Frank P. Kim, PH.D.
Area of expertise: Cultural Competency, Inclusiveness Trainer,
Asian American Communities
Dr. Frank Kim is the Chief Executive Officer of the Asian Pacific Development Center, a community-based, non-profit human service organization based in Colorado. APDC provides mental health services, victim assistance services, case management, and substance abuse services. It also provides innovative prevention and education services, including health promotion, violence and substance abuse prevention, youth programs, and a multicultural Interpreter Bank. Dr. Kim is a licensed clinical psychologist, and psychiatric social worker. He received his M.S.W. from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is a former Fellow of the American Psychological Association’s Minority Fellowship Program, and was the recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Community Mental Health Training award. Dr. Kim has been involved with community mental health services, especially to Asian American communities, since 1979. He is a former Program Director of Outpatient and Day Treatment Services for the Richmond Area Multi-Services, a community mental health center in San Francisco. He also served as the Clinical Director for APDC. He has served on the National Panel on Mental Health Standards of Care for Asian and Pacific Islander American Populations, as well as numerous advisory boards dealing with multicultural services and training. Currently, Dr. Kim is a steering committee member of the Aurora Asian/Pacific Community Partnership; Board member of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (Colorado); Board member of the Colorado Minority Health Forum; member of the Victim Services Network Executive Committee.
Claire Brown, Ph.D.
Area of expertise: Diversity and Conflict Resolution, Equal
Employment Opportunity, Gender Communication, Prevention of
Sexual Harassment
Dr. Brown is an enthusiastic, popular speaker, consultant and author specializing in diversity and equal employment opportunity strategies, gender communication and sexual harassment prevention.   As a pioneer in the field of diversity, Dr. Brown is a realist and knows the workplace. She has 25 years of corporate experience featuring 16 years directing equal opportunity, affirmative action, and diversity organizations in Fortune 50 companies. Dr. Brown is committed to providing services that enhance work effectiveness and foster inclusive environments. A recognized and sought-after industry expert, she has helped many teams and individuals understand the far-reaching roles they play in promoting and maintaining an inclusive workplace. She works individually with clients and partners with her associates to insure clients' needs are met. She has organized and directed diversity conferences, events and initiatives for local businesses and Fortune 100 companies. Dr. Brown has presented workshops across the United States and in Puerto Rico. She is also co-editor and author of the resource book, Conflict and Diversity and numerous articles in the area of workforce diversity. Dr. Brown holds a Doctoral Degree from the University of Denver in Communication and Certifications in Diversity Train the Trainer, Society for Human Resource Management, Mediating EEO, Personnel and Employee Relations Disputes, CDR and EEO Studies from Cornell University. http://www.damkenbrown.com
Chris Sansone, Ph.D., CPCC
Area of expertise: Leadership Trainer, Organizational Development
Dr. Sansone is an affiliate faculty of Webster University Human Relations Management Masters program and Regis University Masters of Science in Management program. Earlier in his career, Chris was Vice-President of Regional Operations for a national commercial real estate consulting firm for over 15 years where he represented Fortune 500 companies to local and state agencies. He made strides in hiring and promoting women and minority employees into managerial positions. A certified professional coach through the Coaches Training Institute, Dr. Sansone has a doctoral degree in Human and Organizational Systems from the Fielding Institute. His dissertation addressed the role of the father in his child’s ethnic identity development. He has presented his results to numerous conferences including the Colorado Foundation for Families and Children Fatherhood Summit. His professional training includes conflict resolution, advanced multi-cultural leadership and appreciative inquiry. Dr. Sansone is a certified facilitator of the documentary film “The Color of Fear” and is qualified to administer the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Kolb Learning Styles Inventory, and California Psychological Inventory Coaching Report for Leaders and other psychological assessments. Involved in community service, he is a past-president of Boulder County Parenting Place, a mediator with the City of Boulder Community Mediation Service, a participant in Boulder Valley School District’s Reading to End Racism program, and a former appointee of the Governor’s Commission on Child Support. He specializes in organizational development and in diversity, team building, executive development and leadership. As a scholar-practitioner, he grounds the programs we deliver in proven academic theory.
Lori Thompson Bennett, MSW, LCSW
Area of Expertise: Corporate Development, Gender Relations Trainer,
Humor and Diversity Trainer, Motivational Skills Trainer
Lori Thompson has worked as Director of Market Development for a nonprofit health plan serving the underserved. She is responsible for member recruitment and retention for all lines of business and all internal and external communications. Ms. Thompson has worked with underserved, diverse, and at-risk populations for over 18 years. Her experience includes work with an inner-city methadone maintenance program, adults and children with developmental disabilities, child protective services in Baltimore, and with migrant and community health clinics. Her international experience includes living and working as a health educator in a marginal neighborhood in La Paz, Bolivia for three years, health and humor educational work with Dr. Patch Adams in Russia and China. and work with expatriate families and children in Wurzburg, Germany. Ms. Thompson holds a Bachelors of Arts Degree in Social Work and Sociology and a Masters Degree in Social Work (MSW) from the University of Maryland at Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland. She is also a graduate of The Clown School at The University of Wisconsin La Crosse. She consults and conducts trainings with private and non-profit organizations on business and corporate development utilizing humor to teach cultural competent principles. She has shared her unique and humorist approach with many worldwide. http://www.humorbylori.com
Susan M. Gallo, Ph.D.
Area of Expertise: Cultural Competency Program Evaluator
Dr. Susan M. Gallo has worked as Evaluation Manager at the Daniels Fund. She was responsible for designing, developing and managing the Funds’ evaluation activities so that the foundation had the knowledge to continually improve its grant making and scholarship programming. She helped create a cooperative problem-solving environment within the organization that engaged Fund staff, Board members and non-profit and educational partners to jointly develop evaluation questions and explore the meanings of the findings. Dr. Gallo not only assisted the foundation in developing its own accountability systems, but created brief and simple reports that synthesized evaluation findings for senior management and board members. In addition, she provided evaluation technical assistance to many of the Fund’s grantees and to their evaluation consultants on how to develop simple outcomes-oriented evaluation plans and systems for nonprofit organizations with limited resources. Grantees were represented in a variety of innovative education, free enterprise, early childhood education, childcare, homelessness, substance abuse, and physical disabilities. She started a program evaluation center in a Colorado nonprofit research organization that was dedicated to providing culturally competent evaluation. She conducts training on culturally competent evaluation both at the local and the national level. She is active in the community, including serving on the Governing Board of The Gathering Place, Past-President of the Colorado Minority Health Forum, and volunteers at La Clínica Tepeyac and Our Lady of Guadalupe Church. Dr. Gallo received her A.B. degree in Psychology from Stanford University and received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Colorado Boulder. She completed her Pre-doctoral Fellowship at the Ann Arbor Veterans’ Administration Medical Center and her Post-doctoral Fellowship in the Departments of Family Practice and Psychiatry at the University of Michigan Medical School.

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