Akoi Choir, Sudanese Church, Chicago

Youth Choir, St. Paul Sudanese Church, Chicago

Sudanese Traditional Dance
"The Dreams", Chrispino Group

DuPage Church of Sudanese
  
Enjoying a Sudanese Meal                                                    

MCs Nok Duany, Malual Mayol Awak

Organizing committee: P. Magai Bul, Patrick Nono, Nok Duany, David Bior Mach, Moses Mabior Jombo, and James Akech Aguer. Not pictured: Malual Mayol Awak, James Deng Kou and Samuel Akol Anei

Speakers
Keynote Speaker
John Andruga Duku
SPLM Representative
Nordic Countries and European Union

Fr. John Heschle
St. Paul by-the-Lake

Anghesom Atsbaha
Assistant Professor
Truman College

Marguerite E. Boyd
President
Truman College

Hayelom Ayele
Director, Commission on Human Relations Advisory Council on Immigrant/Refugee Affairs

Dr. Edwin Silverman
Chief, Bureau of Immigrant & Refugee Service, Illinois Dept. of Human Services

Nok Duany
for Dr. Julia Aker Duany
Founder, South Sudan Friends International, Sudanese Women Activist
click here to read letter

Mayen Wol
Youth Leader
Grand Rapids, Michigan

Mike Dubiel
President, Chicago Association for the Lost Boys of Sudan

Maleh Kanon
Executive Director, Interfaith Refugee & Immigration Ministries

Andre Patrick Angustin
Director, Pan-African Association

Namia John
Sudanese Women, Sudanese Community of Dupage

Patrick Nono
Vice President, Sudanese Community of Illinois