Dr. Denese Shervington has an intersectional career in public health and academic psychiatry. She is the President of The Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies (IWES), a community-based translational public health institute in New Orleans. She is also the Chair of Psychiatry at Charles R. Drew University. Dr. Shervington has held Clinical Professorships in the Departments of Psychiatry at Columbia University and Tulane University. A graduate of New York University School of Medicine, she also received a Masters of Public Health in Population Studies and Family Planning from Tulane University School of Public Health. She completed her residency in Psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco and is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. A Fellow of the American Psychiatry Association, in 2018 she received the Award for Excellence in Service and Advocacy; prior to which she received the Jeanne Spurlock Minority award. Dr. Shervington is also a member of the American College of Psychiatrists. In July 2019, Dr. Shervington testified before the Congress of the United States House of Representatives’ Committee on Oversight and Reform on Childhood Trauma. She also co-chairs the New Orleans City Council (R-18-344) Children Youth Planning Board Taskforce on Childhood Trauma. She has authored several papers in peer-reviewed journals addressing health disparities, the social determinants of health and resilience in underserved communities. Her recent publication is Healing Is the Revolution, a guide to healing from historical, intergenerational, interpersonal and community trauma. She also hosts a podcast on trauma. She is the proud parent of two amazing children, Kaleb and Iman, and grandchildren Ayelet and Haddassah.

Email: dshervington@iwesnola.org

CEO, Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies

Email: lrich@iwesnola.org

Chief Communications Officer American Civil Liberties Union

Michele Moore is a corporate and brand communications professional with 25 years managing communications and marketing operations for Fortune 500 corporations, media, government, and non-profit entities. Her experience across multiple industries in strategic and crisis communications, media relations, brand marketing, public affairs and corporate philanthropy stem from her senior roles spearheading communications and marketing departments at Nickelodeon, BET, the National Urban League, Temple University, and Lifetime Networks. She is currently the Chief Communications Officer for the National office of the American Civil Liberties Union. Moore earned her law degree at Howard University and B.A. in Communications at UCLA.

Vice Dean for Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Professor of Sociology and Epidemiology, King’s College London

Dr. Hatch is a social epidemiologist in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. She earned her PhD at the University of Maryland, College Park and was a former faculty member in the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University. She is a principal and co-investigator on several community research projects, including the social inequalities strand of the UK National Institute for Health Research funded by the Mental Health Biomedical Research Centre, South East London Community Health Study. Dr. Hatch is also the co-founder of the Health Inequalities Research Network, a partner with IWES on US-UK comparative studies.

To find out more about Dr. Stephani Hatch’s, check out her blog post titled Diversity is your bare minimum; don’t even come to me until you’ve got that sorted.

Law Clerk Chambers of Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Bernette J. Johnson

Kandice earned her undergraduate degree in Marketing at the University of Miami. She joined IWES in 2008 as an Administrative/Program Assistant of the Sexual and Reproductive Health Advocacy Project until enrolling at Loyola University New Orleans’ College of Law. She worked as a research assistant for the Henry F. Bonura, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law, Ms. Jeanne M. Woods, on human rights and international law publications. Upon graduating from Loyola Law in 2012 with a Certificate in International Law, Kandice joined a private practice law firm and now works as a research attorney at the Louisiana Supreme Court.

Associate Professor, Department of Health Studies Pace University

Dr. Gollub is an internationally recognized researcher and expert in the area of women-initiated HIV/STI prevention and advocacy aimed at expanding health education for women and girls. She Dr. Gollub has served on both national and international health and regulatory advisory boards and has published and presented widely on her work. She has served in multiple advisory capacities globally, including: Expert Group on Prevention of HIV in Women at the French Health Ministry, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Advisory Meeting on Improving Acceptability Research, and the World AIDS Congress in Durban, South Africa.

Dr. Peprah is a global health researcher and program implementor with a background in Anthropology and Epidemiology. Her areas of expertise/interest are social and behavioral change interventions; vaccination; WASH, community-based prevention and response to infectious disease outbreaks and emerging infectious diseases, and health systems strengthening in contexts of political transition and fragile states. Dorothy has worked with a variety of INGOs, academic institutions such as the International Rescue Committee (IRC), BBC Media Action and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) to deliver programs and conduct research in East Africa and Southeast Asia. She has lived in South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Ghana and the United Kingdom. Dorothy currently works for USAID as a Senior Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) Advisor.