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CONFERENCES

March 19 - 20, 2007
Hyatt Regency Long Beach
Long Beach, California

 

SPEAKERS

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Leah Aldridge
Associate Director - Youth Violence Prevention

Ted Bunch
Co-Founder
A Call To Men

 

 

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
Speaker, Activist, and Author

Vickii Coffey
Executive Director of the Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women's Network

Phyllis Craig-Taylor
Professor
School of Law
North Carolina Central University

Warren Edwards
Community Activist
Feeding the Least to Increase the Peace

Gail Garfield
Associate Professor
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
City University of New York

Dr. Linner Ward Griffin
Professor, School of Social Work & Interim Associate
Vice Chancellor for Academic Programs
East Carolina University Greenville, North Carolina


Shelia Hankins
Project Director for the Family Independence Agency, Michigan Domestic Violence Prevention and Treatment Board

Robert Hampton
Provost/Executive Vice President
Tennessee State University

Esther Jenkins
Professor of Psychology
Chicago State University in Chicago, Illinois

Joleen Jones
Domestic Violence, Anger Management, and Violence Prevention Counselor for African American Family Services in Minneapolis, Minnesota



Adrienne LaMar
Associate Director
Jenesse Center

Charles "Chuck" McDew
Civil Rights Leader

Anne Menard
Director of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence

Reverend Al Miles
Author, Domestic Violence Advocate
Coordinator, Hospital Ministry Department
Queen's Medical Center
Honolulu , HI


William Oliver
Associate Professor
Department of Criminal Justice
Indiana University

Ben Owens
Cease Fire Committee of Los Angeles
Los Angeles , CA

Ellen Pence
Founder
Domestic Abuse Intervention Project (DAIP)
Duluth, MN

Marcus Pope
Associate Director
Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community

Tiombe Preston
Marriage and Family Therapist
Program Manager
California Black Women's Health Project

Jeanette Raymond
Initiative for Violence Free Families of Family & Children's Service
Minneapolis , MN

Johnny Rice, II
COO of COIL, Inc.
and Adjunct Faculty
University of Baltimore 's Division of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Social Policy

Beth E. Richie, Ph.D.
Professor, Criminal Justice Department and Women's Studies Program
University of Illinois at Chicago

Ruth Slaughter
PROTOTYPES
Divisional Director of Community Outreach, Prevention and Education Programs

V.J. Smith
Men Against Destruction, and Defending Against Drugs and Social-disorder (MAD DADS)
Minneapolis Chapter

Joyce Thomas,R.N., M.P.H., P.N.P
President and Co-Founder
Center for Child Protection and Family Support
Washington, DC

Antonia A. Vann
Chief Executive Office and Founder of Asha Family Services, Inc.

Tommy Walker
Cease Fire Committee of Los Angeles
Los Angeles , CA

Rev. Mary Walton , MSW, M.Div.
Senior Program and Management Consultant
Interval House Domestic Violence Crisis Shelter

Joseph White, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Psychiatry
University of California , Irvine

Oliver J. Williams , Ph.D.
Executive Director
Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community
Professor, School of Social Work
University of Minnesota at St. Paul

     

Gail Elizabeth Wyatt, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, UCLA
Associate Director of the UCLA AIDS Institute