DIVERSONOMIX 2014 Conference Program

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2014 DIVERSITY CONFERENCE AMERICAN INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA:

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN, JEWISH AMERICAN AND AMERICAN

INDIAN EXPERIENCE

OCTOBER 23, 2014 | COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | NEW YORK, NY

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FOUNDER, DIVERSONOMIX

Diversonomix founder, H. Joseph

Machicote, has been at the helm of

diversity training since its integration into the

mainstream American workplace in the late

1980s. Marrying his experiences as chief

diversity officer for two major corporations

with his extensive organizational

development knowledge, Mr. Machicote

created the "Diversonomix Strategy" -- the

art of aligning diversity initiatives

with business objectives in order to positively

impact the bottom line -- to help

Diversonomix clients create, define and

leverage diversity and inclusion at all levels

for all segments. Mr. Machicote holds a B.A.

in Business Administration and Marketing, a

Certified Master of Change Management,

an M.S. in Organizational Development and

is completing his Ph.D. in Industrial

Organizational Psychology. A native of

Harlem, NY, he currently resides in

Charlotte, NC.

The world has certainly continued to change

since I founded Diversonomix so many years ago.

The original focus for our organization was to

teach companies how to build the groundwork

of culture to accept difference. While companies

have driven forward to create practices and

even earn awards based on parity, the conversa-

tions on diversity still continue. The fact is, while

diversity practice and policy has seen huge im-

provement, the human ability to recognize and

accept difference has not. In other words, just

because we go through the motions of accep-

tance, does not mean we are actually thinking

thoughts of acceptance. Women are still under-

paid compared to men, women are still not pro-

moted due to fear they may go out and have

children, the younger generations are seen as

impersonal and quicker to text than speak, and

the presence of privilege, or unearned advan-

tage is now more present than ever. Race and

gender has taken a back seat in the diversity dis-

cussion but we continue to judge and find ways

to use difference to place each other where we

belong...in a politically correct way of course! In

other words, diversity has now become a conver-

sation on the privileged vs the non-privileged; the

battle between insiders vs. outsiders.

Change for humanity will begin when we use

our privilege (whatever that is, that makes us an

insider; finances, education, ability, position, work

team, etc,) to bring outsiders to the inside and

include them no matter their dimension of diver-

sity. Only then can say we are truly arriving. Until

then, as long as human beings can hold differ-

ence against one another and continue to hold

exclusivity to their privilege and keep others out-

side their circle, they will continue to do it.

Enjoy and learn from our conference as we

journey and dialogue about how we continue to

move forward through the lens of multigenera-

tional privilege and the lack thereof.

- Joe

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What's the harm in printing a cartoon with a monkey

in the New York Post that draws a striking innuendo

to the Black President? What's wrong with saying

you're going to Jew somebody down for a better

price or call someone an Indian giver? Why are

Black men offended when they are called "boy?"

What does sounding Black sound like? All of it is ac-

quired racism, a learned behavior by our various

subcultures that pretty much hinders our progress.

Corporate America has started the ball rolling with

cultural awareness and now there is a group of pro-

fessionals who say they can get people thinking

about how to treat one another through a new en-

terprise called Diversonomix.

It seems we are evolving as a nation and race rela-

tions have reached a place where many are having

real conversations about inclusion. One group sup-

poses us nearer to transcending our racial differ-

ences while another believes we have a long way

to go. Diversity training came into the mainstream

American workplace in the late 1980's just after a

report from an academic study projected that

about two-thirds of the workforce would be people

that were other than white male.

Now twenty years into the diversity cultivation man-

date, after some resistance and some tweaking, the

majority of American companies conduct some

form of diversity training for leadership and employ-

ees. But who are the social police outside the work-

place who will help us with small real estate agen-

cies, police profiling, medical discrimination, and

everyday people at the bus stop?

Harlem-born Joe Machicote, creator of Diverso-

nomix, has been at the helm of diversity training

since its inception and identities with the importance

of inclusion on an intricate level. Throughout his life

and professional career, like many Black profession-

als, he lived in dual worlds in one day. For Machi-

cote it began in elementary school, during the 60's

and 70's era.

