2018 KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Rhodessa Jones
Rhodessa Jones is Co-Artistic Director of the acclaimed San Francisco performance company Cultural Odyssey. She is an actress, teacher, director, and writer. Ms. Jones is also the Director of the award winning Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women and HIV Circle, which is a performance workshop designed to achieve personal and social transformation with incarcerated women and women living with HIV. During the fall of 2017 and winter of 2018 Rhodessa was a Frank H. T. Rhodes Visiting Professor at CORNELL UNIVERSITY and a MONTGOMERY FELLOW at DARTMOUTH COLLEGE conducting lectures and workshops at these prestigious institutions. In December 2016 Rhodessa received a THEATRE BAY AREA LEGACY AWARD presented to individuals that have made “extraordinary contributions to the Bay Area theatre community.” In 2014 she received The Sui Generis Foundation Achievement Award for “one of a kind contributions which benefit society in unique ways.”
BREAKOUT SESSION SPEAKERS
Minouche Kandel, JD |
Evolve Benton, MA, MFA |
Minouche Kandel is the Women’s Policy Director at the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women (DOSW), where she helps to coordinate San Francisco’s response to domestic violence and human trafficking. Minouche staffs the San Francisco Mayor’s Task Force on Anti-Human Trafficking and the Family Violence Council. She helps craft human trafficking and domestic violence policies for San Francisco city departments, and develops trainings on domestic violence for city agency staff. Prior to working for the City, Minouche was a legal aid attorney for over 20 years, representing domestic violence survivors in family law, housing, public benefits, and immigration matters. Minouche got her B.A. from Yale University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.
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Evolve Benton (pronouns: they, them, theirs, or my name) is the Assistant Director to both the Multicultural and LGBT Resource Centers at UCSF. Evolve identifies as a black, queer, boi (born obviously incredible). Evolve is a prominent social & racial justice educator, writer, and consultant from Los Angeles, CA. Evolve was welcomed to the University of California, San Francisco family in October of 2015 where they has served as the Programming Manager for UCSF Student Life. Prior to working at UCSF, Evolve served as the Assistant Director at the University of California, Los Angeles LGBT Campus Resource Center. In this role, they worked to support the retention of LGBT students of color, served as a member of UCLA’s economic crisis response team, and provided leadership in the Center’s assessment and program review process.
Evolve earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Dillard University and a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology with a LGBT Specialization and Master of Fine Arts from Antioch University of Los Angeles. Find more of their work at evolvebenton.com |
Ivan Corado-VegaIvan M. Corado-Vega is with Five Keys Charter Schools and Programs and works in the Reentry Pod at County Jail 2 here in San Francisco. As an In Custody Case Manager he works to prepare men reentering the community by providing services in the "Five Keys" (Community, Family, Recovery, Employment, Education). He is trained as a Manalive™ Batterer Intervention Program facilitator, Thinking for a Change facilitator (T4C), Cognitive Behavior Intervention for Substance Abuse facilitator (CBISA) , youth developer, case manager and 12 step principal group leader. Ivan's work also includes community organizing with a focus on violence intervention with youth and young adults in San Francisco's Mission District. Patty BernePATRICIA BERNE is a Co-Founder, Executive and Artistic Director of Sins Invalid (www.sinsinvalid), a disability justice based performance project centralizing disabled artists of color and queer and gender non-conforming artists with disabilities. Berne’s training in clinical psychology focused on trauma and healing for survivors of interpersonal and state violence. Her professional background includes offering mental health support to survivors of violence and advocating for LGBTQI and disability perspectives within the field of reproductive genetic technologies. Berne's experiences as a Japanese-Haitian queer disabled woman provides grounding for her work creating “liberated zones” for marginalized voices. She is widely recognized for her work to establish the framework and practice of disability justice.
Denise Caramagno, MA, LMFTDenise Caramagno uses the pronouns she, her and hers. She serves as the confidential advocate and Director of Campus Advocacy, Resources, and Education (CARE) at UCSF. Caramagno is a licensed psychotherapist with a specialty in trauma. She has provided support to survivors of sexual assault and other interpersonal violence in various SF Bay Area settings including Office of the San Francisco District Attorney, Adult Protective Services, WOMAN Inc. and Bay Area Women Against Rape.
