• Dick Bathrick, Director of Programs
• Ulester Douglas, Director of Training
• Katie Graham, Development Manager
• Sulaiman Nuriddin, Men's Intervention Program Manager
• Phyllis Perry, Communications Coordinator
• Shelley Serdahely, Executive Director
• John Tramel, Instructor/Trainer

Dick Bathrick, M.A., L.M.F.T., Director of Programs

Dick Bathrick co-founded Men Stopping Violence in 1982 and has filled numerous roles at the organization over the years. He brings more than three decades of experience in progressive social change to the work of battering prevention.

"I'm in this for life," he says. "My commitment to the work is rooted in our larger, ongoing struggle to create safe and just communities."

Since 2004, Mr. Bathrick has been Director of Programs, overseeing all program initiatives, including community education, interventions with men, the Internship Program, public policy, and the Community Restoration Program.

As part of MSV's national training team, he has co-led trainings for a variety of organizations, including the National Council of Churches, the U.S. Army and U.S. Marines, the National Association of Secondary School Principals, and the American Orthopsychiatric Association. Mr. Bathrick also has co-led international training initiatives for governmental officials, social service workers, and women's advocates in the United Kingdom and Taiwan.

He is the author or co-author of a number of articles, including “Deconstructing Male Violence Against Women: The Men Stopping Violence Community-Accountability Model“ (2008, Violence Against Women, Sage Publications); “How Do You Know Your Batterer Program Works?” (2007, Domestic Violence Report ); and “Male Privilege and Male Violence: Patriarchy's Root and Branch” (1990, The Crossing Press). He has co-authored several curricula, including the manuals “Men at Work: Building Safe Communities” and “Men Stopping Violence: A Program for Change.”

Among his affiliations are the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, the National College of District Attorneys, the National Institute of Justice, and the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

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Shelley Serdahely, B.S., Executive Director

Shelley Serdahely has worked to end violence against women since the 1970's. In 1981 the St. Vincent de Paul Society invited her to lead their efforts to open a shelter for women who were victims of violence. Taking a leave of absence from her executive position with a medical diagnostic laboratory, Ms. Serdahely worked with staff and volunteers. As a result, Rosalie House, in San Francisco, was opened in 8 months.

Ms. Serdahely never went back to the for-profit sector. She immediately joined Women Organized to Make Abuse Nonexistent, Inc. as their Director of Fundraising, more than doubling their income in the first six months. When she left the staff of WOMAN, Inc. she was invited to join the Board and immediately elected Board Chair.

In 1989, Ms. Serdahely became the Executive Director of Alternatives to Violence in Hawaii, a program that housed services for women and children who were victims of violence and a batterers’ intervention program. Her greatest accomplishment during this time was the creation of an effective domestic violence task force that included the judges, police, shelters, and other social services agencies.

From 1992-1999, she served as the Executive Director of The Fundraising Project, funded by the Ford Foundation to build the fundraising capacity of legal services programs throughout the country.

Most recently, she served as the Executive Director of the Jeannette Rankin Foundation. The Jeannette Rankin Foundation gives grants to low-income women 35 and older who are enrolled in a college or vocational training program. She served as the Executive Director for two years, during which time the foundation increased the number of educational grants awarded from 20 to 45, as well as increasing the amount of each grant by 25 percent. Ms. Serdahely is currently serving as a member of the National Advisory Board of the Jeannette Rankin Foundation.

She has three children, all of whom live in California, and is the proud grandmother of Max Reza Johnston, born on September 11, 2003.

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Ulester Douglas is Director of Training for Men Stopping Violence. He is also a Certified Imago Relationship Therapist and has specialized training in working with individuals, families and communities affected by violence.

Mr. Douglas was the recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health fellowship while completing his master of social work degree at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He also received the National Black Herstory Task Force Comrade Salute Award in 2004 and was honored by Lifetime Television for Women and the NNEDV in 2003 for his work to end violence against women.

He has authored and co-authored articles and curricula on family violence and other human rights issues, including the article “Deconstructing Male Violence Against Women: The Men Stopping Violence Community-Accountability Model” (2008, Violence Against Women, Sage Publications); the curriculum “Men at Work: Building Safe Communities”; the white paper “Organizing to End Violence Against Women: Putting Principles Into Practice”; and the book chapter “African-American Men Who Batter: A Community-Centered Approach to Prevention and Intervention” (unpublished).

He has provided consultation, training and keynote presentations to community-based organizations and corporations, including: the National Association of Attorneys General; the National College of District Attorneys; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics; the United States Department of Defense; and the Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community.

