Pilar Hernández-Wolfe , Ph.D., is associate professor of the Clinical and Community Counseling program at Johns Hopkins University, and faculty at the Institute. As an author, teacher, clinician and researcher, she is recognized internationally in the area of trauma and resilience. Her clinical and research interests reside within the feminist analysis of intimate violence in the context of gender, race, class and ethnicity; clinical supervision and racial microaggressions (see CV). She can be contacted at pilarhw@jhu.edu in regards to the following publications involving the use of the Cultural Context Model:

Hernández, P., Bunyi, B., & Townson, R. (2007). Interweaving ethnicity and gender in consultation. Family Psychotherapy.18(1), pp.57-75.

Hernández, P., Almeida, R., & Del-Vecchio, K. (2005). Critical consciousness, accountability, and empowerment: Key processes for helping families heal. Family Process, 44 (1), 105-130.
           
Hernández, P. (2004). The cultural context model in supervision: An illustration. Journal of Feminist Family Therapy, 15 (4), 1-8.

Hernández, P. & Rankin, P. (In press). Relational safety in supervision. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy..

Hernández, P. Siegel, A. & Almeida, R. (In press). How does the cultural context model facilitate therapeutic Change? Journal of Marital and Family Therapy.

Judith Lockard, LCSW, CAC., is a postgraduate trained family therapist and addictions specialist. She maintained a private family therapy practice in the Princeton area for 15 years and has been on the faculty since 1996. Her expertise is in the intersection of addictions and domestic violence. Since 2001 she has facilitated the Alliance for Racial and Economic Justice. She has done extensive training over a 20-year period in the areas of domestic violence, addiction, and family life cycle issues. She has published on these topics in journals and book chapters.

Carolyn Tubbs, Ph.D. (Purdue University) - Dr. Tubbs is an Associate Professor in the Programs in Couple and Family Therapy Program at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. She earned her masters degree in Human Development and Family Studies at Texas Tech University and her doctorate in Marriage and Family Therapy at Purdue University.   Dr. Tubbs completed her doctoral internship in marriage and family therapy at the Houston-Galveston Institute. She is an Approved Supervisor and Clinical Member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). In addition, she is a member of AAMFT's Minority Fellowship Program Advisory Committee and Elections Council, as well as a Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE) site visitor. She also served on the board of the Ontario Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and was its annual general meeting chair.

Dr. Tubbs was a Research Scientist and Postdoctoral Fellow at Penn State University for the Welfare, Children and Families:  A Three City-Study, a multi-site ethnographic study on welfare reform. As part of her work, Dr. Tubbs has examined facilitators of family stability, family rituals, and parenting in low-income families. Dr. Tubbs has also been involved with the National Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community in researching the causes and solutions to domestic violence in African American communities located in both urban and rural regions throughout the United State, including San Francisco, Puerto Rico, Philadelphia, and Detroit. Her research interests include qualitative research methodology, shared parenting among couples with a history of intimate partner violence, health care disparities, mental and physical health issues, and parenting in low-income populations. Currently, she is collaborating with the Institute for Family Services on evaluation and dissemination research.

Dr. Tubbs has served as Faculty Mentor for honors undergraduates at the Schreyers Honor College (2000-2002); Board Chair, Guelph-Wellington Women in Crisis (2006-2007); and member of the University of Guelph's Research Ethics Board (2007).