"All I knew was my world and I thought everybody

shared in the same world and had the same experi-

ences," Joe remembers, "that was, until my mother

wanted us to expand our minds beyond Harlem and

I went to private school in the first grade." Joe and

his brother tested and qualified for scholarship to

schools that were diversifying. Joe went to a private

school named Alexander Robertson on 96th Street

and Central Park West and that's where he discov-

ered that he was an outsider and his journey toward

diversity began.

"All of a sudden you realize that you are different and

people, especially kids, point out your differences."

Joes' exclusion didn't stop there, but turned internally

when he returned to school in Harlem for the 7th

grade, where school had modified his speech and the

educational advantages of private school set him at

a higher knowledge level.

As vice president of diversity and inclusion for Lance

Foods. Joe has incorporated all his experiences into

teaching a diverse group of people how to treat one

another and has perfected his ideology into Diverso-

nomix. He says that the Obama campaign was the

best example of what happens when organized com-

munities come together.

The New York Diversonomix team includes partners

Allyne Sinner, a Jewish professional, and John Crepsac

a Black professional, in a unique mix of cultural aware-

ness ideas and industry words like "well-intention ra-

cism," "cultural competence" and cultural destructive-

ness." Their program mix works in corporate settings as

well as affinity groups like nurses organizations, social

clubs and community groups.

The first step, Machicote says, is to admit that we still

have issues. He used the example of racial profiling by

police in the case of Robbie Tolan, the son of a once

prominent baseball player, who was shot by police

officers in his own driveway after making a quick bur-

ger run with his brother on December 31, 2008, be-

cause police officers allegedly assumed that a Black

kid didn't belong in Houston's prestigious mostly white

Bellaire neighborhood.

Partner John Crepsac is an expert in medical discrimi-

nation and works to build cultural awareness in the

way patients are diagnosed and treated according

to race and economics, another group that has be-

gun the dialogue of discriminatory practices. The main

thing is to get people behaving and learning from

each other without constantly battling and realize

that inclusion begins with respecting others back-

grounds and accepting that it is good to be different.

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Martin Luther King III, the second oldest child of

Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King,

has motivated audiences around the world

with his insightful message of hope and civility

for nearly twenty years. He has taken up the

torch lit by his father and continued the quest

for equality and justice for all people. From

Mozambique to Mississippi, Israel to Indiana, his

message has touched thousands.

A human rights advocate, community activist

and a political leader, Mr. King has been ac-

tively involved in significant policy initiatives to

maintain the fair and equitable treatment of

all peoples, at home and abroad. His missions

have taken him to numerous nations through-

out Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

His messages and initiatives are all rooted

within the tenets of nonviolent conflict resolu-

tion.

In 1986, Mr. King was elected to political office

as an at-large representative of over 700,000

residents of Fulton County, Georgia. On Janu-

ary 19, 2004 Mr. King assumed the position as

CEO and President of the King Center after a

unanimous vote by the Board.

Today, he serves as the founding president and chief

executive officer of Realizing the Dream for Global

Peace, an international nonprofit organization with

global vision to carry on the important work embodied

in the legacies of his parents. Through the previous Re-

alizing the Dream, Inc. organization, Mr. King has

launched Poverty in America, a national initiative

rooted in the legacy of his father’s Poor People’s

Campaign. The campaign consisted of a national

poverty tour of 50 communities across the nation, in-

cluding American Indian reservations, Appalachia,

rural America and the nation’s urban core communi-

ties. His international program, the Second Generation

Global Peace Initiative, brings together the heirs of

20th century peacemakers to address some of the

world’s most compelling crises, including Darfur, the

Middle East, and Burma. Under his leadership the Gen

II initiative, as it has become known, includes the heirs

of such names as Chavez, Gandhi, Gemayel, Ken-

nedy, Rabin, Trudeau, and Tutu.

Mr. Martin Luther King, III, was nurtured among indi-

viduals deeply committed to the struggle for human

rights and a nonviolent society. He has assimilated

and utilized those values in his personal and public life.

