Giedre M. Kumpikas, Ph.D.
Assistant professor of French at Long Island University - C.W. Post Campus; B.A. and M.A. in French, Hunter College; Ph.D. in French at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; M.A. in English Literature at Queens College; Organizational background: President of the Lithuanian American Community, Inc. New York District (2001-2004); member of the National Executive Board of the LAC; founder, host and president of the Lithuanian Radio Program of New York since 2001; organizer of the action to regain the Lithuanian Citizens¹ Club in Maspeth, NY and its president; former treasurer and president of the student fraternity-sorority Neo-Lithuania; member of the National Union; supporter of young Lithuanian musicians. Awarded the Order of the Knight¹s Cross by the President of Lithuania in 2004.