Fatima Hafiz and Onaje Muid Fatima is an educator and activist working in teacher preparation for urban schools, whose main interest is in issues of race, fear and social injustice pedagogies. She has extensive experience in the use of service learning as an approach for working on these issues. She has worked with a number of organizations on conducting focus groups and facilitating curriculum construction with teachers and community-based groups. She served as an adjunct instructor for new teachers and is currently a Doctoral Candidate at Temple University. Fatima works as an education consultant for groups of teachers, community residents, organizations and independent schools. She has extraordinary skill as a facilitator in the art of listening and dialogue to foster transformation in challenging social interactions. Her work is constantly evolving as she and her husband and SOULMATE Onaje Muid find synergy in their work together as a means of healing our community while working towards the transformation of humanity As a social justice/human rights activist, Onaje Muid has a combined thirty four year history of community organizing, human services and human rights advocacy. As a young adult he embraced the progressive Black Consciousness movements and used them as ideological canons to develop his role in the Black Liberation Movement. Malcolm X became the model for his development and the reason that he pursued the understanding of and commitment to human rights for African people. His human services career is directly linked to his human rights analysis, a relationship that he has lectured widely on, particularly how social services are in the fullest expression, a form of rehabilitation, one aspect of reparations. His first human rights assignment was to serve as the Representative to United Nations for the non governmental organizations, International Human Rights Association for American Minorities. Later he served as the International Commissioner of N’COBRA from 1999 to 2002, a national grassroots reparations organization based in Washington, DC. and chair of the Peoplehood Subcommittee of the Litigation Commission. As a NGO delegate to United Nations World Conference Against Racism in South African in 2001, represented N’COBRA, the Malik Shabazz Human Rights Institute and the Coalition Against the War on Drugs.  His professional interest in trauma theory become crystallized in the early part of 2003 in the discovery of the work of Dr. Joy Leary, PhD and Dr. Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart, Ph.D, post traumatic slave syndrome and historical trauma, respectively. These two doctors in social work research influenced his thesis title, “ ..Then I lost my spirit: An Analytical Essay on Transgenerational Trauma Theory Applied to Oppressed People of Color Nations. He posits the concept of Nation Trauma Theory as an explanation of maladaptive social functioning in oppressed nations.  Onaje Muid, a credentialed alcohol and substance abuse counselor by the Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (O.A.S.A.S.) of New York State, a licensed mental health counselor, graduated from the State University of New York, Stony Brook with a master’s degree in Social Work. He holds two post master’s certificates, one in trauma from Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health.