Most recently Mr. King co-organized the 50th Anniver-

sary March on Washington and addressed hundreds

of thousands of people during the 50th Anniversary

and Commemoration of the "I Have a Dream"

Speech. Additionally, Mr. King spoke during the 2008

Democratic National Committee and the Canadian

based tour, Free the Children. All along the

way...calling for the nation and the world to continue

to take steps towards realizing his father's dream and

fostering a world of peace.

Mr. King also penned his first children’s book, ‘My

Daddy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’ He received his

Bachelor of Arts degree from Morehouse College, in

Political Science. He lives in Atlanta with his wife and

daughter.

Afternoon Keynote | 3:00 PM

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Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart, PhD

(Hunkpapa/Oglala Lakota) is an Associate

Professor of Psychiatry/Director of Native

American and Disparities Research at the

Center for Rural and Community Behavioral

Health (CRCBH). Dr. Brave Heart joined

CRCBH in October, 2010. Prior to joining the

Center, Dr Brave Heart was an Associate

Professor at Columbia University School of

Social Work and a clinical intervention

research team member at the Hispanic

Treatment Program, New York State

Psychiatric Institute, which is affiliated with

Columbia University College of Physicians

and Surgeons. Throughout her academic

career, Dr. Brave Heart has been Associate

Professor at the University of Denver

Graduate School of Social Work,

Coordinator of the Native People’s

Curriculum Project, serving the Four Corners

region, and core faculty in the Post-

Graduate Trauma Response and Recovery

Certificate Program. Additionally, Dr. Brave

Heart was President/Co-founder/Director of

the Takini Network, based in Rapid City,

South Dakota, a Native non-profit devoted

to community healing from intergenerational

massive group trauma among Indigenous

Peoples. Currently, she is President of the

Takini Institute.

Dr. Brave Heart received a Bachelor of Science in

Psychology, Magna Cum Laude, from Tufts

University, a Master of Science from Columbia

University School of Social Work in 1976. and her

PhD in Clinical Social Work from Smith College in

1995. Dr. Brave Heart developed historical trauma

and historical unresolved grief theory and

interventions among Indigenous Peoples, and has

conducted close to 250 historical trauma

presentations and trainings for numerous tribes

across the country and in Canada.

In 1992, she founded the Takini Network and

developed the Historical Trauma and Unresolved

Grief Intervention (HTUG), which was recognized

as an exemplary model, in a special minority

initiative, by the Center for Mental Health Services

in 2001. Recently, HTUG has been designated as a

Tribal Best Practice by the First Nations Behavioral

Health Association, the Pacific Substance Abuse

and Mental Health Collaborating Council, and

the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services

Administration (SAMHSA). Dr. Brave Heart also

incorporated the intervention components in

reservation parenting prevention and intervention

work through a number of successful SAMHSA

grants. Dr. Brave Heart developed and directed

the international Models for Healing Indigenous

Survivors of Historical Trauma: A Multicultural

Dialogue among Allies Conference from 2001-

2004.

