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Hosts \| Guests \| Affiliates \| Audio Clips About the Hosts Dr. Marshall \| Margaret Norris Ms. Margaret J. Norris is Director of Academics at the Omega Boys Club where she developed and teaches the 36-week Omega Academic Program.The program consists of specialized academic preparation classes, individualized counseling, and college scholarships to support students throughout their collegiate experience. Ms. Norris has personally helped more than 235 young men and women matriculate into colleges and universities throughout the United States. Since 1990, when Ms. Norris instituted the Omega Leadership Academy, 83 Omega Boys Club members have graduated with undergraduate, graduate, or professional degrees and 80 Omegas are currently in colleges across the country. Ms. Norris is an expert in teaching and counseling individuals in how to live a drug-free, violence-free lifestyle. Ms. Norris also developed the curriculum and training materials for The Omega Institute, the replication arm of the Omega Boys Club, that is designed to instruct professionals, who work daily with young people, in the "Omega Public Health Model" of violence prevention, intervention and conflict reduction. She co-facilitates the semi-annual Institute. Ms. Norris also developed the Omega Institutional Violence Prevention and Intervention component of the Club that instructs and counsels inmates in methods to live drug, crime and violence-free to reduce recidivism. Ms. Norris conducts these workshops in juvenile halls, county jails, and state and federal prisons. Ms. Norris' achievements have received acclaim on The Oprah Show, from the California Broadcasters Association, the Governor of the State of California, and the California Legislature. In his commendation, Governor Gray Davis wrote, "Your outstanding commitment to California's youth as a teacher, counselor, and mentor has had a positive impact on many lives, and serves as an inspiration to all…" She is recipient of the American Diabetes Association Woman of Valor award, the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Outstanding Educational Development award, and the Iota Phi Lambda Sorority, American Educator award and the Delta Sigma Theta Delta Image Award in Education. Ms. Norris hosts Street Soldiers^®, America's only nationally syndicated violence prevention call-in radio talk program. This award-winning show deals with the pressing problems and issues that young people face, particularly those related to keeping them, their neighborhoods and communities safe. Listeners articulate their real-life experiences with crime, gang violence, teenage pregnancy, drugs, parental, and family situations. The New Yorker Magazine hailed the show as "a tantalizing media model for discouraging violence and serving as an electronic parent for violence prone young people." She has been featured in Emerge Magazine and Ladies Home Journal. Ms. Norris was an invited guest to the French-American Foundation's Bi-National Symposium Violence: Youth Violence - A Public Health Issue for the 21st Century; the Ford Foundation's Institute of International Education meeting on the Youth, Violence and Schools; the James Irvine Foundation's Improving the Status of African Americans in Higher Education conference; and, a featured speaker at the National Crime Prevention Conference sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice. Margaret Norris holds a Bachelor's degree in English and Ethnic Studies from the University of San Francisco. She has done post-graduate work at both the University of San Francisco and the University of California, Los Angeles. Currently, she is a Doctoral candidate at Saint Mary's College of California. Ms. Norris has over twenty years of experience as a high school teacher in California. She is a single parent of three sons all of whom attend college. For further information contact: Patti Colston (877) 662-0202.

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