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Dr. Kim Eyvonne Porter is a licensed marriage and family therapist and Applied Metaphysician exploring the relationship between psychology, energy, and legacy. Her work bridges evidence-based therapy and metaphysical insight, helping professionals, caregivers, and leaders restore balance and reconnect with purpose.
She is currently developing Infinite Pathways, a forthcoming guide to energy, spirit, and power, and Estate Metaphysics, a framework for building structures that hold wellness and sovereignty across generations.
When she’s not writing or teaching, Dr. Porter enjoys cooking, tending her garden, and traveling—most recently to Paris, Portugal, Japan, Mexico, and Honduras—where she continues to draw inspiration for her evolving work.
Shadi Doroudgar, PharmD is the Assistant Dean of Enrollment Management and an Associate Professor of Clinical Sciences at Touro University California College of Pharmacy. As a clinical faculty member, she teaches pharmacy students in the classroom setting during the didactic years as well as during experiential rotations at Pathways to Wellness Clinics. There she has been providing care to patients with moderate to severe mental illness under a collaborative practice agreement since 2016.
Roberta Sanders completed her undergraduate degree at Wayne State University receiving a Bachelors of Science in Nursing after working approximately 10 years at Wayne County General Hospital, Psychiatric division. She decided it was time for a career change and went on to complete a Masters in Social Work at the University of Hawaii. She continued on in a career utilizing both her nursing and social work skills to service severe and persistent mentally ill clients, serving as CEO of a behavioral health clinic in an urban area for 35 years. Following that experience, she decided to start her own company that offered training and consultation regarding issues and challenges faced by African-American families and clients as they receive appropriate mental health services. She has found this work challenging and rewarding as a mental health professional, gaining a better understanding of issues and concerns related to there African-American clients
Nia Campinha-Bacote is an educator, facilitator, and healer whose work integrates theology, somatics, and Afro-diasporic traditions to reimagine health and healing from community-based and culturally grounded perspectives. She received her Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School, alongside certifications from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and the Black Church Studies Program, for her research in music thanatology. Nia also holds a B.A. in Health and Human Biology with a concentration in Race and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Disease from Brown University.
As a certified Emotional Emancipation Circle Facilitator, Soma Yoga Teacher, and Somatic Embodiment Practitioner, Nia is dedicated to creating spaces for communal restoration that are trauma-informed, spiritually rooted, and culturally affirming. Through her roles as consultant, community curator, and presenter, Nia has engaged diverse audiences—from survivors of violence in New Haven, to Afro-Colombian women’s collectives in Colombia to psychiatric hospital staff and patients in Cape Verde—bringing forward practices of embodied healing, collective resilience, and Afrocentric approaches to health.
DeQuincy Lezine received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from UCLA and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Rochester with a focus on public health approaches to suicide prevention. Dr. Lezine was the inaugural Chair of the Attempt Survivor and Lived Experience Division of AAS and has served as a Co-Chair of the Consumer Survivor Committee for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the SAMHSA 2015 Voice Awards. He is the Director of the Lived Experience Academy, an internationally recognized scholar, and a published author who has focused extensively on understanding and integrating traumatic experiences.
Karinn Glover, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Attending, Adult Outpatient Psychiatry Division, Montefiore Hospital, Bronx NY. Currently Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Dr. Glover teaches psychopharmacology and aspects of psychotherapy to Psychiatry and Family Medicine residents. Her decade-plus experience as a psychiatrist and leader in the primary care division at Montefiore Health System has informed her approach to health equity, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEI+B), and the styles of leadership that produce organizational success.
Dr. Darius Campinha-Bacote is a licensed clinical psychologist at the Dallas County Juvenile Detention Center, where he is a functional family therapist and program supervisor for the Functional Family Therapy (FFT) program. In this role, he works with youth and their families who come from underprivileged backgrounds. Dr. Darius Campinha-Bacote also has a private practice located in Ft. Worth, where he focuses on individual, couples, and family therapies, in addition to conducting evaluations for veterans. He received his BA in Psychology, double minoring in Social work and Women’s Studies from the University of Dayton, and both his master’s (Psy.M) and doctorate (Psy.D) from Wright State University School of Professional Psychology (SOPP). He is credentialed as a Health Service Psychologist (HSP). Dr. Darius Campinha-Bacote completed an APA accredited Internship at La Frontera Center in Tucson, Arizona, where he counseled high-risk minority youth who were transitioning to adulthood. In addition, he completed a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Dallas County Juvenile Detention Center, where he co-facilitated groups and provided individual therapy. Dr. Darius Campinha-Bacote has served as the Cultural and Linguistic Competency Coordinator for a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) grant in which he partnered with youth and adults to coordinate culturally competent policies designed to ensure culturally-specific interventions for transitional-aged youth from diverse ethnic and cultural background. Dr. Darius Campinha-Bacote is the author of several publications, including the chapter, “The Impact of Religious/Spiritual Beliefs on Survivors of Traumatic Events” in the textbook Spirituality and Psychotherapy.
Delane Casiano, MD is an adult psychiatrist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. With specialization in cultural psychiatry and women’s mental health, Dr. Casiano has worked with ethnically diverse populations in a multitude of health care settings. Through her work she is helping individuals overcome challenges with depression and other mental health problems. Dr. Casiano earned her bachelor’s degree from Brown University and medical degree from Morehouse School of Medicine. She completed her residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Such professional and governmental organizations as the American Psychiatric Association and the National Institute of Mental Health have recognized her research examining cultural influences on mental health beliefs among African American men and women with depression. Clinical organizations herald Dr. Casiano’s work as well. She collaborated with the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health to create a combined program of psychiatry and obstetrics/gynecology services for women. She also supervised multidisciplinary teams as associate medical director for the Princeton House Behavioral Health women’s program. Dr. Casiano is a member of the American Psychiatric Association and Black Psychiatrists of America. She provides academic presentations and educational events for health-care professionals and community members. She now sees patients in her own private practice in Erdenheim, a nearby Philadelphia suburb.
Dr. Karriem Salaam is a Board Certified in Adult and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. He currently serves as the Medical Director of Adolescent Services at Friends Hospital in Northeast Philadelphia and as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, from 2006 to present. Dr. Salaam has been a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association since 2017. He is a founding member of Global Health Psychiatry, LLC. A company focused on decreasing the stigma of mental illness in communities of color, through education and community action, established in 2017.
Lester E. Love, MD was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He attended undergraduate at The University of Chicago where he was a molecular and theoretical biology major. Dr. Love attended medical school, at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and then completed seven years of residency in both family practice and psychiatry at UCSF. Currently, Dr. Love is Medical Director for Tulare County, California and Core Faculty for the psychiatry and family practice residency programs in the Kaweah Delta Health Care District, University of California, Irvine affiliate. As an aside, Dr. Love is also a second-degree black belt in Shotokan Karate and Northern Shaolin Kung-Fu.