Keynote Speakers

George Sanchez

George Sanchez is Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity, and History at the University of Southern California, where he also serves as Director of College Diversity. His academic work focuses on both historical and contemporary topics of race, gender, ethnicity, labor, and immigration, and he is currently working on a historical study of the ethnic interaction of Mexican Americans, Japanese Americans, African Americans, and Jews in the Boyle Heights area of East Los Angeles, California in the twentieth century. He is Past President of the American Studies Association in 2001-02, and is one of the co-editors of the book series, ?American Crossroads: New Works in Ethnic Studies,? from the University of California Press. He currently serves as Director of the Center for Diversity and Democracy at USC, which focuses on issues of racial/ethnic diversity in higher education and issues of civic engagement.

Kathy Sims

Since 1995 Kathy Sims has served as Director of the UCLA Career Center. For the previous fourteen years she was Executive Director of The George Washington University Career Center in Washington, DC. Her thirty-three years in career services also includes career counseling and management positions at West Virginia and Bowling Green State universities. Sims is co-creator of the University Network (UN), a national benchmarking group for directors of selected large university career centers, a founding partner in the development of a non-profit alliance that provides career services systems tools to universities nationwide (NACElink), and a founding faculty member of this Institute. She has addressed numerous employer and college audiences, domestically and internationally, on the topics of branding, marketing, campus culture, and the future of career services. She has appeared on the NBC Nightly News, ABC's Good Morning America, CNN, French network television, and is interviewed regularly by regional and national print, online, and broadcast media. At UCLA she serves in a variety of campus-wide and Student Affairs initiatives such as designing and co-facilitating the Student Affairs Management Leadership Program with the Vice Chancellor.

Michael Preston

Michael Preston was named vice provost for strategic initiatives effective July 1, 2008, having served as special adviser to the provost since 2005. Preston is also a professor of political science in the USC College, where he specializes in American politics, urban politics, black politics, and racial and ethnic politics. Preston joined the USC faculty in 1986, having spent 13 years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Preston is the author of Racial and Ethnic Politics in California (1991, second edition 1998), The New Black Politics (1981, second edition 1987) and The Politics of Bureaucratic Reform: The Case of the California State Employment Service (1984), and co-editor of Race, Sex and Policy Problems (1979). He is a former associate editor of the National Political Science Review and Urban Affairs Quarterly, and has served as a reviewer for numerous other professional journals as well as the National Science Foundation. He holds a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley.

Ramsey Jay, Jr.

Ramsey Jay, Jr. is widely recognized as a leading expert on developing leaders and has been called ?a rising star? when it comes to motivating audiences with his words. He is Wall Street trained, Ivy League educated, advisor to prominent business leaders, author of Weekly Life Lessons in Leadership, and a sought-after keynote speaker and seminar presenter. Driven by his mission in life to ?discover dreamers, and empower dreamers to become achievers?, Ramsey began sharing his experiences and lessons with audiences over ten years ago. Today, Ramsey has traveled extensively and been featured on nationally-syndicated radio programs to share his vision with diverse audiences. Ramsey has keynoted alongside world renowned leaders, been recognized for his work in numerous publications, appointed as a delegate for the Turkish Cultural Foundation?s Tour to Istanbul, selected as an International Career Advancement Program Fellow, and was named by EBONY Magazine as one of the top ?30 Young Leaders Under 30?. Ramsey is an Associate Analyst at Ares Management, an investment management firm that specializes in managing assets in both the private equity and leveraged finance markets.

Workshops & Presentations

Alexander Rubalcava

Alexander Rubalcava is the President of Rubalcava Capital Management (RCM), an investment advisory firm in Los Angeles, CA. RCM advises private clients using a research-driven, contrarian approach to investing in small cap stocks. Prior to founding RCM, Alex was an analyst with Anthem Venture Partners, a venture capital firm in Santa Monica, CA. Alex has been a leader in the campaign for public employee pension reform in Southern California. Including his May 2010 op-ed with Former Mayor Richard Riordan in the Wall Street Journal, Alex has been featured and quoted on the topic of pension reform in numerous media outlets, including Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Daily News, Marketplace Morning Report on American Public Media, Plan Sponsor Magazine, KNX News Radio, CityWatchLA.com, ourLA.org, and Off the Presses at LATalkRadio.com. Alex graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Government in 2002.