Mr. Douglas was a member of a Men Stopping Violence delegation to Great Britain in March 2005. As a guest of the Home Office, he contributed to the discourse on “best practices” in the United Kingdom and the United States regarding men who batter. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Washington, D.C--based National Network to End Domestic Violence and on several advisory boards and committees, including the International Association of Chiefs of Police's National Violence Against Women Advisory Group, and the Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence.

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Katie Graham, B.S., Development Manager

Katie Graham coordinates fund-raising and event-planning activities for Men Stopping Violence.

Ms. Graham graduated from North Georgia College and State University in 2004 with a bachelor of science degree in psychology. Following a short stint working in the corporate world, she became the Office Coordinator for the Georgia Association of Training Employment and Supports (GATES), a coalition of community service providers that support people with developmental disabilities.

She also engaged in a number of volunteer activities, most notably with V-Day, a global nonprofit organization dedicated to ending violence against women and girls. Her work with V-Day centered around building and maintaining relationships with donors, and helping to plan the logistics of V-Day events. The V-Day Atlanta event that Ms. Graham helped organize in 2007 raised more than $50,000.

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Sulaiman Nuriddin, M.Ed., Men's Intervention Program Manager

Sulaiman Nuriddin began working with Men Stopping Violence in 1987 after completing the year-long Internship Program. He currently oversees educational interventions for MSV.

Mr. Nuriddin works intensively with the DeKalb County (Georgia) court system, intervening with men who have been arrested for domestic violence. He co-instructs ongoing classes for convicted and self-referred men and has been instrumental in planning effective interventions with men of color who batter. He has conducted training for such organizations as 100 Black Men, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., the Institute on Domestic Violence in the African-American Community, the Black Church in Domestic Violence Institute, and the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives. He also has led trainings at Clark Atlanta University, and Morehouse and Spelman colleges.

Additionally, Mr. Nuriddin has conducted trainings for the National Council of Churches, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health, the National Basketball Association Summer Youth Program, the Atlanta Police Department, and the U.S. Department of Justice, for which he has also served as a consultant. He was also a consultant for The Vera Institute of Justice and the National Men's Network to End Domestic and Sexual Violence. Internationally, he has co-led a training initiative in Great Britain.

He has participated in discussion groups regarding domestic violence with the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He co-authored the MSV curriculum “Men at Work: Building Safe Communities.”

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Phyllis Alesia Perry, B.A., Communications Coordinator

Phyllis Alesia Perry is responsible for producing written materials for a variety of purposes, including education, marketing, and information dissemination. She also administers the Web site.

Ms. Perry earned a bachelor's degree in communications from The University of Alabama and worked 16 years for Southern newspapers. She was part of a writing and editing team at The Alabama Journal in Montgomery, Alabama, that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for a series highlighting Alabama's infant mortality crisis. She also worked 10 years for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as an editor, bureau chief, and reporter.

Since coming to Men Stopping Violence she has co-authored the article “Deconstructing Male Violence Against Women: The Men Stopping Violence Community-Accountability Model” (2008, Violence Against Women, Sage Publications); the curriculum “Men at Work: Building Safe Communities”; the white paper “Organizing to End Violence Against Women: Putting Principles Into Practice”; and the book chapter “African-American Men Who Batter: A Community-Centered Approach to Prevention and Intervention” (unpublished).

She has also written two novels -- Stigmata (1998, Hyperion Books) and A Sunday in June (2004, Hyperion Books) -- and been anthologized in Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of New Black Literature (2001, Wiley & Sons); Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women (2004, W. W. Norton); and The Remembered Gate: Memoirs by Alabama Writers (2002, University of Alabama Press).

John Tramel, M.S.W., Instructor/Trainer

John Tramel conducts training and community presentations for colleges and universities, state

and local government agencies, faith institutions, and various other professional and community organizations. Mr. Tramel also assists with other Men Stopping Violence Programs such as the Because We Have Daughters® Campaign, Men's Education Program, Internship Program, and Mentor Training Project.

Mr. Tramel received his bachelor's degree in social work from Mississippi College in 2000. He immediately began coordinating services for children with acute behavioral and emotional disabilities as a staff member of Catholic Charities, Inc. In 2002, Mr. Tramel received the “Friend of Families” Award from Mississippi Families As Allies, Inc. While working as a service coordinator, he also led training for law enforcement personnel, educators, and mental health and service

practitioners on Managing Aggressive Behavior. He moved to Atlanta in 2003 to work with a faith-based social justice organization assisting families dealing with issues related to poverty, racism and other structural inequalities.

In 2005, Mr. Tramel earned his master of social work degree from Georgia State University, where he received the “Outstanding MSW Student” Award. He came to Men Stopping Violence in the spring of 2005 through the Internship Program and subsequently joined the staff.

He has co-authored the MSV curriculum “Men at Work: Building Safe Communities.”

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