multicultural happy hour: northeast ohio, 2/21, 4:30 to 6:30 pm

7/29/2019 Multicultural Happy Hour: Northeast Ohio, 2/21, 4:30 to 6:30 pm

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You Are Invited

To a Multicultural Happy Hour

Building a Multicultural Alliance for

Immigration Reform

&

The Immigrant-Friendly City

Thursday, February 21, 2013

4:30 to 6:30 pm

Tomos Hibachi Restaurant & Lounge (Brand New!)1293 West 9

thStreet, Cleveland 44113

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A group of leaders from the Mexican, African American, Chinese, Jewish, Puerto Rican,

Nigerian, Lebanese, Guatemalan, Israeli, French, Taiwanese, Palestinian, Bhutanese, Pakistani,

Somali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Indian, Serbian and many other communities invite you to our

inaugural Multicultural Happy Hour.

We intend to do this each month in 2013 to create a sense of community and commitment

around support for national immigration law reform and local efforts to make Northeast Ohio

cities more immigrant-friendly.

Historic changes are happening all around us.


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The re-election of the nations first African-American president. The rise in political power of

the Hispanic and Asian community. Possible immigration reform that could bring millions of

undocumented families out of the shadows and into our welcoming community --- not to

mention thousands more immigrant entrepreneurs and innovators that could help jumpstart the

economy of cities like Cleveland, Lorain and Painesville.

However, for Northeast Ohio to benefit from these national changes, and for our economy to

grow, we will have to come together, speak with one voice in D.C. on why immigration reform

is important to Northeast Ohios future.

We invite you to join us for happy hour, networking, and a quick briefing on how you can

support immigration law reform, as well as ways we can together encourage local policies that

welcome immigrant investment and talent, that make immigrants feel safe and part of the

community.

Together, we can build a globally-connected city and grow the pie.

Please join us and other kindred spirits on Thursday, February 21st, for complimentary wine

and appetizers, cash bar, at the newly-launched Tomo Hibachi Restaurant & Lounge, 1293 West

9th

St. Cleveland, Ohio 44113.

Tomos is the brainchild of Immigrant-American entrepreneurs Velimir Lucic, of Serbia, andBenny Yang, of China. Check out the photos of this amazing historic four story building

recently renovated by Velimir and Benny atwww.tomohibachiandsushi.com. You wont want

to miss this event!

Event Hosts

Lee Fisher, CEO for Cities

John Barnes, Ohio House of Representatives

Joe Cimperman, Councilman, City of Cleveland

Mamie Mitchell, Councilwoman, City of ClevelandBrian Cummins, Councilman, City of Cleveland

Max Rodas, Nueva Luz Urban Resource Center & Guatemalan Immigrant

Lute Harmon, Inside Business & Cleveland Magazine

Eduardo Gonzalez, Ferragon Corporation

Richard Romero, Latinos Magazine

Ivan Gomez, Vocero Latino

Mansfield Frazier, Neighborhood Solutions

Jan Vilcek, Vilcek Foundation

Johnny Wu, Organization of Chinese Americans- Cleveland

Donna Dabbs, Urban Film Festival

Alton Tinker, Society of Urban ProfessionalsAlan Schonberg, Ohio Israel Chamber of Commerce

Joy Roller, Global Cleveland

Ruben Castilla Herrra, LGBT LULAC

Michael Byun, Asia Service in Action

Camilo Villa, SEIU Local 1

Karin Wishner, International Services Center

Nick Torres, Latino Policy Action Network

Pierre Beijjani, Cleveland American Middle East Organization

Prakash Sinha, India International
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Lucian Fogoros, Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America

Dennis Seaman, Seaman Garson

Derek Ng, China Great Lakes Innovation

Hasan Bakia, Albanian Association of Cleveland

Connie Atkins, Consortium of African American Organizations

Brian Hoffman, Innovation Ohio

Henry Guzman, HG & Associates

Gary Convertino, VP, Diversity, Cleveland Society of Human Resource Professionals

Susan Lohwater, Cuyahoga Community College

Patty Quinonez, Latina, Inc.

Lou Acosta, Northcoast Minority Media

Arooj Ashraf, LaPrensa Newspaper

John Ramos, LULAC Ohio

Maritza Motino, LULAC Columbus

Velimir Lucic, Tomo Hibachi Restaurant & Lounge

Benny Yan, Tomo Hibachi Restauraunt & Lounge

Anthony Yen, Confucius Institute, CSU

Luis Cargagena, Young Latino Network & Convencion Hispana 2013

Sanjiv Kapur, Jones Day

Jack Story, Saving Cities

Rachel Ng, MotivAsians

Jennifer Luu, MotivAsiansPatrick Valente (TIE: The Immigrant Entrepreneur Association)

Asim Data, Federation of India Community Associations, Cleveland

Joe Nava, Cincinnati Latino Community & Unity Prime Construction

Jason Lin, Lins Omni Plaza

Henry Luu, Lins Omni Plaza

Kenneth Kovach, International Services Center, ICC

Pradip Kamat, Indus International and TIE

Angel Galvan, Galvan Concepts

Gene Sasso, Professor of Public Relations, KSU

Syed Ali, Second Chance Immigration

George Burke, International Education ConsultantMaria Galindo-Dasilvo, Hispanic Cultural Center of Cleveland

Josue Vicente, Ohio Hispanic Coalition

Joe Cole, TIE

Rico Neller, La Prensa & La Revista

Olga Sonis, US Together

Helen Tarkhenova, US Together

Gia Hoa Ryan, Friendship Foundation of American-Vietnamese

Joseph Meissner, Friendship Foundation of American-Vietnamese

Masao Yu, Taipei-Cleveland Sister City Committee

Craig Siplin, Cleveland Classic TV

Richard Herman, TIE & Herman Legal GroupYe-Fan Glavin, China Invests in America

Alfonso Cornejo, Cincinnati Latino Community

Bharat Kumar, INDIA Festival USA

Deb Roy, INDIA FESTIVAL USA

Dina & Michael Ferrer, Coalition for Hispanic/Latino Issues & Progress

David Bowen, Richard L. Bowen & Assocs., Northeast Ohio District Export Council

Alex Machaskee

Eduardo Romero

Vi Huynh


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Harry Weller

Maria Pujana

Becca Kopp

Richard Eastburn

Barbara Hawkins

Benito Lucio

Len Calabrese

Paramjit Singh

Malak Jadallah

Raj Aggarwal

Truc Cao

Gerardo Colon

Maria Colon

Joe Thomas

Elaine Tsai

Abraham Bruckman

Charmaine Rozario

Joseph Mas

Gilbert Torres Ruiz

Laura McShane

David Lubell

Vania StefanovaBob Rosing

Diana Centeno-Gomez

Luis Gomez

Connie Cook

Andrew Thomas

Vivian Borromeo

Georg Abakumov

Kimberly Chen

Sandra Morgan

Ron & Anila Nicklos

Hugo UrizarYary Cora

For more information contact Richard Herman at (216) 696-6170 or email [email protected]
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]

multicultural happy hour: northeast ohio, 2/21, 4:30 to 6:30 pm

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