Bright Story Shine
Celebrating Your Bright Recovery
Women's Global Recovery Roundtable
International Women's Day March 8th 2022

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You are welcome here. After the speaker portion of the event, you'll have the opportunity to connect in breakout rooms with women across the world.
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Featured Speaker
Dr. Tiffany Tajiri
Dr. Tiffany Tajiri is a licensed and board-certified clinical psychologist, a veteran US Air Force officer, and currently the chief of the largest behavioral health clinic at Fort Bliss. She is the CEO and founder of Stand Up and Recover, the creator of Rhythm Restoration, author of Peace After Combat: Healing the Spiritual & Psychological Wounds of War, and co-author of Abundant Recovery curriculum at Abundant Church. But most importantly, she is a wife and mother. Dr. Tiffany’s mission is to teach people how to live an abundant life marked by spiritual and psychological peace.

Event Founder and Lead Organizer
Caroline Beidler, MSW
Caroline Beidler, MSW is an author and founder of the storytelling platform Bright Story Shine where she has released her eBook: 10 Practical Ways to Make Your Recovery Shine and a 7 Day Recovery Reset Devotional. She is also a team writer for the Grit and Grace Project and blogger at In the Rooms. She also leads Creative Consultation Services, LLC., a business focused on creating sustainable addiction recovery support services and a Research Collaborator with the Lyda Hill Institute on Human Resilience. Caroline lives in Tennessee with her husband, Matt, and her twins, Henrick and Violet.
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Connect with her at www.carolinebeidler.com and @carolinebeidler_official and https://www.facebook.com/carolinebeidlermsw

Round Table Facilitator
Dr. Zoe Shaw
Dr. Zoe Shaw is a licensed psychotherapist, motivational speaker, podcast host, life coach and fitness fanatic. She is a wife and mom to 5. She is passionate about helping women develop strength in difficult relationships, including that sometimes difficult relationship with themselves. After 15 years in traditional psychotherapy practice, Dr. Zoe jumped off the couch and now helps women using a different modality with a mix of virtual therapy, coaching services and programs designed specifically for women in difficult relationships. Dr. Zoe received her undergraduate degree from UCLA and doctorate from Pepperdine University. Dr. Zoe is the author of the Ask Dr. Zoe Column in the Grit and Grace Project women’s magazine and the book A Year of Self Care. She has been featured in Oprah.com Magazine, Recovery Today magazine, Forbes and Huffington Post. She writes about helping women redefine their Strength. You can find her in the media on Instagram: @Drzoeshaw and in most social places at the handle DrZoeShaw

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Dr. Mary Roberson
Dr. Mary Roberson has more than 29 years of proficiency in the Behavioral Health field. She is the founder and Executive Director of Northern Illinois Recovery Community Organization (NIRCO). NIRCO is a nationally recognized Recovery Community Organization whose mission is to promote recovery principles for individuals, families and communities impacted by substance use and mental health. Dr. Mary is a person in long term recovery for the past 29 years and has facilitated women’s specialized groups on various traumas for the Circuit Court of Lake County and serves as a member its Drug Court Team and Veterans Treatment Assistance Court. She has consulted and trained in Illinois, Wisconsin and Florida on several behavioral health topics related to women, veterans and the criminal justice system. Dr. Roberson is a proud Navy veteran with deep roots in the veteran’s communities.

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Rev. Jan Brown
The Rev. Jan Brown is Founder/Executive Director of SpiritWorks Foundation Center for the Soul. An ordained Deacon in the Episcopal Church, Archdeacon of the Diocese of Southern Virginia, she serves at Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, VA. Jan is a graduate of the College of William and Mary with a BA in Psychology, is certified as a Peer Recovery Support Specialist, a Recovery Coach Professional and international scholar on Addiction Studies. She has a Master of Science Degree in Addiction Studies from the International Programme on Addiction Studies at King’s College in London, the University of Adelaide and Virginia Commonwealth University. She is a woman with addiction in long term recovery, the immediate past Chair of the Board of Directors of Faces and Voices of Recovery, Recovery Consultant on SAMHSA States Targeted Response (STR) Technical Assistance Center Team, Consensus Panel member for the SAMHSA TIP – Peer Recovery Support Specialists and co-chair of the Addictions and Recovery Commission for the Diocese of Southern Virginia. In 2014 she was appointed by the Governor of Virginia to serve on the Governor’s Task Force on Prescription Drug and Heroin Abuse. In 2015 The Rev. Brown was appointed by the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church to serve on the Commission on Impairment and Leadership. She continues to hold appointed positions within The Episcopal Church as well as the international addiction and recovery community. Jan was recently inducted into the Hall of Fame, class of 2022, of the Museum of African American Addictions, Treatment and Recovery.

