The DWC Team
Manny Brandt
Theo Brown
Dr. David Campt
Edmond J. Collier, II
Ngozi T. Robinson, MS
Kevin Michael Williams, M.D., M.B.A.
Manny has over a 30-year history of work
to build diverse systems and communities that are
safe, healthy, and filled with opportunities. He has
extensive experience in delivering consulting,
training and technical assistance and in respectful,
collaborative, and empowering ways to share practical
knowledge, skills, and experience with audiences from
a wide variety of occupational, economic, and cultural
backgrounds and from community, state, national or
multi-national settings. He has worked as a consultant
with the President's Initiative on Race and similar
national initiatives. His skills include organization,
program and community development, systems planning
and development, multicultural issues, network and
team-building, reengineering and facilitating change,
strategic planning and management, and substance abuse
prevention and treatment. He has developed extensive
experience with culturally and economically diverse
groups.
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Theo has more than 30 years of experience as an organizer, administrator, facilitator, mediator and trainer. His primary work has been with citizen organizations and other non-profit groups that work for human rights, racial reconciliation, international peace and social justice. Major national organizations he has worked for include: Amnesty International, Common Cause, Ground Zero, the Faith and Politics Institute, Academy for Educational Development and America Speaks. He has also served as a consultant to numerous government agencies including the U.S. State Department, the Center for Disease Control, the U. S. Navy, and NOAA. In 1985 he was one of the founders of Project Victory and worked for ten years as the Executive Director of that organization. He received his B.A. degree from Baylor University and has an M. Div. degree from the Duke University Divinity School.
Dr. Campt currently provides consultation about race relations and diversity issues with United States congressional representatives, the foundation community, and national community organizations. Before becoming a consultant, Dr. David Campt worked as a senior policy associate with the President' s Initiative on Race at the White House from September 1997 until the end of 1998. Dr. Campt's led an effort by the Initiative to bring together the best diversity trainers to produce a general-purpose guide for racial dialogue that was promoted by the President. In addition, Dr. Campt used his extensive background in program evaluation to design to criteria from which diversity efforts would be evaluated for potential recognition by the White House.
Before joining the Initiative, Dr. Campt completed his doctoral dissertation in City Planning at the University of California at Berkeley. His work focused on cultural competency, which concerns the challenges to institutions that attempt to become more reflective of the populations they serve. He has provided technical assistance to numerous state, county, and non-profit agencies interested in increasing their cultural competence. His co-authored article, "Cultural Competency in Human Service Systems" was the lead article in a monograph on cultural competency published by the Department of Health and Human Services' Abandoned Infant Assistance Resource Center.
In addition to his work as a program evaluator and trainer, Dr. Campt also has extensive experience as a dialogue facilitator and university lecturer.
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Ms. Ngozi T. Robinson is a program manager, facilitator and conflict resolution specialist who has worked extensively on issues relating to social justice, particularly race relations and cultural diversity.
She served as the Director of Health Disparities Initiatives at The Genetic Alliance. There she managed a large federally funded project and created and direct the organization’s burgeoning Health Disparities Initiatives, which oversaw all organizational activities and insured they meet the needs of underserved and underrepresented communities.
With the Network of Alliances Bridging Race and Ethnicity (NABRE) at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, she helped to build from the ground up a network for community based racial healing and youth-based organizations across the country and internationally. Evaluation, design and implementation, grant writing, programming, training, facilitation conflict resolution, and web site production were integral elements of her work.
As a consultant, Ngozi provide services in: conflict resolution & facilitation; non-profit program management; web production and graphic design. She focused on contracts to: develop and launch new programming; use her expertise in social justice and web-based technology; do significant research and writing; and use her advanced facilitation and conflict resolution skills. Ngozi has worked on projects for AARP Maryland, the National Conference for Community and Justice, The National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers, and numerous other national and community-based organizations.
She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity College in Washington, DC and has a Masters of Science degree from the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA.
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Kevin Michael Williams, M.D., M.B.A.
Dr. Williams is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist, personal career coach, business & political consultant, inventor with multiple U.S. patents, entrepreneur/business owner, and youth/adult entrepreneurship educator.
He is also a fun, “kid at heart”, supportive, "but stern when I have to be" father of two (Samantha 11 and Jacob 6) and a loving and faithful husband to his wife of 15 years (Dr. Judy Fentress-Williams Ph.D.; Prof. of Old Testament Studies).
He has a Princeton (Pre-med) undergraduate Psychology degree, Case Western for Medical School, Interned at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, completed his Psychiatric residency at the Yale Medical School affiliate “Connecticut Valley Psychiatric Hospital” and Child Psychiatry Fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center. In addition, he completed an Administrative Psychiatry one year fellowship while concurrently obtaining an MBA at Yale.
His Psychiatric practice, in Bethesda, Maryland, is associated with one of the premier Psychiatric firms in the nation's capital (Woodmont Psychiatric Group) where he works with families, individual men and woman of all ages, races and socioeconomic status.
In his capacity as a consultant to the National Fatherhood Initiative, he appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show in Oct. 2002 ("the secret thoughts of fathers" transcripts/tapes @ Oprah.com) to discuss his insights concerning the importance of fathers in the growth and development of boys as well as girls within families seeking success. He has co-founded two organizations and works with others to lecture on and study techniques to promote strong successful families and individuals. He believes that designing, creating, and maintaining an individual and family mindset for mutual success (seeking “win-win’s” for everyone) can easily extend to a small/large business and even governmental scale.
He is currently serving in a leadership position on the National board of a Congressional Subcommittee convened by Rep. Danny Davis of Chicago to highlight and replicate best practices in 5 major areas Education, Health Care, Spirituality, Entrepreneurship and Justice concerning Black Men titled "The State of the African American Male" (SAAM). Dr. Williams co-chairs the Entrepreneurship and the Web site committees.
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