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Ady Jean Gardy

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Ady Jean-Gardy (born 15 September 1957) is a Haitian social reformer and international press activist. He became Minister of Communication in Haiti (2012–13) after serving as Chief of Staff of the Haitian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Jean-Gardy designed reforms for public communication without propaganda, respecting human rights organizations and positioned Haiti as an influential member of the African Union at Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). He worked to end civil wars in Africa and promoted a new image of Haiti as an international leader for peace. Ady Jean-Gardy is also the founder of the Haitian Press Federation, an umbrella organization for various Haitian press associations. He founded the Haitian University of Journalism and Social Communication, also known as the Haitian Center for Teaching Journalists. He contributed to the modernization and revitalization of the Haitian media world. Jean-Gardy took part in many training missions in West Africa and helped to establish the African Press Federation (Fédération de la Presse Africaine), working alongside various press leaders from Mali, Togo, Benin, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Congo, Madagascar, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. The Conference of Ouagadougou in 2004 devoted the wishes of the founder of this grand structure through the unconditional support of the honorable Daniel Whitman of the State Department. After his elementary school at the Catholic school of the Salésiens Fathers led by the Dutch priest Arthur Bonhenn, Ady Jean-Gardy entered Alexander Pétion High School. He began his career in journalism at the age of 12 years as a caricaturist on the Creole newspaper Bon Nouvel directed by the Belgian priest Jorris Ceuppens. At 14 years old he wrote a novel, Deblozay in Creole who was worth the Price of National Creole Media. He also wrote Poems of my Seventeen Years published by Henri Deschamps Editions, soon after becoming Cultural Affairs Director of the Haitian intellectual magazine Petit Samedi Soir and editor of a libertarian review Inter Jeunes.
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