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Speakers BioMr. Peter Berns is the Executive Director of the Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations ("Maryland Nonprofits"). Maryland Nonprofits is an twelve year old statewide association of nonprofit groups. Its mission is to strengthen and support the ability of nonprofit organizations to serve the community, and to enhance public understanding of, confidence, and support for the nonprofit sector. Maryland Nonprofits currently has 1,460 nonprofit organization members, and 380 associate members. The members represent all regions of the state and all sectors of the nonprofit community including human services, health, educational, cultural, environmental, religious, and other charitable organizations and foundations. Mr. Berns is an attorney with a long history of community service. Prior to becoming Executive Director of Maryland Nonprofits he was the Deputy Chief of the Consumer Protection Division of the Office of the Attorney General of Maryland, where he was responsible for supervision of the law enforcement, consumer education, complaint mediation, and legislative advocacy activities. Before moving to Maryland he provided legal representation to nonprofit groups in Washington, D.C. Mr. Berns is active as a volunteer, currently serving on the Board of Directors of Volunteer Central/Business Volunteers Unlimited Maryland. In recent years he has also served on the boards of the National Council of Nonprofit Associations, the Waldorf School of Baltimore, Maryland Food Committee, Public Justice Center , Baltimore Jewish Council, the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland and on a variety of government task forces and councils. He has been recognized with a number of awards, including being named to the Nonprofit Times Power and Influence Top 50 in 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2004 and the Daily Record's Innovators of the Year in 2002. Mr. Berns received his JD, cum laude , from Harvard Law School and has an LLM in advocacy from Georgetown University Law Center. He received his BA in psychology, magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Jeffrey Caballero is the Executive Director of the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO). Based in Oakland, California, AAPCHO is a national membership organization serving the needs of community health organizations that serve predominantly Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander populations. Mr. Caballero has been with the AAPCHO for 11 years. At AAPCHO, Mr. Caballero advocates for programs and policies that aim to increase access to quality, comprehensive community health care services that are culturally and linguistically appropriate. Mr. Caballero received his Bachelor's Degree in Biochemistry/Cell Biology from the University of California in San Diego, and his Masters in Public Health from University of California in Los Angeles. Ms. Sandy Hoa Dang , AALEAD founder and Executive Director (7 years), has worked over twelve years to help low-income Asian American refugees and immigrants adjust to life in the United States. A refugee herself, she has first-hand knowledge of the assets and needs of her community. Her creative and innovative theory of change has afforded her much praise and allowed AALEAD to become a symbol for Asian Americans in the Washington, D.C. community. Ms. Dang received her B.A. from Duke University and her Masters in Social Work from Catholic University . Founded in 1998, Asian American LEAD (AALEAD) seeks to promote the well-being of Asian American youth and families through education, leadership development, and community-building. We focus on the Vietnamese, Amerasian, and Chinese immigrant and refugee communities in the Mt. Pleasant, Columbia Heights, and Shaw neighborhoods of Washington, DC . AALEAD's overaching goal is to increase the opportunities and ability of low-income Asian American children to move out of poverty and become successful, self-sufficient adults. AALEAD firmly believes that education is the key to meeting this goal. However, AALEAD understands that children need additional family, school, and personal supports, not just academic assistance, to succeed. Consequently, AALEAD uses a four pronged approach to youth development, offering each child after school intervention in a safe space, mentoring, family support and educational advocacy. Mr. Calvin T. Dawson is Program Coordinator for the Learn and Serve America Program at the Corporation for National and Community Service in Washington, DC. He has over twenty-five years of experience in volunteer programming and youth service. Mr. Dawson has a B.A. in political science from College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts and a Masters in Public Administration from the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill . He is the author of several documents including, "Native American Service-Learning: Learning to Serve, Serving to Learn." Mr. Dennis Grace serves as Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based & Community Initiatives (OFBCI). Mr. Grace worked in the field of refugee affairs for two decades. As the International Rescue Committee's Joint Voluntary Agency Representative in Bangkok from 1981 to 1995, he directed the U.S. private voluntary agency involvement in the Indochinese Refugee Resettlement program in Thailand . That initiative brought 500,000 Vietnamese, Khmer, Hmong, and Lao refugees to the United States from camps in Thailand . He later served as Vice President of Refugees International, a Washington, DC-based advocacy group. Mr. Grace also worked to strengthen the US-Thai