Dr. Raiza Kolia is a senior-level healthcare industry leader with 25+ years of experience as a hospital administrator/executive and healthcare consultant focused on health systems operations efficiency and strategy, including access, quality of care, value-based care, and performance improvement.  She serves as an international Mental Health Consultant, advising on mental health programs.

She is a trained and licensed Social Worker and therapist, in the USA and South Africa, experienced in working with disenfranchised individuals, families and communities. She has done community organizing and development, program development and management, as well as therapeutic individual and group counseling in South Africa, the US, Lebanon, Kurdistan, and Jordan.

In addition, Raiza is an Adjunct Professor at Fordham University, Graduate School of Social Services, New York, NY. She teaches Master-level classes in Crisis Intervention and Trauma Treatment, Domestic Violence and Empowerment, Coping with Death and Dying, and Human Rights, Advocacy and Policy Practice.

Most recently, she served as the Director of a Mental Health Psycho-social Support (MHPSS) program in Lebanon for a large US-based non-profit organization, and she also served as their regional Mental Health Consultant. In her role, she has designed, advised, and assessed MHPSS programs in Jordan, Turkey, and Kurdistan. She has also consulted to the Government of New Zealand after the massacre in Christ Church. She provided expertise and training to first responders and community leaders in New Zealand on the psycho-social consequences for a community after mass violence.

Raiza was born in South Africa where she completed her studies through her Master’s degree and then went to the US to complete her Ph.D. and MBA. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Social Work and International Development Policy. Her MBA from the Katz Business School at the University of Pittsburgh is in Finance and Organizational Development. She also holds a Certification in Change Management from Georgetown University in Washington DC.

During her time in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, Raiza has built a network of international and local experts willing to collaborate with her efforts. She has earned the trust and respect of the local camp leaders and Syrian refugees for her tireless efforts to bring much-needed services to them.

Ernst Mucke is the co-founder and the visionary leader of Reaching Across Borders.  He is also the Chairman of the Board. Our team looks to him for inspiration and comfort.

Professionally he is a computer scientist and biometrics expert with more than 25 years of industry experience. He has held executive-level positions in publicly traded technology companies and startups.  He is a scientist, engineer, and our “numbers guy”.  Over the years, Ernst has managed multi-million-dollar technology R&D contracts and large-scale biometrics deployments with diverse teams world-wide, including in the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia.

Since 2015, he is a VP for Technology for Vkansee, Inc, a startup in mobile biometrics with offices in New York and Beijing. Ernst has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

He has served on non-profit condo boards in the roles of Chairman, Treasurer, and Secretary, managing all legal, operational, and financial health of the associations, ensuring due diligence to the benefit of the members of the respective communities.

At Reaching Across Boarders, he is our true north, Board Chairman, technology and financial advisor.

Mary Speyer has been involved in political and non-profit fundraising for more than thirty years and has worked on various campaigns, operated her own business and participated in grassroots lobbying efforts. Mary has experience in fundraising, project development, event planning, and marketing. Her most recent activities include serving as Board Chair for City Kids Wilderness Project and extensive travel to Tanzania, where she and her daughter co-founded a non-profit organization to build schools, promote early childhood educational programs and support infrastructure projects in rural villages throughout Arusha, Tanzania.

She has also been involved in major fundraising endeavors for The Sidwell Friends School. She currently serves on the boards of various organizations based in Washington, D.C. and Jackson Hole, Wyoming. She oversees the philanthropic activities of the Alexander C. and Tillie S. Speyer Foundation based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is an avid hiker, marathoner, and outdoor enthusiast. Mary resides in Washington, D.C. and Jackson Hole, Wyoming with her husband, Jim Speyer. They have three adult children and three grandchildren. 

