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State Advisory Council on Multicultural Affairs

• Noël Bonam (Chair)
  Director, Office of Multicultural Affairs/State of Maine
  noel.bonam@maine.gov
• Alan Furth (member until December 2010)
  Executive Director, Cobscook Community Learning Center
  alan@thecclc.org
• Arian Giantris (member until December 2010)
  Director, Refugee Services/Catholic Charities of Maine
  agiantris@CCMAINE.ORG
• Bankole Kolawale (member until December 2010)
  Director/Minority Health Program/City of Portland
  bak@portlandmaine.gov
• Barbara Ginley (member until December 2009)
  Executive Director/Maine Migrant Health Program
  bginley@mainemigrant.org
• Beth Stickney (member until December 2009)
  Executive Director/Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project
  BStickney@ilapmaine.org
• Brenda Fields (member until December 2009)
  Administrator/Penobscot Nation
  bfields@penobscotnation.org
• Catherine Yomoah (staff)
  State Refugee Coordinator/Maine Office of Multicultural Affairs
  Catherine.Yomoah@maine.gov
• Catherine Besteman (member until December 2009)
  Professor/Colby College
  clbestem@colby.edu
• Fatuma Hussein (member until December 2009)
  Executive Director/United Somali Women of Maine
  fhussein@uswofmaine.org
• Gigi Ottmann-Deeves (staff)
  EEO Officer-Office of Civil Rights/State of Maine-Transportation
  Gigi.Ottmann-Deeves@maine.gov
• Jackie Theriault (staff)
  State Police Lieutenant/State of Maine – Public Safety
  Jackie.M.Theriault@maine.gov
• Jeffrey Fantine (staff)
  Director of Adult Education/State of Maine - Education
  jeff.fantine@maine.gov
• Jennifer Sporzynski (member until December 2010)
  Director – StartSmart/Costal Enterprises Incorporated
  jls@ceimaine.org
• Joe Perry (member until December 2009)
  President/NAACP – Bangor
  No email listed at this time
• Juan Perez-Febles (staff)
  Director-Migrant & Immigrant Services Div./State of Maine - Labor
  Juan.A.Perez-Febles@Maine.gov
• Kathleen Lincoln (staff)
  Equal Employment Opportunity Coordinator/State of Maine
  Kathleen.Lincoln@maine.gov
• Kathleen Roberts (member until December 2009)
  Executive Director/Office of Campus Diversity & Equity/University of Southern Maine
  kroberts@usm.maine.edu
• Kathryn McGloin (staff)
  Juvenile Justice Specialist/State of Maine - Corrections
  kathryn.mcgloin@maine.gov
• Lelia Deandrade (member until December 2010)
  Program Officer/Maine Community Foundation
  ldeandrade@mainecf.org
• Lisa Sockabasin (staff)
  Director, Office of Minority Health/State of Maine – DHHS
  Lisa.Sockabasin@maine.gov
• Makara Meng (member until December 2010)
  Owner, Mitpheap Market
  mmeng@maine.rr.com
• Marc R. Mutty (member until December 2009)
  Director of Public Affairs/Diocese of Portland
  mmutty@portlanddiocese.net
• Margie Macdonald (member until December 2009)
  Multilingual and Multicultural Programs Coordinator/ Portland Schools
  macdom@portlandschools.org
• Mary LaFontaine (staff)
  State of Maine – Manager/BES
  Mary.J.LaFontaine@Maine.gov
• Nancy Mullins (staff)
  Director, ESL/Bilingual Programs/State Maine-Education
  Nancy.Mullins@maine.gov
• Penny Vaillancourt (staff)
  Administrator/State of Maine-PFR-Licensing & Registration
  Penny.Vaillancourt@maine.gov
• Phil Nadeau (member until December 2009)
  Deputy City Administrator/City of Lewiston
  pnadeau@ci.lewiston.me.us
• Pious Ali (member until December 2010)
  Executive Director, Maine Interfaith Youth Alliance
  pious@meiya.org
• Arian Giantris (member until December 2010)
  Director, Refugee Services/Catholic Charities of Maine
  agiantris@CCMAINE.ORG
• Rachel Talbot Ross (member until December 2009)
  Director Equal Opportunity & Multicultural Affairs/City of Portland
  rtr@portlandmaine.gov
• Regina Phillips (member until December 2009)
  Program Coordinator Refugee Services/City of Portland
  rlp@portlandmaine.gov
• Sally Dobres (member until December 2010)
  Director of Equity & Diversity/University of Maine System
  sallyd@maine.edu
• Wilfreid Plalum (member until December 2010)
  Acholi Association of Maine
  pwilfreid@yahoo.com