David Long

David Long is the President and owner of DBL Associates, an executive search firm that specializes in placing highly qualified MBA's and CPA's into Southern California companies. Mr. Long has over twenty-five years experience in the executive search industry and multi-national companies.

David Radden

Dave Radden has a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Clarkson University and an MBA from the University of Buffalo. He spent years moving up the ladder at AT&T and the Midwest Stock Exchange where I had P&L responsibility for a business. Radden transitioned to executive search ian the late 70's and broadened my practice in the late 90's to management assessment, leadership development, performance management and individual coaching. Large clients include Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co, Motorola, Bally Gaming, Verizon, etc.

Demontray "Dee" Hankins

Demontray "Dee"Hankins is a successful product of the foster care system. Everyone has been and will be faced with some adversity in they're lives. Dee shares the importance of facing one's challenges and Winning those Challenges.

Dominique Reese

Dominique' Reese is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer and of CommuniTree LLC, in New York City. Born and raised in South Central Los Angeles, she attended Crenshaw High School, graduated and was the first student in the school's history to attend Princeton University and the first in her family to attend college. Upon graduating with an Economics degree, she worked as an Analyst in Merrill Lynch's Global Private Client Marketing Group. Dominique' graduated from Princeton in 2006, with a degree in Economics and a Certificate in African-American Studies. Dominique' is an active volunteer with The Black Ivy Alumni League in NY, a Big Sister in the Big Brother Big Sister of America national mentoring program and serves on the board of Hasani Management Inc., in Cleveland, OH.

Donald Martin

Dr. Don Martin spent 28 years in the fields of graduate admissions, financial aid, and student affairs. Employers were Columbia University, The University of Chicago, Northwestern University and Wheaton College (IL). In 2008 his book, Road Map for Graduate Study: A Guide for Prospective Graduate Students, was published, and his full-time career of speaking/coaching/consulting was launched.

Elliot Gordon

Elliot Gordon is a Senior Client Partner with Korn/Ferry International, the world's leading executive search firm. The publicly traded firm has 70 offices in 40 countries. He has been with Korn/Ferry for 29 years. He specializes in helping his clients fill their key senior executive positions. He has handled search assignments for board members, chief executives, chief financial officers and senior-level executives in all functions. His clients have included publicly traded companies, private companies and foreign owned companies, as well as companies of all sizes from start-ups to multi-billion dollar global corporations. His education includes a BA in Anthropology from Cornell University and an MBA from UCLA

Rachel Cain

Rachel Cain has worked in the investment management industry since 1995. In her role as a Wealth Management Advisor, she is responsible for all aspects of investment management which includes identifying investment themes and ideas, and implementing the ideas in the portfolio for her clients. Rachel is also responsible for identifying new clients who would benefit from her team?s risk management and opportunistic approach to managing, monitoring and growing wealth. Rachel and her team use an endowment approach where implementing broad diversification across multiple asset classes, access to world class investment managers and focus on dynamic and disciplined asset allocation, results in preserving capital and generating consistent long-term returns across all market cycles. Rachel holds a BA in International Business and Russian Studies from Lehigh University, and an MBA from Georgetown University, where she was awarded a Dean?s citation and managed a portion of the Endowment. She is the founder of a professional women?s networking group Ragazze, and enjoys mountain climbing and participating in triathlons.

Fellowship Panel

Linda Baldwin

Linda Baldwin is the Assistant Dean of Diversity Initiatives at the UCLA Anderson School of Management where she is responsible for strategic efforts to increase diversity among faculty, staff, student body and board of visitors. Prior to her current position, Linda worked in admissions for 20 years, serving as the Director of MBA Admissions at UCLA Anderson for last 15 of those years. Linda is the founding Executive Director of The Riordan Programs and currently serves on its Board of Advisors.

