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Cultural Diversity Resources
Diversity Conference
August 12th 2008
BIOGRAPHIES OF PRESENTERS |
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Young Chung-Hall - Certified Diversity Professional
Principal - Otherwise-Solutions
Washington, DC
Consultant, Presenter on Diversity topics and issues
Graduate of first-offered Diversity Management Certificate Program
Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Ph: 240-429-9261 Email: chunghall@other-wise-solutions.com
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Young Chung-Hall, an immigrant from South Korea, started her government service in 1988 with the United States Postal Service (USPS). In 1997, she began her career in diversity at the USPS Capital District, and later at the Northern Virginia District. In 2001, she was promoted to the Office of Diversity Development at USPS National Headquarters, Washington, DC, as a diversity development specialist. Young has extensive diversity training and received certification in 2004 as the first diversity professional (CDP) to graduate from the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
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One of Young Chung-Hall’s major accomplishments at the USPS was establishing the Video Remote Interpreting Service (VRI) and Video Relay Service (VRS) at 52 major postal facilities throughout the United States. These services are used for training and improving day to day communications between deaf and hard of hearing employees and their superiors and coworkers.
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Young’s various assignments in diversity management included providing EEOC MD-715 training and technical guidance to over 120 field diversity professionals. Annually, she reviewed and coordinated EEOC MD-715 reports from the field offices and prepared the Headquarters and National report. Young has also served as team leader of the Special Emphasis and People with Disabilities Program and developed USPS national training programs on Disability Awareness and Diversity for Human Resource. She also serves as a liaison with USPS legal counsel on diversity related cases.
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Young transferred from the Postal Service to the Internal Revenue Service, EEO and Diversity office, National Headquarters in May 2007. As senior EEO Specialist in IRS, Young provides direction and guidance in preparation of the Annual EEO Program Status (MD-715) Report; she also measures progress and makes recommendations to the business division EEO and Diversity professionals. She lives in Montgomery County with her husband and enjoys international travel and herb gardening. |
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Yoke Sim Gunaratne, Diversity Consultant & Trainer
Executive Director,
Cultural Diversity Resources
Fargo, ND
Masters Degree in Sociology
Certified Human Resources Professional
Fargo Human Relations Commissioner
Ph: 701-526-3000 Email: ysg@culturaldiversityresources.org
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Yoke Sim Gunaratne is the Executive Director of Cultural Diversity Resources (CDR) since its inception in 1994. CDR is a 501 (c ) 3 tax exempt nonprofit whose mission is to ‘build communities that value diversity’ in Cass County, North Dakota and Clay County, Minnesota. In her current job, she works with refugees, immigrants and minority individuals from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Programs developed during her time include: diversity training, multi-ethnic leadership development, multi media project using community access cable, computer and financial literacy and employment training through the Education & Development Center and various cultural events. Prior to working at CDR, she was the refugee resettlement manager for Lutheran Social Services of ND. During her five years at LSS, she did case management and job development in addition to being a supervisor for all case managers statewide in Fargo, Bismarck, Grandforks and Wahpeton. She has worked with refugees from Vietnam, Kurdistan, Iran, Russia, Armenia, Somali, Sudan, Liberia, Haiti, Burundi, and Bosnia. Yoke Sim was a community development officer at North Dakota State University’s International Office where she coordinated programs for international students and scholars. It was during her two year term at NDSU that she helped to establish the Tricollege welcome picnic for international students and the host family exchange program.
Ms. Gunaratne received her Bachelor of Social Sciences from Science University of Malaysia. She has a Masters of Arts degree in Sociology from University of Queensland in Australia and was a part-time instructor at University of Central Queensland in Rockhampton, Australia.
Ms. Gunaratne has more than 20 years of experience working and presenting on nonprofit and diversity issues. She is certified as a Professional in Human Resources (PHR). She is trained in ‘Seeking Educational Equity & Diversity (SEED) curriculum for teachers and has facilitated SEED seminars for both Moorhead and Fargo School District for more than fourteen years. She was recently appointed as one of three co-directors for the SEED Project to further nurture the growth of SEED seminars for teachers statewide in Minnesota and North Dakota. Ms. Gunaratne is trained in dismantling racism as well as many diversity topics including workplace and community diversity through various conferences and workshops. Her clientele for diversity training and consultation ranges from businesses (e.g. Microsoft, Aggregate Industries, Cargil, Case New Holland, Polaris, Sam’s Club ), nonprofits (e.g. Dakota Boys & Girls Ranch, Girl & Boy Scouts, Village Family Service Center ), governmental entities (e.g. Cass and Clay Counties ), TriCollege (e.g. Concordia College, MSUM, NDSU, MSCTC ) to Associations such as the National Women’s Council in Washington D.C., and Fargo Moorhead Human Resources Association. In addition, she is trained as a facilitator through West Central Initiative Community Foundation.
