KELLY MILIZIANO
President
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Kelly has been has been on the UNA Board for three
years. She is an avid global educator and serves as a lead teacher with
UNA-USA's Global Classrooms, and is a member of the Global Schools project with
the Patel Center for Global Solutions. A teacher for 22 years, she has taught
in New York City, Athens, Greece, and is currently the Social Studies
department Chair at Wharton High School in Tampa, Florida and an adjunct
faculty member in the College of Education at the University of South Florida.
She holds a B.S. in Social Science Education from New York University, an M.Ed
in Educational Leadership from the University of South Florida, and is
currently a doctoral candidate at the University of South Florida. |
DR. WILLIAM MCREYNOLDS
1st Vice-President of Government & Advocacy Relations
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William McReynolds has been a member of UNA for 3
years. He has been involved in global education at the university level for
over 15 years. He is a practicing clinical psychologist and extensively
published Professor of Psychology at The University of Tampa. Before coming to
Tampa he was a professor at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Bill and his
wife, Lin, are active world travelers and blue water sailors and he enjoys
amateur digital photography. He has a B.A. and Ph.D. from The University of
Texas at Austin. |
PAUL YINGST
Director and Past President and Past Treasurer
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Paul Yingst was Chapter President from 1996 through
2002 and again in 2007. He has been a UNA member since 1981 and has attended
many National Conventions. He was a Captain in the US Army Signal Corps in WW
II and served for 2-1/2 years throughout the Pacific Theatre of Operations with
his last assignment being Director of Radio Communications at General
Headquarters in Tokyo in 1945-6. He was responsible for radio communications
for the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay. His interest in the United Nations
emanate from his experiences during WWII. He spent twenty years in industry in
the space program as a Program Manager for Guidance and Control for many of the
major space flights and was involved in many of the launches. He devoted
another twenty years to local government City Management. During that time he
worked in all phases of municipal functions and in support of international
technology transfer between cities in Europe and the US. After retirement, he
was elected to City Council and served as Vice Chair. He is an Electrical
Engineer and Attorney, and holds the degree of Electrical Engineer from the
University of Cincinnati and Juris Doctor from Salmon P. Chase College of Law
in Cincinnati. He is a holder of the Bronze Star Medal and several industrial
awards. He continues to play golf on a regular basis and has served in many
capacities in his church including Treasurer for 12 years and Church School
Superintendent. He serves on the Board of the St Petersburg Housing Authority
where he is Vice Chair. |
JILL ISAAC
Vice- President of Education/Editor
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Jill Isaac has been with the UNA since her move to
Tampa Bay in 2006. She is an international producer, anchor and consultant who
has worked and resided in various parts of South East Asia, which include
places such as Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Mumbai, Colombo, New Delhi. Sarawak,
Honk Kong etc. Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Isaac worked as an Associate
producer for CBC Newsworld Business News in Toronto, Canada. As a producer, she
has interviewed CEO’s, Economists and Global Leaders in Canada, the United
States and throughout Asia. Isaac has over 10 years experience in TV
broadcasting and throughout her career she has earned a number of Asian
Television awards and media coverage in the foreign and local press. Just
recently, Isaac was a finalist of the Tampa Bay Business Journal’s
International Business Woman of the Year in 2006. Within Tampa Bay, Isaac is a
Producer and talk show host for a PBS business show, and is also an Adjunct
Faculty Instructor at the University of Tampa. Isaac has an Honours Bachelor of
Arts from the University of Toronto and a Masters in Diplomacy and
International Affairs from the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and second
Masters in Corporate and Public Communications from Seton Hall University. |
RAJEEV RATRA
Vice-President of Technology |
Rajeev has been serving on the Board since 2007
Rajeev is the CEO of Arnima Design Inc.,an international Information Technology
Services and Outsourcing Firm based in Tampa, FL with operations in London, UK
and New Delhi, India and has a client base that spans North America, Europe and
Asia. Rajeev leads a firm that provides personalized software and Web &
Internet related solutions and services to small and medium businesses across
the globe. Rajeev has spent several years at Wall Street banks such as JP
Morgan Chase, Bankers Trust, Deutsche Bank, TIAA-CREF and the US Trust Company.
Rajeev lived and resided and presently works in a number of countries, which
include China, the Netherlands, the UK, France, Mauritius, Lebanon, Italy,
Canada and the USA and has also traveled extensively under his Diplomat father
of 38 years. Rajeev is fluent in English, Italian, Hindi and Punjabi and has a
good working knowledge of French. Born in Beijing, China, Rajeev attended
college in Italy and arrived in the US in 1986 and then continued college in
New York at the Polytechnic University in Brooklyn graduating with Bachelor’s
degree in Electrical Engineering. Rajeev resides in Apollo Beach with his wife
Poonam. |
SUSAN JAMES
Director
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Susan James is a Director and has been with the UNA
–USA for the last three years and 12 years UNAC (Canada). She has worked with
international development organizations, including universities, colleges,
non-government, government, research and multi¬lateral organizations for over
15 years. Her focus has been in gender and development; concentrating on the
African region, with experience in the Caribbean. She coordinated a
Canadian-wide follow-up conference to the UN International Women’s Conference,
1985. At the University of South Florida, she facilitates international
education activities in medicine, nursing and public health. She has served in
a range of positions, such as Gender Policy Specialist for Jamaica and CUSO.