Bethany Henderson

Baton Rouge native Bethany Rubin Henderson oversees all of the operations of City Hall Fellows. Before launching City Hall Fellows, Bethany spent nearly five years as a trial lawyer at the largest litigation-only firm in the country, Quinn Emanuel, where she represented commercial and entertainment-industry clients in multi-million-dollar contract, trademark, copyright and other business disputes. She earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School and both a B.A. and an M.A. in Political Science from Penn, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Bethany was inspired to start City Hall Fellows after spending the year between college and law school working as a New York City Urban Fellow in the Giuliani administration, developing the city?s strategy for effectively using (the then-new) Internet technology for providing city services and communicating with city residents and businesses.

Sadie Moore

Dr. Sadie Moore is the Director of Training at Coro Southern California. She holds a doctorate in anthropology, with a focus on American leadership, from the University of Southern California. She has been teaching and training leaders for seven years, both at USC and Coro.

Beatrice Viramontes

Beatrice Viramontes, a Los Angeles native (go Lakers!), graduated with honors from Harvard College in 2008, receiving a B.A. in Archaeology, with an emphasis in Mesoamerican studies. This past June, she received a Masters in Urban Education from Loyola Marymount University with a focus on policy and administration. Beatrice joined the Los Angeles Corps in 2008 and since then has taught 8th Grade Algebra, and 7th and 8th Grade Science at John Liechty Middle School in the Pico-Union region of Los Angeles. In her time at JLMS, aside from teaching math and science, she also created a curriculum for an elective on Aztec & Mayan Art and Chicano Muralism, and had her students create two 20? by 10? Chicano-style murals for the campus. She also taught a mariachi guitar elective! In her last three months of teaching, Beatrice served as Guiding Teacher for a student teacher from UCLA?s Teacher Education Program (TEP). The latter experience further ignited Beatrice?s passion for supporting other teachers in their development as instructional leaders so that they may better serve our students and their communities. Beatrice is very excited to be joining the Program Team this year and is very much looking forward to working with the 2009 and 2010 Corps!

Career Panels

CAREER PANEL: Business

Martin Jacobs

Martin Jacobs is currently a Portfolio Manager and Investment Analyst for the Capital Group Companies based in Los Angeles, a prominent global investment management organization. Attended Wharton School of Business, majored in Finance. Received Industrial Engineering at USC. Has been in the industry for 20 years. He lives in Santa Monica with his wife and two daughters.?

Maureen Fahey

Maureen has more than 25 years of experience working in all sectors of the healthcare industry. She is currently the Western Region Healthcare advisory lead for KPMG. In her role, Maureen is responsible for the strategic growth and development of KPMG?s Western Region Healthcare practice. Maureen obtained her MBA degree from the University of San Francisco in finance and banking. She also obtained her BS degree in nursing from the University of San Francisco and is a certified public health nurse. Maureen is a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors, and sits on a variety of not-for-profit boards.

Monique Washington

Monique Washington is a Business Woman at Enterprise Holdings. She was a student-athlete in college and made History by becoming the first African-American Homecoming Queen in 123 years. A multitalented Motivational Speaker and Writer, she was featured as a guest speaker at the 2nd Annual Hoop Farm basketball camp, led by Jordan Farmar of the NBA Champion Los Angeles Lakers. Jordan said, ?Monique did a great job of breaking down complex ideas so that campers could relate to her message. That takes real talent.?

Tatyana Shchiglik

Tatyana Shchiglik is currently attending the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University. She earned her B.A. in Political Science from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. While pursuing her MBA in Finance, she worked at Voyager Management focusing on Investor Relations. After graduating from Pepperdine, she hopes to pursue a career as an analyst for a financial services firm, ultimately managing her own portfolio for others.

CAREER PANEL: Education/Nonprofit/Social Sciences

Jason South

University of California Grad 99 Social Welfare, Cal State, Northridge Masters in Educational Administration 2003 Began teaching September 99. Seven years experience teacher 2nd and 3rd. Instructional Coordinator 4 years One Hundred Sixteenth Street Elementary School. Secured grant money of up to $100,000 for this school. Extensive experience teaming with non-profit organizations such as City Year for the betterment of the school.

