AM Kinney III Click here for Letter of Recommendation Born and raised in the Little Miami River Valley near Cincinnati, where my family has lived since 1789, I still call it home. I went to the University of Colorado where I studied Foreign Affairs. After taking a gap year to travel the world on my own, I returned home to finish my studies at the University of Cincinnati. AFter working my way through college, I was asked to join our family's architecture/engineering/construction management business where I learned the oprtations inside and out through the years before finally becoming the Chairman of the Board in 1993. I am grooming one of my ...

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Alix Desulme Click here for Letter of Recommendation Councilman Desulme was first elected into office in 2009, in a city-wide election, making history as the first Black City Clerk of the city of North Miami. He held the distinction of the youngest and the first Haitian-American elected City Clerk in the United States of America. As a leader, he consistently advocates for the residents in North Miami and South Florida. Tuesday, June 2, 2015, Councilman Desulme was elected to the North Miami City Council representing District 4. The following year he became the youngest Councilman to serve as Vice-Mayor for the city of North Miami, Florida ...

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John Dabeet Click here for Letter of Recommendation John Dabeet is married to Abeer, and has nine years old twin boys Nabeel & Anton. John is the Chair of Business Department. In addition, he is the Economics, and Statistics professor at Muscatine Community College, Muscatine, IA.  He was also President of Muscatine Sister Cities Inc. for the past 22 years; Also, Mr. Dabeet is the Co-Chair for EICC Diversity Council for the past four years. He served eight years on the board of the Greater Muscatine Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In addition, he was the Democratic Candidate for Iowa State House four years ago. During his time as ...

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Sheri Capehart Click here for Letter of Recommendation Arlington, Texas has a unique Sister City relationship with a small town in Germany, Bad Konigshofen. We have enjoyed this partnership since 1951, before Sister Cities International was founded! I am the designated city council member for representing our city during official visits and I have a very cordial relationship with the Burgermeister. I have traveled to our sister city numerous times and led an official delegation on three occasions. I am also the designated city council member for our Office of International Protocol. We have a very involved organization – Sister Cities of ...

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Courtney Bennett Click here for Letter of Recommendation Courtney D. Bennett, CEO for the International Partnership for Economic & Sustainable Development (IPESD), is a global competence and youth development expert. For more than ten years she has been involved in leading youth advocacy efforts mainly around education and entrepreneurship, social justice, peace-building, and diplomacy. In 2013, Courtney represented the United States as a Sister Cities Delegate leading the District of Columbia Youth Advisory Council through cultural, educational and economic exchanges at the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) as well as ...

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Edmund Adams Click here for Letter of Recommendation I practiced law for almost 40 years, the last 35 of which were with Frost Brown Todd (formerly Frost & Jacobs) in its Cincinnati office. The firm is one of the largest law firms in the Midwest and the South. I served in the 1990s as its Managing Partner and Chairman. I specialized in general corporate, commercial, banking and business bankruptcy law. In the last 15 years I primarily represented debtors and creditors in large and medium-sized Chapter 11 reorganizations in the eastern half of the United States. I have served on, and in many cases chaired, numerous non-profit and for-profit ...

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