U.N. Field Workers Share Experiences with the Writers of Hollywood
Monday, 15. November 2010 3:31
The Humpty Dumpty Institute, with co-founder Connie Milstein, is an organization with many programs. One of them is The Global Creative Forum, who recently brought representatives from three U.N. projects to Hollywood, California with hopes of exposing famous film and television writers and producers to the problems and efforts of the U.N. Writers from famous shows such as Law and Order, Burn Notice and Private Practice were present at the event.
The event began with an introduction by Bill Rouhana, chairman of HDI and GCF, who was followed by U.N. Assistant Secretary General Robert Orr and Juan Carlos Brandt of the U.N. Department for Public Information. The first speaker was Elizabeth Jennings, who works for the World Food Program in Haiti. She described the flexibility of the Haitians when they are faced with the disasters of earthquakes, hunger and cholera. Jennings was followed by Olivier Mukarji from the United Nations Department of Peace Keeping in Darfur, Sudan. He explained how the U.N. works to save refugees from Darfur as well as to negotiate an end to the conflict between the political parties in Sudan. Gary Lewis of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime in Thailand spoke of the efforts being put into stopping the human and drug trafficking in the region.
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Connie Milstein, this year’s Heart’s Delight Chair, and her husband, Jehan-Christophe de La Haye Saint Hilaire, enjoyed a table that was filled with interesting guests at the Vintner’s Dinner. Such guests included President Obama’s HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Ambassador Capricia Marshall. In addition, Ambassador of Monaco Gilles Norghes and his wife Ellen were seated there, as were the new deficit czar Bruce Reed and his wife, Bonnie LePard.