commercial relationship as Executive Director of the US-Thailand Business Council, and founded an English language school in Vientiane , Laos . A native of Chicago , he holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado and a graduate degree in East Asian Regional Affairs from Harvard University . Ms. J. Traci Hong is the Director of Immigration Program at the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium. Ms. Hong began working at NAPALC in June 2003 as an Immigration Staff Attorney. In her work with NAPALC, she protects and advocates for the rights of Asian American Immigrants and their families before Congress, administrative agencies and federal courts. Prior to joining NAPALC, Ms. Hong worked as a Staff Attorney at the American Immigration Law Foundation where she engaged in impact litigation on behalf of immigrants. She began her career as an attorney at the law firm of Tidwell, Swaim & Associates in Dallas, Texas, where she practiced in all aspects of immigration law. Ms. Hong is a graduate of The University of Texas School of Law and The University of Texas at Austin, where she received her B.A. with honors in Philosophy. In 2002, Ms. Hong was recognized by the Executive Office for Immigration Review for her outstanding pro bono efforts. In 2003, she was named as one of the Best Lawyers under 40 by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA). Ms. Christine Hyland holds an undergraduate degree in English from Emmanuel College, Boston, as well as a master's degree in Communications Management, the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California . Chris began her nonprofit career in 1980 and earned her Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) certification in 1992. She has raised millions for social service programs, faith-based organizations, educational institutions, and arts groups. In November 1996, Chris established her consulting business. She assists a variety of clients in achieving their fundraising goals. She has presented numerous workshops at national convenings on major gifts; grant writing, fundraising, establishing a development office, major gift campaigns, and effective public relations. In 2001, at the request of Catholic Relief Services, she and a CRS colleague presented a workshop for NGO executive directors in El Salvador on philanthropy. She has worked with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on a variety of projects: Migration and Refugee Services, The Border Initiative, The Catholic Communication Campaign, and implementation of the Unity in Diversity pastoral. Mr. Thomas E. Kern is Senior Associate at the Annie E. Casey Foundation, overseeing knowledge management and organizational learning. Casey's Knowledge Services team has developed a comprehensive KM System, created E-Casey-an online learning tool incorporating video streaming and links to related resources-and supports the ongoing capture, organization, and sharing of Foundation resources. He previously served as Deputy Executive Vice President of the American Consulting Engineers Council, the Executive Director of its Research Foundation, Program Manager for American Management Systems, Inc., and as a public servant in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He holds a BA in Government and Economics from Georgetown University , earned his MPA from the London School of Economics, and attended Oxford University where he did graduate work in the Department of Politics. Daniel Krotz For the past 25 years Daniel Krotz has been a manager, administrator, and private consultant serving for profit and non profit business. He has been the Executive Director of a Mutual Assistance Association in Minneapolis, Minnesota and currently works on behalf of refugees for ISED Solutions, the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the Middle East Partnership Initiative, the Cooperative Housing Foundation and etc. Krotz has a BS from the University of Minnesota and an MA from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Ms. Daphne Kwok is a 1984 graduate of Wesleyan University and became the first Asian American member of its Board of Trustees. She has a B.A. in East Asian Studies and Music. She received a Masters in Public Administration from New York's Baruch City College. Mr. Brian Lutz has been in a leadership position with the U.S. Administration on Aging (AoA) for the past 12 years. He presently serves as the Director of the Office for Community-Based Services, where he leads the agency's efforts to improve services to older persons in the areas of caregiver support, nutrition, health promotion and disease prevention, community-based long-term care, transportation, volunteerism, and other community-based services. Prior to coming to the Administration on Aging, Mr. Lutz served for twelve years on the staff of the Select Committee on Aging in the U.S. House of Representatives, including serving for five years as the Staff Director of the Subcommittee on Retirement Income and Employment. Dr. Nguyen Van Hanh has been Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement since September 2001. He is experienced in refugee assistance management at national and State levels, teaching environmental protection and economic development at universities, writing technical papers, and participating in international conferences. Dr. Nguyen Van Hanh holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Davis, with specialization in public finance, economic development, and international trade. Earlier, he received a Bachelor of Science degree with high honors from the University of Florida and a Master of Science degree in agricultural science from the same university. From 