Lomenka Bourne

Gebundenes Buch

Small House Big Dreams

An Urban Girl's Dream

Beschreibung

I remember taking my over one hour bus ride to high school. They called it busing. Busing was the codeword for the integration of urban schools. As I rode on that long bus ride, I used to sit and daydream about my life far and long away from that entire experience, knowing that I would soon see the angry people in the park with their rifles cocked and loaded waiting for us to arrive. I wondered about who I would be as I began to dream and take my far away trip to the Eiffel Tower in France where I could speak that french language I learned since middle school to people who could understand me and where I could walk through the Louvre museum in Paris. A museum filled with art. Art I read about it in books and loved to look at. It was in front of me. I could reach out and touch it. I was in love with Dutch post-impressionist art. I would often go to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and walk through rooms filled with artwork. I had such a love for art, mostly paintings and sculptures. An Urban girl's secret fetish. I wanted to be an artist and someday have a home full of art work. Time to wake up, the bus ride is over and there are the police on one side of the street and the armed neighbors on the other side. This wasn't the south. No, this was Bayside, suburbia in Queens, New York. Fast forward to today, I sit in my 2200 square foot 5 bedroom home with art work on the walls daydreaming once again. This time as I look out of my bay window with a view of the San Francisco bridge and write the cover page of my book. Years later, I have learned that life has many twists and turns but with faith and belief in your dreams you can come a long way.

Autor

Today Lomenka is a seasoned nonprofit strategist with more than 20 years of experience providing consulting to emerging and startup nonprofit organizations throughout the United States and to NGOs globally in; Sudan, Uganda, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Ghana, ... She has directed, initiated and implemented audit controls and procedures and managed operating budgets of up to $60 million and $40 million in capital project budgets. As City Administrator, Lomenka has put together voter ballot initiatives for the protection of open space and parks. She managed in the City of Oakland an array of administrative functions and procedures which led to the city adopting more streamlined and efficient database systems, accounting procedures, and management tracking systems. As a CFO/Budget & Finance/Compliance Manager for MultiService agencies, Community Clinics, Community Health Partnerships, Global education and enterprise development projects, Foundations and more, Ms. Bourne worked with varying funding streams to assist nonprofits and NGOs with financial growth and innovative development. Specialties: Nonprofit and NGO sustainability, infrastructure development, capital finance, building of reserves, financial systems, budgets, policies & procedures, internal audits, tax-exempt bonds, nonprofit investment & banking systems review and assessments. Lomenka's humanitarian work includes; being a United Nations Association of the USA Director and a Delegate to the United Nations for Human Rights for girls and women. She works globally on projects to support social enterprise development and to provide global education for girls in African countries to prevent early childhood marriage for girl children. She is a part of a Stanford University Think Tank to advocate for African American Women with Breast Cancer and President of a local Rotary Club. "This was such a unique peek into this writer's thoughts and how she processes her life experiences. So much intelligence and heart." "It's always hard to review a memoir because you are commenting on someone's life. In this case, I think there's a terrific story here. The author has a good narrative writing method." "Everyone has a story to tell. Her story was told in a manner that can struck a nerve within her readers. The flow of her story, the re-living of childhood experiences and the candidness that came with every word made me feel as the first person who is experiencing the story real hand, stopping along the way to observe and feel and understand." "Easy to follow. The plot is well developed, the pace of the story plotline was perfect. The story was very engrossing from the very the beginning. Right away, you are drawn in by the characters and the world they inhabit. The author is a great storyteller and I could visualize everything as I read." "Impressive narrative writing. Very consistent on the build-up of the pace of the story."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rushmore Press
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 401g
• ISBN-13: 9781954345355
• ISBN-10: 1954345356
• Artikelnr.: 67944980