LEADERSHIP
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  • Leadership and supervision of a highly effective, respectful, diverse, multi-disciplinary staff working in the areas of: Violence Prevention, Adolescent Health Promotion, Hmong Community Health Promotion, Health Equity and Chronic Disease Prevention. 
  • Budget, grant and contract development and management including oversight of Statewide Health Improvement Program (chronic disease prevention) and Healthy Teen Initiative (teen pregnancy prevention) grant programs.
  • Leadership in development of seven television productions in partnership with Twin Cities Public Television.
  • Co-founder of The Initiative for Peaceful Families and Communities in Ramsey County, including development of  nationally recognized Wakanheza Project and comprehensive workplace violence prevention tools. 
  • Articles published in peer-reviewed journals.
TEACHING
​Teaching courses on violence prevention and community systems organizing at Augsburg College, College of St. Catherine, Hamline University, Luther Seminary, Metro State University, University of Minnesota School of Nursing.
TRAINING AND SPEAKING
​Training, consultation and speaking at conferences across Minnesota and the United States on the topics of:
  • Preventing domestic violence and child abuse
  • Creating respectful, violence-free workplaces
  • Community systems organizing

Minnesota: Children's Hospital of MN; City of Minneapolis; City of Rochester; Dakota County; Freeborn County; Medtronic; MN Center Against Violence and Abuse; MN Center on Reducing Rural Violence; MN Council on Family Relations Annual Conference; MN Council of Nonprofits Annual Conference; MN Crime Victims Conference; MN Department of Health; MN Department of Transportation; MN Elementary School Principals' Association; MN Juvenile Justice Coalition; MN Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy Parenting & Prevention; ; MN School Principals' Secretaries Conference; MN Social Services Association; Prevent Child Abuse MN; St. John's Hospital;  Stearns County.

National: 
  • Centers for Disease Control DELTA Project training and consultation (Atlanta, GA, Helena, MT, Madison, WI, Richmond, VA and Wilmington, DE); 
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ;
  • Office of the Commissioner of Baseball and the Cincinnati Reds, Colorado Rockies, Oakland Athletics, and Seattle Mariners baseball teams.
Additional conferences and training in: Denver, CO; Newark, NJ; Omaha, NB; Philadelphia, PA; Chicago, IL; Grand Rapids, MI; Long Island, NY; New York University, NY; Oak Park, IL; Pittsburgh, PA;  Quad Cities; San Diego, CA.
Secretary Sebelius presenting Healthy Living Innovations award to Don Gault.
Former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius (l), presenting Donald Gault (r) with the 2011 Healthy Living Innovations Award for "Exercise Your Right to Feel Better."
NEW PROJECTS
"Reflection, Working Toward Peaceful Healthy Communities," published Winter 2016 issue Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies. To read, click here.


Promoting Peaceful, Healthy Relationships with Major League Baseball Teams in partnership with Sand Creek Group: 
Working with Sand Creek Group, a national leader in Employee Assistance Programs which specializes in "exceptional EAP services to support the human spirit at work," Building Peaceful Community LLC has provided training and consultation on violence prevention policies to leadership staff with the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, and is providing violence prevention and healthy relationship training to staff, coaches and scouts with four Major League baseball teams.

Creating welcoming environments in Oak Park, IL libraries.

Linking Child-Focused Approaches to Preventing Sexual and Domestic Violence, free webinar offered through Prevent Connect, a national online project dedicated to the primary prevention of sexual assault and domestic violence. (Start at minute 53.)

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
                                                                                                                                       -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.