Trina A. Brown, PhD
Dr. Brown, a native of Chicago, Illinois, received a bachelor of arts degree in psychology from Spelman College, and master’s and doctoral degrees in cognition and development from Emory University. Her postgraduate studies have been dedicated to exploring autobiographical memory development in children and its impact on various aspects of memory performance and identity development. Dr. Brown’s research interests also include the influence of stress on memory, general identity development, and racial identity development. Currently, Dr. Brown is a professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design’s Atlanta campus, where she teaches Introduction to Psychology, the Psychology of Self, and the Psychology of Group Processes.
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Sean Byrne, PhD
Sean Byrne is Professor and Director of the PhD and Joint MA Programs in Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS), and Director, Arthur V. Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice, St. Paul’s College, University of Manitoba. He founded the Mauro Centre and the PACS Ph.D. Program with Jessica Senehi. They cofounded the Joint Master’s PACS Program with Anna Snyder, Brian Rice and Dean Peachey of the University of Winnipeg. His current research interests include: ethnic conflict resolution, economic aid and peacebuilding in protracted ethnic conflict, children and war, women and peacebuilding, human rights, international peacebuilding, violence intervention and prevention, and third party intervention.
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Leah Creque, PhD
Dr. Creque holds a doctorate from Emory University and serves on the faculty of Morehouse College as an associate professor of English. Her research and writing center on the cultural history of the African diaspora as it is manifested in dance and literature. Dr. Creque has made literary contributions to a number of anthologies and journals, including the Journal of African Literature and College Language Association Journal.
Tony Gaskew, PhD
Dr. Gaskew is an associate professor of criminal justice and director of the Criminal Justice Program at the University of Pittsburgh (Bradford). He is a Fulbright Hays Scholar, an FDD Academic Fellow, and a University of Pittsburgh Faculty Diversity Fellow. He is the chair of the President’s Advisory Board on Diversity and the board president of the Consortium of Educational Resources on Islamic Studies, and serves as a Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS) research team member. Dr. Gaskew has been actively involved in creating postsecondary prison education initiatives at the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) since 2007. In 2010, he received the Volunteer of the Year Award from (BOP) FCI McKean. He is the author of numerous publications, including the books Policing Muslim American Communities (2009) and Rethinking Prison Reentry: Transforming Humiliation into Humility (2014). Dr. Gaskew is a former police-detective at the Melbourne Police Department, where he was assigned as a 10-year member of the Department of Justices, Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF).
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Toran Hansen, PhD
Dr. Hansen earned his PhD in social work from the University of Minnesota in 2010. During his time there, he worked as a research associate for the Center for Restorative Justice and Peacemaking, as well as for the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs. His dissertation research examined facilitation within the Minnesota peace movement. In 2004, he graduated with a master’s degree in conflict analysis and resolution from Nova Southeastern University, where he also worked as a research associate for the Institute for Child Health Policy. Prior to that, Dr. Hansen was a Peace Corps volunteer in Guinea, West Africa, and a program director for the Fraser Youth Supervision Program in British Columbia, Canada, where he grew up. He has mediated disputes for the Palm Beach County Courthouse, Nova Southeastern University, and the Minnesota Department of Corrections. His scholarly interests include restorative justice, social justice, social movements, social networks, and social capital. Dr. Toran has also created an innovative approach to conflict resolution called the generalist approach, which is discussed in his book The Generalist Approach to Conflict Resolution: A Guidebook.
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Sarah E. Hollingsworth
Ms. Hollingsworth received her Bachelor of Science degree in communication studies from Georgia Southern University and a master of arts degree from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is currently a doctoral fellow in the communication studies department at Southern Illinois University. Her research interests include social movements, social change, political communication, and community engagement.
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Spoma Jovanovic, PhD
Dr. Jovanovic is a professor in the Communication Studies Department at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her research focuses on community projects that explore how ethics in communication and activism influence the outcomes of initiatives for social change. She is the author of Democracy, Dialogue, and Community Action: Truth and Reconciliation in Greensboro (2012) and more than a dozen journal articles and book chapters.
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Mansa Bilal Mark King, PhD
Dr. King is an assistant professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, where he teaches courses on masculinity and families. He also teaches an Africana Families course for the Morehouse Pan-African Global Experience (MPAGE), a study abroad program in Ghana. Dr. King’s research has covered father figures in Black America and interreligious Akan families in Ghana. He is currently finishing a study on race and marital behavior among American Muslims, continuing to help build a digital archive on African American Muslim history, and starting a study on African American Muslim childrearing strategies.
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Bini Litwin, PhD
Dr. Litwin is an associate professor in the College of Health Care Sciences at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where she earned her doctorate in conflict analysis and resolution. Her areas of expertise include cultural diversity, organizational behavior, conflict analysis and resolution and gender issues. She has extensive experience in healthcare administration and has presented original research at numerous national and international conferences. She is the author of Playing on the Boy’s Team: Success Narratives of Executive Women in Healthcare (2012) and A Conceptual Framework for a Multi-Factor, Multi-Level Analysis of the Origins of Workplace Violence (2002).
