Press Kit

Community Well-Being

“Well-being” as it pertains to health came out of the United Nations where some countries included it in their definition of optimal health.  I became aware of this reality around 2004 as a consultant on an integrated physical and mental health project.  The majority of recent research in this area comes from a Global perspective.  We can easily apply this concept to inner-city development.

Local Research For Focused Change

How I Became a Research Scientist

I am a product of the Socio-Economic Movements of the 1960’s and 70’s also known as Civil Rights, Anti - (Vietnam)War, College Student’s, Black Power and Urban Unrest.  In 1968, I entered Brooklyn College as a single parent, visual artist and classical pianist / symphony and jazz bassoonist from a household where my father was an Educator / established visual artist and master pianist.  I was among the students who formed the Afro-American Studies Department and the Brooklyn College Day Care Center.