Lewis Aptekar: Seminar Participation





Former professor Lewis Aptekar has been invited to participate in numerous seminars over the course of his 30-year career. Recent seminars attended by Aptekar include two psycho-social workshops for Haitian community agents who assist victims of Gender-Based Violence (IsraAID, 2013 and 2014); and a psycho-social leadership training seminar at the African Refugee Development Center (Tel Aviv, 2012). Recently, Aptekar earned the opportunity to chair a symposium at the Caribbean Regional Conference on Psychology (Haiti, 2016).

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