Meet the Team

The National Resilience Resource Center engages a variety of Center, local, regional, and national facilitators, guest speakers, and experts to provide services. Please meet some of the members of our service delivery team:

NRRC Director

Kathy Marshall is Executive Director of the National Resilience Resource Center at the University of Minnesota. For more than 25 years she directed systems changing prevention and education programs in school, community, and public policy arenas. She was Assistant to the Director for the University of Minnesota Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement, and directed U.S. Department of Education Drug-Free Schools programs for both the Midwest Regional Center of the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory and the Educational Cooperative Service of Southwest Minnesota. She administered a philanthropic non-profit organization, headed a state Department of Social Services public information office, lobbied for women and children's issues, and was on the faculty of California State University. She earned a master's degree in Speech Communication and completed doctoral courses at the University of Southern California as a National Defense Education Act fellow. In 2000, she co-developed a graduate course, Spirituality and Resilience, at the University of Minnesota. She and Bonnie Benard conceptualized, "Tapping Resilience: A Framework for Practice." Marshall consulted with the U.S. Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and a variety of local, state, and federal education, health and human service agencies, and has presented and written for The Carter Center in Atlanta. Most recently she wrote Bringing Out the Best in Our Kids, a Parent's Guide to Resilience/Health Realization, and Resilience Research and Practice: National Resilience Resource Center Bridging the Gap, and produced a video, Resilience/Health Realization: Applications for School Counselors.

NRRC Facilitators

Bonnie Benard, M.S.W., NRRC associate for program development; national speaker and author on resilience, prevention, and youth development, Resiliency, What We Have Learned (2004)
	Wendy Hastings, middle school health and physical education teacher, tennis coach
Christine Heath, M.S., L.M.F.T., M.A.C., clinic director, more than 23 years specializing in addictions, family violence, and special education with clinical services in Hawaii and Minnesota, training and supervision
	Earl Rogers, Community organizer, private contractor, neighborhood housing director, NRRC Minneapolis Central Neighborhood PEACE Project Board of Directors
Renee Hendricks, county department of human service division director, parenting educator, teacher of advocates for battered women, community theater participant, antique dealer
	Richard Holt, Ph.D., retired school administrator, former Director of Special Education and Student Support Services, community partnership co-chairperson
Iris HeavyRunner, M.S.W., Blackfeet, Ph.D. candidate in Social Work, University of Minnesota, NRRC Senior Fellow and Director of Cultural Resilience, Bush Leadership Fellow, evaluator, speaker
	Gary Johnson, M.S.W., school social worker, Partners in Resilience Director for Menomonie, WI, former Head Start teacher and director, psychiatric assistant; group home supervisor, wrestling coach, poet, songwriter
Willie Lee, M.P.A., Bush Fellow, Health Realization facilitator, personal coach, high-risk youth counselor (In memoriam, 1967-2003)
	Kathy Marshall, M.A., NRRC Executive Director, author, speaker, former lobbyist for women and children’s issues, public agency manager, non-profit administrator, NDEA Fellow
Helen Neal Pore, Health Realization facilitator, business owner, former welfare client, client advocate for high-risk youth and adults including prisoners, domestic abuse victims, and persons with AIDS/HIV and chemical dependency
	Jan Roesler, B.S.N., public health nurse, crime prevention, community organization, NRRC Assistant to the Director, and NRRC Minneapolis Central Neighborhood PEACE Project Coordinator
V.J. Smith, President Minneapolis MAD DADS, community crime prevention leader, NRRC Central Neighborhood PEACE Project and NUSA Boards of Directors, clergy, youth advocate
	Jeanne Slingluff, M.S., former NRRC Partners in Hope Coordinator, St. Cloud MN, school social worker, student assistance coordinator, parent educator, youth support group facilitator, volunteer leader, and speaker on Down’s Syndrome
Lucy Weidner, Partners in Resilience Assistant to Director for Menomonie, WI, retired school nurse, obstetrics, medical teaching and hospice, community theater director and performer
	Nancy Wilcox, M.S., K-12 guidance and counseling, artist, community theater participant, singer

NRRC Guest Speakers

Joseph Bailey, M.A., clinician and author, The Serenity Principle (1990), Slowing Down to the Speed of Life (1998) with Richard Carlson, The Speed Trap (1999), and Slowing Down to the Speed of Love (2003)
	Cindi Claypatch, B.A., L.A.D.C., Health Realization practitioner and teacher for 20 years; chemical dependency counselor; community clinic Director of Health and Wellness
Annika Hewert Schahn, Ph.D., Health Realization clinician, storytelling instructor, and business consultant
	Roger Mills, Ph.D., clinician and author, The Wisdom Within (2001) with Elsie Spittle, Realizing Mental Health (1995); Sanity, Insanity, and Common Sense: The Groundbreaking New Approach to Happiness (1987) with Darlene Stewart and Rick Suarez; and developer of the Health Realization Community Empowerment model
William Pettit, M.D., psychiatrist teaching Psychology of Mind for more than twenty years, Medical Director, The Sydney Banks Institute for Innate Health, West Virginia University
	Linda Pransky, B.S., clinician with Pransky and Associates for more than 15 years, special interest in listening, relationships, and teaching facilitators George Pransky, Ph.D., clinician and author, The Renaissance of Psychology (1998), The Relationship Handbook: A Simple Guide to Satisfying Relationships (1992)
Jack Pransky, author of Prevention from the Inside Out (2003), Parenting from the Heart (2001), Healthy Thinking/Feeling, Doing from the Inside Out: A Middle School Curriculum and Guide (2000), Modello (1998). Interest in prevention of youth substance abuse.
	Beverley Wilson, M.S., teaching Health Realization in correctional settings, public housing projects, and seriously disadvantaged urban communities; keynoter and silent retreat facilitator