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Harvest of Hope Foundation's
Current Board of Directors

Philip Kellerman
President

5809 NW 67th Court
Gainesville, Florida 32653
Tel: 352-372-1312
Tel: 888-922-4673 
E-mail: kellerhope@cox.net

Thanks to an inheritance from his grandmother, Dr. Helen Zand, Philip Kellerman established the Harvest of Hope Foundation in 1997 as a result of responding to calls from migrant farm workers and families via the National Migrant Education Hotline. The Foundation was developed to provide financial help, often unavailable at the federal, state and local level, to migrant farm workers and families around the country.

Mr. Kellerman has been in migrant education since 1989 with the ESCORT Migrant Education Program, based at the New York State University College at Oneonta. He also was a special education teacher in Miami, Florida for six years. He has a B.A. in Special Education/Elementary Education and an M.A. in Special Education.

In September, 2003, Mr. Kellerman and the Harvest of Hope Foundation received an award from the Title I Migrant Education Program of the Florida Department of Education in “honor of outstanding contributions to the education of Florida's migrant children.”

Dina Sevayega
Treasurer

21 Feiden
Latham, NY 12110-5001
Tel: (518) 783-0641
E-mail: dsevayeg@mail.nysed.gov

Dina Sevayega was born the child of Hispanic migrant farm workers in Texas, and thus has lived the migrant experience in full. She overcame many moves and disruptions to her education as a youth to obtain her doctorate. She is currently an Associate in Higher Education/Teacher Education in the New York State Education Department. For four years, Ms. Sevayega has been involved in a service learning project at the State University College in Oneonta, New York, where she shares her migrant experiences with students preparing to be teachers and who organize activities to raise funds for the Harvest of Hope Foundation.

Michelle Rosinek
Vice President

3622 Monticello Commons
Norcross, Georgia 30092
Tel: 770-447-6011
E-mail: MRos747968@aol.com

Michelle Rosinek recently went into semi-retirement and is now working half-time as a teacher of English as a Second Language in Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to her teaching assignment in 1997, she was employed for 13 years at the Georgia Department of Education as an Education Program Specialist for the Migrant Education Program.

Ms. Rosinek graduated the University of Miami with a Bachelor in Education, majoring in special education. Her post graduate work was completed at Georgia State University, where she received her Masters in Special Education and Related Vocational Instruction. Ms. Rosinek has served on many regional, state and national committees for the improvement of education and services for migrant children. She has received a number of awards for community service in the Atlanta area.

Ed Kellerman
Communications Director

5529 N.W. 52nd Terrace
Tel: 352-381-5576
E-mail: eddyguru@hotmail.com

Project Nepal exists to help educate orphaned and indigent children. We believe that they are as smart as other children around the world, but lack the resources and opportunities to succeed in education. Our mission is to bring our community into their community to teach, mentor, and assist their educational progress.

Project Nepal’s mission is to provide funding and resources for children, most of them orphaned, who are motivated enough to want to attend school. Specifically, we create sponsorships for their tuition provide physical resources such as uniforms, books, and even pencils raise money to convert rooms into classrooms pay for teachers and supplies, replace the aged bus that picks them up from four area orphanages and thusturn disadvantaged children into educational success stories.

We seek to live out Mahatma Ghandi’s creed that a society is measured not by how they treat their wealthy citizens, but by how they treat their less fortunate ones.