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    <lastmod>2020-04-01</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>AAIDN provides travel opportunities and incentives for African Americans and others to travel to Ireland. Special tours will be arranged that will highlight special points of historic, cultural and educational interest. Cultural tours and DNA heritage research tours will also be offered. And get ready for golf on some of the world’s most beautiful courses!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>AAIDN provides educational exchange opportunities for youth to travel to Ireland for study, internships, and to learn about the opportunities Ireland offers to the global community.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>AAIDN is forging links for business opportunities between African Americans and Ireland, including special initiatives in science and technology.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>AAIDN provides a virtual community for all those who share heritage, affinity, or fraternity with Ireland. We provide channels for the exchange of information, history, and family stories; and, opportunities to connect with Ireland and Northern Ireland, the Irish Diaspora, and the African Diaspora.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Coming to these shores under radically different circumstances, African and Irish histories in America overlap in many ways. As with America itself, the relationship between African and Irish Americans was complex. The links between the two cultures would have a profound impact on America and the world in unique and lasting ways, many stories of which have gone untold. The overlapping cultural influences produced bluegrass music and tap dance, along with people like Frederick Douglass, Beyonce, Barack and Michelle Obama, Muhammad Ali, Alicia Keys, and Patrick Francis Healey. There is also a rich, shared history of legendary leadership to achieve social justice and civil rights for all people. These are the stories we want to tell, and the the shared heritage and culture we want to build on.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>AAIDN provides a framework for the exchange of information, research, exploration and connection; a forum for discussion of mutual cultural, social and political interests; collaboration in entrepreneurship, science and technology between African Americans and Ireland, and a pathway for deeper engagement in our journey forward.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2022-03-07</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Board of Directors - Dennis Brownlee</image:title>
      <image:caption>Dennis J. Brownlee is the founder of African American Irish Diaspora Network. He became connected with Ireland after he began researching his family ancestry in recent years, following up on information his mother shared with him in his youth about his Scots-Irish ancestry in addition to his African American identity. Dennis has had an extensive career as an entrepreneur and business development executive in media and entertainment. He was vice president at iHeartMedia in charge of syndicated urban radio and online networks including The Steve Harvey Morning Show, among others. Prior to that, he developed a cable TV network with Quincy Jones and David Falk that led to the launch of TVOne. He was a vice president and board member of United Stated Satellite Broadcasting Company, which launched the nation’s first satellite-to-home television broadcasting system in partnership with DirecTV, and he served as chairman of the Direct Broadcast Satellite Association. Dennis is an Emmy Award winning executive producer of the documentary On Hallowed Ground: The Streetball Champions of Rucker Park. He began his career in IT with IBM, and then developed an IT management firm that became one of Black Enterprise Magazine’s top 100 companies. Dennis received his AB degree in economics from Princeton University. He is a trustee emeritus of Princeton and a trustee emeritus of Deerfield Academy.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Board of Directors - Stella O’Leary</image:title>
      <image:caption>Stella O'Leary founded Irish American Democrats Political Action Committee in 1996, inspired by President Clinton's commitment to pursue a peace settlement in Northern Ireland. Stella continues to serve as President of the PAC raising millions of dollars in support of the campaigns of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and other candidates for State and Local elections who promote U.S. involvement in sustaining the Good Friday Peace Agreement. President Obama appointed Stella as an Observer to the International Fund for Ireland where she served for seven years. Since 1986 the Fund has received more than a billion dollars of U.S. Congressional aid to support peace projects in Northern Ireland and the Border Counties. A native of Dublin, Ireland, Stella graduated from the School of Library Science at University College, Dublin and emigrated to America to archive a collection of rare books and manuscripts at the Catholic University of America. She co-authored the reference volume Classical Studies: An Annotated Bibliography." Stella was included four times in the Irish Voice newspaper listings of the 100 Top Irish Americans and twice in the recently inaugurated Irish America Magazine list of 50 Top Irish American Women.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Board of Directors - Miriam Nyhan Grey</image:title>