She has an MA in Development Studies, University of Toronto and in Sociology,
University of Missouri. She served as a member of the Canadian International
Development Agency (CIDA) NGO Project Facility Advisory Committee and also
received a CIDA Professional Award, implementing a women’s popular
participation project in West Africa. In collaboration with the UNAC, Ms. James
helped implement an Ontario-wide and Canadian wide NGO network in support of
African recovery. She has been on several boards, such as the Canadian
Association for the Study of International Development and the Ontario Council
for International Cooperation, with membership in others, such as UNIFEM
Florida Gulf Coast Chapter. |
Dr. TIM KENNEDY
Director
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Dr. Tim Kennedy became a UNA Board of Director in
2007. Dr. Kennedy is a pioneering expert in the field of development
communication, the concept of using modern communication technology to assist
emerging peoples in governance. Professional and Community Activities: Dr.
Kennedy spent 11 years in Alaska developing communication between remote Eskimo
villages and the government using videography. The Sky River Project, as the
program was known, was very successful and has been adapted around the world in
countries like India and South Africa. As a Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Kennedy
later took the project to Fiji. His book, Where the Rivers Meet the Sky, is
forthcoming. His education includes the University of Alaska at Anchorage, BA
and Cornell University, Ph.D. He is also a Board Member of the Tampa
Educational Cable Consortium. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the
London-based International Institute of Communications (llC). Dr. Kennedy was
awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to the Fiji Islands. |
Dr. MARK AMEN
Director |
Dr. Mark Amen has been a member of the UNA for the
past 6 years and joined the Board as a Director in 2007. His involvement with
global issues dates back to the early 1970s when he lived in Geneva,
Switzerland and worked on a report for the United Nations Educational,
Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on student involvement in UN
affairs. He lived in Geneva, Switzerland from 1971 to 1978 and was actively
engaged with various UN agencies and nongovernmental organizations
headquartered there. My research interests are: global political economy of
finance and credit; efforts to achieve the MDGs in Caribbean and Central
American countries; and the role of cities in a globalizing world. He has been
with USF since 1982 and was the Director of the International Studies Program
as well as Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences. Since 2001 he
has been academic director of the Globalization Research Center now the Kiran
C. Patel Center for Global Solutions.He is Deputy editor of Globalizations, a
peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis. His educational
background: BA in Philosophy (1967), Quincy College, Quincy, Illinois, MA in
Political Science and Theology (1972) DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois,
Ph.D. in Political Science (1978) Graduate Institute of International Studies,
Geneva, Switzerland. |
RYAN NEVEL
Chair of YPIC |
Ryan graduated cum laude with a degree in Political
Science from the University of South Florida at St. Petersburg in 2007. While
there Ryan served as Co-Chair of the Law Society and was a member of various
honors clubs, including Golden Key Honor’s Society and Omicron Delta Kappa’s
National Leadership Society. Presently, Ryan works at a mental health agency,
where he assists individuals with mental illnesses to obtain and develop
independent living skills and social/vocational rehabilitation. In this
capacity, he has been able to do outreach events in the community, such and the
“Mental Health Stigma and Employment Conference,” which he conceived and
chaired in 2007. This event saw attendees from local government, large
corporations and various social services organizations come together to discuss
mental health issues in the workplace. Ryan has also helped to plan and
organize other awareness-raising events in the community, not the least of
which was the YPIC Global Festival in early 2007; this event raised funds to
help build a kindergarten in Ohangwena, Namibia. Now serving as Chair of the
YPIC Tampa Bay Chapter, Ryan hopes to bring the plight of the underserved to
the forefront, and to do so by engaging the very talented and capable young
professionals in the Tampa Bay area. Ryan’s long-term goal is work in
international development and to advocate for human rights both locally and
abroad. |
KELLY REYNOLDS
Secretary
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Kelly Reynolds has been a member of UNA since 2006 and
is actively involved since serving on the UNA-USA board as secretary. She
graduated from the University of South Florida with a BA in Secondary Education
in 2000 and currently teaches at Wharton High School. She has been an active
participant in the UNA-USA Global Classrooms curriculum and conferences since
2002, and has traveled with her Model U.N. students to conferences at M.I.T,
Princeton, University of Florida, and New York’s United Nations Headquarters. |
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