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Morning Keynote | 10:00 AM

Mid Afternoon Keynote | 1:45 PM

Dr. Yael Danieli is a clinical

psychologist in private

practice, a victimologist,

traumatologist, and the

Director of the Group Project

for Holocaust Survivors and

their Children, which she co-

founded in 1975 in the New

York City area – the first such

program in the world. She has done

extensive psychotherapeutic work with

survivors and children of survivors on

individual, family, group and community

bases. She has studied in depth post-war

responses and attitudes toward them, and

the impact these and the Holocaust had on

their lives. She has lectured and published

worldwide in numerous books and journals,

translated into at least 17 languages on

optimal care and training for this and other

victim/survivor populations, and received

several awards for her work, the most

recent of which are the Lifetime

Achievement Award of the International

Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) in

2002 and the Award for Lifetime

Achievement in Trauma Psychology of the

American Psychological Association Division

56-Trauma Psychology in 2012. In 2008 she

was appointed Advisor on Victims of

Terrorism for the office of the Secretary-

General of the United Nations, and helped

organize the first Symposium on Supporting

Victims of Terrorism at the UN. As well, she

was appointed Distinguished Professor of

International Psychology at the Chicago

School of Professional Psychology, helping

to build the first Ph.D. program in

international psychology. She has served as

consultant to the ICTY and the International

Criminal Court on issues related to victims and

staff care, consultant to South Africa’s Truth

and Reconciliation Commission and the

Rwanda government on reparations for

victims, and has led ongoing Projects in

Bosnia and Herzegovina (Promoting a

Dialogue: “Democracy Cannot Be Built with

the Hands of Broken Souls”), and lectured/

taught/trained in Northern Ireland. Her books

are International responses to traumatic

stress...; The Universal Declaration of Human

Rights: Fifty years and beyond; Sharing the

front line and the back hills (Baywood) - all

published for and on behalf of the United

Nations; International handbook of

multigenerational legacies of trauma (Kluwer/

Plenum); and The trauma of terrorism: An

international Handbook of sharing knowledge

and shared care and On the Ground After

September 11 [a finalist of Best Books 2005

Award of USA BookNews.com](Haworth

Press). Dr. Danieli is also Founding Co-

President of the International network of

Holocaust and Genocide Survivors and their

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8:00am — 10:00am Registration (Hospitality Desk Open)

9:00am—9:45am Conference Kick-off w/Continental Breakfast

NAACP NYS President Hazel Dukes

Allyne Spinner/John Crepsac, Diversonomix

10:00am—11:30am Morning Session: American Indian

Intergenerational Trauma

Dr. Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart

Discussion Opportunity — Panel (Healing Circle)

11:30a—12:00p Book Signing (Book Pavilion)

12:00p-1:30p

Midday Session w/Luncheon (light

entertainment—background, panel and

talkback)

Terrie Williams , Taz Bouchier, Dr. Eva Fogelman,

Pastor Michael A. Walrond

1:45p Mid-Afternoon Session: Jewish American

Intergenerational Trauma

Keynote: Dr. Yael Danieli

Discussion Opportunity

2:30p—3:00p Book Signing (Book Pavilion)

3:00p Afternoon Session: African American

Intergenerational Trauma

Speaker: Martin Luther King, III

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Onaje Muid is the Clinical Associate Director of Reality House Inc. in Queens, New

York. He is the former United Nations Representative for International Association for

American Minorities. He currently investigates how conflict resolution can be used to

acquire reparations and solve historical trauma for African and Indigenous peoples.

As a social justice/human rights activist, Onaje Muid has a combined thirty four

year history of community organizing, human services and human rights advocacy. His

human services career is directly linked to his human rights analysis, a relationship that he has lectured widely

on, particularly how social services are in its fullest expression, a form of rehabilitation, one aspect of

reparations. His first human rights assignment was to serve as the Representative to The United Nations for the

non-government organization, International Human Rights Association for American Minorities. He served as the

International Commissioner of N'COBRA from 1999 to 2002, a national grassroots reparations organization

based in Washington, D.C. As a NGO delegate to United Nations World Conference Against Racism in South

Africa in 2001, he represented N'COBRA, the Malik Shabazz Human Rights Institute and the Coalition Against

the War on Drugs.

Mr. Muid's professional research interest is in trauma theory, influenced by the work of Dr. Joy Leary,

PhD and Dr. Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart, Ph.D, post traumatic slave syndrome and historical trauma,

respectively.

Terrie M. Williams, one of Ebony magazine’s “Power 150” for Activism and Woman’s Day

magazine “50 Women On A Mission To Change The World,” is an advocate for change and

empowerment. Over a prolific career, she has used her influence and communications

expertise to educate and engage audiences on a variety of issues and represent some of

the biggest personalities and businesses in entertainment, sports, business and politics.

Aside from her work as agency head, Terrie’s community outreach and mental

health advocacy work began with her book, Stay Strong: Simple Life Lessons for Teens. Her

latest book, Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting, recounts her personal struggles

with depression and the impact the stigma of mental illnesses has, particularly on the African-

American community.

In October 2012, Terrie was a featured speaker on mental health for World Mental

Health Day, United Nations, NGO Committee on Mental Health; and at the 9th Annual Leon H.

Sullivan Summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. She also received the 2012 National Association of

Social Work-NYC Image Award for her mental health work.