      <image:caption>Dr. Miriam Nyhan Grey is from Ireland but has been based at New York University's Glucksman Ireland House since 2008, having completed her PhD at the European University Institute in Italy. She has an interest in the intersections of migration, race and ethnicity and she focuses primarily on immigrant experiences in comparative frameworks. She is a collector of oral histories for the Archives of Irish America at New York University, and has been recording oral histories in Ireland, Britain and the United States since 2000. She hosts the weekly "This Irish American Life" radio hour on public radio in New York City on Saturdays from 9am to 10am on WNYE 91.5 FM and on www.nyuirish.net/radiohour. In spring 2019, Miriam started collecting oral histories --for a project funded by Ireland's Emigrant Support Program-- with Americans who identify as Irish and African American or West Indian American. Miriam is the author of a monograph, a collection of essays and numerous articles. Miriam is thrilled to be involved with the African American Irish Diaspora Network where she hopes to lend her expertise in the realms of education and cultural education in particular.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Board of Directors - Christian Bolden</image:title>
      <image:caption>Hailing from New Orleans, Louisiana, Christian Bolden now resides of Washington D.C. due to the catastrophic events of Hurricane Katrina. Since his arrival, Christian has been involved with numerous efforts positively impacting the community; most notably the "Steel Sharpens Steel Summit"; a panel discussion committed to the enlightenment and enrichment of the Urban African-American Male Teen. Other efforts include participation in mentorship programs and volunteer efforts with various charities in the DC metro area. Christian also organized the "Re-New Orleans" event which commemorated the 5-Year Hurricane Katrina Anniversary and raised funding and awareness for the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Relief effort. With art donated by renowned New Orleans artist J'Renee, proceeds from the event were donated to the Greater New Orleans Foundation. Additionally, Christian developed “netWORKnola”; a one-stop source for New Orleans area professionals to network, promote employment opportunities, and exchange business contacts among other progressive individuals via Facebook. Christian is a member of Washington, D.C.'s Urban League "Young Professionals" chapter, a graduate of the University of Mobile (AL.), and obtained his Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) at Syracuse University during which time he visited Dublin and Cork, Irealnd as a student. A former Professional Staff Member in the U.S. House of Representatives, Bolden is now a small business owner in the information technology and project management space.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Board of Directors - Christine Kinealy</image:title>
      <image:caption>Now a resident of Connecticut, Professor Christine Kinealy has lived and worked in Belfast, Dublin, Liverpool and New Jersey. Since completing her PhD at Trinity College in Dublin, Christine has published extensively on modern Ireland, with a focus on the Great Hunger and on the Abolition movement. In 1997, she was invited to speak to invited audiences in both in the British Houses of Parliament and in the American Congress on the Great Hunger in Ireland. Christine’s award-winning publications include, This Great Calamity. The Great Famine in Ireland (1994 and 2007) and a graphic novel based on the experiences of children during the Great Hunger, entitled, ‘The Bad Times’ or, in its Irish language version, ‘A Droch Shaol’ (2016). During the last decade, her research has explored the experiences of abolitionists who visited Ireland in the 19th century, including Frederick Douglass, leading to the publication, Frederick Douglass and Ireland. In his own words (2018). Christine moved to the United States in 2007 to develop the Irish Studies Graduate program at Drew University. In 2013, she was appointed the founding Director of Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University. Through a vibrant series of conferences, exhibitions, publications and lectures, the Institute provides a forum for understanding the perennial problems of hunger, food security and economic inequalities in society, both historically and today. Christine is a champion of using education, particularly history, as a way of informing young people about issues relating to social justice. Since 2011, she has volunteered annually at a weekend Gael Scoil in New Jersey, which provides an immersion in Irish history and culture for 4 to 17-year-olds. Since 2013, Christine has been named one of the top 100 educators in Irish America. In 2014, she was inducted into the Irish America Hall of Fame and named one of the most influential women in Irish America. In 2017, Christine received an Emmy for her contribution to the documentary, “The Great Hunger and the Irish Diaspora.” In 2018, she was named a Belfast International Homecoming Ambassador, in recognition of her continuing close ties with the city where she lived between 1987 and 1992. In 2019, Christine was one of five Famine historians who undertook a 100-mile walk from Roscommon in the west of Ireland to Dublin, following in the footsteps of 1,490 poor tenants who were sent to Canada in 1847. Over 600 on them died on the journey. This route is now officially recognized as The National Famine Way.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Associate professor of Africana Studies and Director of the Office of the Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection Managing an archive containing over 13,000 items belonging to Dr. King. As Director, she develops campus-based programming and community outreach initiatives that advance the teachings and philosophy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. Crawford is a civil rights scholar whose groundbreaking volume of essays, Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers (1993) was one of the first publications to address the under-researched role of women in the African American freedom struggle. Her most recent publication is Reclaiming the Great World House: The Global Vision of Martin Luther King Jr. (University of Georgia Press, 2019). She has published numerous essays and book chapters on the Civil Rights Movement and has a strong interest in public history, having conducted workshops and seminars for middle and high school teachers as well as community leaders.</image:caption>
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