Maile Ramzi has been involved in international business for over 30 years. She has a degree in Political Science with a concentration in Middle East studies from the University of Maryland. She attended the American University in Cairo (AUC) where she studied Arabic language. She also studied French at L’Université de Paris/Sorbonne. She has spent much of her adult life living and working in the Middle East and Africa (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and sub-Saharan Africa). She worked for Marriott International for 10 years as a Project Manager in the HR Information Systems Division. She was the Washington DC Representative for HSBC Equator Bank, a trade and investment bank with 10 offices in sub-Saharan Africa, based in Washington, DC for 12 years.  She managed the bank’s relationship with multinational institutions (World Bank/IMF/IFC), US Government agencies, Capitol Hill, and several nonprofits working in Africa. She has participated in several trade missions, traveling to more than 20 countries in Africa and hosted many African government officials and delegations in the US. Through her association with HSBC, she was a founding member of The Corporate Council on Africa (CCA), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote education, understanding and trade and investment links between Africa and the US.

Maile has a working knowledge of French and Arabic.  Currently, she is active in real estate and manages a real estate portfolio with her husband, Hisham, a native of Cairo, Egypt, from her home in suburban Virginia.  She is a working mom, raising twin daughters in high school and is active in her community volunteering with SHARE and other local nonprofits.  She is also involved with The Collateral Repair Project (CRP), a nonprofit organization based in Amman, Jordon, working to provide health and social services to Syrian and other refugees living in Jordan, displaced by war and conflict.

Jan Maurer brings a variety of professional experience having worked in both line and staff positions from sales to sales training, leading and managing teams to training and coaching executives in leadership and management skills. Her passion is working with individuals and teams to discover their potential and make the behavioral shifts to achieve their desired performance goals.

She has worked with professional services firms, insurance firms, healthcare, oil and gas industry, aerospace companies, water and wastewater entities, and not for profit organizations. Jan provides executive and team coaching, training and development services, meeting facilitation and planning along with organizational consulting.

Her career includes leading the organizational development initiatives at a regional based Caterpillar distributor/dealership; directing the North America training function at USFilter/Viola Environment, a publicly held multi-national company.  In her role at Viola, she conducted training and development programs internationally and worked extensively with teams in different operating divisions to improve their processes and effectiveness. While at the University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business Executive Education, she collaborated with companies to determine their needs and create specific training curricula. She began her business career in marketing and sales for Westinghouse Electric.

Jan obtained her Master’s degree from Case Western Reserve University and is certified in programs from the Center for Creative Leadership, Development Dimensions International, Wilson Learning, and is a Caterpillar Six Sigma Green Belt. She acquired her coaching certification from the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and is a visiting faculty member in their coaching program and workshops. Jan is an International Coach Federation Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and a Board-Certified Coach (BCC). 

Minna Jarvenpaa is the founder of Tools for Inner Peace, a charity dedicated to empowering refugees and conflict survivors to manage their own health and wellbeing with tools from yoga. She devotes most of her time in recent years to serving refugee communities in Lebanon.

 Over her previous career in peacebuilding Minna worked in a range of conflict and post-conflict settings, including Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. She has held senior roles in United Nations peacekeeping missions and served as senior advisor to Nobel Peace Prize winner Martti Ahtisaari.  Minna holds a Masters degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics and a B.A. from Harvard University. She has also completed three years of training at the Bihar School of Yoga in India.

Dr. Shihadeh is a board-certified Ophthalmic Surgeon. He was born in a suburb of Damascus in Syria. He completed his Medical Doctor training at Damascus University, Faculty of Medicine, and then specialized in Ophthalmology and Eye Surgery.

In Syria, for 11 years, Dr. Shihadeh ran his own private eye clinic and performed eye surgeries at various hospitals in Damascus. During that time, he was also a faculty member at The Medical Technical Institute at Damascus University. He has been influential in the medical education of doctors in both Syria and Lebanon. To make medical knowledge more accessible to his colleagues, he has translated several medical reference books and bulletins from English to Arabic.

Dr. Shihadeh left Syria is 2015 for Lebanon, where he practiced at clinics and hospitals that were specifically established for Syrian refugees. During his 5 year stay in Lebanon, he has provided medical and eye surgical services across Lebanon, to tens of thousands of Syrian refugees as well as Lebanese, recognized by his colleagues and patients for his outstanding skills in diagnostics, treatment and eye surgery.

