Julie Flapan

flapan@tolerance-net.org

Julie Flapan has served as Project Director, ADL's A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE Institute for the past five years where she is responsible for marketing and delivering diversity workshops to teachers, students, parents and community groups. Julie has successfully implemented peer leadership programs, university-based teacher training institutes, and she has developed and implemented a diversity program for minors in custody in the Juvenile Justice System. In Addition, she writes grants, curriculum materials, and she has developed numerous special projects such as the Youth Leadership Mission to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Unity Through Diversity Conference for over 1000 students. Julie began working in Chicago ADL office in 1994 until she relocated Southern California in the summer 1998.

Prior her work with ADL, Julie taught sex-education in Los Angeles Unified School District under the direction of Planned Parenthood. She has experience teaching a multicultural arts education program at the Westside Arts Center in Santa Monica and ceramics at the Boys and Girls Clu, an after-school program in Venice, CA. Julie also taught a values clarification curriculum for middle school and secondary students at various day schools, camps, and retreat-based programs.

Ms Flapan has four years corporate experience in human resources with the Security First Group, a large financial services company owned by Metropolitan. Her responsibilities included training, employee relations, and directing the corportae social responsibilities initiatives. She trained all employees on new sexual harassment laws and procured labor law representation in racial discrimination complaints and other employee counseling issues.

Julie was raised in Des Moines, Iowa in a family of five daughters - one of the few Jewish families in this Christian Midwestern community. While in college, Julie studied Spanish in Mexico and Spain and has traveled extensively throughout North America, South America, Europe, Indonesia, and Israel.

Julie holds a Bachelors Degree from Pitzer College (a member of the Claremount Colleges in Southern Californai) where she majored in Psychology and she holds a Masters Degree in Education and Social Policy from Northwestern University in Chicage. Julie is currently working full-time while studying towards a doctorate in Educational Leadership at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include exemplary models of teaching when teachers do not mirror their student body with regards to race or ethnicity.