Workshop Facilitators

The Respect for All Project

GroundSpark's Respect For All Project facilitates the development of inclusive, bias-free schools and communities by providing media resources, support and training to youth, educators and service providers.

For information about workshop fees, please contact Amy Scharf, Director of Educational Programs.
(415) 641-4616 x389

Joel Brown

Joel A. Brown is the Chief Visionary Officer of Pneumos LLP, a management consulting firm specializing in cultural competency, leadership training, organizational development, conflict resolution, and life/executive coaching. Its mission is to “create space for the positive human experience.” Joel is best known for his critical analysis, creativity, humor, and his ability to build consensus. His most recent article, “Black and Gays: Bridging the Cultural Divide,” was published in the Legal Services of Northern California newsletter in August of 2009. Joel is a member of a diversity think tank, D2K, and a political think tank, New Leaders Council, which trains and creates a pipeline for social entrepreneurs and progressive leaders. He is also an acclaimed spoken word artist.

Marco Castro-Bojorquez

Marco Castro-Bojorquez is a youth advocate, educator, and community organizer who strives to create powerful solidarity. Born and raised on the Mexican Pacific coast, Marco left his country for political reasons and has lived in the Bay Area for the past 15 years. Marco’s commitment to youth development / empowerment and social justice issues comes from his experience in youth leadership program planning, advocacy, safe schools planning, anti-racism curriculum development, and program management. As Educational Program Director for BAYCAT, he works to empower youth and young adults through media production and leadership training. Additionally, Marco serves as a Co-Chair of the Board of Directors at LYRIC, an organization for diverse LGBTQ youth, and on the Advisory Committee for Somos Familia, the only organization oriented to Latino families with children who are LGBTQ. He has worked with the Respect For All Project since 2009.

Barry Chersky

Barry Chersky is a consultant and professional trainer on issues of discrimination and harassment, multicultural diversity, working with differences, and creating safe educational and work environments. For more than sixteen years he has worked with administrators, educators, parents and youth in public school districts and private educational institutions both locally and nationally. He served as Chair of the Oakland Unified School District’s Sexual Orientation Task Force. In that capacity, he created a full-time board approved position, one of only a few that have ever existed in the country, to address sexual orientation and gender identity issues. He is currently working with the San Leandro Unified School District on a comprehensive, multi-year program to address these issues as part of the district’s effort to create and maintain safe and respectful schools for all students, staff, and community members. Barry has been a Senior Facilitator with The Respect For All Project since 2000.

Kica Gazmuri

Bio coming soon.

Scott Hirschfeld

Along with being a facilitator for the Respect for All Project, Scott Hirschfeld is the Director of Curriculum for the Anti-Defamation League, a leading provider of anti-bias education training programs and resources. Scott is also a trainer and consultant for various diversity organizations and programs, including the New York City Department of Education, and the Human Rights Campaign’s Welcoming Schools initiative. Before joining the ADL, Scott was Director of Education for the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). Prior to his work in the non-profit sector, Scott was a classroom teacher and staff developer in the New York City public school system, during which time he earned an M.S. in Elementary Education and an M.Ed. in Educational Leadership from Bank Street College of Education.

Eileen L. Glaser

Eileen L. Glaser has been working in the field of diversity and social justice education since 1998. She earned her Masters in Sociology in 2001, writing her Tthesis on Teaching Race Relations: Anti-racist Theory and Practice in Diversity Training Programs. Eileen has worked with a range of clients, in health care, non-profit, and preschool through university settings. She specializes in professional development that creates safer, more inclusive environments for all. Eileen is currently a facilitator for The Respect For All Project. She lives in the East Bay and is the parent of two daughters.

Judy Logan

Judy Logan taught middle school in San Francisco public schools for over 30 years. She worked as a consultant to the National S.E.E.D. (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) program and the Minnesota S.E.E.D. program for 12 years. Her book, Teaching Stories, is used in many education classes across the country. She now works as an educational consultant, writing curriculum and facilitating workshops. She is the author of the curriculum guide to That’s A Family!, and co-author of the curriculum guide to Let’s Get Real. Judy is currently a facilitator with The Respect For All Project, conducting professional development workshops across the country.

Nancy Otto

Nancy Otto has over 15 years of experience working with educators, administrators, youth advocates and high school students in both public and private schools to develop safer bias free campus environments for all youth. She was the director of the Howard Friedman Education Project of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California for eight years, during which time she developed trainings, fact-finding trips, conferences and retreats for educators and youth on safe schools. Nancy is a currently a facilitator with The Respect For All Project conducting professional development workshops across the country.

Angela Park

Angela Park is an independent consultant and founder and director of Diversity Matters, a nonprofit organization that aims to make diversity and inclusion foundational assets of environmental and social change. In addition, she serves as a consultant with the Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group and Elsie Y. Cross Associates; is a writer with articles published most recently by Yale University, The Diversity Factor, and Grist; and is an adjunct professor at Antioch New England. Angela brings government, nonprofit, and private sector experience to her expertise on diversity and inclusion, organization development, culture change, sustainable development policy, environmental justice, community development, and leadership. She lives on an organic farm and 270-acre ecological cohousing community in Vermont and joined the Respect for All Project facilitation team in 2009.

Alan Quinonez

Alan Quinonez brings years of experience facilitating workshops for professionals and adults, and he has worked most recently as a bilingual English-Spanish facilitator with children and young adults. He has worked as a youth facilitator with the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose, where he also designed and implemented after-school and family activities. Alan is currently a facilitator with The Respect For All Project conducting bilingual family and community workshops across the country.

Maya Scott-Chung

Maya Scott-Chung has been a grassroots organizer since she was in her teens, active in the disarmament, anti-apartheid and people’s theater movements. She helped to organize Equity Institute’s Project Empowerment, one of the nation’s first Lesbian and Gay educators Conferences in 1984. Maya received her undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1991 in Multicultural Curriculum Development and Theater with a minor in Women’s Health and African American Studies. She trained in Equity Institute’s first Training of Trainers at age eighteen and has been leading workshops and seminars on cross-cultural alliance building and confronting racism and heterosexism and other oppression issues for over twenty years. Maya is currently completing her Master’s Thesis in media advocacy and social network building for LGBTQI prospective parents and parents at San Francisco State University’s Masters in Public Health program.

Nadiyah Taylor

Nadiyah Taylor has been a professional within the early care and education field since 1994, working with young children, parents, educators and administrators. Her particular focus is working with early childhood educators on the exploration of diversity and equity issues at the institutional, cultural and personal levels. Nadiyah brings a wealth of experience in organizational development and anti-bias education. She is a currently a professor of Early Childhood Development at Las Positas College in Livermore, CA and is a facilitator with The Respect For All Project, conducting professional development workshops across the country.

Kim Westheimer

Kim Westheimer is a diversity consultant, educator, writer and experienced trainer who conducts workshops and designs written materials related to organizational diversity and strategic planning. She also currently directs the Human Rights Campaign’s Welcoming Schools Project. Kim is the coauthor of When the Drama Club is Not Enough: Lessons from the Safe Schools Program for Gay and Lesbian Students. Her work has also been published by Phi Delta Kappan, The American Psychological Association, and the Center for the Study of Social Policy. She formerly directed The Safe Schools Program for Gay and Lesbian Students at the Massachusetts Department of Education. Kim has worked with a wide range of leading organizations around the country and received numerous awards. She joined the Respect For All Project facilitation team in 2009.