THE M.A.S.C EQUALITY VIRTUAL SUMMIT
CONNECTING YOU TO THE RESOURCES
To Improve Mental Health & Wellness
Increase Inclusion & Diversity In The Workforce
Equal Housing & Employment
Eliminate Gender-Based Crime
Strengthening Immune System To Fight COVID-19
A Message From Actress & Activist
HAILIE SAHAR
If there is anything this past year has taught us, it is that taking responsibility for each other’s welfare is essential, if we want to successfully navigate this difficult and challenging time.
This 5-day Summit, features experts from various sectors of industry, brought together to discuss challenges that uniquely affect the Black LGBTQ community. These topics range from COVID-19 to housing, civil liberties, employment, mental wellness, violence, and policy.
This is A solution-driven conversation, the first step of many towards eradicating the systematic oppression directed towards the Black LGTBQ community.
THE M.A.S.C EQUALITY VIRTUAL SUMMIT
Making A Safer Community, Through Educating & Providing Solutions Surrounding COVID-19 & HIV. A solution-driven series, delivering information to equip the Black LGTBQ community with strategies to empower and elevate their lifestyles. Industry experts, and social, leaders participate in the summit. Connecting a community with the resources, tools, support, and solutions for navigating the pandemic, justice system, employment, and much more. Confronting stigmas and institutionalized ideologies, ultimately adding healthcare providers with methods to effectively communicate and build the community. Summit will inform, educate, uplift, and celebrate the Black LGTBQ community.
Dr. Nicole L. Cammack is a licensed clinical psychologist in the State of Maryland. She received her B.S. from Howard University, and her master’s and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from The George Washington University. Additionally, she completed a specialized postdoctoral fellowship with the National Center for School Mental Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Dr. Cammack is passionate about mental health awareness, treatment, and reducing the mental health stigma, particularly as it relates to Black communities. This passion is what led to the development of Black Mental Wellness, Corp. of which she is a Co-Founder, President, and CEO. Black Mental Wellness has a mission to provide access to evidenced-based information and resources about mental health and behavioral health topics from a Black perspective, to highlight and increase the diversity of mental health professionals, and to decrease the mental health stigma in the Black community. In addition, we lead trainings and workshops for corporations and community agencies, develop culturally informed curriculum, provide consultation services, and we are available for a range of speaking engagements.
Lastly, Dr. Cammack serves as the Program Director of a Primary Care-Mental Health Integration clinic, where she provides mental health services to veterans in a primary care setting. Clinical services that she provide include brief individual therapy, couples therapy, and culturally responsive therapeutic groups that focus on race-based trauma, military sexual trauma, and resilience. Lastly, she leads the Diversity Training Subcommittee and promotes efforts to increase diversity and cultural competency among psychology graduate trainees, and she is an active participant on several leadership councils through the VA Medical Center.
Bianca D.M. Wilson, Ph.D., is the Rabbi Zacky Senior Scholar of Public Policy at the Williams Institute.
Her research focuses primarily on system-involved LGBTQ youth, LGBT poverty, and sexual health among queer women. In addition to multiple peer-reviewed and institution-published reports, she co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies that featured a multidisciplinary collection of work on health and other topics from the perspectives of Black Lesbians in the U.S., Caribbean, and South Africa. She earned a doctorate in Psychology from the Community and Prevention Research program at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) with a minor in Statistics, Methods, and Measurement, and received postdoctoral training at the UCSF Institute for Health Policy Studies and the UCSF Lesbian Health and Research Center through an Agency for Health Research and Quality (AHRQ) postdoctoral fellowship.
Chevelle Moss-Savage is a Licensed Psychotherapist and the founder of “Helping Everyone Accept and Adapt to Life”, (H.E.A.L-LLC). She has more than twenty years of experience working in mental health as a therapist, group facilitator, trainer/instructor, and case manager. She holds a master’s degree in Human Services Clinical Counseling from Lincoln University; is a Certified Grief Counseling Specialist, Human Services-Board Certified Practitioner and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional. Chevelle is an international thought leader, who has been recognized for her amazing work to further social justice and equity for LGBTQIA+ folx.
Chevelle’s plethora of experience has been acquired both in higher education and in the private sector. Although she is a licensed clinician, she is also versed in promoting diversity and multicultural awareness through intersectionality training with hopes of eradicating stigmas related to mental health, ability status, faith traditions, or LGBTQ+ identities. Chevelle lives in Old Saybrook, CT with her spouse and (pre-COVID-19) they enjoyed traveling, hosting theme parties and spending time with friends and family.
