When it was founded by Dr. Steeve Coupeau and Laurent Beaulieu in September 2003 as Advocacy News, this media company introduced a new benchmark in the use of new media for civic engagement. We later took on the name of NYIHA MEDIA to reflect our broad engagement in the defense of free expression. Since then, we have offered an engaging outlet for dialogue amongst established and emerging human rights defenders.

The recipient of awards from the National Black Programing Consortium, and Columbia University / Harlem Arts Alliance, NYIHA MEDIA has earned a reputation for its bold stance in the use of new media to promote diversity. Writing and reporting on local and national politics, with reviews of arts, cultural, musical, film and theater products and events, NYIHA MEDIA has become the best destination for news on political engagement of diasporas in New York City.

Our programs are executed with the support of our Board of Directors. Dr. Steeve Coupeau serves as Editor-in-Chief and Publisher. Dr. Coupeau has over 12 years of domestic and international experiences in program execution and evaluation and creative idea generation in programming.  His publications relate to the strategic mobilization of knowledge to enhance media access and civic engagement.  Dr. Coupeau is a member of the Committee of Concerned Journalists. He also serves as a consultant with the Gerson Lehrman Group Media Council. He has written and consulted widely on Latin American and Caribbean politics for various media outlets and academic publications including Alterinfos.org: News from Latin America, Avanzada (Uruguay) and Estudos Afro-Asiaticos (Brazil). NYIHA MEDIA is a partner of both TogetherTV and Stop Child Poverty, a campaign to promote the United Nations Millennium Development Goals to halve extreme poverty by 2015. NYIHA MEDIA is also a member of Pacific News Service, New America Media.

NYIHA is an African word for the plains, the bush and, broadly, the borderlands. It is a site of cultural  transformations associated with the formation of Diasporas, away from home. We offer an alternative paradigm to the dominant view, which restricts societal organization to a single geographic space. We use new media to promote civic engagement among scattered diasporas beyond borders.

There is increasing awareness of global aspiration for human rights that transcends borders. By human rights we mean the right to food, shelter, health care, education, decent work, free speech, and justice and peace. While people may live in societies, derive their identities from their societies, the pursuit of human rights is best achieved through coordination across borders.

This project produces and publishes high caliber, reliable materials on African and Asian Diasporas in the Americas. Communities subjected to movements from Africa and Asia to North and Latin America display characteristics of Diasporas rather than nations. They show patterns of dispersal, amassment, belonging and remembered cultural heritage. NYIHA Media also offers media arts and tolerance learning opportunities.

Dr. Steeve Coupeau / NYIHA MEDIA

Parkwest Finance Station

P.O.BOX 20744

New York, NY 10025

Staff Writers

Dr. Steeve Coupeau, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher

Laurent Beaulieu

Ruth Moyse

Occasional Contributors

Quince Duncan (Costa Rica)

Luis Barrios Ph.D. (Puerto Rico / USA)

Georgina Falu Ph.D. (Puerto Rico / USA)

Kumar Mahabir Ph.D. (Trinidad and Tobago / USA)

Ihan Betancourt (Colombia / USA)

Mini Persaud (Guyana / USA)

Nami Fujita (Japan / USA)

Theresa Thanjan (India / USA)

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