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Haseena Hamzawala, Multicultural Curriculum Development
Teacher, Saint Paul Academy and Summit School,
St Paul. Minnesota
Ph: 651-353-7740 Email: hhamzawala@spa.edu
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Haseena draws on a diverse background in the field of education in her work as an education consultant. She has worked with schools around the country on multicultural, social justice curriculum development, diversity and community assessment, and progressive strategies for building equitable curricula and pedagogies. After receiving her teaching license in Communication Arts and Literature, she designed curriculum and taught Language Arts at Mounds Park Academy, a progressive college preparatory school. She then spent two years in the Philippines as part of the United States Peace Corps, conducting workshops for educators on TOEFL, creative writing, environmental education and related topics.
Haseena has recently worked in the district office of the Anoka Hennepin Independent School District, where she served as the Multicultural Teaching and Learning Specialist, providing district wide leadership on equity and diversity staff development, identifying and implementing best practices in multicultural curriculum and pedagogy and promoting equity and social justice. She then taught at risk and adjudicated youth at Summit Academy OIC in Minneapolis. She currently teaches upper school English and advises service learning at Saint Paul Academy and Summit School in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Catherine Kinney, Principal, Otherwise Solutions
Washington, DC
Consultant, Presenter on Diversity topics and issues
Current HR Professional at USPS
Former Manager, National Women's Program, USPS
Career Development Facilitation accreditation program
Phone: 240-429-9261 Email: kinney1@other-wise-solutions.com
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Higher education has shaped Cate’s career in susprising ways. She graduated from an all-women’s college with a degree in Philosophy and no career counseling. Through Kelly Girls, she became a most philosophical typist. By pure luck, she eventually learned of PRODUCT DESIGN. As combination of creativity and technology, it suited her perfectly. She was unaware of its original focus and name…AUTOMOBILE DESIGN. In the graduate program at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), she found she was one of only two women inn the undergraduate/graduate programs.
Post IIT and Pre-PC, she launched a career of computer-based product development, by which she generally found herself embedded with programming squads as the only non-programmer and only woman. Professional survival instinct caused her to develop fluency in understanding and communicating with them. This ability has become a hallmark to her career…translating between tech and management, content owners, and designers, and etc. Over time, she recognized that much broader translation needs exist amongst a variety of functional areas within most companies. From that point forward, Cate and her career would always migrate to these cross-functional intersections.
In 1994, she was recruited from a Chicago-based phone company to an executive position at Postal Headquarters in Washington DC. Her original assignment was to ‘translate postal strengths as they would exist in an electronic world ‘in case this internet thing actually takes off.’
2003 and many positions later, Cate assumed the position of National Women’s Program Manager (NWPM) in Diversity Development in Human Resources. She researched and reported both internally and externally on the state of women’s opportunity and participation as members of the world’s second largest workforce. To address challenges, she devised first strategies then programs to be implemented by a far flung team of close to 200 field representatives. She brought attention to these programs by visiting and speaking at local events. Externally, she represented the programs and US Postal Service with a variety of Associations. During her NWPM tenure, Cate completed curricula in Introductory and Advanced Special Emphasis Leadership. As well, she completed coursework for Career Development Facilitation Certification.
After 3 years, she left the NWPM position and has continued in a variety of postal positions since then. In 2008, she and her knowledgeable postal colleague, Young Chung-Hall launched their diversity training and consulting business.
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Cornelius Eason
Cornelius is President and owner of Priority Staffing USA in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Ph: 702-734-2500
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The firm provides temporary staffing, contract professionals and executive search services. Cornelius is past President of the Nevada Staffing Association and chaired the American Staffing Association convention committee in 2006. Cornelius is also actively involved with the following: Executive Committee of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce, Member of the Southern Nevada Workforce Investment Board, Treasurer of the Board of Trustees for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Las Vegas and, the Executive Board of Directors of the National Association of Minority Contractors.
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Pierre Atilio,
Program Coordinator
Cultural Diversity Resources
Fargo, ND
Master of Business Administration
Formerly: International Rescue Committee under the consortium of the United Nations: Emergency Coordinator for war-torn areas of Africa
Phone: 701-526-3000, Email: PAtilio@culturaldiversityresources.org
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Pierre Atilio is originally from Sudan, resettled to United States in September 2003 from Nairobi-Kenya in East Africa. Before resettling to United States, Pierre Atilio had worked with International Rescue Committee under the consortium of United Nations serving as an Emergency Coordinator for war-torn areas. Pierre had travelled extensively to Europe for project-follow-ups and management.
