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Board of Trustees
2000 Board Election
Candidates
Hope Hill, PhD
<HHill10628@aol.com>
Nominated by: Christine
Maxwell <maxwell@aix.pacwan.net>
Country: USA
Hope M. Hill, Ph.D.
Biography
Hope Hill is a clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at Howard
University in Washington, DC. She is the Director of the Howard University
Center for Violence Prevention. She is also the founder of Resilience
Works, a firm devoted to maximizing human potential among individuals
exposed to major life stresses such as violence and poverty.
She is focusing her expertise of more than 20 years in the field of human
behavior on how to integrate Internet and communications technology in
culturally competent ways into technologically under-served communities
and societies. Building on extensive experience in working with women
and children in low- resource communities in Africa, the US and the Caribbean,
Dr. Hill has developed interventions to empower communities to prevent
violence against women and children and foster their development. She
has conducted basic research on psychological and social factors, which
protect vulnerable individuals from involvement in interpersonal violence.
Over the past 15 years, she and her colleagues at the Howard University
Center for Violence Prevention have developed preventive interventions
for communities to help stem the rising tide of youth violence and violence
against women.
Dr. Hill is a frequent worker on the international stage in assisting
community- based organizations, women’s groups and schools to empower
stakeholders to develop leadership skills and creative ways of understanding
and fostering resilient functioning among individuals who have experienced
major life stresses.
Empowering Women
She is currently involved in efforts to empower women in developing communities
and societies to take advantage of the educational opportunities of the
Internet to increase awareness in their communities of the need for physical
safety and the eradication of violence against women and children. She
is developing distance learning strategies to connect the university and
women from communities around the world to support the development of
women in rural and other under-served areas. She has conducted research
and participated in development projects in South Africa, Tanzania, Haiti,
Jamaica and the horn of Africa to empower communities and schools to protect
women and children in risky settings.
Prior to coming into academia, she was in the leadership in urban mental
health administration and developing culturally competent mental health
services. Her consistent focus has been on understanding how individuals
and groups succeed despite tremendous odds rather than on focusing on
the various psychopathologies associated with why people break down. This
interest has prompted her to focus on those psychological factors and
social experiences that promote healthy social and emotional development
among groups and individuals living under chronic stressors. She is a
former member of the American Psychological Association Task Force on
Youth Violence, the Committee on Injury Prevention of the National Academy
of Sciences, Institute of Medicine and a current member of the advisory
board for the University of Colorado’s Center for the Study of Violence
"Blueprints Project" which seeks to replicate effective violence
prevention interventions.
Educational Background
Hope Hill holds a BS in political science and psychology from Wesleyan
University in Middletown Connecticut, a masters and doctoral degree in
psychology from Columbia University in New York City and completed a post-doctoral
fellowship in child development and social policy at the Bush Center,
Yale University. She lives in a multicultural, inner city community in
Washington, DC. where she is active in educational and community affairs.
Position Statement
If elected to the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society I would focus
my work as follows:
1. Encourage the collaboration between ISOC and women and children both
in the developing world and low resource communities in the US to enhance
their ability to use internet technology to promote their safety and well
being.
2. Work to bridge the digital divide between the university community,
and women in under- served areas around the world to empower them in internet
and communications technology so they can in turn develop their leadership
capacity in their communities and enhance their social, emotional and
economic development and that of their children.
3. Work with ISOC to facilitate the integration of internet technology
into the cultural context of developing communities and societies so as
to maximize their access to the digital highway, promote ease of use and
to reduce fear and minimize possible conflicts with existing cultural
norms.
4. Serve as a bridge in ISOC between low resource, yet resilient communities
of color and more privileged groups in order to encourage greater communication,
collaboration and the more equitable access to the new generation of the
Internet.
My ability to accomplish these goals is attributable to my ease in communication
across cultures and class. I was born in a primarily African American
inner city urban area with very limited material resources but one rich
in culture and traditional values. I have worked and lived in the developing
world in addition to more privileged societies, and have sought to foster
collaborations, building on the strengths and capabilities of each. I
speak French and some KiSwahili, in addition to English and have done
cross cultural research and intervention to facilitate the development
of women and children in differing communities.
