Meet Garry Pierre-Pierre ; Born in Haiti & raised in New York. He is a multimedia & Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. He is a leading voice on Haiti, the Haitian diaspora, & community media.
He is selected by Haiti Executive Board in partnership with FOCO Digital Corp as an honoree in our World’s Top 50 Haitian Cultural Icons List in Media & Journalism Category…
After leaving The New York Times, Garry founded The Haitian Times, a New York-based English-language weekly publication serving the Haitian Diaspora that provides quality, nuanced information about Haiti & diaspora.
Garry is the author of “30 Seconds: The Quake that destroyed Haiti”, a book of photography that illustrates the wreckage of the January 2010. He never forgets the day he left his home country to migrate to the America on June 24, 1975.
He enjoys taking her audiences into the culture, history, the chaos and aftermath of the earthquake, & the challenges faced by this impoverished nation.He shows that the answer to Haiti’s present reality is complex & can be traced back to Haiti’s independence from France in 1804, when it became a pariah state, isolated from the international community.
For most of its history, Haiti has been misruled by a long string of leaders with no idea of the reality that the country faced without the skills to move it forward. Once a verdant and prosperous nation, Haiti slowly became a place whose ecology was slowly eroded mostly by people cutting down tree for charcoal consumption. The international community, although alarmed by this trend, did little to provide the Haitian people with a feasible fuel alternative to charcoal.
He also shows how in addition, the Haitian government, particularly in the 1980’s turned a blind eye to the rapid and chaotic construction that was taken place in the urban areas. Such unchecked construction, transformed a city built for 200,000 into a 3 million strong metropolis with people literally living on top of each other. And so when the earthquake hit, it set up the perfect situation for a tragedy for the biblical proportion.
He has won several awards and has written opinion pieces for the The Wall Street Journal, Miami Herald, and many other publications. In 2011, he was elected president of the NEW YORK PRESS ASSOCIATION INC, the first person of color to serve in that role and was a Sulzberger Executive Leadership fellow at Columbia University, where he explored ways to serve the Haitian diaspora worldwide.
Garry created Haitian Community Summit & Kreyolfest, an annual music festival that attracts revelers from across the United States and Haiti, generating $500,000 in sponsorship & gate receipt. He distinguished himself with enterprise reporting and is considered among the top reporters on numerous stories from Haiti for the New York Times.
Let show him some respect for his journalistic ethics & entrepreneurial spirit to advance our culture forward.
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