1976 to 1981 he was Director, Office of Refugee Affairs, California Health and Welfare Agency, where he also served as Coordinator of the Governor's California Refugee Task Force. From 1985 until his current appointment, he was a part-time faculty member at California State University in Sacramento, where he taught environmental science, engineering economics, and socioeconomic adaptation of refugees from Southeast Asia . He has published papers and made presentations at international conferences on Southeast Asian refugees adaptation, economic development, and international environmental issues. He also has been manager of various units responsible for market analysis and development, and member of the Environmental Technology Certification Program, California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA). In 1990 he served as representative of California Governor Deukmejian on Community Relations, and earlier had managed various programs as Senior Economist for the State of California in water resources programs. From 1991 to 1993, Dr. Nguyen Van Hanh was Deputy Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Prior to 1975, he was the Director General of Planning for South Vietnam, in charge of economic development. After returning from the U.S. in 1965, he joined the Nuclear Research Institute in Dalat, South Vietnam to conduct research on radiation biology. Ms. Linda T. Nguyen is Project Director at the Alliance for Children and Families, a national membership association of more than 330 nonprofit child and family serving agencies in the U.S. and Canada . She directs the Human Services Building Participation initiative which assists human service agencies to develop, implement, and test new programs that increase individuals' participation in efforts to improve public policy and public institutions through the democratic process. Linda has worked on this initiative since 2003, when it began as an exploratory project of the Union Institute & University. Her experience includes work in the areas of social policy and action, human rights, and nonprofit leadership. She has consulted to and served on a number of boards at the local and national level, including the YWCA and YNPN (Young Nonprofit Professionals Network). Linda earned a master's in public policy from the University of Michigan and an undergraduate degree in social welfare from UC Berkeley. Mr. Long Nguyen A social entrepreneur, Long Nguyen has almost 20 years of experience in starting and leading community-based organizations and social purpose ventures. Since January 2004, Long serves as senior consultant providing strategic planning, program planning and resource development and leadership training to Vietnamese community-based organizations nationwide. He also led business planning and founded Tien Development, a transnational community development corporation, that leverages overseas resources to build wealth for people in third world countries. Before January 2004, Long served as founding executive director of Viet-AID, the first community development corporation founded and managed by Vietnamese refugees in the U.S. In 8 years, Long helped build Viet-AID from a one-person staff with a budget of $35,000, to a 10 staff member agency and a budget of almost $1 million and $10 million in assets. He successfully led the development of a $5 million community center and created innovative programs in affordable housing, youth and senior care, economic development, and community organizing. Before starting Viet-AID, Long was the Executive Director of the Vietnamese American Civic Association, a Vietnamese CBO in Massachusetts . In two years, he developed new housing and legal services programs through building strategic partnerships with mainstream organizations and secured 200% increase in funding from the local and state governments and foundations. Long has a B.A. in political science and economics and a law degree from Boston University . Long currently serves on the Boards of Boston-based Dorchester House Community Health Center, Transnational Community Credit Union and the Hyams Foundation. Mr. Tam Duc Nguyen is the first-generation Vietnamese American who currently serves as the executive director of the Vietnamese A ssociation of Illinois ( VAI ), a non-profit community based organization in Chicago established in 1976. VAI provides support and assistance to thousands of refugees and immigrants from Vietnam and other South East Asia,Afri ca and Europe countries. He is a well-known writer, a teacher, an energetic and compassionate activist dedicated to helpi ng the others, especially the elderly and youth. Nguyen is editor of Nguoi Viet Illinois, a monthly Vietnamese, English-Language magazine. He is one founder and editor of a weekly radio magazine on WWMR 88.7 FM. Member of several advisory councils of city and state, he is also a member of the Coalition of Asian, African, European and Latino Immigrants o f Illinois ( CAAELII ), Illinois Coalition for Immigrants and Refugees Right ( ICIRR ), Coalitio n of Limited English Speaking Elderly ( CLESE ) and is director of the board of the National Alliance of Vietnamese American Social Services Agencies ( NAVASA ). Ms. Trinh Nguyen is currently the Director of Development and Public Relations at the Boston Women's Fund where she oversees fundraising, marketing and communication activities. She has been involved with BWF for six years in the capacity of being members of the allocations and publications committees and the board, and finally a full time staff at BWF for three years. Prior to BWF, she was the Resource Development Manager at the Mayor's Office of New Boston ians where she conducted demographic research pertaining to immigrants in Boston . She also coordinated and assisted with the development of the city's $4 million dollar English for New Boston ian project. From 1997-2001, she was the previous Coordinator for the Coalition for Asian Pacific American Youth at the University of Massachusetts Boston where she received multi-year grants from the Ford Foundation, Kellogg Foundation and other national and local private foundation grants. Trinh also worked with the Vietnamese American Initiative for Development (Viet-AID) on their $5.5 million capital campaign for the first Vietnamese American Community Center in the nation from 2000-2003. She is currently a board member of VIET-AID, Associated Grantmakers of Massachusetts and the Chahara Foundation. