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Membership and Associations:
CEO - Bahama-Meridian ITL - Cuba Trade Delegations, Sustainable development, Commodities supply, consulting, lobbyist.
Founder - Natural Environmental Ecological Management (NEEM)- a Non Profit http://www.neemtree.org.
President - A Wandering Feast, LLC. http://home.mindspring.com/~awanderingfeast/index.html.
Chair - Southwest Central Durham Quality Of Life Community - Steering Committee Chair, Sustainable Development Committee Chair
and Economic Development, Housing and Allocations Committee's.
http://www.durhamqualityoflife.org/.
Member - Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership (DDNP).
Chair - PRIDE and Neighborhood Improvement Services of Durham City, NC. AD HOC and Preservation Committee Chair.
Member - Latin America Working group (LAWG)- Washington, DC.
Associate - Washington Office on Latin Affairs (WOLA)
Member ECDET.
Lobbyist - Cuba, Sustainability, Trade, Farm Bill, PV Solar and Energy/Environmental activist for positive sustainable change.
Cuban Government - Negotiated Pan American Conference on Neem - in Malaria, Dengue Fever and HIV/AIDS.
Affiliate Organization of Tropical Studies (OTS.
Led U.S. Delegation on Sustainable Agriculture to Cuba 2001, 2003, 2005 with Cuba as the model.
Member - ECDET - Academic Group, Washington, DC - lobbyist.
Associate Meridian IBG of Minnesota St. Paul - Mr. Tom Grady.
Participant U.S. International Agricultural Trade Show and Exhibition; Havana, Cuba (PABEXPO)2001.
Associate with Council for Democracy in Cuba, U.S. Cuba Trade Association, Eastern Cuban Cultural Exchange, Cuba Trade Council,
Center for International Reconciliation and Development, Disarm Education Fund, US Cuba Sister Cities Program, the Georgia
Department of Agriculture, the Georgia Department of Industry, Trade and Tourism, the Georgia Ports Authority, the Port of
Galveston (Texas), the Arkansas Farm Bureau, the Farm Bureau, Alamar Associates, The Ensminger Foundation, Americans For Humanitarian
Trade with Cuba, the GIC Group, Patton Boggs LLP, the U.S. Cuba Trade Association and the World Development Federation, the
Carter Center; Atlanta, Ted Turner Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Pew Trust, Rockefeller Foundation, LISC
(Chicago)and philanthropies too numerous to mention.
Delegate representing North Carolina Department of Agriculture - U.S. and NC in Havana, Cuba; Met and dined with President
Fidel Castro, interacts with MINREX, MINAG, MINST, Pro Export, high level officials of Cuban Government, numerous Ministries
(CU) and Interest Section (DC).
Participant National Organic Standards Board (NOSB)on NOSB USDA Organic Seal in Washington, DC.
Speaker and Consultant on Sustainable Development and Agriculture.
Associate Black Farmers Agricultural Association (BFAA)
Associate NAACP - Greensboro
Member Co-Op America
Member ICC
Member NEEM Foundation
Member National Resources Defense Council
Member North Carolina Specialty Foods Association
Member National Specialty Foods Association
Member Organic Trade Association
Member SUSTA (Southern United States Trade Association).
Oregon Tilth Certified Organic - license.
Bureau International Security (BIS) section 748.7 Export Administration Regulations (EAR)
Member Greenpeace
Member Foundation Center
Member NET Impact - Environmental and Ecological.
Contributor - UNC Department of Arts and Science - Paul Green Theatre.
Member UNC Founders
Founder West End Neighborhood Association
Member Morehead Hills Neighborhood Association
Member Durham Chamber of Commerce - A Wandering Feast
Contributor Ronald Mc Donald House - Chapel Hill
Affiliate UN Food Bank
USAID Procurement - USAID reconstruction program.
USAID UN Food Program.
Bechtel (Procurement Status USAID/IRAQ)
Research Triangle Institute - (Procurement Status USAID/IRAQ)
License Office of Foreign Assets and Control (OFAC) Department of Treasury
Associate Brazil Amazon Trading Company of Florida and Santos Brazil
Associate - Cresswell Foods, UK
Associate - Vestey Group holding Co. – Sir Edmund Vestey, UK
Member Society Culinaire Philanthropique
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