabriela C. Craciun
Management & Program Analyst, ME
Vice-President of ARCS (American Romanian Cultural Society)
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Dana Roxana Bucin
Honorary Consul of Romania to Connecticut
Partner (Immigration Law) Murtha Cullina LLP
Sonia Coman-Ernstoff, PhD.
Cultural sociologist and Washington, DC resident poet
Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art
Mihaela Moscaliuc, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Monmouth University
New Jersey resident poet
Alina Cumpan
Chicago resident poet and editorialist
President of Authentic Society for Language and Romanian Culture
Dr. Nina Smart a.k.a. “Geanina din Bucovina”
Los Angeles/Bucovina
Human rights activist, sociologist, and author
WILD FLOWER - The True Story of a Romanian Girl in Africa
Ágnes Mócsy, PhD
Physicist, Professor, Science Communicator, Filmmaker, Inclusion Activist
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Cristiana Grigore
The Roma Peoples Project at Columbia University, NY
Saviana Stanescu
Playwright, poet, and ARTivist based in New York
Dr. Carmen Bugan
Prize-winning writer based in Long Island, NY
Dr. Lucia Cherciu
Professor at SUNY Dutchess in Poughkeepsie, NY
Clara Burghelea
Garden City, NY resident writer
Review Editor at Ezra, An Online Journal Of Translation
Anca Mizumschi Simion
Phoenix, Arizona resident Romanian author
Dr. Catalina Florina Florescu
New York based play writer
Mihaela Campion
Chicago based MA, LCPC, CCDVC, Licensed Clinical Psychotherapist
www.archercoalition.org
www.revivaltherapy.com
Carmen Firan
New York based Romanian American poet, fiction and play writer
www.carmenfiran.com
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