Please join Trustbuilding, Inc to learn how stories turn into narratives. Narratives can be used to bring community healing and transformation.
This event is open to the public. There is no cost to attend. However, seating is limited. Please register to reserve your seat. REGISTER HERE
The event will be held at the Frank and Laura Lewis Library (Corn Auditorium) on the Lagrange College Campus. LC requires all attendees wear masks regardless of vaccination.
Dr. David Anderson Hooker
David Anderson Hooker (Ph.D., J.D., M.Div., M.P.H., M.P.A., A.M) is an Associate Professor of the Practice of Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International peace Studies, which is an integral unit of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. Professor Hooker is core faculty in the Doctoral Studies (PhD) program in Peace Studies and the Masters in Global Affairs (MGA). His research and practice focus on post-conflict and post-disaster community building, narrative practices and theory, especially as these apply to the multi-generational transmission of trauma, and the role of identity in conflict, trauma, and community development. For more than 30 years Hooker has utilized his training and expertise in conflict transformation by serving as mediator of multi-party and public policy conflicts and reconciliation processes; especially those contexts where race, class, and other socially constructed variables significantly impact the dispute. Hooker is the author of The Little Book of Transformative Community Conferencing (SkyHorse, 2016) and coauthor with Amy Potter-Czaijkowski, of Transforming Historical Harms (Eastern Mennonite University, 2012).
Hooker is a former Assistant Attorney General for the State of Georgia where he represented the Departments of Juvenile Justice, Mental Health Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services, and the Division of Public Health. He later had a private practice focusing on Civil Rights (including prisoner rights and special education). He has worked in Bosnia, Croatia, Cuba, Myanmar (Burma), Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Southern Sudan, and Somaliland. He previously held the posts of Senior Fellow for Community Engagement Strategies at the J. W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development at the University of Georgia, Associate Professor of Conflict Transformation at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Visiting Scholar at Africa University’s Institute for Peace leadership and Governance (Mutare, Zimbabwe). He has also previously served as Community Building Advisor for the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, the Director of Research and Training for Healing Historical Harms, and Vice- President of Community Building for The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Atlanta Civic Site. He is a graduate of Morehouse College (BS), The Emory University School of Law (JD), the Candler School of Theology at Emory University (M Div.), the graduate programs in public health and public administration at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst (MPH & MPA) and a cum laude graduate of Tilburg University (Ph.D.).