HTI Consulting Team Members         

Folami Prescott-Adams, Ph.D
Dr. Folami Prescott-Adams is assistant director of programs of Communities in Schools of Atlanta where she is responsible for program evaluation and staff development. She has spent the last 15 years working in school reform with Georgia State University, the Annenberg Challenge and several metro Atlanta school districts.

She completed her undergraduate degree in Sociology at Brown University, a Masters in Educational Administration from Temple University and a Ph.D. in Community Psychology from Georgia State University.

She has also directed school-based youth programs for 100 Black Men of Atlanta, Morehouse School of Medicine and Turner Broadcastings’ CNN Student Bureau. She is best known for the curriculum she wrote with Jawanza Kunjufu, President of African American Images publishing company and her compilation of original children’s music Praise Songs and Every Day Songs. Her current works include a book based on her research on Parental Mediation of TV Viewing (featured on Cable in the Classroom’s web site), an imaginative children’s TV show entitled Imagine Nation and the coming volume of her children’s music Come Be With Me. She is president and co-founder of HomeMade Jamz. A multimedia company that develops family-oriented audio and video content for entertainment outlets broadcast and cable televisions and educational systems.

Folami is a community psychologist with expertise in youth programs, evaluation and school reform. She continues to aspire to revolutionize the way we consume media messages while creating a few media messages of her own.

James Emshoff, Ph.D
Dr. Emshoff is currently an Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Community Psychology Program at Georgia State University.   He also founded and serves as Director of Research at EMSTAR Research, Inc., an evaluation and organizational services firm.  He has directed research projects funded by a variety of federal agencies focused on health and well-being.  He has received many honors, including the American Medical Association Substance Abuse Prevention Award.  During a leave from his academic position, Dr. Emshoff worked at the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) where he concentrated on evaluation issues and the creation of CSAP's grant program for substance abusing pregnant and post partum women and their infants.  Dr. Emshoff has conducted evaluation research focused on substance abuse, violence, HIV/AIDS, child abuse, community collaboratives, mentoring, delinquency, and health promotion programs at the local, state, and national levels and provides technical assistance in prevention and evaluation to many organizations.  He serves on the Board of Directors or Executive Committee of several national organizations.  Approximately 200 of his publications and professional presentations focus on a variety of prevention and evaluation issues.


Johnetta Dillard
Johnetta is a news and entertainment TV producer, stage directore, actress and writer. She combined her experience as a professional journalist with theatrical training to make the unique multi-media performance, "A Family Affair with Sista Folami", come to life. She senior produced television for CNN and HBO and performed leading roles in Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun," "Home" by Samm-Art Williams, and supporting roles in "Nuts" by Tom Tappor, "Fiddler on the Roof", "Hello Dolly" and "Tell Pharoah", which she also assistant directed.

Johnetta has more than 15 years experience in media, including work in television, radio and print. In a career that has centered on the art of story-telling, Johnetta has been a writer, a talk show producer, a magazine editor, a web content developer, a teacher and a producer of long-form television and youth-focused programming.

Johnetta worked with a team of journalists and produced award-winning reports for the CNN documentary unit. She also senior produced the first season of a show for pre-teens on the HBO Family Channel called, "What Matters". She currently works as a freelance writer/producer and a journalism education consultant.

Allwood Associates
A private consulting group led by L. Vernon Allwood, Ph.D. and Rosemary Allwood, MSW, LCSW.  The group specializes in the healthy development of children and their families.  The goals of the group are to promote mentally healthy life styles through a series of treatment modalities.  These modalities include workshops on effective parenting, communication skills, stress management, cultural awareness, Rites of Passage programs for adolescents and individual and group psychotherapy.

Cecilia Woloch
Cecilia Woloch was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up there and in rural Kentucky. She attended Transylvania University and earned degrees in English and Theater Arts before moving west in 1979. A resident of Los Angeles for 22 years, Ms. Woloch has been active in the L.A. literary community as both a poet and teacher of creative writing. She's conducted workshops for thousands of elementary, junior high, and high school students throughout Southern California, as well as workshops for professional writers, educators, patients at Patton State Mental Hospital, and participants in Elderhostel programs for senior citizens. For five years, she led workshops for the writing staff of Disney's Imagineering Division, and has recently served on the creative writing faculties at the University of Redlands, The University of Southern California, and California State University at Northridge. In 1998, she was named Director of Summer Poetry in Idyllwild, a week-long celebration of poets and poetry held in the San Jacinto Mountains each July. In 1999, she completed her M.F.A. through Antioch University, with thesis manuscripts in both poetry and creative nonfiction.

