HDI Brings U.N. Ambassadors to New Orleans

 

Ambassadors to the United Nations

Ambassador Nabeelah Abdullah Al-Mulla, Kuwait

Ambassador Aksoltan Ataeva, Turkmenistan

Ambassador Paulette Bethel, Bahamas

Ambassador Margaret Hughes Ferrari, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Ambassador Maria de Fatima Lima da Veiga, Cape Verde

Ambassador Kirsti Lintonen, Finland

Ambassador Ellen Margrethe Loj, Denmark

Ambassador Anne Patterson, United States

Ambassador Ruth Elizabeth Rouse, Grenada

 

State of Louisiana, Governor's Office

The Honorable Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, Governor

The Honorable Mitchell Landrieu, Lieutenant Governor

Ms. Phyllis Mayo, Special Assistant to the Governor on Women's Policy

 

State of Louisiana, Women's Legislative Caucus

Representative Diane Winston, Chair

Representative Regina Ashford Barrow

Representative Clara Guilbeau Baudoin

Representative Shirley D. Bowler

Representative Karen Carter

Representative Jean Doerge

Representative Sidnie Mae Durand

Representative Cheryl Gray

Representative Monica Walker

Senator Sharon Weston Broome

Senator Lydia Jackson

Senator Willie Mount

Ms. Trin Johnson, Executive Director

 

State of Louisiana, Supreme Court

The Honorable Catherine D. "Kitty" Kimball, Associate Supreme Court Justice

The Honorable Jeannette T. Knoll, Associate Supreme Court Justice

 

State of Louisiana, Cabinet Secretaries

The Honorable Cynthia Bridges, Secretary of Revenue

The Honorable Angele Davis, Secretary of Culture, Recreation & Tourism

The Honorable Ann Williamson, Secretary of Social Services

 

State of Louisiana, Cabinet Secretaries

The Honorable Betty Ireland, Secretary of State

 

United States Congress

Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy, (D-NY, 4)

Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz, (D-PA, 13)

Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher, (D-CA, 10)

 

World Affairs Council of New Orleans

Ms. Dorothy Nelson, Executive Director

 

World Trade Center of New Orleans

Mr. Charles W. Nelson, President

Mr. Gene Schreiber, Executive Director

 

Special Guests

Ms. Pat Brister, Former Chair, Saint Tammany Parish Councilwoman

Ambassador Corrine "Lindy" Claiborne Boggs

Mr. Ellis Marsalis, Former Director, Jazz Studies Division, University of New Orleans

Mr. Jay Snyder, Commissioner, President's Commission on Public Diplomacy

 

United States Mission to the United Nations

Mr. Joseph Merante, Deputy Director of Communications

Ms. Millie H. Meyers, Director of Special Projects

 

The Humpty Dumpty Institute

Ms. Constance J. Milstein, Chairman

Mr. Ralph L. Cwerman, President

Mr. Bill Rigler, Executive Director

Ms. Daniela Kempf, Program Director

Mr. Jehan Christophe de La Haye St. Hilaire, Guest

Ms. Joanna Lederman, Guest