Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Prior to joining Drexel University, Rich served as the medical director of the Boston Public Health Commission. As a primary care doctor at Boston Medical Center, Rich created the Young Men’s Health Clinic and initiated the Boston HealthCREW, a program to train inner city young men to become peer health educators who focus on the health of men and boys in their communities.

He earned his Dartmouth A.B. degree in English, his M.D. from Duke University Medical School, and his Master’s from the Harvard School of Public Health. He completed his internship and residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital and was a fellow in general internal medicine at Harvard Medical School. He received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Dartmouth in 2007 and now serves on its Board of Trustees. In 2009, Rich was inducted into the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. His recently published book about urban violence, Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men, has drawn critical acclaim.

Rothman worked for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health from 1997 to 2004 in the Bureau of Family and Community Health, Department of Violence and Injury Prevention. She has authored more than 30 chapters and other publications. Her current research interests include violence perpetration and adolescent health.  She is currently the recipient of a K01 from NIAAA to study underage alcohol use and dating abuse perpetration. She is also the empowerment evaluator on three violence prevention projects; a CDC-funded project to develop a statewide prevention plan for sexual assault in Massachusetts and domestic violence in Rhode Island (EMPOWER and DELTA); and a project to reduce homelessness in Worcester County funded by the Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts. She is a research advisor to the Massachusetts Governor's Council to Address Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence. She has provided violence-related consulting to the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Her research has been featured by NPR, USA Today, Newsweek.com, and The Boston Globe among others.

His responsibilities include mentoring, court advocacy, and developing programming to promote rehabilitation services in the Latino community. He gives workshops on violence prevention, gang awareness, conflict resolution, and issues of juvenile justice. In addition to his work with CeaseFire, Bocanegra is an accomplished artist and participates in various arts initiatives within the Latino community. He also volunteers with Urban Life Skills, a mentoring program for high-risk youth. Bocanegra is currently completing his degree in social work at Northeastern Illinois University and plans to pursue a doctorate.

Anda graduated from Rush Medical College in 1979 and received his Board Certification in Internal Medicine in 1982. In 1984 he completed a Fellowship in Preventive Medicine at the University of Wisconsin where he also received a Master's Degree in Epidemiology. He spent 20 years in the U.S. Public Health Service at the C.D.C. conducting research in a variety of areas including disease surveillance, behavioral health, mental health and disease, cardiovascular disease investigations, and childhood determinants of health. Anda has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications as well as numerous government publications and has authored several book chapters. In addition, he has received numerous awards and recognition for scientific achievements.

Estrin attended Hampshire College and the graduate program at the International Center of Photography. He was a staff photographer at The Jackson Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi from 1981 to 1983 and then worked in Washington and New York City.

As a teenager, Ortiz's love of photography led him to work at a traveling carnival to save money for photography equipment and college tuition. Later, he attended Columbia College in Chicago, where he studied photojournalism. Following college, Carlos Javier was a staff photographer for Chicago In The Year 2000, a yearlong project documenting the city and its inhabitants.

In 2009 he won the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights: Domestic Photography award for “Too Young To Die.” He has also been a finalist for the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography and the Alexia Foundation professional grant. He was named the 2008 Illinois Press Photographer Association Photographer of the Year and has also won the Peter Lisagor Award for Photojournalism. In 2010 Ortiz was selected to be part of Facing Change: Documenting America (FCDA), a non-profit collective of acclaimed photographers and writers that will cover under-reported aspects of America’s most urgent issues and distribute the work through innovative online platforms.

His work has appeared in Ebony Magazine, Newsweek, Washington Post, The New York Times, TIME Magazine, NPR, Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ) The Guardian, Stern Magazine, the Biography Channel and other publications.

Thomas has been a visiting professor at CCA and in the MFA programs at Maryland Institute College of Art and ICP/Bard and has lectured at Yale University, Princeton University, the Birmingham Museum of Art and the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris.  His work has been featured in many publications including Reflections in Black,  25 under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers and 30 Americans.  Thomas’ monograph, Pitch Blackness, was published by Aperture in 2008.  

Thomas received a new media fellowship through the Tribeca Film Institute and was an artist in residence at John Hopkins University. He has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the U.S. and abroad including Galerie Anne De Villepoix in Paris, the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg, the Studio Museum in Harlem, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford. Thomas’ work is in numerous public collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Museum of Fine Art in Houston. His collaborative projects have been featured at the Sundance Film Festival and installed publicly at the Oakland International Airport, The Oakland Museum of California and the University of California, San Francisco. Recent exhibitions include Dress Codes: The International Center for Photography’s Triennial of Photography and Video, Greater New York at P.S. 1/MoMa, Contact Toronto Photography Festival and Houston Fotofest. Thomas is currently a fellow at the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University. Thomas is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City.

