Conferences
2007: Mobilizing to End Domestic Violence in the
African American Community: A Contract for Change

Steering Committee Faculty

Dr. Linner Ward Griffin
Robert Hampton
Shelia Hankins
Esther Jenkins

Dr. Linner Ward
Griffin

Professor, School of
Social Work &
Interim Associate
Vice Chancellor
Academic Programs
East Carolina
University

Robert Hampton
Provost/Executive Vice President
Tennessee State
University

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

Esther Jenkins
Professor of
Psychology
Chicago State
University

William Oliver
Beth E. Richie, Ph.D.
Joyce Thomas,R.N., M.P.H., P.N.P
Antonia A. Vann

William Oliver
Associate Professor
Department
Criminal Justice
Indiana University

Beth E. Richie,
Ph.D.

Professor, Criminal
Justice Department
and Women's
Studies Program
University of Illinois
at Chicago

Joyce Thomas,
R.N., M.P.H., P.N.P

President and Co-
Founder Center
Child Protection and
Family Support

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

Oliver J. Williams , Ph.D.

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

Other Faculty

Leah Alkridge
Ted Bunch
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
Vickii Coffey

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
Warren Edwards
Gail Garfield
Joleen Jones

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

Joleen Jones
Domestic Violence,
Anger Management,
and Violence
Prevention Counselor
African American
Family Services

Adrienne LaMar
Charles Chuck McDew
Anne Menard
Reverend Al Miles

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

Ben Owens
Ellen Pence
Marcus Pope
Tiombe Preston

Ben Owens
Cease Fire
Committee of Los
Angeles

Ellen Pence
Founder
Domestic Abuse
Intervention Project
(DAIP)

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
Johnny Rice II
Ruth Slaughter
V.J. Smith

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

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

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

Tommy Walker
Rev. Mary Walton , MSW, M.Div.
Joseph White, Ph.D.
Gail Elizabeth Wyatt, Ph.D.

Tommy Walker
Cease Fire
Committee of Los
Angeles

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

Gail Elizabeth
Wyatt, Ph.D.

Professor of
Psychiatry and
Behavioral Science,
UCLA
Associate Director
of the UCLA AIDS
Institute