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: David Arredondo, M.D.
: Lily Wong Fillmore
: Carmen Lomas Garza
: Deborah T. Simon
David Arredondo M.D.
Keynote Speaker
Medical Director
Office of Child Development, Neuropsychiatry and Mental Health
David Arredondo, MD is the Medical Director of the OCDNMH and founding director of SOLOMON, a pro bono consultation and technical assistance service. He conducts research reviews on a broad range of topics and provides consultations and training to professionals and programs across the country. His primary focus is the transferring of knowledge of early childhood brain development, the effects of trauma (developmental traumatology), and current thinking about children's mental health to practitioners in various disciplines in language that they can understand. His principal concerns include children with developmental circumstances that lead to less than optimal cognitive, emotional, and social development and the high numbers of youth with mental illness who are not receiving adequate screening, assessment, or mental health treatment. He is particularly concerned with the disproportionate impact of these circumstances on economically disadvantaged youth and their families. Dr Arredondo maintains a non-partisan stance while upholding the principle that an objective appraisal of circumstances requires multiple points of view.
Dr. Arredondo is the Medical Director of EMQ Children and Family Services, a large non profit agency in Northern California. He has special expertise in screening and assessing children for mental illness, program design, outcome studies, assessment of risk for recidivism in juvenile justice populations and community-based alternatives to incarceration. He has published and lectured extensively on the causes and treatment of behavioral disorders in young people and was featured on the PBS special, "Kids in Trouble". He is a frequent speaker at state and national conferences.
Dr. Arredondo is a former member of the clinical faculty of the Stanford University School of Medicine. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School.
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Lily Wong-Fillmore
Presenter, Keynote Speaker
University of California, Berkeley
Lily Wong Fillmore recently retired from the faculty of the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a linguist and an educator. Much of her research, teaching, and writing have focused on issues related to the education of language minority students. She specializes in second language learning and teaching, the education of language minority students, and the socialization of children for learning across cultures.
Over the past 35 years, Fillmore has conducted studies of Latino, Asian, American Indian, and Eskimo second language learners in school settings. Her research and publications have focused on social and cognitive processes in language learning, on cultural differences in language learning behavior, on sources of variation in learning, and on primary language retention and loss. The government of Spain recently recognized her for her work on behalf of Spanish-speaking children in the United States.
Fillmore recently conducted research in Yupik villages along the lower Yukon River in Alaska and directed a University of California, Berkeley, doctoral program for American Indian leaders in several pueblos in New Mexico.
Fillmore’s latest publications include "What teachers need to know about language," which appeared in the volume What Teachers Need to Know About Language (Center for Applied Linguistics in 2002); “Language in Education” published in Language in the U.S.A. ( E. Finegan and J. R. Rickford, Eds., Cambridge University Press, 2004); and “ELLs and High Stakes Testing: Enabling Students to Make the Grade” with Brian Bielenberg which appeared in Educational Leadership, 2004.
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Carmen Lomas Garza
Featured Speaker
Carmen Lomas Garza, an artist since the age of 13, has exhibited her paintings and metal cutouts in museums throughout the United States including The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, the Oakland Museum of California, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Garza's artwork narrates the everyday life of her childhood in a Mexican American community in South Texas where she was born.
In 1990, Garza's art was published in a bilingual book, Family Pictures/Cuadros de familia, published by Children's Book Press. Nearly 400,000 copies of this book have sold.
Garza has produced public art commissions for the San Francisco International Airport and the San Francisco Water Department.
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Deborah Simon
Presenter, Featured Speaker
Deborah Simon is a professional early childhood program administrator, teacher, writer, and a child advocate. As a teacher and a public speaker, Simon integrates stories in her presentations that draw on her rich family history and international tales. The stories, both entertaining and educational, weave vivid, colorful, powerful pictures that tell of a time past, a time present, and a time yet to come.
Simon recently retired as the Manager of the San José Public Library’s Office on Early Education and Literacy Services, and now concentrates on teaching, writing, and telling stories. She holds a Masters in Education and has recently completed a Masters in Interfaith Divinity.
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