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Tom Viator is a native of Lafayette, Louisiana, USA. He grew up in subtropical southern Louisiana in the heart of Acadiana, a name derived from the French Acadians who settled there from Nova Scotia, Canada after the mid 1700’s. Tom grew up during what was the early formative period of the social justice and environmental movements of the 60’s and 70’s. He received a Bachelors of Science in Agriculture at the University of Louisiana in 1980 and went on to co-manage a 10 acre vegetable farm in southern Louisiana (New Iberia) in the early 80’s. He continued his education and received a Masters in International Business Management at the American Graduate School of International Management in 1991 in Glendale, Arizona. Tom has lived overseas (Israel) and has traveled throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Russia, but currently favors the dry desert climate of the American southwest.

Lena Levoshko-Viator, born in Settlement Progress, Far East, Russia, worked in Russian television and radio for over 14 years, having received her journalism degree at Far Eastern National University in 1992 in Vladivostok, Russia. Before joining her husband in the US, she was head of the news service at Russian Radio (in Komsomolsk-na-Amure) the largest radio network in the world, broadcast daily in more than 1,100 cities in Russia and other territories and with a weekly audience of over 20 million people.

Tom and Lena own a niche publishing company based out of Phoenix, Arizona that focuses on children’s educational materials and calendaring products. They share and care for a community organic garden with friends in Phoenix. Entrepreneurs at heart, they continue to pursue social and economic development projects that are in agreement with their life philosophy and vision, and are interested in a variety of issues related to social, economic and environmental justice with particular emphasis on the media.


News Service Project

Tom and Lena's most recent endeavor is the News Service Project, a group of visionary individuals dedicated to building a new international online news service that reflects the values and principles of the Environmental and Social Justice movements. To learn more about our project, please join us at News Service Project or email us directly at tviator@cox.net. We welcome your inquiries, comments, and suggestions.