Lincoln Girls Who Code
Justin Stark is a software developer at the Arbor Day Foundation and a lead organizer of Lincoln Girls Who Code. He has been involved in Lincoln Girls Who Code for over three years to further their mission of teaching girls to code through creativity, bravery, and teamwork.
St. Monica's Behavioral Health Services for Women
Mary has been with St. Monica's for 22 years.
She has worked in the Human Service field her entire career in the Lincoln Community.
She has been instrumental in St. Monica's growth, always exploring new, unconventional, and evidence based practices that have been successful.
Today Mary will tell us about the services St. Monica's offers and she will share information about some upcoming events.
Experiences from within refugee camps in Sudan
MAMA - Midwestern African Museum of Art
Dr. Danvas Mabeya graduated with a doctorate degree in Sociology from Kansas State University in 2011. Mabeya has a BA in International Relations and a double Masters degree in Political Science and International Relations. Mabeya has been associated and teaching undergraduate courses in Sociology at Southeast Community College (SCC) since 2013 and enjoys teaching diversity and culture. He has worked with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) as a research intern from 1998 to 2000 at Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya and the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO - Kenya) in 1997 assisting in coordinating Somalia-PEER-programs for educational and emergencies in the Horn of Africa. Until a recent appointment as an executive director of MAMA,Mabeya has been a volunteer vice Chair and Board since 2017. Midwestern African Museum of ArtMidwestern African Museum of Art
El Centro de las Americas
Roméo Guerra spent much of his career in grant research and development for the state and University of Nebraska Medical Center.
Guerra was named executive director of El Centro de las Americas which works with Lincoln's Latino community effective April 11 2016.
Prior to his time at UNMC, Guerra worked for more than a decade at the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services.
Guerra also did work with alcoholism and substance abuse for the state and planned academic conferences for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
He has served on a variety of boards and committees for organizations, including the Belmont Community Center, the Citizens Policy Advisory Board, the Task Force on Integration Immigrant Workforce Population, the National Rural Health Association and the Lincoln Medical Education Partnership.