In addition to his medical training, Dr. Shihadeh has also studied Islamic Sciences at Al-Azhar University in Damascus, which was a branch of the prestigious Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt. Currently, he lives in Istanbul, Turkey.

Enó Isong is an international development communications strategist, with a focus on human development policy development; program management and design; and using effective communications and advocacy strategies to raise awareness and strengthen public health systems and infrastructures. She has over 20 years experience providing programmatic and operational management for international development projects in the areas of global health, education, conflict resolution, and women & girls, targeting key messages of change to policymakers, key stakeholders and under-served communities.

As a consultant through the years, Enó has used her professional expertise – sometimes pro bono – to help build the advocacy and communications capacity of individuals and organizations to better articulate and implement their goals and objectives. She has consulted with large multilateral institutions such as the World Bank and the UN, as well as national governments, academic institutions, the private sector, and, most importantly, community-based civil society organizations.

Currently, Enó works with the World Bank, in Washington DC, in Strategic Communications.

Enó was previously an Associate Director for International Communications at the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (CTFK), where her responsibilities included designing online and offline communications and advocacy plans, strategies, and campaigns for passage and implementation of comprehensive tobacco control policies. She also managed global corporate campaigns exposing the tobacco companies’ exploitation of farmers, as well as their reprehensible marketing tactics towards young children.

Enó has also served as Associate Director at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, where she managed the day-to-day projects and partnerships of the Foundation’s Africa program, including sustained multi-media behavior and policy change campaigns using advocacy interventions, as well as community and national level outreach across multiple offline and online communications vehicles, to encourage social change, leadership development, and youth empowerment.

Enó believes her professional and personal commitment to sustainable and healthy families and communities has been greatly influenced by her personal experiences as a little girl traveling with her mother and siblings to serve women, children and families in underserved and rural communities in Nigeria. Her focus, therefore, has always been driven to create new and innovative ways to reach, inform, captivate and mobilize targeted audiences to elevate and act on development priorities.

Enó holds an Advanced Postgraduate Certificate in Core Public Health Concepts from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; a Masters of Arts in Communications from Howard University, Washington DC; and a Bachelor of Arts in English and Literary Studies from the University of Calabar, Nigeria.

Evelyn Murphy is a public health lawyer currently working in global health at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland. Her focus for the past 10 years has been on public health policies in developing countries. Her previous experience includes two decades working in the USA on health and social services programs for the aging, persons with disabilities, and mental health needs. 

Evelyn is a US citizen. She was born in Ghana, and she currently lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland.  Evelyn obtained a Juris Doctorate (JD) from the McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis in 1992, and a Masters of Planning (MPL), with a focus on health planning from the Indiana School of Public and Environmental Affairs in 1999. 

Dr. Jorina Elbers is a Canadian board-certified pediatric neurologist currently living in the United States.  After completing her fellowship in pediatric stroke at the University of Toronto, she moved to California to work as an assistant professor at Stanford University. Dr. Elbers completed her master’s degree in Epidemiology at Stanford and published over 20 peer-reviewed manuscripts across the fields of pediatrics, stroke, and the neurobiology of trauma. Dr. Elbers completed additional trauma-focused therapeutic training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Brainspotting and HeartMath. After leaving Stanford in 2018, she joined the HeartMath Institute, a non-profit organization, to develop trauma-sensitive HeartMath programs for health care providers, first responders and parents.

Dr. Elbers has traveled extensively to over 20 countries across 6 continents and obtained further international medical training in India and Zambia.  Her experience as a mother, a pediatrician, and a neurologist has contributed to her lens of care and compassion through which she views the world. She has a deep passion for helping children and adults heal trauma and illness across the continuum of body, mind, heart and spirit.

Professor Kay Hoffman is professor and dean emerita of the College of Social Work, University of Kentucky (UK), USA. She has over four decades of experience in Social Work Education and practice. At UK she was the Dorothy A. Miller Professor in Social Work Education and a member of the Kentucky Institute of Medicine. Her scholarly work is in social work education, child welfare, and international social work.

In 2020 she was awarded The Established Faculty Service and Leadership in Social Work Education Award, the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), in the USA.

