Penobscot Nation tribal member, immigrant advocate join MCF board
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Reza Jalali, coordinator of multicultural student affairs, at the University of Southern Maine's Portland campus. Jalali was elected to the board of The Maine Community Foundation.
The Maine Community Foundation, which works to improve the quality of life for Mainers, elected two new board members, one a Penobscot National tribal member and the other an advocate for Muslims and other immigrants.
The Ellsworth American said the foundation, based in Ellsworth and Portland, named Susan Hammond of Orono, founder and executive director of Four Directions Development Corp., a Native community development financial institution for the four Wabanaki tribes in Maine.
The second board member named is Reza Jalali of Falmouth, an immigrant advocate who directs the University of Southern Maine’s Office of Multicultural Student Affairs, among other appointments. Mainebiz wrote about him in a January story about the importance of immigrants to Maine’s future.
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