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| BILLIE MAYO, recently retired, served
as the Assistant to the Chief Academic Office of the St. Louis Public
Schools and the Director of the Saint Louis Urban Educational Leadership
Cohort at Saint Louis University. Billie spent 23 years as a middle school
teacher before moving into Administration. She has also been responsible
for training St. Louis Public Schools personnel on a number of topics
including learning styles, effective communication, improving discipline
with dignity, conflict mediation and stress management. Billie has offered
her insight on building multicultural alliances in workshops in the Virgin
Islands, Portland Oregon, Wichita and Winfield Kansas, University, Riverview
Gardens and Saint Louis Public Schools. She is a facilitator for the World
of Difference Program, NCCJ's Dismantling Racism Institutes and the Teaching
and Leading for Social Justice Advocacy Project. Mrs. Mayo, a graduate
of Harris Stowe State Teachers College, has completed two Masters Degrees
at Webster University and a Doctorate in Educational Administration at
Saint Louis University. Some of Billie's achievements are the 1998 Ford
Foundation "Heroes and Sheroes” award for Human Rights, the
Sammy Davis, Jr. "Yes I Can" award in 1996, the Saint Louis
American's 2002 Salute to Excellence Award for Educators, and the 2003
University City School System’s Martin Luther King Spirit Award
for Social Justice. ANTHONY (Tony) NEAL of St. Louis has been an educator since 1987. He has served as coordinator of Webster University's Urban Families College Bound Program, coordinator of Saint Louis University's Upward Bound Program, director of the Minority Student Transfer Center for Metropolitan Community College, and assistant chief administrator of East St. Louis Community College Center. Tony currently works as the Director/Principal of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville East St. Louis Charter School. Last year Tony was involved in diversity training for all staff of the Purma School district of Cleveland, Ohio. He presented at the International Principals' Conversation/Conference in London. Tony also served as Director, Focus St. Louis Community Leadership for Teachers. Tony has served as adjunct professor at Harris-Stowe State College, Lake Land College- the Prison Project, and University of Missouri-Kansas City/the Mid-America Addiction Center, St. Louis Extension. Tony is the recipient of numerous awards including NCO's 1996 Volunteer of the Year award, the Olive Branch 2001 Distinguished Father of the Year, St. Louis Post-Dispatch 2000 Father of the Year award (Tony is a full-time single father to Amber, age 16 and Anthony, age 12). Tony received his Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Morehouse College and his Master of Arts in minority mental health from Washington University. PHIL HUNSBERGER has served as the Executive Director of the Metro East Consortium for Child Advocacy (MECCA) since 1988. MECCA is a partnership of six Illinois School Districts that include East St. Louis, Cahokia, Madison, Dupo, Venice, and Brooklyn. MECCA provides professional development for these districts in the areas of literacy, school leadership, mentoring, and social justice advocacy for teaching and leading. He is also the Coordinator of an Illinois State Board of Education RESPRO Region V grant. This initiative provides professional development for schools not reaching their adequate yearly progress (AYP) in a 16-county area of southern Illinois. From 1971 until the 1998 assignment, Phil served as a teacher, principal and central office administrator in the Sterling Unit #5 School District. He received his Bachelor of Science in Education and his Master in Science in Educational Administration from Northern Illinois University. His doctorate in Educational Leadership was from National-Louis University, Wheaton Campus. In 1994, the National Association of Elementary School Principals selected Phil as the National Distinguished Principal from Illinois. Most recently, Phil has served as faculty for the National Conference for Community and Justice: Dismantling Racism Institute since the summer of 2002. He has served as a presenter for school districts in the Chicago, Denver, New Orleans, Atlanta, Rochester, N.Y. and Columbus, Ohio area. He is married to Vicki, and they have four children: Eric, Sarah, Christy and her husband Jeremiah. PETER T. WILSON of St. Louis, Missouri has been in K-12 education for more than 30 years. He is president of Educational Equity Consultants, LLC., specializing in leadership development, individual and organizational change with a strong commitment to anti-racism and educational equity. Peter originated the Teaching and Leading as Social Justice Advocacy program, now known as Leadership and Racisim: Closing the Achievement Gap. In recent years he served as site coordinator for the Missouri Education Policy Fellowship Program, a program of the Washington DC-based Institute for Education Leadership. For three years he served as a facilitator for the African-American Achievement Alliance. Educational Equity clients include the University of Missouri-St. Louis, the St. Louis Professional Development Schools Collaborative, the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, eight school districts in the Metro St. Louis area and one in Virginia. Peter was Program Director for School Leadership at the Danforth Foundation (7 years) and a principal of K-8 schools (17 years). Prior to that he taught in New York City and Thailand. Peter co-founded the Association of Dismantling Racism Institute Alumni. In 1999 he initiated a work group on white privilege. In 1998 he was on the faculty of the NCCJ Dismantling Racism Institute and the NCCJ Building an Inclusive Community workshop. From 1986-1995 he served as co-developer and organizer of Leadership St. Louis Program’s “Day on Racism.” He has an Ed.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a BA from Colgate University. |
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