Awareness Foundation America

Rev. Donald Fishburne, D.Min

The Rev. Donald Fishburne, D.Min. is President of Awareness America in support of peacebuilding and reconciliation ministries in the US, UK, and Syria. He is a ministry partner of The Rev. Dr. Nadim Nassar, Founding Director of Awareness Foundation based in London and Syria, and of The Rev. Dr. Gary Mason, founder of http://www.rethinkingconflict.com working in Belfast, the Middle East and the US in reconciliation and peacebuilding.

Donald is a past president of CEEP, a mentor in the Lilly Endowment initiative “Thriving in Ministry,” a coach and consultant to clergy, lay leaders, Vestries, and dioceses. He is skilled in Gallup Consulting Faith Practice methodologies, Interim Ministries, and in the Clergy Leadership Institute’s Appreciative Way, as well as Living Compass ministries.

He is skilled in helping congregational leadership and endowment boards move through change and stress into new and more healthy and fruitful ministries.

Donald is a former Regent of Sewanee: The University of the South. Through EO Tours Donald and Sarah design custom pilgrimage, mission and tour experiences worldwide, hosted by clergy and lay leaders. He has served parishes in the Southeast and the coast of Maine.

Amin Al-Laty

Amin was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon where he received his BA degree in Business.

He moved to the USA in 1990 fleeing the Lebanese civil war. Amin met Revd Nadim Nassar in Lebanon in the mid-eighties when Revd Nadim was a student and the Leader of ‘Church Youth Program’.

Amin spent over 25 years in the sales & Marketing industry, He is a Sales Director at a food distribution company. He has been a board member of awareness foundation America for a number of years and also the acting treasurer of over a year.

Stephen Taber

Steve is a Lawyer and he was instrumental in registering the Awareness Foundation in the United States. He joined the Foundation on numerous activities and has been a faithful Director and friend since the establishment of the Foundation in North America.

Abe Kasbo

Abe is Founder and CEO of Verasoni Worldwide, a marketing communications advisory, consultancy and agency located in Fairfield, NJ. The firm delivers integrated marketing communications strategies across channels to Fortune 500, middle-market and startup clients in the US and around the world. Abe serves as an advisor to C-Suite executives on communications, branding, and public relations strategies. He is Chair of The Center for Entrepreneurial Studies Advisory Board at Seton Hall University.

Abe is Founder of Zeitoun FilmWorks, and the producer and director of the groundbreaking PBS distributed documentary, "The Arab Americans," which tells a uniquely American story spanning 150 years of those who immigrated from the Levant, North Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula, and their experience and impact on the American Fabric.

He was inducted into the Seton Hall University Entrepreneur Hall of Fame in September 2018. Abe is founder of OnlyOneToothBrush.com – a philanthropic effort aimed to bring 200,000 toothbrushes to support the oral health of Syrian refugees in Germany, Canada, and the United States.

Born in Aleppo, Syria. He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1980. He holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration with a concentration in Healthcare Policy and Management, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Relations from Seton Hall University.

Kinana Khouri

Kinana Khouri, born in 05/11/1973 in Latakia, Syria, graduated with an architecture degree from Tishreen University in 1996 and moved to the USA in 1998. She worked in internal design and private renovation building projects and volunteered in many non-profit organizations, including The Auxiliary Women for National Arab American Medical organization since 2004.