Professional Experience
Internet
Currently engaged in an indepth-distance learning project to promote the
safety of women and children in sub-Sahara Africa and low resource urban
communities.
Academic
Associate Professor in Psychology at Howard University and Director of
the Howard University Center for Violence Prevention and Resilience Works.
Held academic positions at university level for the past 14 years. Developed
numerous interventions to prevent domestic violence, youth violence, community
violence, school violence, and workplace violence. Produced a number of
professional publications in this field including curricula for distance
learning on empowering women and reducing violence aimed at women and
children. Created a number of programs in collaboration with the academic
community, law enforcement, mental health, and educational systems to
maximize social and emotional development of women and children and families
living in the context of chronic stressors.
Research
Awarded numerous of research grants for basic research in the area of
youth violence, violence prevention among communities in poverty, cross-cultural
research in violence prevention, family violence, empowering women living
in stressful settings and developing cultural competence within groups
and organizations.
Hope M. Hill, Ph.D.
425 Emerson Street, NW
Washington, DC 20011
202-722-4258 phone
202-806-9463 fax
hhill10628@aol.com
Objective
The application of the science of human behavior to increase the utilization
of the internet and communications technology to under-served communities;
the development of culturally appropriate distance learning strategies
for the empowerment of women and children
Education
1974 BS, political science and psychology
Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT
1978 MS, Clinical Psychology
Teachers College, Columbia University
New York, NY
1977-1978 Clinical Internship
Neuropsychiatric Institute
University of California
Los Angeles, CA
1982 Ph.D., Clinical Psychology
Columbia University
New York, NY
Fellowships
1982-1984 Post-doctoral, child development and social policy
Bush Center
Yale University, New Haven, CT
1996 Fogarty Institute Minority International Research and Training
Fellowship to conduct cross cultural research in South Africa and the
US on how children
and families coped with community and political violence.
Recent Positions
1989-present Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Howard University
1991-present Director, Howard University Center for Violence Prevention
and Youth Development. The Center conducts research, provides training
and develops programs in youth violence prevention, family violence, workplace
violence and community interventions. Center develops distance learning
modalities for curricula developing societies.
1990-present Director, Resilience Works, Inc. This center provides research
policy development
and training in the prevention of violence against women, youth violence
and workplace violence. The center has developed policies for universities,
created training modules for schools and communities, developed curricula
and provided consultation on cultural competence issues in mental health,
violence prevention and youth development.
1996-present Principal Investigator, South African Development Project.
Conducted research in the Republic of South Africa on strategies for coping
with violence among Black South African Youth. Provided training for school
personnel on helping students cope with the aftermath of political violence.
Currently responsible for putting training in an interactive distance
learning format.
Academic Experience
1987-1988 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Howard
University. Washington, DC. Taught graduate and undergraduate students.
Supervised graduate students in clinical practica.
1986-1987 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, NY: Taught undergraduate students.
1984-1987 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychology Program, Columbia
University, Teachers College, NY: Responsible for clinical supervision
in psychotherapy and psychodiagnostic testing.
Selected Cross Cultural Experiences
1972 Haiti, worked on community health care project.
1974 Tanzania, conducted research on rural health care delivery services
in the Ujamaa village, Wesleyan University; participated in 6th Pan African
Congress in Dar Es Salaam.
1977 Trinidad, conference on Mental Health and Social Development, Charles
Drew University, Los Angeles, CA.
1979 Somalia, conference on rural development, Charles Drew University,
Los Angeles, CA.
1979 Egypt, study tour of Egyptian antiquity with Dr. Yusef Ben-Jochannan.
1979 Senegal, language and art enrichment.
1989 Jamaica, Association of Black Psychologist Conference on Mental Health
in the African Diaspora.
1995 Italy, Sienna International Society for Study and Research on Aggression.
1996 Jamaica, consultation to women’s safety project on youth violence.
1996-present Republic of South Africa, collaborative research with the
Center for Violence and Reconciliation’s Forty Schools Project. Conducted
research and training with women in informal settlements and schools on
coping with family and community violence and crisis intervention.