Education Background
Pierre Atilio is currently a candidate for a PH.D in the field of General Human Services (Concentration in Healthcare Administration). Pierre Atilio is writing his dissertation entitled, “Phenomenological Research: A study of Workplace Diversity and Culturally Competent Care”. The purpose of the proposed study is to examine the cultural and language competencies of Healthcare Administrators in the healthcare delivery to the ethnic minorities in Fargo, North Dakota State. Pierre Atilio has Master of Business Administration and Management from University of Mary (North Dakota State), a Post Graduate-Diploma in planning and management of the development projects and a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Social Sciences with specialization in political science (Catholic University of Eastern Africa - Nairobi-Kenya).
Program Coordinator (Cultural Diversity Resources)
Currently, Pierre works as the program coordinator for Cultural Diversity Resources for the last four years. Pierre Atilio supervises, oversees and evaluates all the ethnic community connectors’ voluntary work. Pierre Atilio develops and organizes multi-ethnic capacity building programs, financial literacy, diversity training and mentorship opportunities for greater community participation in community development projects.
Health Mentor (The Family HealthCare Center)
Pierre Atilio has also worked as a Health Mentor for the last three years with the Family Healthcare Center. As a Health Mentor, Pierre Atilio has wide-ranging home-visits for newly-arrived refugees in Fargo-Moorhead Area. Pierre conducts Health Risk Assessment Tool for the refugees, educates the refugees on basic hygienic-related matters and shares the “Healthy Roads Media Project” with the ethnic population.
Organizational Involvement
Pierre Atilio serves as:
A member of the Board of Directors for Metro Youth Partnership (Healthy Communities Partnership)
Chairman of Multicultural Parent Teachers Association (MPTA) for Fargo, North Dakota State
Legal Services of North Dakota – Committee Member
Former President and now serving as a Board-member for Otuho Community of North America (NACO), a local and international organization, which covers United States, Canada and globally (www.otuhogroup.org)
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Cultural Diversity Resources
Diversity Conference
August 12, 2008
SPEAKERS
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Cornelius Eason is the President and owner of Priority Staffing USA in Las Vegas, Nevada. The firm provides temporary staffing, contract professionals and executive search services. Cornelius is past President of the Nevada Staffing Association and chaired the American Staffing Association convention committee in 2006. Cornelius is also actively involved with the following: Executive Committee of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce, Member of the Southern Nevada Workforce Investment Board, Treasurer of the Board of Trustees for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Las Vegas and, the Executive Board of Directors of the National Association of Minority Contractors. |
Doug Burgum, former senior vice president of Microsoft Corporation, has brought innovative products and services to the worldwide market through his leadership of professionals from diverse corporate and cultural backgrounds.
Before joining Microsoft, Mr. Burgum was chairman and CEO of Great Plains Software, Inc. He literally “bet the family farm” when he joined a startup called Great Plains Software in Fargo in 1983. Under his leadership, Great Plains grew to a publicly-traded, global corporation with 2000 team members and over 10,000 reselling partners serving customers in 132 countries.
In 2001 Great Plains was acquired by Microsoft Corporation for $1.1 billion.
An Arthur, ND native, Burgum earned his undergraduate degree from NDSU in 1978 and his MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 1980. From 1980 to 1983, Burgum was a consultant at McKinsey & Co. in Chicago. He received honorary doctorate degrees from NDSU and the University of Mary in 2000 and 2006 respectively.
Mr. Burgum has established the Doug Burgum Family Fund, which focuses its charitable giving on youth and education. He currently serves on the advisory council for the Stanford Graduate School of Business; on the Board of Directors for SuccessFactors, Inc., (NASDAQ: SFSF) and Arthur Companies, Inc (a privately-held diversified agribusiness); and is an investment partner with Arthur Ventures. In 2006, he founded the Kilbourne Group whose mission is to save and restore historic buildings with green initiatives in downtown Fargo. He lives near Fargo, North Dakota, with his three children. |
Lewis Brown Griggs grew up in Minneapolis-St. Paul and now resides in San Francisco with his family. Mr. Griggs has BA from Amherst College and an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He has thirty five years of experience in marketing and sales with particular expertise in new enterprise management, has also worked in the government and nonprofit sectors and, co-founded Griggs Production over 25 years ago in 1983.
Mr. Griggs is co-author of two books : Going International: How to Make Friends and Deal Effectively in the Global Marketplace (Random House) and Valuing Diversity: New Tools for a New Reality (McGraw-Hill) as well as Executive Producer of the Going International, Valuing Diversity, Valuing Relationship and Human Energy at Work video series, as well as a three part No Potential Lost interactive multimedia CD ROM series and the subsequent internet/intranet e-learning program ‘The Potential is Yours.’
He has been interviewed on the CBS Morning News, NBC’s Today Show and numerous other national and local television and radio shows across the country. He has presented at conferences and seminars nationwide and is a frequent speaker on the personal and interpersonal and organizational impact of effective relationship across individual and cultural differences and is in production of a new training tool called Human Spirit At Work. |
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