DIVERSITY TRAINING
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The Center for the Celebration WHO CCODE has a team of facilitators who have worked together for five years doing diversity work in high schools, colleges, universities, and the public and private sectors. We are multi-racial and multi-gender. We love working together and are passionate about the work we do. Here are some of the players. We will pick a team that is geared to your personnel.
JEROME RABOW |
ERRON BRUMFIELD |
MICHAEL AMBRIZ |
NORA
ITANI
Professor Rabow has been a professor in the Sociology Department at UCLA for over thirty years and has taught mainly in the areas of Race, Education and Social Psychology. His interest in diversity education was stimulated by Dr. Rabow started CCODE with Erron Brumfield after they realized how much they liked working together and how much this had to offer each other and their clients. While he has been a professor and a psychotherapist for most of his adult years, Dr. Rabow considers this work the most important and most satisfying work of his life.
JEROME RABOW |
ERRON BRUMFIELD |
MICHAEL AMBRIZ |
NORA
ITANI
Mr. Erron Brumfield is an African American with a diverse background. His mother is white and his father is black. He has dealt personally with the consequences that come from our racist society. As a young boy, Mr. Brumfield was chastised by his black peers for being too “white,” while as an adolescent and an adult, he was feared and belittled by his white peers because he was too black. Since Mr. Brumfield has been blessed with this dual heritage, he possesses a keen insight into the causes, pitfalls, and consequences of racism. Eradicating this blight in our society is his passion and calling in life. Mr. Brumfield first realized how it was possible for humans to do away with their isms when as a young adolescent, his mother sent him to a “Brotherhood Sisterhood Camp”. For the first time in his life, he experienced an atmosphere where teenagers of all races, religions, and orientations respected and appreciated one another for who they were. He had not witnessed that kind of safe, inspiring and beautiful environment until taking a sociology class at UCLA, instructed by Dr. Rabow. After graduating from UCLA with a bachelor’s degree in sociology, Mr. Brumfield and Dr. Rabow have continued their relationship by leading diversity training seminars for Southern California Fire Departments in both Los Angeles city and county, Burbank, and Pasadena. Mr. Brumfield also helps facilitate sociology classes at California State University of Northridge. Mr. Erron Brumfield looks forward to working with your organization to help bring about that same enlightening environment that encompasses respect, understanding, and love.
JEROME RABOW |
ERRON BRUMFIELD |
MICHAEL AMBRIZ |
NORA
ITANI
Michael Ambriz received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from UCLA in 2001. Mr. Ambriz led small group discussions concerning the issues of inter-group conflict and prejudice and trained students to be discussion facilitators in the departments of Sociology, Education, and Chicano/a Studies. Mr. Ambriz has also conducted small discussion forums for numerous programs in the Los Angeles Unified School District for students and community volunteers. He was the Program Director of Solid Youth and trained LAUSD community mentor volunteers, sponsored by a grant from the Governor’s Office on Service and Volunteerism. Mr. Ambriz is currently working in the non-profit sector.
JEROME RABOW |
ERRON BRUMFIELD |
MICHAEL AMBRIZ |
NORA
ITANI
Nora Itani received her Marketing degree from CSUN in 2003. Prior to her school years, she was exposed to diverse markets where she ran a multi-million dollar business. Ms. Itani’s interest in diversity were sparked by her extensive travels and living in three different countries where she experienced each culture first hand. Ms. Itani is fluent in three languages and her interests include world history, which she believes provides a window to each cultures’ point of reference, giving us a better understanding of individual behaviors and attitudes.
JEROME RABOW |
ERRON BRUMFIELD |
MICHAEL AMBRIZ |
NORA
ITANI
Ms. Marsha Kaplon has a BS in Biochemistry from
the University of Maryland. She has worked for over 10 years in the
pharmaceutical and biotech industries in the design and management of
clinical trials and the research and development of medical products. During
this time, she
JEROME RABOW |
ERRON BRUMFIELD |
MICHAEL AMBRIZ |
NORA
ITANI
Dr. Ani Karayan received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with specializations in Individual, Family and Child Psychology and Multicultural Mental Health. She is currently conducting research on racial attitudes and ethnic identity. Dr. Karayan has provided diversity training to students at the University of California Los Angeles, and to Fire Captains from the Los Angeles Fire Chiefs Association. Dr. Karayan has often lectured on hate crimes and on the importance of multicultural education and has also served as a crisis interventionist to students and faculty in public schools following hate crimes.
JEROME RABOW |
ERRON BRUMFIELD |
MICHAEL AMBRIZ |
NORA
ITANI
JENNIFER ODUM Dr. Jennifer Odum graduated from Cal State Northridge in 2004 with a degree in Sociology with a focus in racial and ethnic relations. Her interest in this field stemmed from the challenges and joys of having a tri-racial family. In addition to conducting diversity training workshops Jennifer serves as a teaching assistant for two classes on race, gender and sexuality at Cal State Northridge. Her position as a parent of an elementary school child led her to explore and challenge the standard curriculum being taught to children in the public school system. Because of this interest Jennifer is currently in the process of being certified as a REACH trainer. At the completion of this certification she will begin holding training sessions for teachers with instruction on how to implement multi-cultural curriculums. Jennifer is very happy to be a part of the CCODE team!
JEROME RABOW |
ERRON BRUMFIELD |
MICHAEL AMBRIZ |
NORA
ITANI
TIFFANY HAMILTON Tiffany Hamilton received her B.A. in Communications Studies and Sociology with a minor in Education from UCLA in 2000. Her major focus at UCLA was on issues of race, gender and inter-group conflict and she was a facilitator in three undergraduate courses at UCLA working with students as they dealt with issues of racism and sexism. After graduating UCLA Ms. Hamilton lived and worked in Spain as an English Teacher. After a year she returned to work for the UCLA Community Based Learning Program. She developed curriculum focusing on improving educational achievement and career development for at risk youth ages 14 to 21 years old. She also conducted diversity trainings for the incoming students in the program to give them the tools and skills to successfully work with different and diverse people. Ms. Hamilton is currently pursuing an Ed.D at UCLA in the Educational Leadership Program. She is also a member of the Association of Pan African Doctoral Scholars and is a certified mediator through the UCLA Conflict Mediation Program.
JEROME RABOW |
ERRON BRUMFIELD |
MICHAEL AMBRIZ |
NORA
ITANI
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hearing how his students were frustrated with a campus atmosphere which made
them feel more mistrust towards groups other than their own at the end of
their four-year college career than when they had started. This knowledge
led him to a new kind of teaching and educational endeavor. He became a
trained facilitator of racial dialogue, began reading about how to help
people learn about their "isms”. He requires his students to go into schools
where they are different from the students they tutored. Their experiences
resulted in his book, 
experienced, first hand, the destructive effects of
discrimination in the work place. She saw its devastating effects on
productivity, morale and every bottom-line goal of a business. Ms. Kaplon
witnessed the permanent scaring on individuals and the ruinous consequences
for our society. She is currently working in a University setting where she
coordinates and teaches in a Masters Program in Regulatory Affairs. Ms.
Kaplon firmly believes that groups and collectives can do better. She seeks
to foster an environment that accomplishes not only business objectives, but
improves the world and legacy that we will leave our children.