Lonnie
Lusardo is the Principal Consultant with The Diversity Collaborative, a
veteran owned business that specializes in Cultural Competency Training
and Strategic Diversity Management for governments and corporations.
Additional areas of focus include Management and Supervision Training,
Team Building, and Retreat Facilitation.
Lonnie is
currently Chair of the Board of Visitors for Antioch University
(Seattle). He serves as an adviser to the Board of Trustees for the
Municipal League of King County. Lonnie is past president of the Puget
Sound Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development and
past president of Greater Seattle Business Association. For seven years
Lonnie served on the Leadership Tomorrow Board of Directors. He is a
co-founder of Hands-Off Washington, a statewide human rights
organization. In the mid-1990s, Lonnie served as a mayoral appointee
and Chair of the Seattle Police-Community Relations Task Force.
In
1997-98, Lonnie conducted a research project in South Africa to
determine the affects of the shift from apartheid to democracy on the
people of that country. The project included interviews with 65
government, corporate, and community leaders, including former
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, members of the Truth & Reconciliation
Commission, the South African Ambassador to the United States, and
others.
In 2003, Lonnie was profiled in the book White Men
Challenging Racism: 35 Personal Stories, published by Duke University
Press. He is currently writing his own book, profiles of women and men
who have defected from the hate movement to become advocates against
racism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia.