SHORT BIO Sandra Bernabei, LCSW, NYC metro area community organizer, private practitioner. She is a liberation psychotherapist and life coach doing the work of liberation from the tyranny of depression, anxiety and addictions. She has taught social justice and empowerment case management. at Fordham University, Graduate School of Social Service. Sandy is a founding member of the Antiracist Alliance, an antiracist organizing collective of New York City area human service practitioners. ARA is building a movement to undo structural racism in our lifetime and to bring an analysis of structural racism as outlined by the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond to social work education and practice. www.antiracistalliance.com www.endthestructureofracism.ning.com She has over 30 years experience in the field of addictions and has served as directors of Barnard College/Columbia University, Alcohol & Substance Abuse Prevention Program, the Council on Alcoholism and other Drug Dependence in Rockland County- New York, and the Chemical Dependency Training Institute for Addiction Specialist. She received the 2012 Social Worker of the Year Award for NASW Westchester Division. In January 2008 she received a recognition award at the 10th anniversary of the Rockland County Drug Court for her work as the founder of a grassroots community effort that established the drug court. In May 2008 she was the recipient of the NASW NYC Social Work Image Award. She is also the recipient of the 2007 WestCOP Community Service Award. The Westchester Community Opportunity Program mission is to advocate, mobilize and effectively manage resources that will help the low income and at-risk populations in Westchester and Putnam Counties become more self-sufficient. She served two terms as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Social Workers-New York City Chapter and currently a board member for The Center for the Study of White American Culture, Vice Chair of WESPAC Foundation and a member of The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, NYC leadership team.

Sandra Bernabei, LCSW, NYC metro area community organizer, private practitioner. She is

a liberation psychotherapist and life coach doing the work of liberation from the tyranny of depression, anxiety and addictions. She has taught social justice and empowerment case management. at Fordham University, Graduate School of Social Service.

Sandy is a founding member of the Antiracist Alliance, an antiracist organizing collective of New York City area human service practitioners. ARA is building a movement to undo structural racism in our lifetime and to bring an analysis of structural racism as outlined by the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond to social work education and practice. www.antiracistalliance.com www.endthestructureofracism.ning.com

She has over 30 years experience in the field of addictions and has served as directors of Barnard College/Columbia University, Alcohol & Substance Abuse Prevention Program, the Council on Alcoholism and other Drug Dependence in Rockland County- New York, and the Chemical Dependency Training Institute for Addiction Specialist.

She received the 2012 Social Worker of the Year Award for NASW Westchester Division. In January 2008 she received a recognition award at the 10th anniversary of the Rockland County Drug Court for her work as the founder of a grassroots community effort that established the drug court. In May 2008 she was the recipient of the NASW NYC Social Work Image Award.

She is also the recipient of the 2007 WestCOP Community Service Award. The Westchester Community Opportunity Program mission is to advocate, mobilize and effectively manage resources that will help the low income and at-risk populations in Westchester and Putnam Counties become more self-sufficient.

She served two terms as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Social Workers-New York City Chapter and currently a board member for The Center for the Study of White American Culture, Vice Chair of WESPAC Foundation and a member of The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, NYC leadership team.