Professor Hoffmann is a leader in shaping social work education in the USA and internationally. She was president of the Council on Social Work Education and chair of the Commission on Accreditation, served on the board of the International Association of Schools of Social Work, and has been a visiting faculty member at the University of West Arad in Romania and a senior scholar at CSWE. She won the Significant Achievement Award from the College of Arts and Sciences, Ohio University; the Friend of School Social Work Award from the Kentucky School Social Work Association in 2007; and was NASW Social Worker of the Year at the New River Valley Chapter in Virginia. She is past president of the Michigan Council on Crime and Delinquency and the Detroit Welfare Reform Coalition.

Professor Hoffmann has also served on several other committees, such as the Work-Life Committee, UK. Kentucky Conference on Communities and Justice, Member of UNICEF Team for developing social work education and the occupational status of social work in Vietnam, Senior Scholar, CSWE. Presidential Fellowship Committee. Over the years, she has secured millions of dollars for research.

Currently, Professor Hoffman continues her work with PhD students and supervises an evaluation team of researchers examining prevention responses in child welfare and public health. She continues to be active in her local community, having served as the president of the Plantory, an incubator for nonprofit organizations, and president of the Center on Human Entrepreneurship Solutions Group. Presently, she is a board member of the Peninsula Art Academy.

At RAB she brings her extensive experience and experiences to ensure that we are developing and implementing evidence-based Mental Health programs, that our practice methods are ethical, and that our measurement and evaluation protocols are academically rigorous.

Dr. Paula Allen-Meares is an international expert on human services in educational settings, mental health in under-resourced communities, and educational access and success. From 2009 to 2015, she served as Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC); in 2010, she was also appointed Vice President of the University of Illinois. Currently, she is John Corbally Presidential Professor Emerita and Professor of Medicine, College of Medicine, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has held faculty appointments on both the Chicago and Urbana-Champaign campuses in the Schools of Public Health, Colleges of Education, and Schools of Social Work, serving as Dean at Urbana-Champaign. She is also Dean and Professor Emerita and the Norma Radin Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan (U-M).

Dr. Allen-Meares is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and the Royal Society of Medicine, and she is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. For almost a decade, she served as a trustee for the William T. Grant Foundation. She has also been invited to participate in White House conferences regarding student success and affordability in higher education, opioid use, and mental health. She holds a level-one Professional Director Certification from the American College of Corporate Directors.

A native of Buffalo, NY, Dr. Allen-Meares earned her bachelor’s degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo and master’s and PhD degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She holds certificates in management from the U-M and Harvard University, an Executive Education certificate from the Women’s Director of Development Program at Kellogg School of Management, and the Creating and Leading a Culture of Innovation Certificate from Northwestern University.

Dr. Allen-Meares is author or co-author of more than 170 publications and serves on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals and publications. Her research interests include the functions of human service providers in educational settings and diverse community challenges and strengths. Major themes in her research include improving the physical and mental health of underprivileged children and adolescents of color and the strengths of parents and communities. Her research is cited around the world; her theoretical model on school social work for at-risk youth has been used in South Africa, South Korea, Australia, China, and Europe.

As Chancellor of UIC, the largest public research university in Chicago, with over 28,000 students, Dr. Allen-Meares led “Brilliant Futures: The Campaign for the University of Illinois at Chicago” on the heels of the Great Recession to raise $676 million, the most ever raised by UIC. This was her third major fundraising campaign as a higher education administrator, all of which exceeded their goals. While Chancellor, she worked to transform the campus into a model for how urban research universities should champion and effectuate sustainable public policy and translate research, discoveries, and innovations that enhance quality of life at the local, national, and global levels. In doing so, she has redefined for future generations the role of land-grant colleges and universities. The enhanced intellectual heft and financial resources garnered by UIC under her governance have furthered the university’s reputation for programs, policies, research, and discourse that address complex and interconnected social and global concerns. Included among these are first-generation education and retention success, diversity, access to health care, food distribution, energy sustainability, and the development of technology and innovation. The UIC six-year graduation rate also improved under her tenure.