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Cindy Lutenbacher, PhD
Dr. Lutenbacher is an associate professor of English at Morehouse College, where she has taught composition and creative writing since 1990. She earned her MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and her doctorate from Northwestern University in Chicago. Her particular areas of study are pedagogical philosophy and assessment in the teaching of writing; public schools and “power teachers” (Asa Hilliard); and creative nonfiction. Future projects include collaboration with Tsehaye Geralyn Hebert on a creative work centered upon racism in the 21st century. Dr. Lutenbacher lives in Atlanta with her two daughters.
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Jamila Lyn, PhD
Dr. Jamila S. Lyn earned her doctorate in English from Georgia State University and teaches composition, research writing, and world literature at Morehouse College. Her research interests include the depiction of black women in literature/film, the construction of black manhood, and pop culture criticism. Awarded a UNCF/Mellon Faculty Doctoral Fellowship, Dr. Lyn’s dissertation research focused on James Baldwin’s unique spatial theory and the emergent conversation on democracy in Giovanni’s Room, Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone, and If Beale Street Could Talk. She is a New York native and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Trinity University, in Washington, DC.
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Anthony Sean Neal, PhD
Dr. Neal completed his undergraduate degree in religion andphilosophy at Morehouse College. He earned the top average in religion, which garnered him a full scholarship to Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology. During this period, Dr. Neal concentrated his studies in the areas of philosophical theology and political philosophy. His capstone thesis was entitled “Transforming Community Consciousness.” After leaving Mercer, Dr. Neal earned his doctorate in Humanities from Clark Atlanta University, where his studies focused on African American philosophy and religion. The title of his dissertation is “Common Ground: A Comparison of the Ideas of Consciousness in the Writings of Howard W. Thurman and Huey P. Newton.” Dr. Neal has presented papers at many major conferences, such as American Association of Religion, Philosophy Born of Struggle, and National Council of Black Studies, to name a few. His specialization areas areaesthetics, Africana philosophy and religious thought, critical theory, political philosophy, and philosophy of religion.
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Megan Price
Ms. Price is the director of the Insight Conflict Resolution Program at George Mason University's School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. Her research focuses on developing a reliable, context-based method for reconciling systemic social conflict. In practice, she applies the Insight approach to conflict analysis and resolution to endemic social problems such as retaliatory violence, police legitimacy and the school-to-prison pipeline. Ms. Price is a PhD candidate at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and earned her master of philosophy degree in reconciliation from the University of Dublin, Trinity College in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She completed undergraduate work at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
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Imani Michelle Scott, PhD
Dr. Imani Michelle Scott (formerly K. Michelle Scott) is a scholar, consultant, practitioner, and specialist in the areas of human communication, conflict analysis, and conflict resolution. She has a successful record of experience in corporate America and academia, and as an entrepreneur. Dr. Scott’s primary interests involve research, writing, and presentations on topics of dispiriting violence, relationship-building, resilience studies, domestic violence, school violence, trauma management, and identity conflict. She is a professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design, where she teaches courses in intercultural communication and public speaking, and conducts faculty training in the areas of conflict resolution and interpersonal communication. Dr. Scott is a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution, the American Association for University Professors, the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education, the National Action Network, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. She volunteers as a group facilitator and frequent guest speaker for the Dekalb County–based Women’s Resource Center to End Domestic Violence. Dr. Scott holds a doctorate in conflict analysis and resolution from Nova Southeastern University, a master of arts in speech communication from Montclair State University, and a bachelor of arts in communication arts from Florida Atlantic University. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, and has a distinguished record of scholarly publications and presentations.
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Barbara Timmons Strahl, PhD
Dr. Strahl earned her doctorate in conflict analysis and resolution from Nova Southeastern University. Today she serves as a consultant, educator, and mediator. Dr. Strahl is an experienced practitioner, mediator, facilitator, and professor who is nationally recognized for her dedication to the fields of peacemaking, conflict transformation, and restorative and social justice. Dr. Strahl teaches at the University of North Carolina Greensboro in the postgraduate Conflict and Peace Studies Program and at Nova Southeastern University in the doctoral Health Sciences Program. Involvement in the field of conflict resolution has led her to serve on numerous boards, including the National Association for Community Mediation (NAFCM), where she served two terms as board chair. She is a founding director for the Nevada Mediation Group.
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Bentley Gibson Wallace, PhD
Dr. Bentley Gibson Wallace, a native of White Plains, New York, earned her bachelor of arts in psychology from Spelman College and her master’s and doctoral degrees in psychology from Emory University. Dr. Wallace’s master’s research focused on the development of African American children’s racial and gender identity and preferences. Her doctoral research focused on the unconscious (implicit) racial attitudes of African American children and young adults about their own racial group. Her main research goals are to determine what factors are associated with positive in-group attitudes in members of socially stigmatized groups. After graduate school, she decided to take a position as Assistant Professor of Psychology at Georgia Highlands College.
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