| David L. Ezell david@davidezell.info Educational History Long Island University Roslyn, NY Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program (completed two years) Teachers College--Columbia University New York, NY Clinical Psychology Degree: M.A., 2005 Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia History & Sociology Degree: M.S., 2001 Georgia College and State University Milledgeville, Georgia History Degree: M.A., 1998 Honors: Pinnacle Honors Society Georgia College and State University Milledgeville, Georgia Journalism & Political Science Degree: B.A., 1996 Professional History • Owner, Better Than Ever! Support Groups & Cognitive Behavioral Coaching Full-time, 2004-Present Assessments of new members, facilitate groups, maintain web site and promotions. Over 600 hours of supervised group work since October • Intake/Volunteer Counselor, Identity House , New York, NY September 2004-July 2006. Assessed and provided initial counseling for walk-in center clients. Worked with clients on issues of drug use, alcoholism, family problems, suicidality , minority issues, anger management, domestic abuse, bisexuality, transgender issues and coming out. Wrote intake reports on clients seen, collected money from clients, attended weekly group supervision. • Senior Market Manager, Travelocity , New York, NY March 2000-September 2004. Responsible for the management of major travel markets in the United States and Europe, conducted rates negotiations, created travel packages. • Adjunct Instructor, Mercer University , Atlanta Campus. Summer 1998-Summer 1999. Prepared lectures, taught classes, graded papers and exams and advised students. • Teaching Assistant, Georgia Institute of Technology Spring 1999. Prepared lectures, taught classes, graded papers and exams. • Adjunct Instructor, Georgia College and State University Summer 1998-Spring 1999. Prepared lectures, taught classes, graded papers and exams and advised students. • Adjunct Instructor, Georgia Military College Spring 1997-Spring 1999. Prepared lectures, taught classes, graded papers and exams and advised students. I taught remedial students prior to my first master's degree being issued. Membership in Professional Associations • American Psychological Association (student associate) • Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (student member) • New York Gay and Lesbian Physicians Association (student member) • Identity House • Teacher's College Doctoral Student Committee (2004-05) Professional and Volunteer Activities • Co-founder of non-profit, ReadAllOver.net (2004) • Board of Governor's Appointment, Stonewall Democrats (2004-present) • Board Appointment, Identity House (2005-2006) • LGBT Editor, TheSquare.com (2005-2007) • Presentation as part of "New You 2006" Series; Resolutions That Work . • Identity House, New York, NY, 8 January 2006. • Presentation, Does Breaking Up Have to be Hard to Do?, Identity House, New York, NY, 27 January 2007. Grants • Dissertation Research Grant, Ivan Allen College, Georgia Institute of Technology (1999) • Georgia College and State University Scholar's Research Grant, (1997), History and Geography Department. Papers Presented • Leni Riefenstahl in America . Paper presented at the meeting of the University of Chicago Germanic Studies Conference, Chicago, IL. Novermber 1997. Publications • A History of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga Battlefields: The Birth of a National Monument. (1998) HAER Press, Washington, D.C. • With Book, C. (2001) Freedom of Speech and Institutional Control: Patient Publications at Central State Hospital, 1934-1978. Georgia Historical Quarterly 85 (1): 106-126. Review, Ann D. Gordon, African American Women and the Vote in: Teaching History. A Journal of Methods . 23,1998 (1994), n. 2, p. 94-95A. Additional Training • Working with Lesbian and Gay Families , 3 December 2004, Salvador Minuchin Center for the Family, New York, NY. • Psychotherapy Integration Workshop: Possible Strategies to Improve Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy , 17 November 2006. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Convention, Chicago, IL. |
