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Dr. Nicholas V. Montalto, President of Diversity Dynamics brings more than 30 years of
experience to his work with Diversity Dynamics. Manager, trainer, consultant, researcher, speaker and author, Dr. Montalto
has extensive knowledge of and contacts within America's immigrant communities. He has designed and implemented creative
solutions to the policy challenges caused by America's ever-changing diversity. He holds a doctorate in American immigrant
and ethnic history from the University of Minnesota, and served for 25 years as President and CEO of the International Institute
of New Jersey. Certified as a consultant by the National Center for Cultural Competence at Georgetown University, Dr. Montalto
has successfully completed consulting assignments with many public and private organizations. He has served as special advisor
to the Program on Immigration and Democracy at Rutgers University, as chair of the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Immigration
Policy Network, and as a member of the Hispanic Advisory Committee of the NJ Department of Human Services. An
alumnus of Leadership New Jersey, Dr. Montalto currently serves as President-elect of the New Jersey Association for Lifelong
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Dr. Rooshey Hasnain is currently Visiting
Research Assistant Professor and Project Director at the Department of Disability and Human Development of the University
of Illinois at Chicago. Her primary professional interest revolves around the lives, challenges and strengths of people with
disabilities, especially those from refugee and immigrant backgrounds. In more than 10 years of professional work in disability
and rehabilitation, she has focused on finding ways to bridge the cross-cultural service gap between U.S. rehabilitation service
systems and hard-to-reach individuals with disabilities and their families. She is a national expert on cultural brokering
models and has presented workshops on this topic both in this country and abroad. Dr. Hasnain has published articles in several
peer-reviewed journals, along with book chapters and monographs on cross-cultural disability issues relating to newcomer groups.
Prior to coming to the University of Illinois, Dr. Hasnain served as a Project Director and Investigator at the Institute
for Community Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts. Dr. Hasnain holds a doctorate in Education in Special Education
from Boston University.
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Dr. Erik Jacobson is an Assistant Professor in the Early Childhood, Elementary and Literacy Education
Department at Montclair State University. For most of his career, working as a teacher, trainer, and researcher, Erik has
focused on issues facing adults who need support in literacy or English language learning. He is one of the founding members
of the Adult Literacy Education (ALE) Wiki and is the Topic Leader for World Literacy and Nonformal Education. For the last
few years, he has been conducting research that looks at the ways the web has been used in adult education. He taught community-based
adult ESL in the greater Boston area for ten years. During this period, he was a research assistant at the National Center
for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy, working on two national studies that examined the use of authentic materials
in adult education classrooms. Erik received his doctorate from Harvard University's Graduate School of Education, and
his dissertation was a study of adult basic education in Japan.
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