About the Author Jonathan LaMare

Jonathan holds a Master of Social Work degree from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. Jonathan tracked in to Tulane’s select global social work certificate program, which brought him to Kigali, Rwanda for the final semester of his graduate school career. Having worked with an orphanage and center for street children helping to develop a social services program, Jonathan returned to his native town of Plattsburgh, NY to work as a professor in the department of Sociology at the State University of New York College at Plattsburgh. Jonathan’s commitment to issues of social justice and human rights and passion to advocate for the most marginalized in our society brought him back to international work in December of 2012, when he moved to Grand-Goave to work as the Program Director for Be Like Brit.