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Miracle Corners Of
The World Edward J. Bergman
Personal Bio Eddie
serves as a part-time faculty member at the City University
of New York (CUNY) - Kingsborough Community College in
Brooklyn lecturing on Tourism and Entrepreneurship.
Eddie
co-founded and serves as Executive Director of Miracle
Corners of the World, Inc. (MCW), a non-profit organization,
which serves young people worldwide, primarily through
programs of leadership training, community center and
housing development, and healthcare outreach, with a special
focus on Africa. He also serves as President of Innovative
Development Services Inc. (IDS), a consulting firm that
provides customized consultation services for nonprofit,
government and private sector organizations in the areas of
international development, communications, travel and
tourism, and organizational management. He
received his Masters from NYU's Gallatin School of
Individualized Study with a major in "Social
Entrepreneurship" and his BS in Hotel and Tourism Management
from NYU's Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism and Sports
Management, where he was a Martin Luther King, Jr.
Scholar. Eddie
serves on the board of directors of several international
organizations in the non-profit, education and travel trade
sectors including Shared Interest Inc., The Synergos
Institute, the advisory boards of the International Crisis
Group, the NYU SCPS Center for Global Studies, the NYU
Gallatin School of Individualized Studies and the NYU Wagner
Graduate School of Public Service Reynolds Foundation
Program in Social Entrepreneurship graduate scholars
selection committee. He has received several humanitarian
awards. Africa
Travel Association
Eddie
was recently appointed Executive Director of the New York
headquartered Africa Travel Association (ATA), the premiere
international travel industry trade association, promoting
tourism to the African continent and intra-Africa travel and
partnership since 1975. ATA membership includes African
Ministries of Tourism, Tourism Boards, airlines, hoteliers,
travel agents, tour operators, media, public relations
firms, NGOs, and other individuals actively engaged in the
promotion of travel to the African continent.
166 Madison Avenue, 5th Floor,
New York, NY 10016
1-212-447-1357,
Info@africatravelassociation.org
www.africatravelassociation.org
