District Conference Presenter Bios
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Jim Hazen, Lower Dauphin Communities That CareJim Hazen serves at Community Relations Coordinator for the Lower Dauphin School District, a position he’s held since 1999. In addition, he was appointed to be the district’s School Safety and Security Coordinator in 2018. Since 2007, Jim has served as the Executive Director for Lower Dauphin Communities That Care, a nonprofit organization which provides prevention services to the children of the Lower Dauphin School District. He is Board Member for LD CTC since the organization’s creation in 2001. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of Rotary Club of Hummelstown since 2014 and served a two-year term as President from 2014-2016. He holds a master’s of public administration from Penn State University and also earned a professional certificate in Homeland Security. He earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and worked at three newspapers as a news reporter, sports reporter, editor and managing editor before coming to Lower Dauphin.
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Angela Durantine, Lower Dauphin Communities That CareAngela grew up in Schuylkill County but has been living in the Harrisburg area since 1985. Angela worked in the PA Senate for more than 12 years before taking some time off to raise her two children. Alongside her husband, Pete, and another business partner, the three of them began TheBurg in Harrisburg in 2008. Angela was the advertising executive, in addition to bookkeeping and editing. After five years, Angela and her husband sold their investment in the magazine and changed job course. Angela has been Program Director at Lower Dauphin Communities That Care (LD CTC) for the past five years and found her calling working with students of all ages. LD CTC provides prevention programs from birth to high school, including our Books on Board Bookmobile; Do The Right Thing program, recognizing students who are caught “doing the right thing”; and Club Ophelia and Breaking the Boy Code, which teaching 2-6 grade students how to deal with bullying and to be a better friend. LD CTC’s vision is “Through a community-wide effort, all children in the Lower Dauphin community shall grow up to become healthy, productive adults.”
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Mohammed Eid, Rotary Peace FellowMohammed Eid first arrived in the US in 2017 as a Rotary Peace Fellow. He attended the Duke-UNC Rotary Peace Center and graduated with a master’s in Global Studies from UNC-Chapel Hill and with a Certificate in International Development from Duke University. Prior to that, Mohammed worked for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in Gaza Strip, Palestine as a humanitarian response specialist.
Following graduation, Mohammed worked at the University of NC-Chapel Hill as a visiting lecturer, teaching courses on Middle East politics, conflict analysis, history, civil society, and non-governmental organizations. Recently Mohammed joined the Rotary International team in Evanston as a program officer supporting incoming peace fellows for the peace certificate program and contributing to the research and development efforts to expand the Rotary Peace Centers program through the new Otto and Fran Walter Rotary Peace Center in the MENA region.
2018 C-SPN video featuring Mohammed Eid, Palestinian refugee growing up in Gaza https://www.c-span.org/video/?449774-1/un-relief-efforts-palestine-refugees (40 min followed by Q/A)
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Shai Tamari, Rotary Peace FellowShai Tamari is the Founder and President of Tamari Conflict Management, LLC, Director of the Conflict Management Initiative at the University of NC at Chapel Hill, and the Associate Director of the NC Consortium for Middle East Studies. In addition, he is a Professor of the Practice under the Department of Public Policy and the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense at UNC, and an Adjunct Instructor at Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, where he teaches both undergrad and grad level skills-based coursed in Conflict Management. Born and raised in Jerusalem, Shai earned a B.A. in Journalism from the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and a Master’s degree in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London in the UK. In 2006, Shai was awarded a Rotary Peace Fellowship and studied for a second Master’s in Global History, along with Arabic and Conflict Resolution, at UNC. Shai volunteers at prisons in NC where he facilitates restorative circles. Read more at: https://magazine.rotary.org/rotary/february_2023/MobilePagedArticle.action?articleId=1853320#articl eId1853320 |
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