Ms. Woloch has received grants for her work in the community from the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department and the California Arts Council, which also awarded her an individual artist's fellowship in 2002; and she has been the recipient of poetry prizes from Dogwood, Kalliope, The Wildwood Journal, Literal Latte, and the Kentucky Arts Council. Her poems have appeared most recently in the anthologies Orpheus & Company (University Press of New England, 1999), Grand Passion: The Poets of L.A. and Beyond (Red Wind Press, 1995), and Catholic Girls (Penguin/Plume 1992), along with such literary journals as The Greensboro Review, The Antioch Review, Zyzzyva, The Prose Poem: An International Journal, Chelsea Hotel (Germany), The Cider Press Review, and many others. Her first book-length manuscript, Sacrifice, was a finalist for the Marianne Moore Prize, the Anhinga Prize, and the Snake Nation Press Poetry Prize, and was published by Cahuenga Press in 1997. In 1998 it received a special mention from the Pushcart Prize committee. Poet and critic David St. John called Sacrifice, "an extraordinary debut... [These] poems are by turns reverential, devotional, and incantatory - they are prayers spoken to, and on behalf of, a difficult world."

Ms. Woloch spends part of each year traveling, lecturing and teaching throughout Europe. She's presented workshops and readings at the University of Basel in Switzerland, Frieburg University in Germany, The Literatur Haus in Berlin, the American School in Warsaw, and numerous other venues in France, Germany and Poland. In the spring of 2000 she was awarded a fellowship to the International Writers Retreat at Hawthomden Castle in Scotland, and subsequently traveled in the spring and summer to Poland on a grant from ArtsLink/CEC International Partners. In early 2002, she became the first writer in-residence at Bernheim Forest and Arboretum in Clermont, Kentucky. A book length poem about the gypsies of eastern Europe, Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem, has just been released by Cahuenga Press; a new collection of poems, entitled Late, was published by BOA Editions in 2003.

Kelly Lewis
Kelly Lewis, Ph.D. is President of KM Lewis Leadership Consulting. Kelly has more than ten years of national and international experience in the fields of psychology, education, business, leadership and organizational development. Her hands-on work as an organizational executive, researcher and consultant give her a uniquely broad-based perspective. Dr. Lewis trained at Yale University and Michigan State University under competitive national and international grants and fellowship including National Science Foundation, Fulbright-Hayes and Ford Foundation). She is currently a lecturer and psychologist at Emory University and is a seasoned strategist and coach, innovator creative problem solver and motivational speaker. She has done extensive research in Tanzania, East Africa. Kelly is currently working with The HOME Training Institute as an organizational development consultant for the West Atlanta Watershed Association (WAWA).Passage program into any type of youth-serving program.

Sonia Lewis Simpson
Sonia Lewis Simpson is originally from Boston, Massachusetts and has worked in various educational settings as a teacher, counselor, trainer, and program coordinator in Atlanta, Boston, and Los Angeles.  She has worked with children ranging from preschool through high school age, concentrating in the elementary and middle school age range in the area of science education.  She has a bachelor’s degree in Child Development from Spelman College and a master’s degree in Middle School Science and Math Curriculum from Clark Atlanta University. She also holds a T-5 certification to teach fourth through eighth grades in the state of Georgia. Her primary professional interests lay in the area of science education and the integration of Africentric content into the overall curriculum, particularly science, a neglected area.

Ms. Simpson’s personal interests include travel and a variety of ethnic cuisines. She has visited many Caribbean and European countries and is Spanish Bi-lingual and conversant in French.  Sonia enjoys desktop publishing and web development. In her spare time she enjoys reading, cooking, sewing, and taking nature walks with her son.

Macceo Q. Moss
Macceo is a native of New Haven Connecticut.  He came to Atlanta, Georgia in 1975 to attend Clark College where he majored in Criminology/Social Welfare.  He is a husband of 11 years to Sandra Moss and raising his 13 year old Nephew Malcolm Walker.  Macceo Moss is currently employed with Inner Summit, as a coordinator with the youth program.  He also works with (REACH) Reaching Ethnic Approach to Community Health, as a facilitator, working with the Psychology Department of Morehouse College with the African Men empowerment network, teaching classes on Stress management, Anger Management, Qigong, Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, Hypertension awareness to African American men. Mr. Moss has worked for Easter Seals of Georgia, teaching Stress Management to parents, staff and youth of Spaulding County Juvenile Court. Macceo Moss was listed in 2001 Who's Who for Honored Professionals.  He also received the Channel Five Hearts for Youth Didn't Quit Award.  Mr. Moss is the Founder and Executive Director of The Center for Youth Leadership and Family Development, Inc.