WHO WE ARE

AFRICAN REFUGE STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS:

Director
Jacob D. Massaquoi, II

Volunteer Coordinator
Michael Callaghan

News Letter Coordinator

Maisy Card

Volunteers
Tamba D. Aghailas
Solomon Brisbane
Juma Brumskine
Jessica E Coyle
Augustine Jacobs
Nilofer Naqvi
Cheryl Nadeau


AFRICAN REFUGE ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS:

Ernest B. Cassell
Founding Member, African Refuge
Staten Island, NY

Serena Chaudhry, MSW.
Executive Director, Peace and Justice Center
Burlington, Vermont

Bobby Digi
CEO Thello Entertainment, President Island Voice
Staten Island, NY

Charles Langere
Chairman, Youth Committee, Community Board 1
Staten Island, NY

Natasha Johnson-Lashley, JD
African Community Liaison
Sanctuary for Families Center for Battered
Women's Legal Services
New York, NY

Togba R. Porte
Second Vice President Local 420, DC37
New York, NY

Eileen Reilly
Director, Workforce Development and Refugee Services
Church Avenue Merchants Block Association, CAMBA
Brooklyn, NY

Jack Saul, PhD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Population & Family Health
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Executive Director, Refuge/International Trauma Studies Program

Rev. Philip S. Saywrayne
Mission Developer, African Immigrant Ministry
Staten, Island, NY

Deacon Edwin Karnley
Deacon, Trinity Baptist Church, Staten Island.

Wilma L. Jones
Associate Professor
Chief Librarian, College of Staten Island Library

Gerald Brumskine
Community Advocate, Staten Island.