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Kateri Coyhis
Kateri Coyhis, Mohican Nation, is the Executive Director of White Bison in Colorado Springs, CO. White Bison, Inc., is an American Indian non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to creating and sustaining a grassroots Wellbriety Movement that provides culturally based healing to the next seven generations of Indigenous People. Kateri serves the Wellbriety Movement by providing community presentations to bring awareness to the programs White Bison offers for individual, family, and community healing. She has been providing training, delivering a variety of presentations, and offering technical assistance for over 19 years. She is also a Board Member for Faces and Voices of Recovery. Kateri is co-author for a chapter in Radical Psychology: Multicultural and Social Justice Decolonization Initiatives (2018). Kateri received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and is currently pursuing her MPA.

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Maxine Henry
Maxine Henry, MSW, MBA has been committed to improving access to and decreasing disparities in behavioral health services, especially for BIPOC communities. Maxine’s work with the National Latino Behavioral Health Association (NLBHA) is focused on the delivery of culturally and linguistically competent services to several communities across the Country. Most recently, her role as the Project Director for the National Hispanic and Latino Addiction and Prevention Technology Transfer Centers (ATTC/PTTC) has allowed her to create access to culturally and linguistically tailored training and technical assistance to Latino communities and Latino serving communities. Much of her career has also been dedicated to providing peer-run services to those living with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders; focusing on community defined needs and solutions. She resides in the Denver Metro Area in Colorado.

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Diana Dalles
Diana Dalles has spent 34 years in the social work field, focusing on healthcare, hospice and geriatrics. She received her BA in Social Work from Colorado State University, and her Master of Science in Social Work from The University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has facilitated Women’s Empowerment and Grief Support Groups and received advanced training in Dementia, Advanced Directives, and the End-of-Life issues. Diana is now retired and lives in Wisconsin, where she paints, writes poetry and enjoys gardening. She has two grown children and three grandchildren. She and her daughter (Caroline Beidler) are co-authoring a book on intergenerational trauma.

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Kim Raysmith
Kim Raysmith is a mother of 2 young boys and senior executive in the construction industry. Her struggle with stress, disordered eating, anxiety, motherhood and isolation, led her to a dark place of alcohol addiction. After removing alcohol from her life 5 years ago, she returned to yoga and breath to bring her back to a place of peace and balance, she has gone onto to become a certified This Naked Mind alcohol freedom coach and yoga and breathwork teacher, driven from her desire to help others and show other women it is possible to change your brain and find emotional freedom from anxiety, food and alcohol addiction. She created Sober Party People and Reconstruct Drinking , a sober coaching organization, as a way to give back and be of service.
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Priscila Giamassi
Priscila Giamassi, MPM, CPS (she/her/hers)
was born in Sao Paulo; Brazil and she is living in Atlanta since 2018 with her spouse. She uses the pronouns she/her/hers. Priscila joined the Behavioral Health world in 2019, working for the National Hispanic and Latino Prevention Technology Transfer Center, housed at The National Latino Behavioral Health Association, funded by SAMHSA. Her background is in Business Administration and Project Management. Currently, she is working as the Project Coordinator for the National Hispanic and Latino PTTC; she is a Bilingual Certified Prevention Specialist (CPS). She is passionate about Prevention, and she understands that this is part of her mission on earth. As a Latina, woman, an immigrant living in the USA, Priscila strongly believes that it is her duty to use her voice and resources to advocate for mental health and substance abuse prevention, and she is committed to the improvement and enhancement of behavioral health service delivery for Latinx and other underserved communities.

