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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Presenters and Planning Committee Members
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Presenters and Planning Committee Members
Pages 57-64
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in zoology from Howard University, a medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine, and a master's in health science focusing on mental health in 2002 from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Kawanza Billy is the program manager of the Black Swan Academy.
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At FrameWorks, he works with a multidisciplinary team of social scientists and communications practitioners who investigate ways to apply innovative framing research methods to social issues and train nonprofit organizations to put the findings into practice. Prior to working at FrameWorks, his past research focused on emotional, cognitive, and neurobiological mechanisms that underlie the association between early adversity and childhood and adolescent mental disorders.
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With coaching from the Future Project, he launched the Detroit Flutter Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting youth and young adults experiencing loss and grief by teaching them coping skills, raising awareness about teen suicide prevention, mental health, and creating a safe space to share stories of traumatic events.
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She is currently the study director for the Committee on Applying Lessons of Optimal Adolescent Health to Improve Behavioral Outcomes for Youth. Before joining the National Academies, Kahn worked as a social research specialist with the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she collaborated on research projects focused on postsecondary educational attainment, adolescent sexuality, and childhood and adolescent precursors of adult chronic disease.
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Santos' research draws on diverse disciplines, theories, and methods to better understand the implications for development and well-being stemming from overlapping oppressions such as racism and heterosexism that create unique conditions shaped by individual social contexts. He is interested in how individuals cope with these overlapping stressors through attitudes produced by belonging to different social groups (such as having pride in one's ethnic, racial, or sexual identity group)
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is the current president of the Global Alliance for Behavioral Health and Social Justice (formerly the American Orthopsychiatric Association) and a former president of the American Public Health Association and the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs.
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Previously, Zimmerman was director of family services for Acelero Learning Head Start centers in North Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey. In philanthropy, Francie established and operated the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's Child Abuse Prevention Program, making grants to national nonprofit organizations for over a decade.
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