1999 Switzerland, Geneva, Telecom ’99.
Publications
Cheek, D., Hill, H., Myers, H., Thomas, S., & Thomas, T. (1981). A
culturally adapted parent training program. Center for the Improvement
of Child Caring, Studio City, CA.
Hill, H. (1982). An investigation of indices of competent parenting in
Afro-American mothers. Doctoral dissertation, Teachers College, Columbia
University.
Hill, H. (1983). A Review: Black children, their roots, culture and learning
styles. The Networker, Spring.
Hill, H., & Allen, D. (1984). The impact of day care on the employment
of black single women. Study commissioned by the National Urban league,
1984.
Comer, J., & Hill, H. (1985). Social policy and the mental health
of Black children. Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry,
24, 2:175-181.
Hill, H. (1984). WIC: A retrospective analysis of a success. Policy analysis
submitted for requirement for post-doctoral fellowship, Yale University.
Hill, H. & Ware, N. (1988). Socio-cultural issues in prevention of
AIDS among emotionally disturbed Black adolescents. Unpublished manuscript.
Harp, O.J., Wright-Harp, W., Hill, H.M. & Molock, S.D. Affect, time
orientation and neuropsychological test performance in African American
Children. Journal of Black Psychology. (in press).
Hill, H.M. (1994). Urban Violence: reclaiming childhood for children at
risk. Violence Update, 5, 1-10.
Hill, H.M., Soriano, F.I., Chen, A., LaFromboise, T.D. (1994). Socio-cultural
factors in the etiology and prevention of violence among ethnic minority
youth. Eron, L.D., Gentry, J.H., Schlegel, P. Reason to hope: A psychosocial
perspective on violence and youth. American Psychological Association:
Washington, DC.
Hill, H.M. & Madhere, S. (1996). Exposure to community violence and
African American children: A multidimensional model of risk resources.
Journal of Community Psychology 24, 26-43.
Hill, H.M. & Twaite, J. (1997). Exposure to violence and social support
as predictors of anxiety and social and emotional among African American
children. Journal of Child and Family Studies 5, 399-414.
Hill, H.M., Hawkins, S. & Raposo, M.T. (1995). The relationship between
multiple exposures to violence and coping styles among African American
mothers. Victims and Violence 10:1, 55-71
Hill, H.M. Instant being versus the agony of becoming. Journal of Negro
Education
(in press).
Hill, H. Community violence: A challenge to Black psychology. Journal
of Black Psychology (in press).
Hill, H., Jones, L. (1997). Children’s and parent’s perceptions
of children’s exposure to urban violence. Journal of the National
Medical Association.
Hill, H.M. & Madhere, S. (in press) Profile of resilience in African
American children exposed to community violence.
Hill, H., Robertson, J. Jipguep, MC (1999). Adolescents coping with community
violence in the US and South African context. Unpublished manuscript.
Hill, H.M. The application of the principles of cultural competence in
preventing violence in the workplace (under review for publication).
Hill, H.M. Psychological abuse family violence and community violence:
The triple threat to children and families (Under review for publication).
Hill, H.M. (2000). Working with women and children exposed to family violence:
A curriculum manual.
Grants Awarded
1999-2001 Grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse to Howard University
Center for Alcohol and Drug Research. The development of a model of the
role of alcohol on the involvement of African American women in marital
violence.
1998-1999 Development of policy and implementation strategy on workplace
violence, Howard University.
1998-2000 California Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
Wellness Grant to plan violence prevention and safety program for developmentally
disabled
women.
1998-present Drug Elimination Grant to work with children and families
in drug prevention and family treatment and women’s groups, DC Housing
Authority.
1998-1999 Fund for Academic Excellence Award to develop distance learning
course on the "Multidisciplinary Perspectives of Violence in South
Africa and in the US".
1998-present Saving Our Children: A Violence Prevention Intervention for
Youth in Public Housing. Department of Housing and Urban Development and
the DC Housing Authority.
1998-2000 Children who Witness Domestic Violence: An intervention for
children and parents. National Institute of Justice, Violence Against
Women.
1994-1999 Safe Start and Lessons from Resilient Children, CRESPAR, US
Department of Education, OERI.
