Under the auspices of HDI’s Music Matters program, HDI Celebrity Spokesperson Mary Wilson traveled to Slovenia and Belgium for a week of outreach and performances in honor of Black History Month, February 3-7, 2020. Working with the U.S. Mission to the European Union (USEU) and the U.S. Embassy to Slovenia, Mary Wilson and her six-person band performed at the major concert halls of Maribor, Slovenia and Brussels, Belgium. Miss Wilson also spoke at schools and at the European Parliament on the intersection of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and Motown.
HDI’s Jazz/Hip-Hop Envoy Maya Azucena had been scheduled to be the special guest of U.S. Embassy Baku for International Jazz Day on April 30, 2020. We are all greatly disappointed that the program has been postponed to later in 2020. Until then, Maya wants to give jazz lovers in Azerbaijan and around the world a preview of the upcoming concert
The Board of Directors of the Humpty Dumpty Institute is pleased to announce that Ms. Morgan DeNicola will join the Board as an Associate Director. HDI Chairman Al Khalafalla said that Ms. DeNicola’s commitment to the work of the Institute has been exemplary. Ms. DeNicola has served as HDI’s Youth Representative to the United Nations for the last two years and accompanied U.S. Congressional Delegations to Africa and the United Nations. In February 2017, Ms. DeNicola was a leader of U.S. Congressional Staff Delegation to Malawi. There she visited the Amitofo Care Centre (ACC), alongside other HDI board members. The level of poverty kicked off a fundraising initiative for Morgan, called the Cosmo Cares Mobile Healthcare Van. This van was donated by Cosmo DeNicola Companies to the ACC and will provide needed medical services to remote villages in Lesotho, Africa.
