November 18th, 2016 -- Ulester Douglas is Executive Director of Men Stopping Violence in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He is a licensed psychotherapist with more than twenty-five years of experience working with individuals, families and communities on a wide range of psychological and social issues. Ulester obtained his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and recently completed his third year as an adjunct professor at Emory University in Atlanta, GA.
Ulester was honored by Lifetime Television for Women and the National Network to End Domestic Violence in 2003, and in 2012 by The Ford Motor Company, for his work to end violence against women. He has also received numerous awards including a National Institute of Mental Health Fellowship in 1990, the National District Attorneys Association’s Stephen L. Von Riesen Lecturer of Merit Award in 2010, and the National Black Herstory Task Force’s Comrade Salute Award in 2004. He has been interviewed by local, national and international media including CNN, The New York Times, NPR, HLN, The Tom Joyner Morning Show, News One Now with Roland Martin, The Al Sharpton Show, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
In 2005, Ulester was invited to Great Britain by its Home Office to discuss with members of The House of Lords, The House of Commons, Scotland Yard, National Crime Squad, London’s City Hall, etc., best practices in working with men to end violence against women. He was also invited to the White House in 2010 to help commemorate the administration’s launching of its domestic violence prevention initiatives. He currently serves on the board of the National Resource Center to end Domestic Violence and was recently appointed as a Commissioner, by Governor Nathan Deal, to the GA Commission on Family Violence.
Ulester has authored and co-authored articles and curricula on family violence and other human rights issues, including the article “Deconstructing Male Violence Against Women: The Men Stopping Violence Community-Accountability Model” (2008, Violence Against Women, Sage Publications); the curriculum Men at Work: Building Safe Communities (2008, Men Stopping Violence, Inc.) among many others.
SPBS is proud and honoured to have a 1979 Alumnus of the Sandy Point High School in the person of Mr. Ulester Douglas, be our 2016 keynote speaker at our 6th Annual Banquet, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the SPHS/CEMSS.
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