Bonnie is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and an Antiracist Organizer and Educator.  She has worked in the mental health field for over 36 years as a systems therapist serving individuals, couples and families. For the past 30 + years, she has also been devoted to the movement for racial and social justice and to infusing both her own and others’ clinical practice with an analysis of the dynamics of power, privilege and oppression. Bonnie is a Core Trainer with the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, a Senior Consultant with the Human Solidarity Project, and a facilitator with the Center for Racial Justice in Education, the Eikenberg Academy for Social Justice, and the Center for the Study of White American Culture. She is a co-founder of the North Jersey Chapter of the AntiRacist Alliance and an affiliate of the Antiracist Mental Health Alliance of NJ.  She also sits as a Trustee on the Board of the Human Solidarity Project. In addition, she is an instructor of clinical social work at Montclair State University. Bonnie has authored various articles about race and clinical practice, as well as a chapter in The Enduring, Invisible and Ubiquitous Centrality of Whiteness, published by W.W. Norton & Company in 2022. Previously, she was the Lead Editor of the multi-authored book Accountability and White Antiracist Organizing: Stories From Our Work and Living in the Tension: the Quest for a Spiritualized Racial Justice, both released by Crandall, Dostie & Douglass Books.

Rosa is a bilingual (Spanish and English) mental health practitioner, maintains a private practice in clinical and forensic psychosocial services in New York City. She was born in Venezuela and identifies as an  Afro-Latina. In her private practice, she treats individuals, families, and couples, specializing in the psychosocial impact of traumatic events in their lives. Rosa has presented at numerous national and international conferences, including the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Spain, and Austria. She has spoken on topics of trauma, WTC Ground Zero Latino clean-up workers, asylum and Latino LGBT community, the impact of trauma on children and families, and the interrelatedness of quality of life and marginalized women living with HIV/AIDS. Rosa is an IFS Assistant Trainer and Sensorimotor Level II trained practitioner. She’s also trained in EMDR and integrates these approaches in trauma healing.  Rosa provides supervision, consultation, and workshops to community agencies and professionals.   Rosa is a Senior lecturer at Columbia University School of Social Work, where she teaches several advanced clinical and practical courses, including a course on trauma-informed treatment for asylum seekers and immigrants.

Raymond is an Afro-Latino Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over twenty years of experience working with community-based programs. He holds a master’s degree in Social Work from Columbia University and is a trauma specialist assisting clients with complex psychological trauma and PTSD. In addition to private practice, he is the founder and clinical director of Aldea Counseling Services, a group psychotherapy practice in Harlem, NY, servicing primarily people of color. He has taught at Hostos Community College of the City University of New York, Columbia University School of Social Work, and Smith College School of Social Work, the Trauma Studies Center of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, and the Integrative Trauma Certificate Program of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. Raymond formerly served on the boards of the National Association of Puerto Rican and Hispanic Social Workers and the No More Fear Foundation. His clinical interests include family therapy, working with immigrant clients, race-based oppression, LGBTQAI+ empowerment, spirituality, and working with marginalized communities in community-based mental health.