DR MARCIA A MIMS COPPERTINO, Community Contributor

0PERATION DOCTORS FOR AFGHANISTAN team members consisted of professionals such as Marcia Ann Mims Coppertino, Ph.D, Director of U.S. Operations, in the early 2000's who has been a trailblazer in the community, corporate and business world for over four decades since the age of 16, and has assisted companies in advisory business naming, business formation services, business implementation process and business development branding for major corporations and small business entities.

Dr. Coppertino has developed, structured and participated in corporate grand openings/ribbon cuttings/events and galas for major business, healthcare, university, nonprofit and political organizations. She has also acted as advisor, director, colleague, friend and confidant to businessmen and women from the Pulpit to the White House!

Dr. Coppertino has also acted as the West Coast General Manager for Cendant subsidiary, Jackson Hewitt financial Services (JH). In this capacity, Dr. Coppertino opened over 40 tax and financial management offices for JH, trained over 300 employees to become tax agents and financial managers, and was also the first General Manager to offer financial/tax related offices in local check cashing facilities throughout Los Angeles County. Dynamic and forceful, Dr. Coppertino was able to command the dedication and energy in all necessary to fulfill her promise of growth and stability within the operations.

Under the tenure of Dr. Coppertino, a Human Resource Department for JH was opened in California which developed payroll systems for hundreds of California employees. A 20 million dollar California budget was utilized to bring JH into the financial arena from Virginia Beach, Virginia, which led to the designation of JH as second only to H and R Block in the state.

Dr. Coppertino also formerly acted as an Executive Coach and Consultant with Executive Service Corps, which is responsible for advising nonprofit entities, based in Los Angeles. She participated in closed door sessions to help Executive Directors remain informed and advised on upcoming financial changes in the non profit sector and how to maintain fiscal health in their corporate duties on a day to day basis.

Dr. Coppertino presently advises businesses around the world and is in the fundraising stages for a school named after her in Uganda. She is a mother of four; speaks 9 languages; is an accomplished Classical Sacred Music Soprano, lending her voice to hundreds each week through local churches as an avid lover of the human race. Her song repertoire includes spirituals such as: “Steal Away”…”Don’t Be Weary, Traveler”… “Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen” and Latin favorites “Panis Angelicus”…”Ave Maria”...”O Cessate Di Piagarmo” and her award-winning rendition of Sola Perdutta Abbandonado by Puccini. Tears flow on hearing the lyrics! Her works as a community activist, lover of children, animal lover, and defender of the people are known to all who know and love her, and she says she is at her best when hearing the laughter of children. In her spare time, she scuba dives and has been a master tailor, seamstress, dressmaker and master couturier since the age of 11, and works only through the night as Director of FOR THE END, an upscale funeral and couture burial attire. www.fortheend1.webs.com

Firms she has developed, assisted, advised or counseled, but not limited to are 1,000 Women In white, to be followed by 100 Men In Black Global March for Peace, Faith and Family…which had 25 countries involved and 47 U.S. States across the nation, December 2015 which has earned Dr. Coppertino recognition from the current Mayor of the City of Los Angeles, the Honorable Eric Garcetti, and City Council members. Her services as Western Regional Coordinator for THE WOMEN FOR OBAMA, and the U.S. Regional Director for WIN WOMEN OF FAITH 9 U.S. regions, and various profit and nonprofit entities keeps her on her feet for the community, including acting as a Diplomatic Counselor for the International Platform for Peace, U.S. Division. www.ipforpeace.org

Dr. Coppertino has doctoral degrees in Science, Psychology and Comparative Religion and as a mathematician, she tutored students in geometry at the age of 14. She is also the former Outreach Coordinator for the USC Institute for Genetic Medicine, IG AG. Dr. Coppertino was also invited to join research scholars the Summer of 2016 in Denmark, University of Copenhagen, to study International Conflicts, Relations, and Diplomacy Studies. She is a sought-after scholar for speaking engagements, radio show interviews, and just-come-stand-by-me appearances. Dr. Coppertino is a once in a century small star in our galaxy!

In closing, the first, one and only west coast TEDDY BEAR HOSPITAL, (MERCY MISSION BEAR HOSPITAL AND ADOPTION AGENCY) will be coming into full operations soon to bring cheer and solace to children in hospice centers, children who are terminally ill and children awaiting treatments for life-threatening diseases. As a patch Mayor, Dr Coppertino will work with all the powers on earth and in heaven to produce information to uplift the human spirit and to bring glory to the PV peninsula where some say god resides there on the weekends!