In 1993, Dr. Allen-Meares was appointed Dean of the U-M School of Social Work, and under her leadership the School’s endowment grew from $1 million to $43 million, while externally funded research awards reached more than $100 million. She also led the initiative to relocate the social work program into a state-of-the-art facility on the U-M campus, including fundraising and construction. At U-M, Dr. Allen-Meares chaired the University Health Sciences Council and was a founding Dean of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the National Center for Institutional Diversity, and the U-M Detroit Center. She was principal investigator (PI) of the Global Program on Youth, supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation; co-PI of the National Institute of Mental Health’s Research Center on Poverty, Risk, and Mental Health; co-PI on an R01 of the National Institute of Mental Health’s Pathways for Youth, Risk, and Resilience; PI of the Skillman Good Neighborhoods grant; and PI of the NIH Bridges to Baccalaureate grant and the Health Sciences Learning Exchange grant. Currently, she is co-PI of a center grant on Health Equity Research.

During her tenures at U-M and UIC, Dr. Allen-Meares established research and educational partnerships with the UAW, Ford, GM, Baxter International, Argonne National Laboratories, governmental and non-governmental agencies, and many international organizations. At UIC, she oversaw a workforce of 15,000 faculty and staff, comprising more than 25 labor unions, and she negotiated a new faculty contract that is regarded as one of the best in the nation for upholding academic excellence while balancing financial necessities.

As an elected member of NAM, Dr. Allen-Meares was appointed Chair of Section X in 2009 and then co-chaired Section X for another two years. She served on the NAM Sarnat Prize Committee and the NAM Awards Committee and currently serves on the Health Division Committee. She also serves on the Chicago Civic Consulting Alliance Board and recently served on the American Council on Education’s Commission on Inclusion and the Executive Committee for the Coalition for Urban Serving Universities.

Solfrid Raknes is a Norwegian Clinical Psychologist, Researcher, and program developer.  She is the innovator of The Helping Hands program, which is a prize-winning psychosocial program based on the principles of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. The program is widely used in school health services, schools, and kindergartens in Norway; it has been translated into 8 languages and is digitalized and culturally adapted to Arabic-speaking children.

Solfrid is an experienced cognitive therapist and supervisor. Since 2010 she has lectured extensively in all parts of the health- and school-system in Norway. Over the years, she has conducted over 300 workshops for clinical psychologists, General Medical Practitioners, psychiatric nurses, and teachers.

Solfrid received her Ph.D. from in Clinical psychology from the University of Bergen, Norway. Her research focused on cognitive interventions targeted anxious adolescents.

Currently, Solfrid is based in Beirut, where she is a project leader for implementing and evaluating Helping Hands programs in Lebanon and Norway. She is involved in a wide specter of humanitarian projects focused on reducing poverty and improving mental health.

Aneta is an internationally recognized researcher in the field of critical studies of internationalization, global education developments and education in the context of protracted crisis. She has written extensively about these topics in leading peer-reviewed journals and media articles. Her publications have made an impact within the academic community, with her work being cited in key journals (such as Comparative Education), and described as “compelling, interesting and timely” (Critical Studies in Education) and offering “a strong and constructive analysis that constitutes a genuine contribution to the sociology of education” (Journal of Studies in International Education).

Her research extends into the world of practice through her collaboration with internationally based NGOs and local partners in the UK. She has also been involved in a research study with Syrian refugee children attending informal schools in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. This work will further inform the implementation of evidence-based practice programs with refugees.

Aneta is a Senior Lecturer in Education at Keele University, UK. She has also worked in higher education in Bahrain. She holds a PhD in Education from Exeter University, UK, a MA in English Philology, a BA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language, and a PGCE, PGCert in Professional Studies in Education.

Emile Derbas has extensive experience working with vulnerable individuals and communities in the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia to sustainably enhance local resilience and empowerment as a Grants, Programming and Finance Specialist. She has an MA in International Affairs: Sustainable Development from George Washington University and a BA in International Affairs: Africana Studies from James Madison University. She lives in Virginia with her Syrian/American husband.

