FSOCC Conference
Keynote Speakers:
Caprice D. Hollins, Psy.D.
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Dr. Caprice D. Hollins was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. She received a B.A. in psychology from Seattle University and an M.A. and Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Multicultural and Community Psychology from California School of Professional Psychology - LA. She became licensed in Washington State after doing her post doctorate work at Atlantic Street Center.
Dr. Hollins has over 15 years of experience working with ethnically diverse populations, providing mental health services, facilitating workshops and teaching graduate courses as an adjunct professor at several local universities. She currently works as an Assistant Professor of Counseling at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology.
After serving as the Director of Equity, Race & Learning Support for Seattle Public Schools for four years she started Cross Cultural Connections, LLC, providing culturally relevant professional development and consulting services to organizations seeking to improve their skills in effectively engaging all cultures.
Dr. Hollins works hard to balance her passion and commitment to equity and social justice while at the same time raising a young family with her husband, Gary Hollins. Together they have two young children and she has three adult step children. www.culturesconnecting.com
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Frances Contreras, Ph.D.
Dr. Frances Contreras is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington in the College of Education in Leadership and Policy Studies. She researches issues of equity and access for Latina/o and underrepresented students in the education pipeline, including the transition between K-12 and higher education, community college transfer, affirmative action in higher education and the role of the public policy arena in ensuring student access and equity across a P-20 continuum. Dr. Contreras received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in Educational Administration & Policy Analysis, Master of Education from Harvard University, and B.A. from University of California, Berkeley.
Her most recent book Achieving Equity for Latino Students: Expanding the Pathway to Higher Education through Public Policy (Teachers College Press, 2011) focuses on select policy issues that have inhibited Latino student success, and select levers to alter the path of under investment in Latinos, raise student achievement, increase the number of Latino students transitioning to and completing college in the United States. Frances is also co-author of The Latino Education Crisis (Harvard University Press, 2009) with P. Gandara and her work has been published in leading education journals including the Harvard Educational Review, Educational Policy, Journal of Hispanics in Higher Education, Journal of Advanced Academics, the Encyclopedia for Diversity in Education and the Bilingual Research Journal. She is also the lead researcher for the Latino Edition of the College Completion Agenda for The College Board (In press, September 2011).
Dr. Contreras serves on the Board of the ACLU of Washington, the Journal of Advanced Academics, and Latino Education Achievement Project, the Lupe Contreras Memorial Foundation in California, and is a Gubernatorial Appointee to the Achievement Gap Oversight and Accountability Committee in Washington.
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Justin Guillory, Ph.D.
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Dr. Justin Guillory is currently serving as the Dean of Academics and Distance Learning at Northwest Indian College, a tribal college located on the Lummi Indian reservation in Bellingham, WA. He received a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration (2008) and master's degree from Washington State University (WSU) and a bachelor's degree from Eastern Washington University. For three years he served as the graduate assistant/mentor program coordinator for the Native American Student Center within the Office of Multicultural Student Services at WSU. His ethnic background includes African American, Native American (direct descendant of the Nez Perce Tribe) and Hispanic ancestry. Justin spent the majority of his childhood growing up on the Nez Perce reservation in Lapwai, Idaho, until his parents relocated to Tacoma, WA during his teenage years where he graduated from Curtis High School in University Place, WA. Justin and his wife have three young children.
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