The Organizers
People make things happen. This project in the collaborative effort of people in Russia and in America. Come meet them on this page.
Shown here are Valentina Elem, from Cheboksary, Chuvashia, one of the conference speakers. With her is Helene Cincebeaux, another conference coordinator. Both Mary and Helene went to Chuvashia in 2002.and will take a group there in 2004.
We'll show you some photos here of our trip this summer.
Mary Kelly, Professor of Art at Tompkins Cortland Community College in New York, organized the first conference, Celebration 2000 last May. She is shown here with the president of the college, Carl Haynes
Vicki Noble, speaker from California , has done research on Amazon gravesites in Russia.
Vycheslav ( Slava) Platonov,
Organizer of the Chuv/US Project
and President of the Communal
Net of Chuvashia as "King."