Meet the Speakers

Event Moderator: Mighty Fine, MPH, CHES - Interim AED, American Public Health Association

DAY 1:  THE PROBLEMS AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS
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Opening Session

• Dr. Rebecca Wilson, PhD, Behavioral Scientist, Mortality Surveillance Team in the Surveillance Branch Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Building Community Resilience - Child welfare, domestic & community violence prevention 

• Christina M. Blackburn, MS - Chair, Board of Directors, Speranza Human Compassion Project
• Josephine Kim, PhD - Professor, Prevention Science and Practice/CAS in Counseling programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and in the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine
• Joshua Mersky, PhD, MSW - Co-Foundering Director, Institute for Child and Family Well-Being, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Helen Bader School of Social Welfare

Building Community Resilience - Restorative practices, healing circle and justice 

• Dana Rice, DrPH - Assistant Dean, Master’s Programs and Assistant Professor, Public Health Leadership, UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health 
• Megan Simmons, MPA/JD - Director of Policy, National Birth Equity Collaborative, and Professor, Howard University

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DAY 2: BUILDING COMMUNITY RESILINECE: EFFECTIVE INTERVENTIONS
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CSEIP: Step by Step

• Karma Cottman, She/Her/Hers – Executive Director, Ujima Inc, The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community
• Meishka Mitchell, AICP, PP - President and CEO, Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC)

The Power of Healing: Supporting Children to Overcome Trauma

• Marleen Wong - CEO, Center for Safe and Resilient Schools and Workplaces 
• Comfort Dondo, MS - Founder Phumulani