Building Family in the 21st Century: A Moderated Conversation, June 11, 2016 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, at the Francis Gregory Neighborhood Library (3660 Alabama Ave. SE.)
Biography of Participants
Brittany Adams, MS Resident in Counseling, works with adolescents, service providers, and families. She is also co-director of Esther Productions Inc.’s Fatherless Daughter Reconciliation Project. An accomplished artist, and arts administrator, Ms. Adams graduated from Hampton University with a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts and minor in Criminology. She obtained her Masters of Science from Eastern Virginia Medical School in Art Therapy and Counseling. She also produced a mural for the Marriage and Family Thirty-Fourth Annual Conference, and an artwork for the Hampton University Institute Proton Therapy Center. Ms. Adams’ paintings and drawings have received critical acclaim including from the International African American Journal Reviews.
HyeSook Chung is the executive director of DC Action for Children, a child advocacy organization working to bring high impact outcomes to DC children. She serves on numerous advisory boards focused on social change, including the Annie E. Casey’s KIDS COUNT national steering committee, DataKind and Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum. In addition to having expertise on issues that affect young children, Ms. Chung is a data and technology enthusiast whose innovative vision for data work has been highlighted at IMB Insight Data Conference, the list of Rockefeller Foundation’s Top 100 Innovative NGO’s, Unicef and SXSW Education.
Darryl C. Green is the president of Deep Forgiveness. As an advocate for the restoration of families and economic empowerment for the disenfranchised, he is a staunch proponent of reconciliation and forgiveness. Green has been characterized by industry professionals as an innovative change agent on mental health, healing, social welfare and social justice. He has served as program manager for a 60-bed facility for men transitioning from homelessness, incarceration and substance abuse under the auspices of Catholic Charities Baltimore, MD. He also was Male Service Facilitator for Casey Family Services, the direct service agency for the Annie Casey Foundation. Green was the lead consultant for Operation Safe Streets Southwest, an initiative by Mayor Rawlings Blake to combat shootings and murders in Baltimore, Maryland. He hold a master’s degree in Criminal Justice with special interest in Crime and Delinquency Prevention and Control from Coppin State University, a master’s in Social Work with special interest in Urban Children, Youth and Families from Morgan State University and a Bachelor’s Criminal Justice from Pfeiffer University in Misenheimer, North Carolina.
Frank Love (Yao Tyus) is a father of five and author of "How to Gracefully Exit a Relationship." A native Washingtonian, he has degrees from both Howard and The George Washington Universities. He has spent years providing advice and guidance to others around relationship dynamics, including issues of loyalty, trust and partnership. He is the host of the Frank Love Relationships Radio Show.
Yao (Hoke) Glover is the former owner of Karibu Books and a poet whose poetry and essays have been published in African American Review, Obsidian III, Tidal Basin Review, Smartish Pace, Beltway Quarterly, Beltway, Spectre, Libations, Plougshares, and other journals and anthologies. Mr. Glover is also assistant professor of English at Bowie State University. Much of his work explores issues of inheritance and family. He and Karla Wilkerson-Glover have been married for twenty-four years; they have three children.
Biography of Participants
Brittany Adams, MS Resident in Counseling, works with adolescents, service providers, and families. She is also co-director of Esther Productions Inc.’s Fatherless Daughter Reconciliation Project. An accomplished artist, and arts administrator, Ms. Adams graduated from Hampton University with a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts and minor in Criminology. She obtained her Masters of Science from Eastern Virginia Medical School in Art Therapy and Counseling. She also produced a mural for the Marriage and Family Thirty-Fourth Annual Conference, and an artwork for the Hampton University Institute Proton Therapy Center. Ms. Adams’ paintings and drawings have received critical acclaim including from the International African American Journal Reviews.
HyeSook Chung is the executive director of DC Action for Children, a child advocacy organization working to bring high impact outcomes to DC children. She serves on numerous advisory boards focused on social change, including the Annie E. Casey’s KIDS COUNT national steering committee, DataKind and Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum. In addition to having expertise on issues that affect young children, Ms. Chung is a data and technology enthusiast whose innovative vision for data work has been highlighted at IMB Insight Data Conference, the list of Rockefeller Foundation’s Top 100 Innovative NGO’s, Unicef and SXSW Education.
Darryl C. Green is the president of Deep Forgiveness. As an advocate for the restoration of families and economic empowerment for the disenfranchised, he is a staunch proponent of reconciliation and forgiveness. Green has been characterized by industry professionals as an innovative change agent on mental health, healing, social welfare and social justice. He has served as program manager for a 60-bed facility for men transitioning from homelessness, incarceration and substance abuse under the auspices of Catholic Charities Baltimore, MD. He also was Male Service Facilitator for Casey Family Services, the direct service agency for the Annie Casey Foundation. Green was the lead consultant for Operation Safe Streets Southwest, an initiative by Mayor Rawlings Blake to combat shootings and murders in Baltimore, Maryland. He hold a master’s degree in Criminal Justice with special interest in Crime and Delinquency Prevention and Control from Coppin State University, a master’s in Social Work with special interest in Urban Children, Youth and Families from Morgan State University and a Bachelor’s Criminal Justice from Pfeiffer University in Misenheimer, North Carolina.
Frank Love (Yao Tyus) is a father of five and author of "How to Gracefully Exit a Relationship." A native Washingtonian, he has degrees from both Howard and The George Washington Universities. He has spent years providing advice and guidance to others around relationship dynamics, including issues of loyalty, trust and partnership. He is the host of the Frank Love Relationships Radio Show.
Yao (Hoke) Glover is the former owner of Karibu Books and a poet whose poetry and essays have been published in African American Review, Obsidian III, Tidal Basin Review, Smartish Pace, Beltway Quarterly, Beltway, Spectre, Libations, Plougshares, and other journals and anthologies. Mr. Glover is also assistant professor of English at Bowie State University. Much of his work explores issues of inheritance and family. He and Karla Wilkerson-Glover have been married for twenty-four years; they have three children.