THE EXPERTS
Elizabeth Cox-Schlosser, Ph.D. – Elizabeth Cox-Schlosser, Ph.D. is the RacialBias.org Professor of Racial, Implicit and Unconscious Bias. Dr. Cox-Schlosser has been a university professor for twenty-three years and, while at the University of Southern Mississippi, she authored a successful Ph.D. dissertation entitled “Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Implicit Bias: Implications for Closing the Achievement Gap.”
Dr. Schlosser uses a proprietary implicit bias measurement tool, Implicit Association Test (IAT), which was developed at Harvard University (Greenwald, A. G., Nosek, B. A., & Banaji, M. R. 2003). She has conducted research and training on clergy within the Central Gulf Coast Episcopal Church, with science teachers in the largest school system in the state of Alabama, and in neighboring Baldwin County. She is a pioneer in the use of quantitative statistical analyses to measure biases.
Rev. Dr. John G. Moore, Sr. – In 2005, after twenty years of honorable service to the nation, Rev. Dr. John G. Moore, Sr. retired from the United States Air Force as Master Sergeant where he served as the Commandant for the Airman Leadership School at Dover, DE Air Force Base at which he trained innumerable Airmen Managers, including military police officers and executives, in leadership excellence, preparing our next generation of military leaders for daily domestic duty as well as in combat situations in both peacetime and in theaters of active combat. Many of those trained by Dr. Moore remain in senior leadership capacities to this day.
In August 2007 Dr. Moore was recognized by Delaware Governor Ruth Anne Minner and eight state agencies as the recipient of the John H. Mathis Trailblazer Award for his sustained commitment to promote unity and cultural understanding. In 2012, he received the Delaware State Education Association’s Human and Civil Rights Award for his life work in advancing the cause of human and civil rights in Delaware. In 2014 Rev. Moore won the Distinguished Gentlemen of Delaware Award presented to him by the Scholarship of 10, Inc.
The Rev. Dr. Moore is considered the world’s foremost Dr. Martin Luther King reenactment artist. As a completely unique element of our Racial and Implicit Bias Training program, and leveraging his more than two decades as a military trainer, Dr. Moore stokes the consciousness of our Racial and Implicit Bias Training program participants by reenacting Dr. King and by helping all in attendance realize and understand that by realizing, identifying, measuring, and confronting our biases and prejudices, we come closer to realizing America’s mantra, e pluribus unum, i.e. “from many, one.”
In January 2016 Dr. Moore was honored as the Keynote Speaker for the State of New York’s Martin Luther King, Jr. National Holiday observance during which he channeled Dr. King with an epic reenactment of one of King’s most memorable speeches. Click here to see the Keynote Address and performance: http://bit.ly/RevJohnGMooreSr-
Judith Fluellen, M.D. – Dr. Judith Fluellen has been a Board Certified anesthesiologist in both hospital based practice and in private practice for nearly four decades. She is a world leading authority on breathing related issues, particularly those associated with positional asphyxia , a cause of death that can be resultant from prone restraints of subjects by police.
Dr. Fluellen is an undergraduate alumna of The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA and Thomas Jefferson University Medical School in her native Philadelphia, PA.
Dr. Fluellen is able to articulate to audiences of law enforcement personnel and others the most complex subject matter in a manner that is easily understood and is relatable to their real world experiences. In addition, she speaks authoritatively to the issue of African-American female representation in an organization’s work force.
Michael David Celestin Jr., Ph.D., MA, CHES, CTTS serves as Director of the Louisiana Tobacco Control Initiative and Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences in the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Public Health in New Orleans, LA. Dr. Celestin is embarking on a study of the quantification of the impact of Racial Bias Dot Org’s “Racial Bias, Implicit Bias, Unconscious Bias & the Impact of Social Media” training on the improvement of policing. Dr. Celestin also serves as the Clinical Lead of Tobacco Control for the LSU Health Care Services Division and Committee Chair of Tobacco Cessation for the Louisiana Department of Health Tobacco Control Coalition. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, a Master of Arts degree in Health Promotion from the University of New Orleans, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Public Policy from Southern University. He also maintains certification as a Health Education Specialist and a Tobacco Treatment Specialist. Dr. Celestin has more than 20 years of experience in tobacco prevention and cessation program development, implementation, and evaluation in community and health system settings. He has published several peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters and has given numerous oral and poster presentations at state and national conferences regarding tobacco control in Louisiana. His professional interests include dissemination and implementation of evidence-based health systems change policies and interventions to ensure cessation treatment for low socio-economic groups most likely to use tobacco and suffer from tobacco-related disabilities, diseases, and deaths.
Leland Hardy is the Founder of Racial Bias Dot Org. He has long been at the forefront of race relations in America and has been a key behind-the-scenes champion of civil rights, particularly in the business and education spaces. He has found himself as the first ever, youngest ever, or only African-American integrator in a host of settings and experiences in the United States and throughout the world, all girding him with the unique worldview that allows him to advise, counsel, and consult organizations on matters of racial bias, implicit bias, and unconscious bias in work places and elsewhere.
Mr. Hardy was the youngest ever and first ever African-American Fellow in the inaugural class of the Wharton School’s flagship Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies MBA/MA dual degree program where he majored in Marketing, Finance, and Chinese Business. The Lauder Institute is considered the world’s #1 graduate management program. Hardy is also an honors graduate of Beijing University’s Beijing Foreign Languages Institute and, among other languages, he speaks, reads, and writes Chinese and Spanish with native fluency.
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Hardy was recognized by the Bible of the marketing and advertising world, “Advertising Age Magazine,” with its coveted Advertising Age “Marketing 100” Award which is given to the world’s top 100 marketers.
Click here: https://bit.ly/LelandHardyCNNInterviewOnRacialBiasTrainingForPolice6-14-20
For some thirty years until the time of his death, Hardy was Muhammad Ali’s close friend and trusted Advisor. Hardy was Ali’s Official Chinese Translator and Interpreter for his 1985 goodwill trip to China. The Chinese Olympic Committee website references Hardy having rebirthed amateur boxing in China in the mid 1980s. For his first job after graduating from the Wharton School he moved to Detroit to help launch General Motors’ automobile parts manufacturing business in China in the mid 1980s.
Mr. Hardy was the youngest ever and first ever African-American Fellow in the inaugural class of the Wharton School’s flagship Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies MBA/MA dual degree program where he majored in Marketing, Finance, and Chinese Business. The Lauder Institute is considered the world’s #1 graduate management program. Hardy is also an honors graduate of Beijing University’s Beijing Foreign Languages Institute and, among other languages, he speaks, reads, and writes Chinese and Spanish with native fluency.
As a high school senior at the fabled Central High School of Philadelphia Hardy became a Holocaust Scholar and spearheaded efforts for the renaming of a section of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway near the Philadelphia Art Museum as “The Avenue of Remembrance.
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Legendary civil rights giant, Ambassador Andrew Young, was not only America’s first African-American Ambassador to the United Nations, but was a Member of U.S. Congress and was a two term Mayor of Atlanta. Of course, he is perhaps best remembered for being at the side of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. when he was felled by an assassin’s bullet in Memphis, TN.
Hardy has worked tirelessly to integrate exclusionary sports at the highest levels.
