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Davis Y. Ja, Ph.D. earned his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Washington, and has been in the forefront of minority mental health services for the past 25 years. Dr. Ja was formerly director of the Richmond Maxi-Center of RAMS, and served as the founding chair of the Asian American Mental Health Task Force in 1982. In 1991, he left his position as Executive Director of Asian American Recovery Services (AARS, Inc.) of San Francisco to establish the independent consulting firm of Davis Y. Ja, Ph.D. & Associates. In 1998, the firm incorporated and became known as Davis Y. Ja and Associates, Inc. (DYJ, Inc.). Dr. Ja is also currently a Professor at the California School of Professional Psychology/Alliant University, where he teaches research and program evaluation. In addition, Dr. Ja continues to provide consultation to federal agencies including NIDA, NIAAA, CSAT, CSAP, and SAMSHA and serve as a grant reviewer for a number of these agencies. Dr. Ja has also served as the Principal Investigator on numerous local, state, and federal grants on criminal justices, substance abuse, AIDs, homelessness, and interventions with early childhood populations.
Mary Gee has been employed as a Project/Research Coordinator with DYJ, Inc. since 1995, following completion of her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley and was promoted to Vice-President in 2004. In addition to project management and administrative responsibilities, Mary has also written evaluation grant proposals which have been funded on state and federal levels, including SAMHSA/CMHS, OJJDP, and California State Board of Corrections.
George Gong has been managing IT-related aspects of DYJ, Inc. since 1999 on a consultant basis. He has earned his Bachelors degree from the University of California, Berkeley. A member of USENIX and SAGE, he has extensive technical experience in systems administration and networking and working with enterprise customers, including Sun Microsystems. George is also President of Isomers, a technology firm that specializes in managing services ranging from networking, system management, application administration, and database administration. Lastly, George is currently pursuing his MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.
Helen Gee has been managing DYJ, Inc.'s website since 1999. Helen graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Psychology. Her focus was in Asian American mental health and she has leveraged these skills to help with several DYJ, Inc. research projects focusing in this area. Furthermore, Helen also has a consulting background working extensively with various enterprise level software applications, including Interwoven's content management solutions and Broadvision's personalization software.
Dr. Morales is a clinical and consulting psychologist and Professor of Psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology where he co-founded and coordinated the Multicultural and Community training program. He is also Executive Director of AGUILAS, an HIV prevention program for Latino gay/bisexual men, and has served as the Program Evaluator for the Epiphany Center in San Francisco for the past ten years. His current research and program evaluation areas include interventions with drug-exposed infants and their mothers, HIV prevention interventions for Latino and African American gay/bisexual men, and interventions with high-risk juvenile offenders. With high-risk youth, Dr. Morales developed and was director of an outpatient day treatment program for Latino youth in San Francisco, as well as the Program Evaluator of CADRE, a drug prevention program serving a variety of ethnic minority youth through a collaborative of eight community-based agencies.
Employed with DYJ, Inc. since 2005, Sima Forghani is a Senior Research Assistant based in the Los Angeles office. Prior to her employment with DYJ, Inc., she also worked as a private SAT tutor. Sima earned her BA in Sociology from the University of California, Irvine, with an emphasis on race/ethnic relations, immigration issues and criminology. She is currently working towards her Master's in Sociology from California State University, Northridge. Her research interests include religiosity, ethnicity and social conflict among second generation Iranian-American youth. Sima is also an active member of the American Sociological Association.
Monica Molina has been employed as a Research Assistant with DYJ, Inc. since 2005. Monica earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2005. She received additional recognition at USC as a member of Psi Chi, the National Honors Society in Psychology, and was a recipient of the Latino Honor Society Scholar Award. As an undergraduate, Ms. Molina gained research experience in the areas of youth social development and HIV/AIDS service quality. She has also gained experience in the area of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention by serving as a research assistant in the Organizational Research Department at Kaiser Permanente. Ms. Molina intends to continue her education in the field of Public Health. Her current research interests include community and international health, and culture and health psychology.
Jason Savolainen graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2001 and has been employed with DYJ, Inc. as a Research Assistant since 2006. Jason received an additional honors distinction from the UCLA Department of Anthropology in recognition of his undergraduate research thesis. Funded by the President's Undergraduate Fellowship, his work focused on the Mexican Day of the Dead as celebrated in Los Angeles. His research interests include issues of cultural identity, religious syncretism, contemporary and historic Mesoamerican civilizations, and archaeology. Since graduating, Jason has traveled throughout Spain, England, and the United States. He has also volunteered at the Cotsen Institute Zooarchaeology Lab at UCLA, sorting and identifying specimens of a variety of species of California fauna. Currently, in addition to his position with DYJ, Inc., Jason also freelances as a DJ, a billiard service tech, a set designer for stage and television, and as an artist. His future plans include taking the GRE, becoming a better photographer, achieving the fluency in Spanish required to read Don Quixote in its original context, and continuing to live in such a way that he has remarkable and compelling stories to tell when he is an old man.
Norma Timbang is the Research Coordinator for DYJ's Seattle Office. She has extensive experience providing community program development and evaluation, cross-cultural services development, and participatory research methods for grassroots social change organizations and community-based human service providers. She is also one of the founding mothers and former executive director of Asian & Pacific Islander Women & Family Safety Center (Seattle) and former executive director of Asian Pacific AIDS Council (Seattle). She is currently serving on the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum (NAPAWF - national board member and program committee chair); "Transforming Silence Into Action"; and the planning committee for Asian Pacific Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Network's 2006 national convention. Norma has also previously served on the Minority Executive Directors Coalition in King County; the King County Coalition Against Domestic Violence board of directors; and the national Violence Against Women Online Resources advisory board. She has provided consultation and briefings on committees and panels contributing to publications and policy on human trafficking and violence against women, such as the Congressional Caucus on Women's Issues in Washington D.C., the Ford Foundation's publication on Asian Women's Issues and Concerns, and the Washington State Task Force on Human Trafficking. Norma's current research is on juvenile justice, bride trafficking, and human trafficking in Washington State. Norma has also served as a peer reviewer for scholarly journals such as Sage's Violence Against Women Journal and grants for NIJ, SAMSHA, Office on Violence Against Women, and the Pride Foundation.
Ann Kim Novakowski has been employed with DYJ as a Senior Research Assistant since 2005 and provides program evaluation and administration for grassroots youth programs serving at-risk, gang-involved and/or juvenile justice involved youth. Her philosophy and approach to technical assistance and evaluation include improving capacity through empowerment-based research and developing anti-oppression practices for social change. Ann's previous work experience includes direct services in sexual assault and domestic violence and policy analysis in human trafficking. She currently also provides program evaluation services for a state response network for trafficked persons and has served as a Program Coordinator for the Office of Crime Victims Advocacy, Intern with both the U.S. Department of Justice and Jerome N. Frank Legal Services and Advocate with the Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault. Ann has a Masters in Public Health from Yale University.
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