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Appendix D: Speaker and Committee Biosketches
Appendix D: Speaker and Committee Biosketches
Pages 99-114
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Ittleson Award from the American Psychiatric Association, Catcher in the Rye Award from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Human Rights Award from the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health. He received an honorary doctorate of science from Emory University; the Community, Culture, and Prevention Science Award from the Society for Prevention Research; and the Judge Baker Children's Center World of Children Award.
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A member of the Hopi Tribe, Autumn has 38 years of local, national, and international American Indian advocacy and policy work experience and has presented at human rights forums at the United Nations in Geneva and New York. She has worked throughout the United States on issues of American Indian adult and juvenile justice, substance abuse prevention, restorative justice, and tribal youth mentoring programs.
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She is co-PI on a National Institute of Nursing Research grant to compare costs of two evidencebased parent interventions and was co-investigator on a community-based Head Start family and child behavioral health prevention intervention. She collaborated on community-based initiatives to support recruitment and parent education of African American parents participating in churchbased foster care for children with drug exposure and HIV infection in Tampa, Florida.
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She directs the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center, a program that S provides integrated medical care, sexual and reproductive health, mental health, dental, and optical services. Under her leadership it has become one of the largest adolescent-specific health centers in the country and is a major training site.
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Seema Gajwani, JD, is special counsel for juvenile justice reform at the O ffice of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, where she oversees juvenile justice reform initiatives focusing on diversion, estorative r justice, trauma services for victims of crime, and improved data collection and analysis. Prior to this position, she ran the Criminal Justice Program at the Public Welfare Foundation in Washington, D.C., funding efforts to improve criminal and juvenile justice systems across the country, with a focus on pretrial detention reform and improved prosecution decision aking.
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Her research examines cancer pain and symptom management, cancer prevention, early detection and control, and eliminating health disparities in American Indians and Alaska Natives in the Southwest and nationwide. Her work integrates traditional American Indian values with contemporary research methods to address health issues in underserved populations.
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She also works with the Division of Child, Adolescent and Family Services at the New York State Office of Mental Health as a research scientist. Prior to joining the NYU faculty, she was professor of clinical psychology at Columbia University and associate director for child and adolescent mental health research in the Office of the Director at the National Institute of Mental Health, where she directed the Child and Adolescent Services Research Program.
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She is also in the first cohort of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Clinical Scholars program, and the goal of her team project is to create a culture of mental health and healthy parenting in the Filipino community. Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD, is immediate past president of the American Public Health Association and senior fellow at the Satcher Health Leadership Institute and Cardiovascular Research Institute, orehouse M School of Medicine.
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Komro, MPH, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health where she has served as the director of graduation studies since 2016. Komro is a social and behavioral epidemiologist with experience evaluating effects of community and policy strategies to promote child and adolescent health and reduce health disparities.
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Daniela Lewy, EdLD, MPH, is executive director of the Virginia Governor's Children's Cabinet, working to align interagency state resources, policies, and programs to ensure Virginia's most vulnerable children and families can thrive. Prior to joining the Governor's Office, she was on the International Health faculty at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, working and teaching at the intersection of health, education, social services, and juvenile justice in the United States and throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
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She is past president of the Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice and member of a task force on integrated care for the Society of Pediatric Psychology. She led the planning of two national interdisciplinary summits on child mental health in 2009 and 2013, chairs the American Psychological Association Interdivisional Task Force for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, and chairs the Consortium for Science-Based Information on Children, Youth and Families.
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Prior to launching CYE, he was founding executive director of Urban Underground, a program that builds youth leadership through grassroots community organizing and civic engagement. He has also worked as national director of youth activism for the American Legacy Foundation in Washington, D.C., and volunteers with several local and national organizations, including the Milwaukee Public Schools Foundation and National Youth Alliance for Boys and Men of Color.
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Nationally, she is project director for the Cooperative Extension System–Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Partnership for Healthy Communities, cochair of the Centers for Community Engagement at UD, and past chair of the Extension Committee of Organization and Policy, and she completed training as a fellow in the Food System Leader ship Institute. Scholarly interests include developing high-performance teams, operational outreach partnerships, evaluation competencies, leadership and change theory, incorporation of technology as a delivery method, and strategies for building healthy communities.
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Sebian, MSEd, is a public health adviser in the Center for Mental Health Services at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. She aims to advance policies and practices for healthy communities, families, and children, and her work provides a public health approach to children's mental and behavioral health.
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As PI of the Florida Node Alliance of the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network, he is translating treatment research into clinical practice throughout Florida and in Colorado, North Carolina, and Puerto Rico. He also developed an interdisciplinary program of research on the relationship between the built environment, behavior, psychological functioning, social processes, biomedical mediators, and physical health outcomes.
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Deborah Klein Walker, EdD, is president of the Global Alliance for B ehavioral Health and Social Justice (formerly the American Ortho psychiatric Association) and a former president of the American Public Health Association and the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs.
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