With a passion for both education and business, my goal is to use both to increase economic development in much needed communities around the world, especially Haiti. I hold a bachelor and master degrees from Florida A&M University, and currently and doctoral candidate at Columbus State University. I am also co-founder of the BEL Initiative program, which focuses on educating and connecting Haiti-based entrepreneurs to resources.

Darnelle is the co-founder and executive director of Jaden Timoun, a culturally relevant Haitian Creole Language Immersion program for children 12 years of age and under based in New York. She is also a NYS certified early childhood educator and a published children's book author.

M. Stephanie Chancy is the Green Family Foundation/Digital Library of the Caribbean Fellow, and a Ph.D. candidate in History at Florida International University. Stephanie's research focuses on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European-Atlantic material culture, especially the mutual cultural and artistic exchanges between the Americas and Europe. She has a Bachelor of Science in Communications, with a double major in European History, and a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, with an emphasis in History both from the University of Miami. Stephanie has had appointments as a lecturer in Art History at FIU and UM and has curated two Haitian art exhibitions at FIU's Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum. Prior to her academic career she worked in arts administration.

Dasha Chapman (Ph.D. Performance Studies, NYU) is an interdisciplinary dancer-scholar whose research, teaching, and performance work in critical dance studies moves through a nexus of African diaspora theory, performance studies, ethnography, queer/gender studies, and Caribbean thought. Chapman's first book centers on the labor of five contemporary Haitian dance artists who build communities through dance in both Haiti and in the diasporas of New York City and Boston. The project traces how the teaching and choreographic practices of these artists foster alternative political imaginations, examining the ways in which dance, as fostered by these Haitian artists, makes and remakes "Haiti." As a dance-maker, Chapman works in site-specific collaboration to excavate, activate, and reimagine suppressed histories. She has facilitated collaborative performance projects in Port-au-Prince and Jeremie, Haiti (with Yonel Charles, Jean-Sebastien Duvilaire, and Ann Mazzocca), as an artist in residence at the Power Plant Gallery in Durham, NC (with Aya Shabu), and in residence at Tulane University's A Studio in the Woods in New Orleans, LA (with Tè Glise Collective). Currently, Chapman is Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at Davidson College. Prior to this position Chapman taught Critical Dance Studies and Africana Studies at Hampshire College|Five College Dance, and was a Postdoctoral Associate in African and African American Studies at Duke University. Her writing appears in The Black Scholar, Journal of Haitian Studies, Dance Chronicle, Theatre Journal, and Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory in a special issue she co-edited on Queer Haitian Performance and Affiliation.

Professeur à l'université, je travaille sur les questions monétaires, l'économie du savoir, les prévisions macroéconomiques, les politiques de population, les finances publiques et les sociétés post-esclavagistes. Ma thèse de doctorat s'intitule : Ajustement économique, monnaie et institutions dans l'économie haïtienne (2001). J'ai publié plusieurs ouvrages sur l'économie haïtienne dont : Société, économie et politique en Haïti : La crise permanente (2005), L'économie et ses fondements cognitifs en Haïti (2008), Le financement de la décentralisation et du développement local (2009), L'action l'État et l'économie en Haïti (2010), La structuration de l'économie et la réforme de l'État en Haïti (2012). Ces travaux montrent qu'Haïti peut passer d'une économie reposant sur la rente agricole à une nouvelle économie fondée sur la connaissance et offrant des opportunités à tous ses individus.

Jean F. Claude is a professor of Hospitality Management at New York City College of Technology, CUNY having become part of the education team in 2001. He is a Certified Hospitality Educator and a Certified Culinary Educator and has a Master of International Business Management degree from Webster University. Professor Claude is an accomplished hospitality and tourism professional having held responsible positions with Ogden Aviation Services, Russian Tea Room, Marriott International, and Walt Disney World. In 2010, he was inducted to the Academie Culinaire de France. He is currently the vice-president of the Société Culinaire Philanthropique and an active member of the American Culinary Federation. In 2018, Professor Claude received the Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition of outstanding and invaluable service to the community and a Citation by the New State Assembly for his leadership and devotion to the students of the City University of New York, the State of New York and his service to the Haiti Community.

Isabelle is a Haitian anthropologist whose work has focused on claiming local narratives by leveraging the power and assets of communities in Haiti. She has worked with a variety of organizations including community-based organizations and agricultural co-ops, large multi and bi-lateral institutions, impact investors and more across diverse fields such as small business development and microfinance, climate justice, food security, and human rights. In 2019, she worked with the UN's Office of the High Commission for Human Rights to lead an entirely civil society led process to design Haiti's first national strategy for confronting past crimes and impunity.

Nadège T. Clitandre is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Global Studies. Clitandre received her B.A. in English Literature from Hampton University, a M.A. in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in African Diaspora Studies with a designated emphasis in Women, Gender, Sexuality at the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining Global Studies in 2011, Clitandre was the recipient of the University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of English and the Center for Black Studies Research at UCSB. She holds an affiliate appointment in the Department of Black Studies and Comparative Literature. Clitandre works on theoretical framework s of the African Diaspora, migration and displacement, and transnationalism with a particular focus on Haiti and Haitian diasporic literature. Her teaching interests include diaspora studies, anticolonial literature, postcolonial Caribbean Women's literature, and NGO and Humanitarian intervention in Haiti post-earthquake. Clitandre is also the founder of Haiti Soleil, a nonprofit organization that focuses on engaging youth and building community through the development of libraries in Haiti. Clitandre's first monograph, Edwidge Danticat: The Haitian Diasporic Imaginary (2018) is published by the University of Virginia Press.

Docteur en sociologie du Centre d'Études interdisciplinaires des faits religieux (CEIFR) de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Lewis Ampidu CLORMÉUS a effectué ses recherches postdoctorales au Laboratoire d'Excellence Constitution de la Modernité (LabEx COMOD) de l'Université de Lyon. Il enseigne actuellement la socio-anthropologie des religions à l'Université d'État d'Haïti. Il s'intéresse particulièrement aux discours des intellectuels et des religieux catholiques à l'égard du vodou haïtien aux XIXe-XXe siècles ainsi qu'aux rapports entre l'État et les religions en Haïti (1804-1957). Auteur de nombreux articles scientifiques, il a déjà publié deux livres sur les constructions savantes du XIXe siècle concernant le vodou haïtien : Le vodou haïtien. Entre mythes et constructions savantes (Riveneuve Éditions, Paris, 2015) et Duverneau Trouillot et le vodou. Réflexions d'un intellectuel haïtien du XIXe siècle (Éditions du CIDHICA, Québec, 2016). Au CéSor, ses travaux vont porter sur l'évolution du protestantisme évangélique et des nouveaux mouvements religieux en Haïti.

Marc J. Cohen is Senior Researcher at Oxfam America, currently working on aid effectiveness and food security. Previously, he focused on humanitarian policy and climate change, as well as evaluations of humanitarian advocacy. His academic training is in political science and development studies. Before coming to Oxfam, Marc was a Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) 1998-2008, and his long term research focus is global food security. Marc has carried out field research in Haiti since 2007, and has also worked in Ethiopia, Rwanda, Taiwan, Thailand, Uganda, and the USA. From 2004 to 2016 he was an adjunct faculty member at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He has also taught at American and George Washington Universities, as well as at the Universities of Florence and Oslo.