Ercan Tozan Named Honorary Chairman of the 42nd New Jersey Folk Festival
Rutgers University’s New Jersey Folk Festival named Ercan Tozan, Executive Director of Peace Islands Institute, Honorary Chairman of its 42nd annual festival, held on Saturday, April 30, 2016, on the grounds of the Eagleton Institute on Rutgers’ Douglass Campus in New Brunswick.
The festival’s 2016 Awards and Honorees listing introduced Mr. Tozan as Executive Director of Peace Islands Institute in New Jersey since 2012, after he joined the Institute as regional director in Rochester, New York, in 2011. It highlighted his leadership of relief efforts for victims of Hurricane Sandy, for which he organized more than 100 volunteers, his work bringing New Jersey’s minority communities together to address local issues, and a conference on cyberbullying he was organizing with Rutgers University.