Lysa Monique Jenkins-Hayden
Lysa Monique Jenkins-Hayden, BBA, MA, CH, LPC earned her MA from Drexel’s DMT Program and her BS in business administration. Her thesis “Movement Encounters in Black and White: Understanding race and cultural competence in DMT” stimulated the creation of the Black American and African Descendants (BAAD) ADTA affinity group. She is the creator/ publisher/editor of The BAAD Review, a publication to broaden clinicians’ worldview and Afro-centric sensibility regarding health, on the BAAD website, (www.baadaffinitygroup.weebly.com). A charter member of ADTA’s Multicultural/Diversity Committee (MDC), and annual MDC Conference Manager, she organized the 2013 ADTA Conference “Bridge” initiative to begin dance and dialogue between DMTs and indigenous cultural dance/healing practitioners. Currently she works in private practice (www.inspiredtherapy.weebly.com) and is a national speaker on clinical cultural competence, small businesses marketing, and advises organizations on equity, diversity, and inclusion.