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 Claudia
Albano has more
than 20 years experience in social action organizing. Originally
trained in the Alinsky
Tradition, she studied with such organizing notables
as Fred Ross, Sr. (Farm Workers) and John Baumann (Pacific
Institute for Community Organization). She is currently the
Neighborhood Resources Manager with the City of Fremont, CA,
and has worked as an aide to several local elected officials
in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ms. Albano has been a community-police
liaison with the Oakland Police Department, a regional planner
with the Association of Bay Area Governments, and the director
of several non-profit organizations. She holds a Master's
Degree in Public Administration from Harvard University, a
Master’s Degree in Legal Studies from the University
of San Francisco, and a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science
from UC, Berkeley.
Susanne Fest, Chair, Community Change and Civic Leadership at Antioch
University Midwest, Ohio. She teaches face-to-face and on-line
graduate courses in Qualitative Research, Action Research,
Foundations of Academic Discourse and Applied Curriculum Design.
She obtained her doctorate in Human Resource Development from
Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tennessee. Before coming
to McGregor, she held appointments as Research Associate with
the Institute for Community Research in Hartford, CT, and
the Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, CT. Dr. Fest has taught
courses and seminars at Vanderbilt University (Applied Human
Development, Small Group Behavior); The University of Connecticut
(Diversity in Human Development); and Hartford University
(Leaders and Managers as Problem-Solvers and Decision-Makers).
Dr. Fest holds a Master’s degree in counseling psychology
and has worked as a marriage and family therapist and consultant
in a variety of academic, private and non-profit organizations.
She has presented her research at national and international
conferences and is on the editorial board of a peer-reviewed,
critical, postmodern organizational studies journal. Her academic
interests include individual and organizational development,
qualitative research and discourse analysis.
Retta Baker Kelley
has been with Cox Newspapers for 28 years working in various
roles ranging from feature writer, columnist, features editor,
Advertising Director of the Dayton Daily News and then Business
Manager, to Publisher of the Longview News Journal in Longview
Texas to her current role as Director of Community Development
and InfoVentures at the Austin
American-Statesman. She has served for several years as editor
for the Pew Partnership for Civic Change newsletter, Community
Matters.
Throughout her career she has served
on numerous community boards such as United Way of the Capital
Area, the Texas Book Festival and the Austin Theatre Alliance.
She is co-founder and chair of the newly formed Literacy
Coalition of Central Texas. She has also been
involved in conducting workshops on how to use the media effectively
in communicating organizational missions and messages.
Kelley holds a bachelor's degree in French
from Baylor University in Waco, and a master's degree in English
from the University of Texas, Austin.
 Allen
B. Moore (Bernie) retired
from the University of Georgia, in December of 2002 after
25 years as Associate Professor with the Department of Adult
Education and the Carl Vinson Institute of Government. He
holds a Doctorate in Adult Education (1970), Master’s
(1968) and Bachelor’s (1964) degrees in Forestry from
North Carolina State University.
Bernie assists rural and urban community
groups in problem solving, resource allocation, strategic
planning, facilitation strategies, and community development
activities. During his tenure at UGA he directed masters and
doctoral studies for more than 50 graduates. He also conducted
community projects for rural and urban locations in Georgia
and several southeastern states. He is co-author of Facilitating
Community and Decision Making Groups (1993) and Transforming
Your Community: Empowering for Change (1996) both by
Krieger Publishing Company in Melbourne, Florida.
His international research (1997-to-date)
includes site visits and interviews with community workers
in Australia, Botswana, Croatia, Denmark, Mexico, Scotland,
Sweden, and Taiwan. This research has been published in the
proceedings of the Adult Education Research Association Volumes
40, 41, and 42. Two publications related to community work
include an article entitled Community Development Practice:
Theory in Action in the Community Development Journal
Vol. 33, No. 1, 2002, pp. 20-32, and a paper with a colleague
in Training Agenda (Australia; Autumn 2003, Vol. 11,
No.1, pp. 9-11) about learning communities.
Currently Bernie is working on projects
as a consultant including teaching on-line classes in community
development (Adult Education, 2003) and self directed learning
(Pharmacy, 2003) at the University of Georgia. He is a trainer
for the Pew Partnership (2002 and 2003) related to the Leadership
Plenty Curriculum and the AARP Alliance Leadership Program
in Ohio (2002 and 2003).
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