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Annemarie Ward
Annemarie Ward is the founder of the UK Recovery Walk Charity – now known as Faces & Voices of Recovery UK (May 2015). The aim of the charity is to be a policy advocacy movement that is taking on issues of discrimination, social justice and service access. Annemarie’s work also includes being a founding director of the UK Recovery Federation, The alcohol and drug partnership co-ordinater for Ayrshire and the head of research & development for a small charity . Her work has also included the development, implementation, monitoring and review of local research & development schemes in health-related services. She has also conducted a variety of small research projects, managed self harm and addiction projects, regularly written funding bids and organised workshops, seminars, conferences and training courses on a variety of alcohol and other drug issues. Annemarie has a Masters degree (2005) and successfully completed a PG cert in Competence in Managing Drug and Alcohol services (2008) both from the University of Glasgow. http://www.facebook.com/tim1leg

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Elaine Camarini
Elaine Camarini is a clinical psychologist, family counselor and is leading the important efforts of Faces and Vozes de Recupercia No Brasil. She also received ertification as a Recovery Support Peer Specialist, given by Project Vida Healthcenter in El Paso, Texas.

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Emily Killeen
Emily Killeen is sobriety coach, spiritual yoga teacher and a transformational retreat facilitator! She believes that connection, community and accountability along with SOME sort of spirituality and health and wellness are essential for sobriety success! After 15 years of bouncing in and out of recovery she’s finally found so much freedom, abundance and joy in sobriety and is on a mission to help others discover their own path to recovery to experience the gifts of living an amazing sober life! Emily created Recovery Revival which is a 3 Month Sobriety Group Coaching Journey for women and also hosts a FREE Sober Girls Book Club on Tuesday nights which is open to the public and held on zoom of course! In addition she and her husband opened an off-grid, alcohol-free wedding venue & retreat facility called Ananda Retreat in Northern Arizona.

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Dr. Dawn Nickel
Dr. Dawn Nickel is a respected thought leader in the women’s recovery sphere and (along with her daughter Taryn Strong) the Founder of SHE RECOVERS Foundation, a not-for-profit grassroots organization that inspires hope, reduces stigma, and empowers women in or seeking recovery for substance use and/or mental health challenges. Dawn is a Certified Professional Recovery Coach, with a PhD and professional experience related to women and health care policy. In her work as a researcher and consultant, Dawn has focused largely on exploring how best to support women who experience substance use disorders, mental health issues and intimate partner violence, the three issues that prompted Dawn to start her own personal recovery journey in 1987.

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Naetha Uren
Naetha Uren is the founder of Recovery Coach Academy (Ltd.) in the UK, specializing in CCAR Recovery Coach Academy© Training. They support the training and implementation of recovery coaching among individuals, communities and organizations. Naetha is a Recovery Coach, trainer, facilitator, speaker and the glue to 4 generations living under one roof. As the first CCAR Recovery Coach Professionals in the UK and CCAR facilitators, Naetha & her daughter Calliese bring a unique perspective; (professionally and personally to the people they work with.) Recovery Coach Academy provides additional workshops, guest experts, and ongoing training and support; they have created an amazing, growing community that they support and celebrate.
www.recoverycoachacademy.co.uk hello@recoverycoachacademy.co.uk

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Carol Cruz
Carol Cruz, she | ella, is the Director of Education and Training at Foundation for Recovery in Nevada, and identifies as a person in recovery since 1994. She is originally from Connecticut, where she received her Associates in Human Services and certification as a Peer Recovery Support Specialist. Carol has been in the field of substance use, mental health, and harm reduction,and recovery services for over 10-years, working as a peer supporter, coach, facilitator, and trainer. She is also a State Organizer with the Recovery Advocacy Project and is the RAP Inclusivity Caucus Chair, a new initiative launched at Mobilize Recovery 2020.

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Jaquelyn Hunt
Jacquelyn Hunt is a caring, compassionate professional with over 18 years of experience in the Substance Abuse/Mental Health field. As a result of the day-to-day counseling services she provided, she began to notice that there were many gaps in her ability to provide resources and services in that role. It wasn’t long after that she created FOSTER. She provides culturally relevant, strength-based, and trauma-informed care. Jacquelyn knows first hand what it is like to be marginalized and in need of supportive services. Her own testimony of recovery, redemption, and restoration provides the foundation for her work and allows for just the right balance to support consumers and instill the belief in them that they too can overcome and become all that they want to be. Hunt took her program to the community where she began to provide services right there in the heart of where those who were most impacted by racial disparities dwelled.