Lissette Padilla

Lissette graduated Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA with a Bachelor?s degree in Psychology and a focus on education. Upon graduation, she became the director of a UCLA tutorial program, where she ensured that incoming students successfully adapted to the rigors of academic life. She has since transitioned into the private sector and continues to help others attain their educational goals ? now managing a firm to help clients gain entry into elite graduate programs.

Nichol Whiteman

Nichol, Vice President of the Jackie Robinson Foundation, manages the Los Angeles based Western Region Office of the Foundation. In addition to enhancing the Foundation?s visibility and funding, Nichol also works to increase the number of scholarship recipients, manages its Western Region Advisory Committee, designs and implements creative strategies for broadening the organization?s base of support, nurtures existing relationships, and identifies new constituencies. Prior to joining JRF, the New York native worked for Black Enterprise Magazine, Essence Magazine, JP Morgan Chase, and Wachovia in varying sales and marketing positions.

Zelda Harrison

Zelda Harrison is a global citizen. She has travelled throughout Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe and lived on 3 continents. Zelda lectures extensively on issues of design management and designing across cultures and served as President of the American Institute of Graphic Artists Center for CrossCultural Design (AIGA XCD). AIGA XCD?s goal is to highlight the role of culture and social responsibility in Communication Design. Zelda studied International Marketing at the Rouen Business School (ESCRouen) in France and earned a BFA in Visual Communications from CSU Long Beach, enhancing a career in marketing (ConAgra, Nestlé, Neutrogena) to include visual communications and design management. Her client list includes public agencies (cities of Los Angeles, Hollywood, Culver City), entertainment networks (Plitt Entertainment Group, Warner Bros, Fox, PBS), creative agencies (Sargent & Berman, SussmanPrejza), as well as real estate and legal firms.

CAREER PANEL: Law

Alexander M. Merino, Esq.

Alexander M. Merino is a litigator, concentrating on business litigation, entertainment law, internet and media law, real estate and intellectual property. He also has extensive experience counseling start-up and emerging businesses with their corporate, real estate, and intellectual property needs. Alex has served as a research associate at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

George Hill

George Hill is a former South Central Scholar from Crenshaw High School. From there he attended Stanford University and Loyola Law School-Los Angeles. He is now the owner of the downtown Los Angeles firm Law Office of George M. Hill, where he assists clients in business transactions and various civil litigation matters.

Margaret Morrow

Meg is a partner at Russell, Mirkovich & Morrow which specializes in admiralty-related matters. Meg was a governor on the Long Beach Bar Association Board of Governors from 1998 to 2000, a chair for the Long Beach Bar Association Admiralty Committee, a commissioner for the California State Bar Commission on Admiralty Law, an instructor in the Transportation Logistics master program at CSULB, and an associate in the Maritime Law Association.

William Simpson

William Simpson is a partner in the Corporate practice of Paul Hastings. He focuses his practice on private equity, mergers and acquisitions and venture capital. He regularly represents owners and management groups in private equity transactions and he currently represents over 30 private equity backed companies and 10 private equity and other investment groups. He has handled approximately 250 mergers and acquisitions, including the sale of Linksys to Cisco and the sale of Pacific Scientific to Danaher.

Mr. Simpson serves as chair of the firm's Global Private Equity practice. He has also formerly served as the chair of firm?s Orange County Office and Chair of the Business and Corporate Law Section of the Orange County Bar Association.

CAREER PANEL: Medicine

Maurice Gross

A native of Detroit, Dr. Gross has practiced medicine for the past 14 years at Little Company of Mary-San Pedro Hospital, where he currently serves as Medical Director and Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology. Dr. Gross has been active in several community organizations, medical missions to South America, and participated on the Board of Directors of several non-profit organizations to help the underserved.

Neil Chafetz

Neil Chafetz M.D., is a diagnostic radiologist and is the medical director of Oracle Imaging Services, an outpatient medical imaging company specializing in MRI and CT. Dr. Chafetz is a graduate of Cornell University and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He is a former full time associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine.