Nesrin Mawas has been an active community-based activist working with fragile societies in Syria, Turkey and Lebanon. She served as a program facilitator in Syria in 2012 with Médecines Sans Frontières (MSF) concentrating on internally displaced communities implementing educational and empowerment programs.

In 2014, Nesrin moved to Turkey, where she worked as an Arabic and Turkish teacher for Syrian refugee children and she studied Chemistry. In 2016, she moved to Lebanon and started her bachelor’s degree in Translation. Because of her outstanding academic achievements, she won a scholarship to continue her studies for free. Furthermore, she was selected twice to represent Syrian students in Lebanon at two international platforms: World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE 2017) Doha, Qatar and Spark Rebuilding Future (IGNITE 2018) Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Her skills as an Interpreter has enabled Nesrin to work with varies NGOs in Lebanon, such as Krater Produkties, Deutsche Welle, Union of Relief and Development Association (URDA), Multi Aids Programs (MAPs) and The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS).

Nesrin is a freelance translator fluent in Arabic, English and Turkish. She earned a BA with Distinction in Translation and Interpretation. Her language skills enabled her to be the bridge between her community and host communities. Recently Nesrin moved to Germany, where she lives with her family and is continuing her career as a Translator.

Dr. Uzma Naeem is a board-certified Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatrist. She is a highly compassionate physician with superior diagnostic skills, critical thinking, problem solving, and relationship building abilities. She is trained in evidence-based mental health care with emphasis on multiple modalities psycho-therapeutic techniques and biological aspects of psychiatry.  Dr. Naeem is highly experienced in providing telepsychiatry consultation, conducting psychiatric evaluations, medication management for adults and children using tele-video conferencing.

Dr. Naeem is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, College of Medicine, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and she is the Medical Director at Cooperative Counseling Services for Children and Families in New Jersey. 

Her clinical practice focuses on diagnostic evaluation and treatment of neurobehavioral and developmental disorders in children and adolescent; outpatient psychiatric diagnostic evaluations and medication management for children and adolescents; consultation and liaison to schools in the community; consultation to physicians, mental health professionals, School and Community  Agencies. 

Previously, she was a Staff Psychiatrist for an involuntary out- patient commitment program.

Dr. Naeem is a diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc. She is a member of the American Board of Medical Specialties, American Psychiatric Association and American Academy of Child & Adult Adolescent Psychiatry. She completed her residency at North Shore University Hospital for child and adult psychiatry and she completed her fellowship at Dartmouth and North Shore University Hospital for Child and Adult psychiatry.

Weam Ghabash is a Syrian woman. She is a dedicated Women Human Rights Defender (WHRD). She was a refugee in Lebanon but has moved to the Netherlands in 2019. She works with well-known feminist NGOs in the Middle East as a program developer, implementation specialist, and grant writer. Over the last five years, all her work is focused on the empowerment of Syrian women refugees and internally displaced women within Syria. Weam is a board member of Syrian Women League, the oldest feminist NGO in Syria, and co-founder for the International Feminist Collective (IFC) that includes WHRDs from all around the MENA region and South East Asia.  She holds two Bachelor’s degrees from Damascus University, one in Public Health and the second in English Literature.

Weam is passionate and committed to working with and for women and girls’ empowerment to enhance their role in public life.

Kevin Clancy is currently completing his pre-doctoral residency in Clinical Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center – Western Psychiatric Hospital. He completed his doctoral studies in Clinical Psychology at Florida State University, where he focused on the development of novel brain stimulation techniques targeting pathological neural networks in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Clinically, Kevin has focused on the treatment of PTSD in outpatient and community mental health clinics, specifically serving Veterans and underserved communities. He has extensive experience providing individual and group-based treatments (e.x., CBT, CPT, PE, DBT, ACT) and serving with interdisciplinary teams of psychiatrists, social workers, and primary care physicians in developing community-based health clinics. In 2019, Kevin participated in the Syrian American Medical Society Mental Health Mission Trip to Lebanon and Jordan, where he first met and worked with Dr. Raiza and the Syrian community in the Bekaa Valley. Outside of his clinical work, Kevin has spent several years working with Students Organize for Syria to generate university scholarships for Syrian refugee students in the United States.