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Dr. Brandee Izquierdo
Dr. Izquierdo is the Executive Director at Safe Project and has worked for Faces & Voices of Recovery as the Director of Advocacy and Outreach. In addition, she served as the Associate Director of Special Populations with Behavioral Health System Baltimore and as the Director of Consumer Affairs for the state of Maryland’s Behavioral Health Administration. In these leadership roles, Brandee has led advocacy efforts to expand access to behavioral health services and recovery support services while providing technical assistance both nationally and internationally, empowering others within the recovery movement. Her ability to build relationships and bridge gaps within behavioral health, community services, and criminal justice have been a catalyst for global peer expansion.

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Emma Gilmour
Emma Gilmour is a qualified counsellor, psychotherapist, This Naked Mind and Gray Area Drinking Coach, living in Melbourne, Australia, who created Hope is Rising. Emma worked for 20+ years in corporate marketing and ran every morning before work. A working mum fuelled by adrenalin, coffee and booze, she looked like she had it all. But on the inside, she was running on empty. As she reached her mid-forties alcohol started to take more than it was giving and so begun her long and very messy break-up with alcohol. Nothing stuck until her eldest asked her to 'stop bringing wine into their bedroom' then it finally landed for her. Emma started the process of rebuilding herself as an adult, with nurturing care. She discovered her values, stopped drinking, and had to create a whole new identity. Kicking the booze to the curb gave Emma a previously unknown level of confidence and personal power to pursue her dreams and become a qualified counsellor and coach.Still very much a work in progress, Emma is an Aussie based peri-menopausal mum of neuro and gender diverse teens. She loves stand up paddle boarding, ocean swimming and has recently purchased some gorgeous hot pink roller-skates. The focus of her coaching work is women in midlife curious as to what could open up for them and their families if they took a break from or stopped drinking.

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Kristen Harper
Kristen Harper has been practicing abstinence-based recovery since March of 2001 and is grateful for her experiences with multiple pathways of recovery during the past 20 years. As the Founding Director for the Center for Addiction Recovery at Georgia Southern University’s JPH College of Public Health, Kristen connected deeply with her role of building recovery support services for communities, especially for young people. In 2011, Kristen joined Texas Tech University’s Collegiate Recovery Community team as a Research Associate in the College of Human Sciences, where she focused most of her work on supporting the Collegiate Recovery Community Replication project, funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Department of Education. In 2013, Kristen joined the Association of Recovery Schools as the first full-time Executive Director to help amplify the creation of and sustainability of recovery high schools in the U.S. and Canada. During her time with ARS, she and the board of directors launched the recovery high school accreditation program, which has guided the development of new schools over the past 5 years. In 2016, Kristen became Executive Director for the Recovery Communities of North Carolina, a statewide recovery community organization which co-managed the Access to Recovery grant in collaboration with the State of North Carolina’s Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services. She has a B.A. in Interpersonal Communications and an M.Ed. in Collaborative Education from Mercer University. She is looking forward to being a part of the fall 2021 Innovation to Impact cohort at Yale University where she hopes to incorporate the importance of lived experience through technology and innovation when impacting drug policy. Her greatest joy in life, however, is being a wife and mother to her 3-year old daughter and 5-month old son!

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Jessica Geschke
Jessica Geschke is the Outreach Program Manager for Serve You Rx. She leads various projects that aim to bring awareness to substance use disorder and end the stigma surrounding it. Jessica is certified by the State of Wisconsin as a Clinical Substance Abuse Counselor. She is also certified by CCAR as a Recovery Coach. She received a Bachelor’s of Science in Human Services from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and an Associate’s Degree in AODA from Moraine Park Technical College. Her areas of focus are assessment and treatment of substance abuse in adolescents and adults. Jessica has over fifteen years of experience providing AODA treatment services to adolescents and adults in residential, transitional, inpatient and outpatient settings. She has spent over ten years working within and supervising medication assisted therapy programs, such as Suboxone and Vivitrol. She is a Wisconsin representative of the national organizations, Mobilize Recovery and Recovery Advocacy Project, with The Voices Project. Jessica volunteers her time by holding positions as the Governor’s representative on the State Council on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse as well as an Intervention & Treatment Committee member and an Equity & Inclusion member for SCAODA.

