Our Awesome Team

Isaac Romano

Marcello Giorgi

A&IA International Executive Director

Canada

Founder. Executive Director, President of the Board for our non-profit incorporated,

Arts & Immigration Alliance.

Marcello Giorgi

Master Classical Italian Sculptor

Canada

Master Italian Sculptor and collaborator with the Arts & Immigration Alliance.

Steven Fischler

Marcello Giorgi

Steven Fischler

Project Director

U.S.A.

Arts & Immigration Alliance North American Project Director. Co-Founder and Co-Owner of the award winning Pacific Street Films, Manhattan. N.Y.

Alek Wolf

Digital Marketing & Media Coordinator

Canada

Born and raised in Mexico City, Alek immigrated to Canada in 2019 to continue his education in the digital field after completing his Bachelor's degree in International Business at Tec de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus.

Peter Cohen

Alek Wolf

Project Coordinator

Canada

Adviser and representative in Spanish and English. Peter Cohen holds a Masters Degree in Political Science from Rutgers University and a Masters degree in TESOL from New York University. Expertise: Cross-Cultural-Relations, Educator in New York City, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Spain and China.

Reverend Colin Bossen

Advisor

U.S.A.

Senior Minister of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston and a peace leader that led solidarity work with indigenous communities in Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Harvard University.

Fanny Sachet

Reverend Colin Bossen

Non-Profit Entrepreneurial Advisor

Canada

Coordinates projects in administration of A&IA's non-profit Charity projects in Canada, working with our legal team.

Azelie Lemoine

Camille Marchive

Azelie Lemoine

Communications & Translation

Canada

From France and New York and now living in Montreal, Azelie Lemoine is our French language interpreter with translator and linguistic skills in French, English and Spanish that go hand in hand with her immigrant advocacy work. Her skill-set provides us analysis of relevant data.

Sean I. Robin

Camille Marchive

Azelie Lemoine

Advisor

U.S.A.

Former editor of Indigenous Planning Times and a convener of the BIPOC Planning Collective, an affiliate of Planners Network. He is currently Assistant Commissioner of Co-op Readiness at the New York City Department of Housing, Preservation and Development. He studied urban planning at MIT.

Camille Marchive

Commerce & Finance Advisor

Canada

Currently university studies at Concordia University in Montreal, specializing in commerce. Using her business and commerce acumen, as we administer our financial and bookkeeping and administrative protocol.

Diego Bravo

Catherine Richardson/Kineweskwê

Filmmaker and Photojournalist

Canada/Mexico

Diego Bravo is resident videographer and photojournalist with A&IA. His work has taken him from Mexico to Chicago and Hawaii. From Canada to the Himalayas.

Catherine Richardson/Kineweskwê

Ph.D. Advisor

Canada

Executive Policy Staff Advisor to the Arts And Immigration Alliance. Director of First Peoples Studies at Concordia University in Montreal.

Papacho Sidrey

Catherine Richardson/Kineweskwê

Papacho Sidrey

Musician

Canada

Artist in Residence - Pianist, Papacho Sidrey.

Mexican-Canadian jazz performer, composer.

Performs in Mexico, Cuba, France and Canada.

Jonathan Hafetz

Lawyer

U.S.A.

Seton Hall Law School Professor, Human Rights, International Law and Constitutional Law legal authority. Also Senior Attorney with the New York National Office of the American Civil Liberties Union (A.C.L.U.). Member of the Board of Directors for our non-profit, U.S. incorporated.

Nazlı Memişoğlu

Jonathan Hafetz

Communications

Canada/Turkey

Nazli came to Canada from Turkey after she finished high school. She is an undergraduate Economics student at McGill University in Montreal.

Matt Adams

Jonathan Hafetz

Matt Adams

Advisor

U.S.A.

Legal Director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (Seattle). Matt Adams prepared a Legal Brief and representation on behalf of his client in what was a major immigrant rights case, in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in January 2022.

Alan Maxwell

Nate Northfield

Alan Maxwell

Visual Artist

Costa Rica

Drawing on a wealth of real world

Cinematography, Photography and Directing

experience, Alan Maxwell will center his work on our team with a 3D scan of "The Welcoming" Sculpture maquette and use to create a 3D asset that can be lit and rendered in Autodesk Maya 3D.

Savanna Ross

Nate Northfield

Alan Maxwell

Event Organizer

Canada/USA

An innate people's person, Savanna works in close coordination with A&IA executive director. Her areas of skill include PR, event organizing and logistics preparation. University studies at Concordia University.

Nate Northfield

Fundraising Administrator

Music Performer Entrepreneur, Canada

Nate brings talents both as a music performer entrepreneur and with specialties in non-profit fundraising and procurement of university student intern and innovation programming.