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Clark University, a M.A. in International Development from Ohio State , and M.S. in Human Services from UMASS Boston. She is currently a fellow at MIT Urban Studies and Planning. Mr. Brett Norton is the Development and Communications Director for City Year Washington, DC. As former Public School teacher, Mr. Norton has a long standing commitment to education and community engagement. With more than 10 years of fundraising and media experience, Mr. Norton has helped City Year Washington DC, grow in size and scope by developing a strong portfolio of government, corporate and individual donors. He is now helping lead City Year's ten-year staregic planning project that will guide the organizations growth and impact. Mr. Norton received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin and is currently working on his Masters in Business from University of Maryland . City Year, a proud member of the Americorps network, unites a diverse group of 17 to 24 year-olds for a year of full-time, team-based community service. City Year Washington, DC provides critically needed services to some of DC's most underserved children and youth. The young idealists who serve in our program, called "corps members," deliver substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention education, provide literacy tutoring and academic support, organize and implement leadership development opportunities for middle school students, and engage children and adults in transformative community service projects to renovate schools, community centers, and homeless shelters. Dr. Louise Peloquin is a Senior Public Health Advisor for the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Department of Health and Human Services. Her primary assignment is with the Refugee Mental Health Program (RMHP) - which provides mental health technical assistance and consultation to the Federal Office of Refugee Resettlement and the entire U.S. refugee resettlement network. Concurrently, she serves as the Director and Developer of the national health promotion/disease prevention multi-media social marketing program called 15+ Make Time to Listen - Take Time to Talk campaign. This program focuses on ways to help parents and caregivers communicate more effectively with children by spending fifteen minutes, or more, a day in child directed communication. The newest phase of this 15+ campaign focuses on bullying prevention messages and strategies for parents, children and schools. Dr. Peloquin is a licensed clinical social worker with a Ph.D. in psychology. Her professional experience included a clinical practice with children, adolescents and families; consulting assignments on substance abuse prevention and cultural competency for SAMHSA; community-based work with the March of Dimes Foundation and work as a professional trainer in such areas as social marketing, teen pregnancy, women's issues, substance abuse prevention and treatment.
Ms. Danielle M. Reyes specializes in grantmaking related to law, justice, immigrant and refugee, and workforce development programs. Over the last 10 years Ms. Reyes has worked on issues concerning low-income, minority, and immigrant populations, with an emphasis on education. Before joining the Meyer Foundation, Ms. Reyes served as the executive director of the Latino Student Fund, an organization focused on increasing access and information on educational opportunities to Greater Washington's Hispanic community. Her prior work experience includes several years as a public school teacher and university instructor, work as a senior program officer and team leader for Reading is Fundamental, and teaching English as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco. Ms. Reyes received her bachelor's degree in English and in Spanish from the University of Michigan . She also holds a master's degree in teaching English as a foreign language from Manhattanville College and a master's degree in administration, planning, and social policy from Harvard University . Mr. Lionel Rosenblatt, President Emeritus since 2001, served as President of Refugees International for 10 years, expanding the organization's early warning/early action advocacy on humanitarian emergencies. Before working for RI , Lionel was a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State for more than twenty years. Much of his State Department experience centered on refugee and humanitarian emergencies, including the exodus of Indochinese refugees and the humanitarian emergency in Cambodia. As President Emeritus, Lionel now focuses on Southeast Asia and strategic advocacy issues such as peacekeeping. Ms. Irma Simpson is the manager of the Gannett Foundation, a company-sponsored private foundation which makes grants in more than 120 communities in the USA and the U.K. where Gannett Co., Inc. operates newspapers and television stations. In 2004, the Foundation