Event: The Martissant Park Project: Community Reconstruction in Post-Earthquake Haiti
When: Monday, March 15, 2010 12:20p
Place: Guerlac Room, A.D. White House
Description: Speakers:
Mme. Michèle Pierre-Louis, Prime Minister of Haiti, September 2008 - November 2009
Mme. Lorraine Mangones, Program Director, FOKAL
Mmes. Pierre-Louis and Lorraine Mangonès will discuss the Martissant Park Project%u2014the first urban park ever to be created in Haiti. The project is financed by the Open Society Institute and the European Union. The speakers will discuss plans for reconstruction of the Martissant neighborhood including the Habitacion LeClerc Park as an earthquake memorial. FOKAL, the NGO directed by Mme. Pierre-Louis, is one of Cornell's partners in the new Haiti Initiative.
Michèle Duvivier Pierre-Louis became Prime Minister of Haiti in September 2008, only the second woman to hold this position. While Prime Minister, Pierre-Louis also served as Minister of Justice and Public Security. She has also served in the private sector as Director of Credit at the Bank of Nova Scotia, Officer of Administration and Human Resources to the Haitian Development Finance Corporation, and Deputy Director of the National Airport Authority. Since 1995 she has created and directed the Fondation Connaissance et Liberté %u2013 FOKAL. The Foundation focuses on the areas of education, culture, community development, environment, gender equity, civil society, and training of young entrepreneurs. Pierre-Louis has received several awards and distinctions in her career. She holds a 'Doctorate Honoris Causa' in Humanities from Saint Michael's College in Vermont.
Co-sponsored by the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development; the Latin American Studies Program; the Office of the Vice Provost for International Relations; and the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
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