Hamid Akbari Ph.D. Esteemed member of community

Dr. Hamid Akbari has served in many executive positions including Dean of College of Business at Winona State University and School of Business at Carroll University. He has also served on many community boards, including as the Chair of the Board of Directors of Winona Community Foundation. Dr. Akbari received his Ph.D. in Business…

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Manuel Berberian , An Iranian-Armenian earth scientist

Manuel Berberian is an Iranian-Armenian earth scientist. He was born on the 27th of October, 1945 into an immigrant Armenian family in Tehran. He specializes in earthquake seismology, active faulting and folding, active tectonics, continental tectonics, historical seismicity, archaeoseismicity, earthquake hazard minimization, geological mapping, and environmental science and engineering. Biography Barbarian was born on October 27,…

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Iraj Bashiri, scholar & Author

Iraj Bashiri (Persian: ایرج بشیری; born July 31, 1940) is professor of history at the University of Minnesota, United States, and one of the leading scholars in the fields of Central Asian studies and Iranian Studies. Fluent in English, Persian, Tajik, and several Turkic languages, Bashiri has been able to study and translate works otherwise inaccessible to…

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Mehrsa Baradaran,An  Iranian-American law professor & author

Mehrsa Baradaran (born April 3, 1978) is an Iranian-American law professor specializing in banking law at the University of California, Irvine. Baradaran is a noted proponent of postal banking to expand financial services to underserved communities Baradaran has also stated that postal banking will not be enough to close the racial wealth gap and more recently, has proposed the necessity…

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