made nearly $11.7 million in grants and employee matching gifts. She joined Gannett in 1986 in the public affairs and government relations department, and has managed the Foundation since its inception in 1991. She has served on several local nonprofit boards in the region, including the Washington Community AIDS Partnership and Combined Health Appeal (now Community Health Charities). She is immediate past president of the Northern Virginia Corporate Community Relations Council, and acts in an advisory capacity to several nonprofit organizations. She is a frequent speaker and panelist at nonprofit sector conferences. Irma is also a 1995 graduate of Leadership Washington. Mr. Rich Stolz has worked at the Center for Community Change since 1997. He first came to CCC as a Fellow through a VISTA-sponsored program organized by the Congressional Hunger Center. Rich joined the Center's staff six months later. He has served in a number of capacities as an organizer and public policy specialist, including as Deputy Director for Public Policy. Currently Rich is a Lead Organizer for Policy in the Center's Organizing Unit. In his work at the Center, Rich has engaged in extensive policy analysis and advocacy on a range of issues, including federal and state welfare and transportation policy. He served as the staff coordinator of the Transportation Equity Network, a national coalition of grassroots organizations and allies that worked to influence mammoth federal transportation legislation in 1998 and 2005. He also assisted in the development of the National Campaign for Jobs and Income Support, a major initiative to change the national debate on issues of poverty and economic inequality. This effort resulted in several significant policy changes at the federal, state and local level. Rich Stolz was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1974. He grew up in Redwood City, California, and received his BA in American Studies from Stanford University in 1996. Rich currently lives in Montgomery, Alabama . Dr. Ho Luong Tran is the Chief Executive Officer of the Asian Pacific Islanders American Health Forum. The Health Forum is a national advocacy organization dedicated to promoting policy, program, and research efforts to improve the health and well-being of Asian American and Pacific Islander ( AAPI ) communities. Founded in 1986, the Health Forum approaches activities with the philosophy of coalition-building and developing capacity within local AAPI communities. We advocate on health issues of significance to AAPI communities, conduct community-based technical assistance and training, provide health and U.S. Census data analysis and information dissemination, and convene regional and national conferences on AAPI health. Ms. Kim Tran was most recently the Director of Financial Planning & Reporting at United Way of America . Her duties consisted of helping local United Ways address financial reporting issues. She has actively participated in the development of implementation measures for the new ( 2003) United Way membership criteria, specifically, instructions on overhead reporting, annual IRS filings and fees chargeable to designation processing. She was previously Director of Finance for United Way Information Network which was the national headquarters' attempt at developing a state of the art national pledge processing center. Prior to coming to UWA, she worked in the airline and travel industry where she developed turnaround and cost control skills. She worked for Atlantic Coast Airlines in Northern Virginia as Director, Financial Planning & Treasury during the mid 90's and was instrumental in redeveloping the finance function, instigating cost containment programs, and attracting new institutional investors. Her not-for-profit experience also include the American Association for University Women in D.C. where she was Associate Director, Strategic Planning and the Catholic Charities in Houston, Texas where she was a Job Counselor for refugee programs. Her educational credentials include an MBA in Finance & Marketing from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science in Business from Eastern Illinois University . She is a Chartered Financial Analyst, a member of the Washington Society of Investment Analysts and the Association for Investment Management & Research. She resides in Vienna, Virginia with her husband and child and serves as a volunteer on Our Lady of Good Counsel parish's finance council. Kim Tran has been Chief Financial Office for United Way of the National Capital Area since 2003 Captain John Tuskan is currently assigned to the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) under which he serves as the Director of Refugee Mental Health Program. The refugee program provides mental health, technical assistance and consultation to the Federal Office of Refugee Resettlement and the entire U.S. refugee resettlement network. Captain Tuskan also serves as SAMHSA's Faith-based and Community Initiatives Coordinator, CMHS's International Initiative Officer and is an instructor in Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He has established professional experience in clinical assignments with the U.S. Army and the National Institutes of Health, mental health consulting with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Services and the U.S. Marshals Service. Captain Tuskan has completed humanitarian field assignments in response to disasters, mass immigration exercises, and refugee emergencies in the Middle East and Eastern Europe . Captain Tuskan is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University and Yale University .
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