Our Awesome Team
Isaac Romano
Marcello Giorgi
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
Marcello Giorgi
Marcello Giorgi
Master Classical Italian Sculptor
Canada
Renown Master Classical Italian Sculptor and collaborator with the Arts & Immigration Alliance.
Steven Fischler
Marcello Giorgi
Steven Fischler
Award Winning Documentary Filmmaker and Advisor to U.S.A. and North America Project Director
Award Winning Documentary Filmmaker and Advisor to U.S.A. and North America Project Director. Co-Founder and Co-Owner of the award winning Pacific Street Films, Manhattan. N.Y.
Alek Wolf
Reverend Colin Bossen
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
Reverend Colin Bossen
Alek Wolf
A&IA Board Member and Advisor to A&IA Project Coordinators
Canada
Adviser and representative in Spanish, English and Mandarin Chinese. 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
Reverend Colin Bossen
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
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
Ryan D. Valdes
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
Ryan D. Valdes
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.
Ryan D. Valdes
Ryan D. Valdes
Ryan D. Valdes
Music conductor & event planner
Canada
An interdisciplinary singer, conductor, and administrator currently living and working in Montréal, Québec. A second-generation Dominican/Cuban-American, Ryan cares deeply about research in cross-cultural choral pedagogy and presenting music from Latin and non-Western composers.
Catherine Richardson/Kineweskwê
Catherine Richardson/Kineweskwê
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
Catherine Richardson/Kineweskwê
Musician
Canada
Artist in Residence - Pianist, Papacho Sidrey.
Mexican-Canadian jazz performer, composer.
Performs in Mexico, Cuba, France and Canada.
Jonathan Hafetz
Jonathan Hafetz
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
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
Nate Northfield
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.