Her 2011 honors include Target Market News’ MAXX Summit Award as “PR Executive of the Year;” a

Heart & Soul Magazine Award for Service; a “Woman of Courage” award by The Emmett Till Legacy

Foundation; and being named a Woodie King Jr. Honoree/Award Winner during the 40th Anniversary of The

New Federal Theater. Terrie received the 2009 Florence Gould Gross Award from NAMI/FAMILYA of Rockland

County for extraordinary commitment to de-stigmatizing mental illness, the 2009 Dr. David Satcher Mental

Health Trailblazer Award from The Jackson State School of Social Work/Southern Institute for Mental Health

Advocacy, Research and Training, and The Institute for the Advancement of Multicultural & Minority Medicine’s

2006 Eagle Fly Free Award for her work as a depression survivor and her efforts to bring widespread attention to

the topic.

Terrie’s creation of a mental health advocacy campaign for the African American community in 2007

under her Stay Strong Foundation entitled, “Healing Starts With Us,” led to a 2010 collaboration with The Ad

Council and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), entitled “Sharing

Ourselves: Healing Starts with Us.” The campaign generated 11 million media impressions and $3 million in

donated advertising space. Terrie served as the national spokesperson for the two-year campaign.

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Eva Fogelman was born in a displaced persons camp in Kassel, Germany after World War

II. She lived in Israel for a brief period before coming to the United States in 1959. She

received a bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College, where she majored in

psychology, and a master's degree from New York University in rehabilitation

counseling. Following this Fogelman received advanced training in family therapy at

the Boston Family Institute, and psychoanalytic/psychotherapy training at Boston

University Medical School.

In 1987 Fogelman earned her Ph.D from the Graduate Center of the City

University of New York in social/personality psychology. Her doctoral dissertation was

The Rescuers: A Socio-psychological Study of Altruistic Behavior During the Nazi Era. Dr.

Fogelman has also worked extensively with patients with drug addiction at Boston City

Hospital of Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fogelman and Bella Savran were amongst the first

psychotherapists to lead groups for children of Holocaust survivors. She then lead the first such

group at the counseling center at The Hebrew University (Jerusalem), where she was also a research associate

focusing on comparing Holocaust survivor families with control groups. Dr. Fogelman went on to become a

research associate in the Sociology Department at Brandeis University, where she did more extensive research

on the second generation of Holocaust survivors. She organized the First Conference on Children of Holocaust

Survivors in November 1979 in New York City, which was followed by many others.

In the 1980s she did seminal research on non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the

Holocaust, and wrote a Pulitzer Prize nominated book, Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the

Holocaust, which illuminates the psychology and history of the people who defied German law during the Third

Reich, and who did not succumb to moral cowardice. Today she uses those lessons to raise consciousness

about an “us-against-them” culture.

In 1986 Dr. Fogelman founded the Jewish Foundation for Christian Rescuers with Rabbi Harold

Schulweis, which became a project of the Anti-Defamation League, and is now the Jewish Foundation for the

Righteous. The Foundation provides monthly stipends to 1,600 rescuers in 26 different countries.

In the 1980s Dr. Fogelman also devoted her energies to making the voice of the Holocaust child

survivors heard, and was involved in the creation of the International Study of Organized Persecution of

Children, a project of Child Development Research, which she co-directs. These efforts culminated in the

formation of the National Association of Child Holocaust Survivors (N.A.C.H.O.S.), and in 1991 in the First

International Conference of Hidden Children, and in the Hidden Child Foundation of the ADL. She was

subsequently involved in the creation of the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust. Most

important, these events have given the courage to Holocaust child survivors in Eastern Europe to come out of

hiding and embrace their Jewish past.

Dr. Fogelman has organized conferences around the world for Generations of the Holocaust and other

historically traumatized groups, such as Native Americans. She is an advisor to the United States Holocaust

Memorial Museum, has published widely in professional and general publications, and is a frequent public

speaker and guest on television.

Eva Fogelman is a social psychologist, psychotherapist, author and filmmaker. She is in private practice

in New York City and is co-director of Psychotherapy With Generations of the Holocaust and Related Traumas

at Training Institute for Mental Health, and Child Development Research (includes International Study of

Organized Persecution of Children).

