Experience

MAISON INTERNATIONAL

• United States
• Leasing Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Real Estate Agent

  • Nov 2009 - Present

  Luciana Menezes has always felt very fortunate to work in areas where she has been able to exercise her love for people and use her ability to speak Portuguese, Italian, and English. Speaks Portuguese, Italian, and English Maison International has allowed her to continue working with people in this magnificently diverse and wonderful city of New York. Luciana Menezes loves the fact that she can go to a Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center and stand in awe of its elegance, then hop on a downtown subway to Chinatown and walk among the diversity of people, languages, and open air markets. This is New York. This is Maison International. We have a professionalism you can count on and a diversity of apartments that Luciana enjoys matching with her clients’ comfort and economic needs. The Luciana & Teruyo Team Luciana also works with her business partner, Teri Teruyo, who speaks Japanese and English. Their specialty is both Sales and Rentals. They make a great team armed with tactful real estate lawyers and mortgage brokers. They have closed an impressive amount of sales deals together. Show less



Nossa Clinica

• Brazil
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Cirurgia dentista

  • May 2000 - Jan 2010

  While I was a dental school student I created an oral consciousness project called the Tooth Brush Project. This project was started in 2001 when I first came in contact with the poor conditions of the favelas. There are sometimes families of 6 people that share 1 toothbrush. Dental floss does not exist at all. I felt profoundly sad. I felt powerless. Imagine the world without children's smiles; it's almost inconceivable to envision a world without this open sign of love and happiness. I remembered going to bed, as a child. How simple, how beautiful, how restful. I remembered my old room, my favorite stuffed animal. I thought this is as life should be: a warm safe home, a warm bed, a stuffed animal to hold on to when the lights get shut off. I experienced this as a child and so did most of the people I know, except my dental patients and many many more poor in Brazil. Caring for teeth is a daily regiment but without a toothbrush, toothpaste or dental floss it is impossible to improve or maintain oral hygiene. Although I am no longer a dentist I keep the project alive by periodically asking for donations. So I turn to the largest community - Us, all of us at large. . . I asked friends, my friends asked their friends, and sure enough, toothbrushes, toothpaste , dental floss and stuffed animals were always sent!!! Time changes all things. But, sadly, I have not seen it change poverty in the favelas. And, sadly, the government hasn’t changed poverty either. Humanity changes these conditions. I know this, because I have seen it. I have seen your humanity and what it has done for a community. So, dear friends and friends of friends and friends of friends of friends, next time you are in a drug store, please take a moment and consider our modest but great needs: Toothbrushes, toothpaste, and dental floss. I am also collecting used stuffed animals to pass out to the children. Show less