Angelucci Manigat

Angelucci Manigat, Jr. is a journalist, poet, community activist, labor organizer, educator, entrepreneur, translator and interpreter who started his professional writing career as a teenager in 1982. His professional accomplishments are widely documented in the mainstream media and local news outlets.

Angelucci is the publisher of The Haitian Voice (a free trilingual print newspaper, and the executive director of UNESCO Center for Global Friendship, Inc., a non-profit organization that develops free cultural programs for U.S. Libraries, and provides library materials to Haiti, Jamaica and Nicaragua.

He is also a member of Sosyete Koukouy’s Central Committee (a think tank organization committed to creating awareness about Haitian Creole and the Haitian Culture). Manigat has served on the executive board of Southwestern Connecticut Agency on Aging and on the executive board of Yerwood Center. Furthermore, he has been coordinating the Annual Haitian Book Festival of Connecticut since its inception in 2000, on behalf of the Haitian American Professionals Association of CT, Inc. (HAPAC). 

A member of the American Translators Association (ATA), Manigat is fluent in English, Haitian Creole, French and Spanish. He lives in Connecticut with his family.