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ILCM Welcomes New Board Members
Posted on Apr 12 2022
ILCM welcomes three new board members – Riham Reshir, Maria Kannankutty, and Lupita Herrera!
Riham Feshir
Riham Feshir has been a senior writer with RBC Wealth Management since 2021. In her role on the corporate communications team, she crafts articles for various channels, strategically plans and executes content for external audiences and researches and pitches byline articles for placement in the financial press as well as mainstream media. Riham was previously a reporter for Minnesota Public Radio News covering immigration issues, police killings and racial inequities. She was the co-creator of 74 Seconds, an innovative podcast that covered the first-ever trial of a Minnesota police officer criminally charged in an on-duty death, which won multiple national and regional awards.
Riham is also an immigrant herself. She grew up in Egypt and moved to the United States as a child. Her passion for educating communities about the immigrant experience through the lens of those who’ve lived it has been evident in her work as a journalist, and she hopes to continue that mission through her volunteerism with the ILCM.
Maria Kannankutty
Maria brings more than 25 years of experience in strategic planning, operations, and finance. She started her career in management consulting and is now the Director of Strategic Execution for Medicaid at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota. In her work she develops and oversees a portfolio of cross-functional projects from ideation to execution to serve members in under-resourced communities. She is a first-generation immigrant from Cyprus herself and values ILCM’s mission of advocating for and legally representing low-income immigrants and refugees.
Lupita Herrera
Lupita is the Community Education Lead at the Legal Rights Center. Lupita has a background in education, community organizing, and youth work. Her personal and professional experiences have fueled a deep passion to transform the world in which both humans and animals alike are able to live a life that is liberating from the systems that have been created to hold people back. In her spare time, Lupita loves to watch reality TV shows, make beaded earrings, and hang out with her dramatic chihuahua.
ILCM is also happy to announce our new board officers – Gregory Schultz as Board President, Sarah Radosevich as Vice President, Katheryn Wasylik as Secretary, and Glenn Leitch as Treasurer.