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.”
Tom Romero
Vice President
P.O. Box 358025
Gaiesville, Fl, 32609
Phone: 352.395.6651
E-mail: tom@harvestofhope.net
Mr. Romero began his dedicated involvement with the foundation in 2005 by volunteering his talented digital art design and website programming services to help support migrant farmworkers and further the mission of the Harvest of Hope Foundation.
Motivated to expand the foundation's internet presence and digitial outreach, Tom is always adapting and refining our internet presence which now includes social media awareness outreach to thousands of donors and supporters nationwide. Consistent and reliable, Tom offers day to day support with various functional everyday operations within the foundation. His duties also include promotional strategies; partnered network coordination; team building, marketing strategies; fundraising strategies; enhancing donor outreach; help generate awareness about our cause; provide print/web graphic designs; and serves as the Foundation's liaison to the St. johns County Tourism Development Council for the annual charity fundraiser Harvest of Hope Fest at the St. Johns County Fairgrounds in St. Augustine, Florida.
Tom is native Floridian from Jacksonville Beach who graduated from Santa Fe College in Gainesville, Florida. He holds an A.A. in Business Management and A.S. in Graphic Design Technologies. Now residing as a Gainesville, Tom is deeply connected to the cause of migrant farmworkers due to his eye opening experiences and long-term commitment to his partner and her extended immigrant Mexican family. Through them he has become keenly aware of the adversities they faced during their immigration to the United Sates and the hardships they encountered to have the life that they now cherish.
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.
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.
Prior to working for the Harvest of Hope Foundation, he promoted raves in Broward County for the Hazmat Crew and Lexicon Productions. He also was the special events leader for over three years while working for the City of Plantation. While working for the city, he helped plan an average of 18 events per year.
Working in various areas of public relations since he was 16, Digital Greg chose public relations as his major at the University of Florida. During his senior year, while working toward his bachelor’s degree, Digital Greg was asked by Ed Kellerman to join the Harvest of Hope Foundation as a public relations intern. The internship which started in January of 2009, lead to his promotion as the foundations public relations specialist.