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Grazi Santoro
Grazi Santoro has been sober for more than 13 years. She is the survivor of alcoholism and many types of violence. 2 years ago, she decided to come out of anonymity and go to social media. She founded the Female Alcoholism Association, the biggest Brazilian community only for sober women or those that want to stop drinking, where she is president. In April of 2021, she gave a testimony to Época, one of the most important Brazilian magazines. She is a mother and grandmother and has a publicity degree. Instagram: @grazisantoro / @alcoolismo_feminino

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Luciana Lage
Luciana Lage has been sober for more than 7 years. Telling your story from the beginning of your sobriety search. In September of 2016, she gave an interview on Altas Horas, a television show of Rede Globo, a major TV station in Brazil. After, she gained visibility, was invited to lecture in schools and companies and developed a volunteer project called "Prevention by Experience", where she talks about her personal experience with addiction. Currently, she is studying Pedagogy and participating in a scientific initiation project under the guidance of a researcher in the topic of Women in Museum Education. Member and volunteer of the Female Alcoholism Association. Instagram: @lucobertura/ @alcoolismo_feminino

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Honesty Liller
Honesty Liller is a woman in long-term recovery from a Substance Use Disorder since May 27, 2007 and a Certified Peer Recovery Specialist in VA. She is the Chief Executive Officer of The McShin Foundation, a non-profit authentic peer-to-peer Recovery Community Organization (RCO), that serves individuals and families with Substance Use Disorders. She is the recipient of the Vernon Johnson Award given by Faces and Voices of Recovery in 2015. Honesty was also featured on “Face The Nation”, FOX News, and PBS discussing addiction & recovery in America. In addition, she completed Stanford University’s Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders. In 2019 she was honored with the Jean C. Harris Community Service Board Award from Hanover County. WRIC – Channel 8 News did a feature about Honesty for the “Richmond’s Remarkable Women” special in 2020. She has been a field reviewer for SAMHSA, Faces & Voices of Recovery, and CAPRSS. As a female entrepreneur she co-founded CARE Talks, LLC. Honesty is able to be a voice for those with addiction and their families through countless news articles, magazine stories, and TV interviews. To spend time with her husband, two children, and her two dogs is a gift that keeps giving! She is also the author of "Scattered Pink - A Diary Of A Woman In Recovery."

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Taryn Strong
Taryn Strong is a founder of SHE RECOVERS® Foundation - a nonprofit that connects, supports and empowers women of all ages(recovering in all areas of their lives) through its virtual platforms and in-person community networks. In her healing journey, Taryn chose a more varied and embodied approach to recovery and embraced yoga as her initial healing pathway. Over the years, she has developed a recovery practice steeped in ritual, ceremony, and healing modalities born of the earth, including plant allies and medicines. As a herbalist, trauma-informed yoga instructor, certified professional recovery coach who proudly calls herself a witch, Taryn now works as a women’s empowerment mentor and offers provocative programs related to seasonal and moon cycles, and healing from the trauma of money. Operating from a trauma-informed lens and a firm believer in anti-oppressive practices, Taryn brings an empathic and invitational approach to healing - empowering women to find and follow individualized pathways and patchworks of recovery. Taryn's courageous vulnerability and passion for recovering out-loud has made her an influential voice in the global recovery movement - smashing the stigma often associated with substance use and mental health issues. Taryn creates and lives with her beloved and two dogs within the ancestral and unceded traditional territory of the Hul’qumi’num and SENĆOŦEN speaking peoples (Saltspring Island).