Dr. Fogelman is co-editor of Children During the Nazi Reign: Psychological Perspective on the Interview

Process. She is the writer and co-producer of the award winning documentary Breaking the Silence: The

Generation After the Holocaust (PBS). Her numerous writings appear in professional as well as popular

publications. She serves on many boards, including the American Gathering and Federation of Jewish

Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendents, Hadassah Women’s Study Center at Brandeis University, Counseling

Center for Women in Israel, Volunteer, Training Institute for Mental Health, Child Development Research and

Hidden Child Foundation (ADL).

It is argued that the lingering effects of Mass Trauma (MTE) of genocide and

slavery created a trauma response, unresolved grief and historical trauma

(Brave Heart 1995) and post traumatic slave syndrome (Leary 2001). The ef-

fects of major past historical traumatic events have impact not only on the

generation where the traumatic event occurred but the generations that fol-

low. This conference will raise awareness of the traumatic repercussions that

effect the current generations focusing on slavery,

Jewish and the American Indian Holocaust.

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Taz Bouchier’s bloodline is Cree, Sioux, Scottish and Navajo, her ancestry is Indigenous to the land

once called Turtle Island, now known as Canada and the United states. As a recognised Elder and

Director of Nohkum Nigeh, she has contributed to the increased effectiveness of utilising wholistic

practices when working within an Indigenous community. Her professional profile includes Justice,

corrections, community development and more recently Political Activism. She has provided

Cultural Competency Training for the Solicitor General of Alberta, Victims of Crime Support

Services, City of Edmonton, and has been a Spiritual Support for over 800 hundred inmates housed

within the Edmonton Remand Centre. More recently as an Organizer of Idle No More she shares the

vision of mutual respect and understanding towards the protection of her homeland and increased

protection of drinking water from further contamination. As a professional, Taz continues to be committed

to restorative justice, wholistic practices and the reparation of the continued Genocide of the First People of

Canada. It is her belief that revisions to legislation and policies must occur in all levels of Government with amendments

that acknowledge Genocide, the diversity of the First People and the Inherent Rights of the Nations that welcomed

settlers to this land. Taz is a Graduate of Social Work, an Esteemed Elder, and a Practitioner of Indigenous Spirituality. She

is an educator, a writer, a mother, a grandmother and an inspiring Voice of Change. As the Director of Nohkum Nigeh,

she retains and teaches her Spiritual Understandings as taught to her by her matriarchal Grandmother, Isabel Courtorielle

thereby “keeping the Spiritual Practices alive.” In sharing her Vision of Indigenous Spiritual Understandings and combining

that with an ever expanding Vision of Peaceful Unity, she has been a constant source of motivation to people from all

walks of life and an influence to thousands of people internationally.

Michael A. Walrond, Jr. is the seventh Senior Pastor of the historic First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem, New

York. A native of Freeport, New York, Rev. Walrond pursued his undergraduate studies at Morehouse

College in Atlanta Georgia, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy and Religion.

During his matriculation at Morehouse, Rev. Walrond accepted his call to ministry and began to work

diligently through education and service to prepare for a life in ministry. He continued his studies at

Duke University School of Divinity, as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholar and earned a Master of

Divinity degree with a focus in Theology.

Rev. Walrond served Duke University as the University Minister and Director of the African American

Campus Ministry for eight years. During that time he worked with students and staff to build capacity

for ministry through worship services, mission trips, spiritual retreats and theological reflection. Rev.

Walrond served as the Senior Pastor of Zion Temple United Church of Christ in Durham, North Carolina

for seven years. While there the congregation grew from twenty five members to nearly five hundred as

Rev. Walrond raised the bar for effectiveness and efficiency through enhanced worship, ministry building

and community service.

Pastor Mike’s foresight and passion for the Harlem community has shaped the vision for FCBC’s, newest

innovation; the FCBC Dream Center. Set to launch in Central Harlem in the summer of 2012, the FCBC Dream Center will

be a transformative space designed to awaken the dreams of the community through leadership development, arts

enrichment, and economic empowerment. Within two years of his leadership at FCBC, the church experienced a

tremendous amount of growth, tripling its membership, and inevitably necessitating the addition of a second service.

