Men's Forum Participants

Kent Amos, President and Founder of the Urban Family Institute, Washington, DC
Charles Augustus Ballard, President, Charles Ballard Institute for Responsible Fatherhood and Family Revitalization, Cleveland, OH
David Blankenhorn, President, Institute for American Values, New York, NY
Ron Carter, Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Public Housing, US. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC
Tommy Crouch, Director Telecommunications, Baptist Hospital, Nashville, TN
Kenneth A. Dodge, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Scott Ericson, Pastoral Counselor, Nashville, TN Jimmy Ferguson, Transportation Monitor, Minneapolis, MN
Charles R. Johnson, Chief Operating Officer, Johnson Security Bureau, Bronx, NY
Lowell Johnson, Parent Educator and Early Childhood Teacher, White Bear Lake and Cambridge-Isanti Early Childhood Family Education Programs, MN
Dr. Waldo Johnson, Assistant Professor of Social Work, Loyola University, Chicago, IL
Irving Lazar, Research Professor of Public Policy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
James Levine, Director, The Fatherhood Project, Work and Family Institute, New York, NY
Aaron L. Lewis, Jr., Chief Organizer for "New Warriors," a volunteer international men's organization, Memphis, TN
Richard Louv, Author and Columnist, San Diego, CA Ronald B. Mincy, Program Officer, Ford Foundation, New York, NY
Reverend Donald E. Mowery, President and Founder of Youth Service U.S.A., Memphis, TN
Randy T. Phillips, President, Promise Keepers, Boulder, CO Ed Pitt, Senior Research Associate and Project Director, Male Involvement Project Families and Work Institute, New York, NY
Dr. Kyle Pruett, Clinical Professor of Child Psychiatry, Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, CT
Dr. Juan Jose Sanchez, Executive Director, Southwest Key Program, Austin, TX
Dwaine Simms, Site Coordinator, MELD's Young Dad's Program, Minneapolis, MN
Ralph Smith, Founding President and Executive Director, Philadelphia Children's Network (Father Re-Engagement Initiative)
Anderson Spickard, M.D., Director, Fighting Back, Nashville, TN
Neil Tift, Director, Fathers' Resource Center, Minneapolis, MN
Rick Weissbord, Research Fellow, Malcolm Center for Social Policy, Kennedy School at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Richard Weinberg, Director, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, and Chair, Steering Committee of the Children, Youth & Family Consortium
Roger Wolliver, Primary Caregiver, Small Farms Project Volunteer, Williamsburg, KY
Oliver Williams, Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Garth Brooks, singer and songwriter
Rev. John K. Wright, Sr., Executive Director of Northwest Center, YMCA, Nashville, TN