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Karen McKinnon
Karen McKinnon CADC, NCPRSS, is the Women’s Resource Coordinator for Oxford House, Inc., a nonprofit network of 3,200 (nationally) self-help recovery homes. She has been a woman in long-term recovery since July 1996. Karen has worked with Oxford House since 2008. In 2011, became the first-ever Oxford House Women’s Resource Coordinator in the country. Today her work is used as a model across the country.
Upon entering the Oxford House program, not only did she attain certification as a Dental Assistant while she raised her son but thrived in her sobriety; she then continued her quest for clinical knowledge about substance use disorders. Karen attended Wake Technical University, obtained an associate degree in Substance Abuse Counseling in May 2014, and became a National Certified Peer Support Specialist. Based on her passion for helping others thrive through education, Karen was asked to serve by the Association of Recovery in Higher Education (ARHE) and the national S.A.F.E. Project as a mentor for our NC Collegiate Recovery Leadership Academy. Karen has served on many boards, including Recovery Communities of North Carolina, and works closely with state and community leaders to ensure those individuals disenfranchised by the system have a voice and fair and meaningful access to the resources they need to succeed. Today Karen continues to passionately work with the women residents in Oxford House by providing resources to assist them.

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Courtney Allen
Courtney Allen is the Policy Director of the Maine Recovery Advocacy Project (ME-RAP), a grassroots network of Mainers working on community and public policy-based solutions to the addiction crisis. During the 130th Maine Legislative Session, by leaning deeply into grassroots organizing tactics and building strong partnerships with other community organizations, the team was successful in helping to pass legislation that will increase access to recovery community centers, change stigmatizing language in the Maine Revised Statutes, expand access to certified recovery residences, decriminalize possession of harm reduction supplies, and more. Courtney is also a graduate student at the Muskie School of Public Service and is the CO-PI on a groundbreaking research project looking at recovery outcomes and public attitudes to recovery policy in Maine. Prior to this work, Courtney interned in Senator King's DC office and helped to open the first recovery residences in her community. She currently serves as an At-Large City Councilor for the City of Augusta.

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Meghann Perry
Meghann Perry, CARC, RCP, is an award-winning Storyteller, Director, Teaching Artist, Curriculum Designer and Addiction Recovery Coach. She works at the intersection of substance addiction prevention, treatment, recovery and the performing arts, creating unique learning, growth and performance experiences for people of all ages. She is the creator of the nationally-renowned Recovery Storytelling workshop process which is under research as an evidence-based recovery support by the Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice at Northeastern University. Meghann is currently integrating Theatre and Storytelling practices into Youth and Young Adult residential treatment services for the MA Dept. of Public Health and has worked extensively with at-risk adolescents and young adults. She also serves as the Theatre Education Consultant for the Boston-based theatre organization, 2nd Act, and is a nationally-known educator in the field of Recovery Coaching. You can learn more about her work at www.meghannperry.com

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Dona M. Dmitrovic, MHS
Dona M. Dmitrovic, MHS is serving as the Senior Advisor for Recovery at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Dona supports recovery initiatives across the agency. In her previous role, she served as the Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention where Dona provided executive leadership for federal efforts to improve the nation’s behavioral health through evidence-based prevention approaches. Ms. Dmitrovic is an experienced executive addiction and recovery specialist with over 34 years in the substance use field. She has experience in raising public awareness and supporting program development for individuals with substance use disorder through advocacy, policy and program development.
Prior to her arrival at SAMHSA, she served as the Executive Director for Foundation for Recovery in Las Vegas, NV, where she developed and implemented peer recovery support programs, education and training on peer support services and led the organization’s growth to a statewide agency. Ms. Dmitrovic also held the position of Director of the National Office of Consumer Affairs for Optum Behavioral Health, UnitedHeathcare. There she used her vast experience to develop peer products and tools to support individuals with substance use disorders. As the Chief Operating Officer for the RASE Project in Pennsylvania, Ms. Dmitrovic assisted the CEO launching the Buprenorphine Coordinator program serving opioid dependent individuals with recovery support services in medication assisted treatment (MAT); one of the first in the country which received two national awards for innovation.