Camilla Fabersunne, MD, MPHCamila Cribb Fabersunne was born and raised in Dixon, California. She attended college at UC Santa Cruz, and graduate with a B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She went to medical school at Harvard Medical School, and received an MPH in Quantitative Methods from the Havard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Like Dannielle, she went to residency at UCSF Pediatrics' PLUS Program and is working as a chief resident at the UCSF Pediatrics Residency this year.
Anna Chodos, MD, MPHAnna is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and in Geriatrics. She directs the Outpatient Geriatrics Consult Clinic at ZSFG which provides e-advice and comprehensive geriatrics evaluations. She also directs the new Geriatrics-Neurology Cognitive Clinic, which provides an interprofessional team assessment of cognitive complaints and related care planning.
Chris Stewart, MD, MAChristopher C. Stewart, MD, MA, FAAP, Is a Professor of Pediatrics at UCSF, and board certified in child abuse pediatrics. Dr. Stewart received his MD degree from Harvard University and completed his residency training in pediatrics at UCSF. Dr. Stewart does child abuse consultations for San Francisco County hospitals, as well as consulta:on and testifying for San Francisco. Child Protective Services and the District Attorney’s office. Dr. Stewart runs a child abuse rotation for medical students, as well as residents. He has given numerous lectures and has administered training programs in child physical and sexual abuse in international settings, including training on forensic sexual abuse evalua:ons in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Kiara Lee, MSWKiara Lee, MSW, is a confidential advocate with more than 10 years of experience. Kiara currently works as a senior confidential advocate at the UC Berkeley PATH to Care Center, a campus-based prevention and survivor support program. Previously, Kiara worked as a confidential advocate and student care manager at the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to Kiara’s work in higher education, they worked as a shelter manager and advocate at a confidential, 50-bed shelter for survivors of violence in Raleigh, North Carolina. They have facilitated trainings for both community and university service providers on appropriate responses to disclosures of sexual and relationship violence as well as the effects of trauma on survivors. Kiara holds a bachelor's degree in Family Science from the University of Maryland, College Park and a master's degree in Social Work from the North Carolina State University. She also teaches and facilitates a variety of healing modalities including mindfulness practices, Reiki, The Resilience Toolkit, and more.
Danielle FasaniDanielle is a 4th year pharmacy student on clinical rotations at UCSF Fresno, and uses the pronouns she, her, and hers. Danielle represents the UCSF student body on the Title IX Student Advisory Board: a group of students from each UC campus that advises the Office of the President on revisions to the SVSH policy and procedures. She has participated in the Interpersonal Violence Prevention Conference in the past as a student panelist, and is passionate about elevating the voices of others in the community to enact meaningful change for survivors. Dannielle McBride, MDDannielle McBride was born and raised in Sacramento, Ca. She attended college at Sacramento City College and University of California, Berkeley where she graduated with a B.S. in Molecular Environmental Biology and a minor in African American Studies. She went to medical school at Johns Hopkins SOM and residency at the UCSF Pediatric PLUS Program. She is now working as a chief resident for the UCSF Pediatric Program.
Emberly Cross, MSWEmberly Cross has been the Coordinating Attorney at the Cooperative Restraining Order Clinic in San Francisco since 1996, helping survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking obtain restraining orders and child custody and support orders. Emberly served two terms on the California Judicial Council’s Family and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee and currently sits on the Administrative Office of the Court’s Violence Against Women Education Project Planning Committee. She obtained her law degree and her Master's of Social Work degree from the University of Michigan.
Becca Schwartz, LCSWRebecca Schwartz, LCSW is the HIVE Clinical Social Worker responsible for providing medical case management, psychosocial support, risk reduction counseling and linkage to mental health and substance use treatment to HIV positive women in and around pregnancy. Since 2005, Ms. Schwartz has provided these services to HIVE clients as well as practical help obtaining financial, nutritional and childcare. She interacts with HIVE patients and their family members in the Family HIV Clinic and Ward 86 to maintain their link with preconception, family planning, safer conception and pregnancy services. Ms. Schwartz is the primary HIVE contact developing and maintaining ties with community-based organizations, assuring rapid access for HIVE patients.
WC4BLWhiteCoats4BlackLives is a medical student-run organization born out of the National White Coat Die-In demonstrations that took place on December 10, 2014.
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