Franklin has also worked for the Detroit Free Press, the Philadelphia Bulletin, the Miami Herald and the Washington Daily News. He has also reported from Central and Latin America. He was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize, and a series of his articles were among the top investigative stories cited by the Society of Business Editors and Writers in 2007. He has trained Egyptian journalists for the International Center for Journalists and for the Cairo-based Media Development Program. A former Studs Terkel award winner with the Workshop, he has been the Workshop’s ethnic news media director since 2009.

In Ginsburg’s adolescent medicine practice, he cares for a wide variety of medical conditions, while simultaneously addressing adolescent behavioral issues. He practices social adolescent medicine — medicine with special attention to prevention and the recognition that social context and stressors affect both physical and emotional health.

His research over the last two decades has focused on facilitating youth to develop their own solutions to social problems and to teach clinicians how to better serve them. He co-developed the Teen-Centered Method, a mixed qualitative/quantitative methodology that enables youth to generate, prioritize and explain their own ideas. Ginsburg has produced nearly 100 publications, including 24 original research articles, clinical practice articles, four books, and internet-based and video/DVD productions for clinicians, parents and teens. His most recent books are Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots and Wings and Letting Go with Love and Confidence: Raising Responsible, Resilient, Self-Sufficient Teens. He has received numerous awards for his work including The Young Investigator Award, The Lindback Award for distinguished teaching from The University of Pennsylvania, and The Humanism in Medicine Award given to the Penn faculty member who “demonstrates the highest standards of compassion and empathy in the delivery of care to patients.” He has been named one of Philadelphia magazine’s “Top Docs” seven times.

Slutkin is a physician trained in medicine, infectious disease control and reversing epidemics. In the early 1980s, Slutkin ran the Tuberculosis Program for the city of San Francisco when an epidemic of tuberculosis was occurring related to an influx of Vietnamese refugees. This effort increased the cure rate from 50% to 95%, dropped TB cases by over 50% and prevented a large scale epidemic of drug-resistant tuberculosis seen in several other cities throughout the country. Slutkin left San Francisco to move to Somalia where he worked on cholera and tuberculosis epidemics in refugees; and became assistant to the Director of Primary Health Care for the country. From Somalia, Slutkin was recruited by the World Health Organization Global Program on AIDS where he was assigned responsibility for supporting the Uganda AIDS epidemic. Uganda became the only country in Africa where the AIDS epidemic has been reversed. He also was responsible for developing the evaluation methods for measuring the spread of AIDS and documenting results, which are now used by over 90 countries.

In 1995, Slutkin requested leave from WHO to return to the U.S. to work on the violence epidemic in the U.S. He began this work with a 6 month period in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health in 1994, and since 1995 has been working with Chicago leaders, clergy, community, and law enforcement to develop and implement a new strategy for violence reduction.

The first results of CeaseFire, an initiative of the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention, show an average of 45% reduction in shootings in the five neighborhoods. Some neighborhoods are showing up to 67% reductions. Project methods focus heavily on outreach workers hired from the community, clergy outreach, public education and community responses all working toward changing norms and expectations and to provide realistic alternatives.

Burley is a founding chairperson of the Philadelphia Youth Commission, the only Philadelphia city agency operated by young people. She has served as the 2010 city council appointee to the Philadelphia Police Advisory Commission, 2010 Governor’s Appointee to the Committee on Children and Families, 2010 chairperson for the Philadelphia Youth Commission, director of community affairs for Temple Student Government, vice president of the Septa Youth Advisory Council and director of marketing for the International Student Association. Burley is the co-host of the radio show, “My Voice” on WURD 900AM Philadelphia, where she interviews elected officials and community leaders. Burley is also the youngest salaried employee of the School District of Philadelphia where she works as the Student Leadership Coordinator creating leadership opportunities for high school students. In 2011, the Philadelphia Daily News recognized Burley as one of top ten up and comers Philadelphians.

Burley is the first of 16 children, to graduate high school and to go to college. In her senior year at Temple University, Burley is majoring in International Business, Legal Studies with a minor in Chinese.

