Haitians in the
News
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15 May 2002 -- Dr. Francine Noel of Port
au-Prince is one of the first recipients of the newly established International
Leadership Awards
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18 October 2001 -- Assistant Public Defender
Fred Seraphin, is
appointed as Miami-Dade's first Haitian-American county
judge
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June 4, 2001 -- CEGEP teacher Vivian Barbot, born in Haiti and with a long
record of union
activism, is acclaimed president of the Quebec Women's
Federation,
succeeding
Francoise David.
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June 1, 2001 -- Estime-Thompson and her all-female law firm,
Mondesir, Estime-Thompson and Alexis PA, last month garnered the top business
award for Haitian-Americans from the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce
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May 16, 2001 -- Voters elected architect-engineer Joe Celestin as this city's
first Haitian-American mayor Tuesday night, prompting a raucous street
celebration.
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Pierre Richard Prosper, a Haitian-American, Department of Justice prosecutor,
and lead prosecutor in a 1998 international landmark case on genocide and crimes against humanity, is expected to be named Ambassador-at-Large for
War Crimes.
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Marjorie Valbrun, Wall Street
Journal reporter, granted an Alicia Patterson fellowship to write about
Haitians' emerging political influence in the US.
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Carolle Jean-Murat, MD, renowned author and physician, to serve on
advisory board of the GE Center for Financial Learning
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- Marie Bellande, a former director of administration at Grace Children's
Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti is one of Six Finalists Named for International Child Advocacy Award Recognition
-- PRNewswire
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