Over the past eight years, membership at FCBC has grown from three hundred and fifty disciples to over seven thousand,

and has led to the creation of several new ministries and initiatives. Pastor Mike’s vision for discipleship wholeness and

community wellness has launched vision teams including- HEALED HIV/AIDS Ministry, Social Justice, DTV Drama, Clothing,

Celebrate Life Recovery Ministries, and Business and Culinary Arts Vision Teams. The dynamic preaching, teaching and

discipleship of Pastor Mike led to the need for an additional service in 2010: Freestyle Fridays, a service that celebrates the

art of improvisation and and creativity. Pastor Mike’s foresight and passion for the Harlem community has shaped the

vision for FCBC’s, newest innovation; the FCBC Dream Center.

Rev. Walrond has worked tirelessly to build an innovative, relevant and ground-breaking ministry with a

commitment to social justice. He played a vital role in getting the ‘New York City Living Wage’ legislation passed through

the city council, and currently serves as a board member of the National Action Network. In the spring of 2012, Rev.

Walrond was appointed as the first National Director of Minister’s Division of the National Action Network by Rev. Al

Sharpton. Rev. Walrond also has a strong commitment to public, private, and higher education and currently serves as a

Trustee and adjunct faculty member of Chicago Theological Seminary, in Chicago, Illinois.

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Please join us for a special birthday celebration for

Martin Luther King III directly following the afternoon

sessions. All conference participants are invited.

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Senior Partner, Allyne Spinner, has

more than thi rty (30) years

experience in the mental health and

substance abuse field. She is currently in private practice and is

the owner of FIRST STEPS TO RECOVERY, a chemical

dependency outpatient program. She is also the director of

training for the American Institute for Hypnotherapy and

Psychotherapy's Alcoholism and Drug Counselor Training

Program. Ms. Spinner has been a cultural diversity, sensitivity and

cultural competence trainer for non-profit organizations,

government agencies and hospitals for over fifteen years. Ms.

Spinner holds a M.S.W. from Columbia University and is a trained

group and individual psychoanalyst.

Senior Partner, John Crepsac, is a licensed Clinical Social Worker

and addictionologist with over twenty (20) years experience

addressing issues of mental health, diversity and inclusion in both

the public and private sectors. Mr. Crepsac has been a

workplace consultant with the National Football League's (NFL)

Substances of Abuse Program for the past decade where he's

provided culturally competent care for professional athletes and

their families. In addition to the NFL, Mr. Crepsac is a consultant

to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the Transit

Workers Union Local 100 and Merrill Lynch. Mr. Crepsac's interest

in the intersection of culture and commerce began during his

fourteen-year tenure at Beth Israel Medical Center, a diverse

urban teaching hospital where he was a member of the

Taskforce on Discrimination in Healthcare. As a former Executive

Director with the NY State Office of Alcoholism and Substance

Abuse Services, Mr. Crepsac conducted a number of cultural

competence workshops and courses throughout the state. In

terms of academic appointments, Mr. Crepsac is currently an

adjuct professor of social work at the graduate centers of both

Fordham University and New York University where he lectures

extensively on issues of diversity, discrimination, cultural

competence and the strengths-based approach. Mr. Crepsac

maintains clinical practices in NY and NJ, and is the New York

metro area representative of the renowned Sierra Tucson

Psychiatric Facility in Arizona.

Diversonomix is a nationally

syndicated strategic diversity

management consultancy

focused on advancing inclusion,

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(Dr. Yael Danieli, continued from page 7) A Founding

Director of The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Dr.

Danieli was its (1988-1989) President. The Report of her commissioned

Presidential Task Force on Curriculum, Education, and Training for

professionals working with victim/survivors was adopted by the United

Nations (E/AC.57/1990/NGO.3). She also co-chaired the ISTSS Task

Force on International Trauma Training.