Along with the criminal defense attorney, Tariq El-Shabazz, she is also the host of “The Pulse,” a weekly morning magazine segment on WURD 900-AM in Philadelphia. Davis Bellamy received her J.D. from Temple University School of Law and her Master’s from the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications from Johnson C. Smith University.
 

Her photographs have been widely exhibited and appeared in news and arts publications including: The New York Times Magazine, Life, Mother Jones, DoubleTake and Aperture. 

She is recipient of an Emmy award, the Dorothea Lange Prize, The Alicia Patterson Fellowship, the Mother Jones International Photo Fund Award, the Soros Independent Project fellowship and most recently a Fulbright Fellowship in Colombia. De Cesare is currently documenting narratives of loss and survival among those who have suffered paramilitary violence in Colombia. Images and text from this project published on the Web site Crimes of War won a top award in the National Press Photographer’s Best of Photojournalism contest. Since the New York opening of her 2006 exhibition Sharing Secrets it has traveled to Washington DC, Korea, Poland and China.

Gillison is a native Philadelphian. He grew up in West Philadelphia and graduated from University City High School. He received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and his J.D. from Syracuse College of Law. He served as a social worker at the Defenders Association of Philadelphia from 1977 to 1982. Gillison frequently lectures on trial tactics at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute as well as Temple University School of Law. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Philadelphia Bar Association, and the Barristers Association of Philadelphia.

In 1970 Moore won the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Scale of Justice Award for his series on the juvenile court system; in 1971, he won the Public Service Award from the Society of Professional Journalism and in 1974 he won an award from the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors Association. In 1974, Moore and Reggie Bryant hosted a television show called Black Perspectives on the News on WHYY public television. In 1977, Moore won the Pulitzer Prize for local investigative reporting for his series on abuse of inmates at Fairview State Hospital. In 1979 he established the Art Peters Fellowship Program, a copy editor internship that has launched the careers of 50 minority journalists. From 1980 to 1989 he served on the faculty at the University of California Berkeley for the school's summer program for minority journalists. In 1984 Moore created the Journalism Career Development Workshop that has trained dozens of Philadelphia high school students. The program is now named in Moore's honor. After his retirement in 2005, Moore continued to write for the Inquirer about local and national issues and how they affect the common man.

Moore has also worked as a journalism instructor at Temple University and Florida A&M University in addition to being a journalism consultant to Northwestern University, Duquesne University, University of Kansas Norfolk State University. A founder of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) in 1975, Moore was honored with the NABJ Legacy Award in 2005.

Prior to joining Philadelphia CeaseFire, Jones had been working with local ex-offenders committed to educating at-risk youth about making good decisions. In February 2011, he helped construct a make-shift prison cell in a vacant lot in North Philadelphia to offer young people a firsthand look at incarceration. This initiative, called the “28-Day Prison & Death Fast” reached over 3,000 families. He also worked on the "ban the box" legislation with City Councilwoman Donna Reed Miller which gives ex-offenders a fair chance of employment by not requiring disclosure of a prior arrest on an employment application.

Jones is a graduate of North Penn High School in Lansdale, PA and the father of two. He has dedicated his life to Christ and intends to further his education at Temple while continuing to help young people stay on the right path.

In 2006, Dr. Corbin was recognized by the Philadelphia Business Journal as one of the “Forty Under Forty” for his work in youth violence. In 2005, he was awarded a Soros Physician Advocacy Fellowship. Corbin is a graduate of Lincoln University in Lincoln, PA. He taught Biology at a New York Public High School for two years. He completed his medical degree at the Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA and then completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C. Corbin is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine and was recently appointed as the Director of Drexel's MD/MPH program. Corbin received his Master’s in Public Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.

In 2005, Bloom partnered with Andrus Children’s Center to establish the Sanctuary Institute
to train a wide variety of human service delivery programs in the Sanctuary model, a trauma-informed approach to organizational change. She currently serves as distinguished fellow of Andrus Children’s Center and has developed over 100 programs nationally and internationally in adopting the Sanctuary model. These programs include residential settings for children, group homes, schools, substance abuse programs, shelters, outpatient facilities, child welfare agencies and juvenile justice programs. Bloom is a past president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. A new book, co-authored with Brian Farragher, chief operating officer at Andrus Children’s Center, is Destroying Sanctuary: The Crisis in Human Service Delivery, published by Oxford University Press in 2010. The third volume of the series, Restoring Sanctuary: A New Operating System for Organizations, will be published this year.