Richard Allen Williams

Richard Allen Williams was born in Wilmington, Delaware. He graduated from Harvard University with honors, received his M.D. degree from the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center with distinction, and performed a Cardiology Fellowship at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Williams has a long list of pioneering accomplishments: He founded the Association of Black Cardiologists, Inc. (ABC) in November 1978 and served as ABC president for the next 10 years. He also authored the pioneering work on diseases affecting the Black population which he published in the 900-page Textbook of Black Related Diseases (1975).

CAREER PANEL: Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM)

Alice Parker

Alice C. Parker is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California and is a former Division Director for Computer Engineering, a former Dean of Graduate Studies, and a former Vice Provost for Research at USC. She was elected President of the Academic Senate in 1993. She was previously on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon. Dr. Parker received the B.S.E.E. and Ph.D degrees from North Carolina State University and an M.S.E.E. from Stanford University. She was elected a Fellow of the IEEE for her contributions to design automation in the areas of high-level synthesis, hardware description languages and design representation. She also received an NSF Faculty Award for Women Scientists and Engineers, an NSF Fellowship, and an teaching award from the Viterbi school.

Amber Brewer

Tesoro Corporation, a Fortune 150 company, is an independent refiner and marketer of petroleum products. The Wilmington Refinery is the third largest refinery in Tesoro?s system. The refinery was acquired by Tesoro in May 2007 and processes heavy crude from California?s San Joaquin Valley and Los Angeles Basin as well as imported crudes from South America and other international sources via the Port of Long Beach. The refinery manufactures gasoline, jet fuel, diesel fuels, petroleum coke and fuel oil.

I graduated from the University of Texas, San Antonio with a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration, Human Resource Management. I have been employed with Tesoro for over 3 years with experience in performance management, labor & employee relations, organizational development/design, recruiting and compensation.

Daniel Henderson

Dan Henderson spearheads FastSoft?s business and marketing strategy. He brings 14 years of technology venture experience to the Company. Prior to FastSoft, Dan worked as a consultant helping several Internet media start-ups with strategy and product marketing, and helped AIG streamline its teleservices operations. Before this, Dan co-founded and ran i-Vantage, Inc. for over 3 years, where he headed the global teleservices practice and helped setup and grow over 2000 resources across 15 Indian captive centers for companies such as General Electric, ADP and Baxter; sold to B.S. Group of India. Prior to that as a web architect and systems administrator, Dan designed and managed enterprise networks at Mainspring, Inc. (acquired by IBM) and Deloitte & Touche. Dan holds an M.B.A. from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a B.A. from Oberlin College.

Henry Hipps

Henry Hipps is the Senior Director of Operations for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa?s Partnership for Los Angeles Schools where he has responsibility for project management, performance management, technology, facilities and other core operations. Prior to his current role, Henry was CEO of Trajectory Learning, an innovative e-learning software company. Henry has extensive experience designing and managing strategy and operations initiatives that improve business performance for complex organizations. At IBM Business Consulting, he led global teams on business transformation engagements for several Fortune 500 and multinational clients. In 2002, Henry was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct work with high potential start-up companies in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Henry holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from University of Pennsylvania and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Tech.

Lauro Gonzalez

Lauro Gonzalez joined Amgen in November 2008 as Executive Director of the Business Performance Team. He is responsible for leading high priority initiatives and transformation projects throughout Amgen.

Prior to joining Amgen, Mr. Gonzalez developed and led multinational joint ventures in the Americas. He has led companies owned by Vodafone, Citi Group and Loral Space and Communications. Mr. Gonzalez was Satmex Chief Executive Officer where he guided the company through its privatization, substantial corporate change and international growth. Satmex is the largest Latin-American satellite operator with commercial operations in 38 countries. Mr. Gonzalez also has extensive experience in corporate restructuring and refinancing. Mr. Gonzalez began his career at McKinsey and Company in Mexico; later he also pioneered the start up of McKinsey?s operations in Brazil. He currently serves in the Board and Audit Committees of Maxcom Telecomunicaciones, a New York Stock Exchange traded company.

Mr. Gonzalez holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University, and MBA from Duke University. He also studied Effective Corporate Governance for CEOs at Harvard.