Dr. Danieli has been the Senior Representative to the United

Nations of the World Federation for Mental Health and of the

International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, serving also as Vice

Chair of the Executive Committee of Non-Governmental Organizations

Associated with the UN Department of Public Information and Chair of

its Publications Committee. A Founding Member of WFMH’s Scientific

Committee on the Mental Health Needs of Victims, and its Chair, she

has been active in developing, promoting, adapting and

implementing the United Nations Declaration of Basic Principles of

Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power (A/RES/40/34) and all

subsequent UN victims-related work, including their right to reparation

(E/CN.4/Sub.2/1996/17) and the Statute and Rules regarding the

victims’ central role in the International Criminal Court and as related

to terrorism. As well, she has elaborated and promoted reparative

justice as a unifying framework for victims’ rights’ and optimal victims

care, from both the outcome and the process points of view..

She has served as Consultant to the UN Crime Prevention

and Criminal Justice Branch, on the Board of its International Scientific

and Professional Advisory Council and is currently the Chair of the

Executive Board of the Alliance of NGOs on Crime Prevention and

Criminal Justice; also, consultant to the World Health Organization,

UNICEF, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and

various governments on trauma and victim/survivor’s rights and

optimal care. In the US, she has consulted for the National Institute of

Mental Health, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and, among other

news organizations, Associated Press, BBC, Reuters and CNN.

She has served as Director of Psychological Services for the

Center for Rehabilitation of Torture Victims, and Adjunct Associate

Professor of Medicine at Seton Hall University School of Graduate

Medical Education in New Jersey. Concurrent with a variety of clinical

training and work, during 1970-1977 she taught Psychology at Brooklyn

College and John Jay College for Criminal Justice of the City University

of New York, and was faculty member and supervisor at the (U.S.)

National Institute for the Psychotherapies.

Before arriving in the United States (for a Doctorate in

Psychology at New York University earned in 1981), she served as a

Sergeant in the Israeli Defense Forces, earned degrees, taught and

wrote in music, philosophy and psychology.

(Dr. Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart continued from page 7)

Currently, Dr. Brave Heart is Principal Investigator for a NIMH-funded

R34 pilot study Iwankapiya-Healing: Historical Trauma Practice and

Group IPT for American Indians. The goal of the R34 is to the examine

the effectiveness of a culturally adapted treatment engagement

strategy – the Historical Trauma and Unresolved Grief Intervention

(HTUG), a Tribal Best Practice - combined with group Interpersonal

Psychotherapy (IPT) for American Indians with depression and related

disorders (e.g. PTSD), at two sites: one reservation and one urban, in

two different regions. I have focused my career on developing,

delivering, and evaluating interventions that incorporate a

consideration of the collective generational massive trauma, grief, and

loss faced by American Indians. Dr. Brave Heart is also Principal

Investigator of the Tribal Preventive and Early Mental Health

Intervention Project funded by NIH’s National Institute for Minority

Health and Health Disparities, part of the University of New Mexico

(UNM) Center for the Advancement of Research, Engagement, and

Science on Health Disparities. Dr. Brave Heart is a Senior Fellow, New

Mexico Center for the Advancement of Research, Engagement, and

Science on Health Disparities and Senior Fellow for the Robert Wood

Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at UNM and is the

Graduate Faculty Representative to the Council of Social Work

Education Board of Directors. She has also served as: Vice President,

American Indian Social Work Educators Association; Vice President and

Treasurer, National Indian Social Workers Association; member of the

national Task Force on American Indian Suicide; and consultant to the

national Indian Country Child Trauma Center. Dr. Brave Heart was

honored as a Lakota Woman Leader at Kyle Fair on the Pine Ridge

Indian Reservation in South Dakota and is a former Francis Allen Fellow

at the Newberry Library, D'Arcy McNickle Center for the American

Indian.

Louis A. Burns,

Conference Co-Organizer

Addiction Program

Administrator, Kings County

Hospital; Adjunct Faculty—

Fordham University/City

College

Dr. Hazel N. Dukes is President of the

NAACP New York State Conference

and a member of the NAACP Na-

tional Board of Directors, a member

of the NAACP Executive Committee

and an active member of various

NAACP board sub-committees. Ms.

Dukes is a woman of great strength

and courage. Her dedication to hu-

man rights and equality is exemplified

by her role linking business, govern-

ment and social causes. Dr. Dukes is a

dynamic leader who is known for her

unselfish and devoted track record

for improving the quality of life in New

York State.

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