1994 Howard University Violence Prevention Project, National Institute
of Justice.
1993-1996 Evaluation Grant for Children as Witnesses to Violence, National
Institute of Justice.
1993 Howard University Violence Prevention Project: An intervention for
children exposed to community violence, Annie E. Casey Foundation.
1992-1997 Children as Witnesses to Violence, Centers for Disease Control
Grant.
1993-1996 Urban Violence as a Stressor in the Development of African American
Children, MIRDP National Institute of Mental Health.
1991 Howard University Violence Prevention Project, Office of Criminal
Justice Plans and Analysis, Office of the Mayor, Washington, DC.
1990-1992 Faculty Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Howard
University, Environmental Violence and the Social and Emotional Development
of African American Children.
1990 Howard University Violence Prevention Project: Educational Enrichment
Project, Grant from the Office of Systemic Educational Reform, DC Public
Schools.
1990-1991 Minority Research Initiation Planning Grant, National Science
Foundation Study, Urban Violence and the Social and Emotional Development
of African American Children funding.
Clinical, Consulting and Program Development
1991-1993 Potomac Job Corps, Washington, DC, Mental Health Consultant
for adolescents in job training program.
1990 Casey Preschool Project; Developed program of consultation and training
to preschools regarding the impact of violence on young children.
1987-1990 Child and Youth Services, Commission on Mental Health Services,
Washington, DC. Chief, ACCESS Division. Responsible for the development
of a new division in the children’s mental health system with centralized
intake and evaluation unit, clinical case management program, mobile crisis
team, and outreach unit.
1989-1991 Youth Trauma Service. Developed a collaborative intervention
between the Metropolitan Police and the children’s mental health
system in DC designed to respond to children and adolescents who witness
crimes and violence on the street.
1984-1987 Graham Windham Mental Health Clinic, New York, NY. Chief Psychologist.
Supervised psychology staff in psychodiagnostic assessments and therapy;
responsible for staff development and conducted groups for parents and
families.
1983-1986 Northside Child Development Center, New York, NY. Child Psychologist
Administered and supervised psychology department. Supervised psychologists
in psychodiagnostic assessments and therapy. Conducted groups of parents
and families .
1983-1986 J.W. Sanders Group Home, New York, NY. Consulting Psychologist.
Developed and implemented clinical program for mental retarded and developmentally
disabled adults. Trained residential and clinical staff in behavioral
treatment.
1983-1984 Yale-New Haven Hospital, Newborn Special Care Unit, New Haven,
CT. Developmental Specialist. Provided developmental and psychotherapeutic
consultations to families of high-risk infants.
1982-1984 Bush Center for Child developmental and Social Policy, Yale
University, New Haven, CT. Post-doctoral fellow. Conducted the following
research: Policy analysis of the Supplemental Food program for Women,
Infants and Children (WIC) and an investigation of familiar characteristics
of highly competent children. Received advanced training in; child development
and social policy, child advocacy law and infant development.
Selected Appointments
Past
1986-1990 Board of Trustees, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.
1987-1988 Values Commission for the D.C. Pubic Schools. This commission
was charged with the responsibility of developing a plan for infusing
a multi-dimensional program of values education into D.C. Public Schools.
1990-1993 American Psychological Association’s Task Force on Youth
Violence.
1995 Board of Advisors, Center for Child Poverty, School of Public Health,
Columbia University, New York, NY.
1996 Mayor’s Task Force on School Violence, Washington, DC.
1996 National Academy of Sciences, Special Committee of the Board on Children,
Youth and Families.
1982-1984 National Academy of Sciences, Institute of medicine, Committee
on Injury Control and Prevention.
1997-1999 U.S. Department of Education Expert Panel on Safe and Drug-Free
Schools.
Present
1997 D.C. Public Charter School Board.
1999 Mayor’s Advisory Board on Adolescent Drug Prevention.
1999 Injury Prevention Expert Panel: Health, Mental Health & Safety
in Schools Coordinated by American Academy of Pediatrics.
Languages
French, KiSwahili and English
Licenses and Certificates
Licensed clinical psychologist in the District of Columbia and the State
of New York.
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