Mikki Greene

Mikki Greene serves as Account Executive and Community Development Advocate with Johnson Controls Energy Efficiency Solutions, Public and Affordable Housing Solutions team and is responsible for the overall customer relationship from the initial engagement through implementation. A Master Visionary, Consultative Sales and Business Development Professional earning a stellar reputation encompassing over 15 years of peak performance, delivering on the promise of creating quantifiable value to clients while exceptionally contributing to team efforts and productivity. Ms. Greene is a new business development guru with a proven ability to consistently ?delight? customers by exceeding their expectations while meeting company goals, through exceptional organized campaigns, thorough follow-up and executive level relationship building. She is highly recognized as a productive, dependable and efficient problem solver. Ms. Greene has a bachelor?s degree from San Francisco State University, CA. She resides in Southern California with her two children.

CAREER SEMINAR

Denise Braithwaite

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Alison De Lucca

Alison De Lucca is the Network Manager for the Southern California College Access Network. Alison brings to SoCal CAN fifteen years of providing organizational support to nonprofit organizations and networks in both the United States and Central America. Prior to her work with SoCal CAN, she served as the Program Officer for the Los Angeles Funders? Collaborative, where she designed and implemented a grantmaking and technical assistance program to strengthen the organizational capacity of immigrant-based organizations in Los Angeles County. Alison has performed consulting work for the Rockefeller Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York and Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees, served as an international campaign coordinator for Friends of the Earth International, and coordinated a women?s leadership and micro-enterprise development program in Costa Rica. She holds a bachelor?s degree in International Development from the University of California San Diego and a master's degree in Urban Planning from the University of California at Los Angeles. Alison currently serves as an appointed member of the UCLA Department of Urban Planning Advisory Committee, as well as an emeritus board member of Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy.

Dr. John Taborn

John G. Taborn, PhD is currently the Associate Director for Counseling Services. UCLA?s Career Center and a Lecturer in the M.Ed. in Student Affairs Program. Dr. Taborn received both the Ph.D. and BS in Counseling Psychology from Howard University where he specialized in college student mental health, career development and multiracial family development. He holds a Masters Degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Psychological Services in Education. Dr. Taborn completed his clinical training at the US General Accounting Office, Pre-doctoral Psychology Internship at the University of California-Berkeley (CAPS). Dr. Taborn completed the Post-doctoral Clinical/Research Fellowship at the Program in Human Sexuality at University of Minnesota Medical School, specializing in sex offender treatment, LGBT mental health, sexual orientation, and relationship and sexual health treatment. Dr. Taborn is a member the National Association of Colleges and Employers and American Psychological Association. He is also a member of the Golden Key Honor Society and the Psi Chi Honor Society in Psychology.

Sharon Rubalcava

Ms. Rubalcava is a partner in the firm?s Los Angeles office. She advises clients planning major industrial development projects on compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), with a particular emphasis on facilities with significant air and toxic emissions and water quality issues. She also has been involved in legal actions challenging the sufficiency of CEQA documents such as Environmental Impact Reports (EIRs), as well as the failure of regulatory agencies to prepare such documents. Ms. Rubalcava?s projects include major infrastructure projects, power plants, solid waste disposal facilities, petroleum pipelines, gasoline refineries, marine terminals and manufacturing facilities. These projects are often highly controversial and present unusually challenging permitting and compliance issues including environmental justice concerns. She advised the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority on environmental issues associated with the Alameda Corridor project, one of the largest infrastructure projects in the United States.

William McClure

Dr. William McClure is a Professor of Biological Sciences in the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences of the University of Southern California. His research interests center upon the biological and chemical aspects of mental illness. He has published over 150 books, scientific papers, and patents. McClure has trained over 40 graduate students who now hold significant positions in both academe and industry.

Guest Presenter

Dr. Denise Gordon

Dr. Gordon received her B.A. in Anthropology from UC Los Angeles, her Masters in Counseling Psychology from Loyola Marymount University, and her PhD in Clinical Psychology at Pepperdine University. She is a licensed Marriage, Family & Child Counselor and is affiliated with the American Psychological Association and the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. She has her own private practice as a psychotherapist in Beverly Hills. Dr. Gordon has given numerous presentations on the topic of psychotherapy since 1992 and was published in 1991.