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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 thirty (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
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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.