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Tara Moseley Hyde
Tara Moseley Hyde graduated from American University School of Public Health, with a dual Graduate degree studying public administration and policy. Tara is also a person in long term recovery and has been in recovery since 2011. In May of 2014, she began working with Young People in Recovery and established a Young People
in Recovery (YPR) chapter in her community in Louisville, Kentucky. She has since become the VP - Programs and is working to develop chapters and programs of Young People in Recovery across the country. Tara has worked with universities across the country to develop recovery support services for young adults on college campuses to have the best collegiate experience while fostering their recovery from a substance use disorders. She has worked with SAMSHA, BRAS TACS, Department of Corrections, and other state agencies such as Departments of Behavioral health to
design a standard for youth, young adults, and justice involved persons for peer support services and bring awareness of recovery across the country.

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Patty McCarthy, M.S.
Patty McCarthy, M.S., has been the Chief Executive Officer of Faces & Voices of Recovery since 2015. Prior to joining Faces & Voices, she was a senior associate with the Center for Social Innovation (C4), where she served as a deputy director of SAMHSA’s BRSS TACS initiative.  Patty served for a decade as the director of Friends of Recovery-Vermont (FOR-VT), a statewide recovery community organization conducting training, advocacy and public awareness activities. In addition to public policy and education, her work has focused on community mobilizing, peer-based recovery support services, and peer workforce development and was instrumental in the development of a national accreditation standards for peer recovery support service providers. She holds a master’s degree in community counseling and a bachelor’s degree in business administration, and has been in long-term recovery from alcohol and drug addiction since 1989.

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Flo Hilliard, M.S.
Flo Hilliard holds a Master’s in Health Science with a concentration in Addictions Counseling from the University of North Florida. She is in long term recovery and has worked in the field for over 28 years in the areas of clinician, UW-lecturer, video producer, grant writer and advocate to improve addiction prevention, treatment and recovery. She is the creator of Many Voices, One Journey – a video production discussing the special issues of women and addiction. She is a founding member of Faces & Voices of Recovery in Washington D.C. and was a national trainer on The Science of Addiction and Recovery funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. She is currently working at the University of Wisconsin-Madison developing a model for the NIH/NIDA Healthy Brain and Child Development cohort study that trains Certified Peer Specialists to become part of the study research team.

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Ruth Yáñez is currently a Licensed Master Social Worker and graduated from New Mexico State University with a master’s degree in social work with a concentration in Generalist Studies. She currently works at the National Latino Behavioral Health Association and the National Hispanic and Latino Addiction Technology Transfer Center where she serves as a Program Specialist. Ruth is a bilingual bicultural professional, providing services in both Spanish and English. Her native tongue is Spanish, and this has enabled her to communicate with the Latino/e community in extensive ways. Ruth has had extensive experience in working with the immigrant Latino/e community. Before working in her current position, she worked in a medical setting. There she offered interpreting services as well as case management services. Ruth also worked in forensics doing transitions planning and connecting returning citizens to community resources. As an immigrant herself, Ruth continues to advocate for her Latino/a Immigrant community to have equitable access to healthcare and behavioral health services.

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Darlene Brock
Darlene Brock spent 20 years in the music business managing bands and producing award-winning music videos also serving as COO of ForeFront Records. She joined her husband Dan to co-found The Grit and Grace Project, aimed at supporting strong women . . . and those who want to be. As an author and businesswoman, she has been featured on a variety of media outlets including FOX and CNN as well as ABC, CBS, NBC affiliates. She gains the most positive energy when she is able to merge her personal and professional passions by helping women as they seek to find their inner strength.

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Jocelyn White
Jocelyn White serves as a Director of Partner Engagement for International Justice Mission. This role affords her the opportunity to connect with individual families and foundations who want to develop a deep relationship with IJM’s work.
Prior to this role, she served as the Director of Strategic Partnerships in Southern California, similarly working with families and foundations, and the Director of Church Mobilization, West, for IJM, engaging churches in the work of justice. She and her husband co-founded Slavery No More, a non-profit organization working with service providers and law enforcement to combat human trafficking.
Through her role at IJM, Jocelyn has spoken at churches and anti-human trafficking conferences and has hit the road speaking on behalf of IJM with Jennie Allen's Freedom Project Tour and Keith and Kristyn Getty. She has been featured on KKLA, Abolition Radio and See Hear Love podcasts and Christianity Today. Jocelyn lives in Franklin, Tennessee with her husband Peter and son Simeon.