Join us this week for Men Stopping Violence - Speaking Of: Men Stopping Violence! Ulester Douglas, Dick Bathrick, and Greg Loughlin will share their rich history of the Social Justice work provided by Men Stopping Violence in the movement to end domestic violence. Ulester Douglas is a social justice advocate, licensed psychotherapist, former executive, and a nationally recognized leader in the movement to end violence against women. Mr. Douglas has provided consultation, training, and keynote presentations in 40-plus states, Europe and the Caribbean. For his advocacy to end domestic violence, Douglas was honored by Lifetime Television for Women, the National Network to End Domestic Violence, the Ford Motor Company, and the City of Atlanta. He has also received numerous awards including a National Institute of Mental Health Fellowship, the National District Attorneys Association’s Stephen L. Von Riesen Lecturer of Merit Award, the National Black Herstory Task Force’s Comrade Salute Award, the Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence Collaborate Award, and the Deborah C. McDorman Memorial Award for “Exemplary Humanitarian Efforts and Advocacy to End Domestic Violence.” In 2010 Mr. Douglas was invited to the White House to help commemorate the launch of the Obama administration’s domestic violence initiatives. And in 2015 he was appointed to the Georgia Commission on Family Violence by then-Governor Nathen Deal. He has authored and co-authored articles and curricula on family violence and other social justice issues including the book chapter “Working With African American Men Who Batter: A Community-Centered Approach to Prevention and Intervention.” As a consultant and trainer, Dick Bathrick brings analysis and practice regarding gender race and class to promote transformational change in individuals, organizations and communities. Bathrick co-founded Men Stopping Violence (MSV) in 1982, and he brings more than three decades of experience in progressive social change to the work of ending violence against women.  As part of MSV’s national training team, he has co-led trainings for a variety of organizations, including the National Council of Churches, the US. Army and U.S. Marines, the National Association of Secondary School Principals, The National College of District Attorneys, and the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. He is the author or co-author of a number of articles including, “⁠Deconstructing Male Violence Against Women: The Men Stopping Violence Community Accountability Model⁠” (2008, Violence Against Women, Sage Publications); “⁠How Do You Know Your Batterer Program Works?⁠ (2007, Domestic Violence Report); and “Male Privilege and Male Violence: Patriarchy’s Root and Branch” (1990, The Crossing Press). He has co-authored several curricula, including the manuals Men at Work: Building Safe Communities and Men Stopping Violence: A Program for Change. He also authored the book “⁠WE ARE THE WORK, The Making of Men Stopping Violence⁠”  Greg Loughlin is an Atlanta-based writer, trainer, facilitator, and policy advocate with over 20 years of experience engaging men and communities to prevent male violence against women.He is an instructor at Georgia State University’s School of Social Work and a consultant with the Interrupting Violence in Youth and Young Adults (IVYY) Project at Grady Health System. Previous leadership positions include Director of Strategic Initiatives at Men Stopping Violence; Executive Director of the Georgia Commission on Family Violence; and Co-Coordinator of the Georgia Domestic Violence Fatality Review Project. In 2020, he co-authored a chapter on preventing male sexual violence published in the Handbook of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse Across the Lifespan by Springer Cham. He invites you to connect with him at ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-loughlin/⁠