Vermont Business Magazine Howard Center will present its fifth annual conference, Vision, Visionaries and Voices virtually on April 7 from 9 am – 4 pm, featuring international speakers, Mary Bassett, MD, MPH, Anita Hill, Byron Katie, Ethan Nadelmann and Tara Westover.
About the speakers:
Mary Bassett M.D., M.P.H., was confirmed as the Acting Commissioner of Health by the New York State Senate on January 20, 2022. She previously served as Director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights in the department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. https://howardcenter.org/
Anita Hill began her career in private practice in Washington, D.C. Before becoming a law professor, she worked at the US Education Department and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Hill’s new book, Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence, is a new manifesto about the origins and course of gender violence in our society; a combination of memoir, personal accounts, law, and social analysis, and a powerful call to arms from one of our most prominent and poised survivors.
Byron Katie’s simple yet powerful process of self-inquiry, which she calls The Work, consists of four questions and the turnaround, which is a way of experiencing the opposite of what you believe. Katie has been bringing The Work to millions of people for more than thirty years.
Ethan Nadelmann founded and directed first The Lindesmith Center and then the Drug Policy Alliance from 1994 to 2017, during which time he and his colleagues were at the forefront of dozens of successful campaigns to legalize marijuana and advance other alternatives to the war on drugs. Ethan currently hosts the leading podcast on all things drugs: PSYCHOACTIVE.
Tara Westover is an American author. Born in Idaho to a father opposed to public education, she never attended school. She eventually graduated magna cum laude from Brigham Young University in 2008 and received an MPhil from Trinity College, Cambridge in 2009. In 2018, she published her memoir, Educated, which explores her struggle to reconcile her desire for education and autonomy with her desire to be loyal to her family. Educated was an instant commercial and critical success.
This full-day conference will be hosted by Howard Center’s Catherine Simonson, LICSW and moderated by Dr. Jude Smith Rachele of Howard Center and Abundant Sun. Howard Center’s annual conference brings together national and international speakers and attendees from the United States and Canada. Our speakers will provide unique perspectives for a broad audience, including mental health and healthcare providers, educators, clients and families, representatives of state and local government, law enforcement, the judiciary, and the general public.
The conference will be held by Zoom webinar. Registration is $89 for the event. CEU credits are pending for a variety of professions. Visit https://howardcenter.org/conference-2022/ for more information and to register. The conference is supported by our Champion sponsor: The New England Addiction Technology Transfer Center.
ABOUT HOWARD CENTER: Howard Center has a long and rich history as a trusted provider in the community. With a legacy spanning more than 150 years, we have been providing progressive, compassionate, high-quality care and supports to those in need. Today, we offer an array of exemplary mental health, substance use, and developmental services across the lifespan. As Vermont’s largest social service organization, our 1,600 staff help more than 19,000 people each year in over 60 locations throughout Vermont in collaboration with hundreds of community partners. Howard Center’s 24/7/365 crisis service, First Call for Chittenden County, is available to meet the needs of Chittenden County children, adults, and families in crisis by calling 802-488-7777. www.howardcenter.org. Help is here. A United Way of Northwest Vermont Funded Agency.
Source: Burlington, VT—Howard Center 2.8.2022
