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This list of consultants represents some of the premier trainers and facilitators working with organizations that support and advocate with people of color, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities, low socio-economic individuals and other traditionally marginalized groups. At The Praxis Project we are dedicated to addressing issues of social and health justice and we have been careful in selecting and highlighting individuals whose training approach is consistent with our goals, our training model, and strategies. The trainers are well versed in areas of media advocacy, coalition building, evaluation, research, fundraising, and curriculum development. If you contact them please be sure to tell them that you were referred by your friends at The Praxis Project.
Illene Abramson, Ph.D.
Professor
Lawrence Technological University
Novi, MI
ihabramson@aol.com
(248) 926-0695
Ilene specializes in adult learning, health communication,
curriculum design, and health literacy. She holds advanced degrees in the
fields of adult education and anthropology. At Lawrence Technological University
she teaches communication skills to international graduate students and has
lectured on learning/math anxiety for enrollees in the Lawrence Research Methods
and Applications course (MSTC), and designed Continuing Education curricula
concerning clinician-patient interaction. She has also taught communication
to pharmacy students at Wayne State University and given presentations for
area hospital residency programs. In addition to addressing psychosocial factors
in clinical interviewing, her academic papers discuss the relationship linking
language, learning, and abuse.
Pancho Arguelles Paz y Puente,
Consultant
Houston, TX
pazypuente@lycos.com
(713) 807-0027
Pancho is the former Coordinator of the Immigrant Community Organizers Working Group at the National Organizers Alliance (NOA) and co-authored Bridge Building a Race and Immigrant Dialogue in the Global Economy. A native of Mexico, Pancho has worked as a popular educator, grassroots organizer, and program coordinator around immigrant, indigenous, and poor peoples’ rights both in Central America and the United States.
Victoria Amaris, Consultant
Minneapolis, MN
amaris@visi.com
(612) 722-0796
Victoria is a native of Bogota, Colombia who has lived in the United States since childhood. She has 25 years experience as a consultant in the areas of social research, health, program development and cross-cultural communication. She organized the Hispanic Health Network of Minnesota in 1993 and continues to serve as a consultant for the group. The HHN conducts health forums for Latinos under the theme Como Vivir de una Manera Saludable a Todas la Edades (Healthy Habits for a Lifetime) and advises on cultural competence issues related to Latinos and convenes networking meetings for providers and community.
In addition, she is the Cultural Dynamics Program Manager at the Greater Twin Cities United Way. Primary areas of responsibility include capacity building and technical assistance in the area of cultural competence and crosscultural communication to non-profit organizations, community building, and citizen participation. She trains organizations and conducts sessions utilizing an innovative model, the United Way’s Cultural Complementarityä which has been successful in building cultural competence in a variety of arenas including as an organizational tool, in the faith community, local governments, the Minnesota Police Corp. Her previous work has focused on the areas of advocacy, health, leadership development, social research, including conducting the first focus groups with Hispanics in Minnesota for the Minnesota Department of Health and was the Research Director for the State of Minnesota’s Chicano Latino Affairs Council, an agency that advises the governor, legislators, and agencies on issues and concerns of Hispanics.
LaDonna BlueEye, MPH
BlueEye Consulting
Oklahoma City, OK 73116
blueeyeconsulting@sbcglobal.net
(405) 650-2817
LaDonna is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and is a national expert on working with Native American communities for tobacco prevention and control. She has been a faculty member at the University of Pittsburg and the Director of the Native American Prevention Research Center at the University of Oklahoma. She has consulted with the National Partnership to Help Pregnant Smokers Quit, the Smoke-Free Families National Office, and the CDC.