Dec 7, 2022
In this episode, my guest Gherianne Kareen Ulysse shares her immigrant story.
Kareen currently serves as Founder/President of Centre Hospitalier de Fontaine Foundation, a private nonprofit hospital that her father built in 1991. She is proudly continuing and scaling up her father’s 31-year healthcare and workforce development legacy in Haiti. Her Foundation’s vision is for each institution they support to become the institution of choice for the community it serves and a model institution for similar institutions. She helps ministries, executives, and founders expand their corporate purpose in Haiti.
In this episode, Kareen and I discussed:
- Her family background and being an anchor baby
- Life circumstances in Haiti which led to her family becoming political refugees
- Anchor babies and birth tourism
- The political situation in Haiti back when she was young that led to the political unrest
- The current state of affairs in Haiti
- How she and her countrymen are dealing with the high unemployment, violence, lack of essential goods and services
- Haitian language, music, and food
- Her Dad’s background and how her father built the hospital
- Moving to the US and adjusting to US culture
- The discrimination she experienced in school
- Showing up as her authentic immigrant self
- Her encouragement and advice to other people who are also not American and an Immigrant
Connect with Kareen Ulysse here:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kareen-ulysse-1941b4129/
Website: https://www.chffoundation.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kareen_ulysse/
Foundation Website: https://chffoundation.com/
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