OUDC Curriculum Advisory Committee
OUDC is supported by its Curriculum Advisory Committee (CAC), consisting of well-respected experts in fields relevant to the substance of the curriculum that is presented to OUDC’s Social Justice Fellows. Their expertise includes Black-Jewish relations, Black and Jewish culture and religions, civil rights, conflict resolution, and high school pedagogy. OUDC’s staff regularly consults with the CAC to discuss the curriculum and suggestions for keeping it relevant, and presents questions to its members between meetings regarding specific issues.
Here are the current members of the CAC:
Dr. LaNitra Berger: Associate professor of history and art history; director of African and African American Studies at George Mason University
Howard Ross, Udarta Consulting: author and seminal thought leader on addressing unconscious bias
Dr. Lauren Strauss: American University: Senior Professorial Lecturer, Director of Undergraduate Studies for Jewish Studies History
Rabbi Jack Moline: Rabbi Emeritus, Agudas Achim Congregation; former Executive Director of Interfaith Alliance
Bob Mathis, Retired, former head of the Walt Whitman History Department
Rev. Dr. Topher Endress: Rev. Dr. Topher Endress: Associate Minister at First Christian Church; Director of Disciples Access (Disability Belonging and Justice)
Dr. Quincy Rineheart, Payne Theological Seminary: Chief of Staff to the President
Isaac Jasper: Assistant Director for Dialogue & Difference & Conflict Resolution Advisor at GMU Carter School. Coordinator for Indigenous Collaborations with Institiute for Sustainable Earth & DEI
Dr. Christopher Carr: Associate Dean and Deputy Title IX Coordinator; Office of Outreach, Student Success, and Engagement (OSSE). Works in diversity in higher education at George Mason University.
Dr. Douglas Irvin-Erickson: Assistant Professor, George Mason Carter School Director of the Genocide Prevention Program, Carter School.
Aaron Shneyer: Social enterprise leader focused on peacebuilding; Music Director at the 6th & I Historic Synagogue and Service Leader with Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation.
OUDC/John Mitchell Jr. Program Members
Dr. Charles L Chavis, Jr.: Director of African and African American Studies at George Mason University. Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution and History and the founding director of the John Mitchell, Jr. Program for History, Justice, and Race at the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution.
Dr. Linda Mann: Executive Director: George Mason University, John Mitchell Jr. Program, Carter School of Peace and Conflict Resolution; Co-founder & Director of the Redress Network; former Adjunct Professor at Columbia University. Dr. Mann was chosen for a European Schuman Fulbright to the Netherlands to study redressing colonialism through transitional justice mechanisms.
Xochi Cartland: OUDC Program Coordinator, poet, Transformative Justice Practitioner
Rabbi Bruce Aft: OUDC Board Member; Rabbi Emeritus, Congregation Adat Reyim; Visiting Scholar, George Mason University
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