The Boston Pan-African Forum has hired Kelley Chunn as Executive Director/Consultant. The Forum is a membership organization that is fostering strength and progress throughout the African Diaspora; it seeks to educate, activate, and mobilize African-Americans, the African Diaspora, and friends of Africa about their interests in international and domestic affairs affecting Africa. Chunn is a former member of Boston TransAfrica. She worked as an Assistant Professor of Public Relations at Northeastern University, communications specialist for the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency, and producer at WHDH-TV and WCVB-TV in Boston. Chunn also traveled as part of Governor William Weld's trade mission...
The Boston Pan-African Forum has hired Kelley Chunn as Executive Director/Consultant. The Forum is a membership organization that is fostering strength and progress throughout the African Diaspora; it seeks to educate, activate, and mobilize African-Americans, the African Diaspora, and friends of Africa about their interests in international and domestic affairs affecting Africa. Chunn is a former member of Boston TransAfrica. She worked as an Assistant Professor of Public Relations at Northeastern University, communications specialist for the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency, and producer at WHDH-TV and WCVB-TV in Boston. Chunn also traveled as part of Governor William Weld's trade mission to South Africa. She is the principal of Kelley Chunn and Associates, a state-certified consultancy specializing in multicultural public relations and marketing. Chunn's affiliations include The National and Boston Associations of Black Journalists, The National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Development Fund for a Free South Africa, the Museum of Afro-American History, the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, the Greater Roxbury Chamber of Commerce, and the Hispanic-American Chamber of Commerce. She also worked as a Media Consultant for the Nigerian Television Authority in Lagos and helped raise $75,000 for Nelson Mandela's visit to Boston in 1990. The Forum is targeting building constituencies from schools, civic organizations, the media, government and political leaders, business and investment communities. The new Executive Director will help the Forum more clearly define its goals for 1999 and its participation in the East Coast Summit as part of the National Summit on Africa's Eastern and mid-Atlantic meeting scheduled on July 25, 1999 in Baltimore. Forum meetings are on the first Wednesday of each month at the Boston University African-American Seminar Room.
