Meet Ulester V. Douglas

Advisory Board Member

Ulester Douglas is a psychotherapist, consultant, former executive, and a nationally recognized leader in the movement to end violence against women. He was also an adjunct professor at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Ulester obtained his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

He has provided consultation, training, and keynote presentations in 40 states, Europe and the Caribbean to or for: community-based organizations, universities, corporations,and government agencies, including the U.S. Departments of Defense and State.

Ulester was honored by Lifetime Television for Women and the National Network to End Domestic Violence in 2003, The Ford Motor Company in 2012, and the City of Atlanta in 2017. He has also received numerous awards including a National Institute of Mental Health Fellowship in 1990, the National District Attorneys Association’s Stephen L. Von Riesen Lecturer of Merit Award in 2010, the National Black Herstory Task Force’s Comrade Salute Award in 2004, and in 2019, the Deborah C. McDorman Memorial Award for “Exemplary Humanitarian Efforts and Advocacy to End Domestic Violence.” In 2010 Douglas was invited to the White House to help commemorate the launch of the Obama administration’s domestic violence prevention initiatives. And in 2015, he was appointed to the Georgia Commission on Family Violence by then Governor Nathen Deal.

Ulester has been interviewed by local and national media including CNN, The New York Times, NPR, The Tom Joyner Morning Show, News One Now with Roland Martin, The Al Sharpton Show, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He has authored and co-authored articles and curricula on family violence and other human rights issues, including the peer-reviewed articles “Deconstructing Male Violence Against Women: The Men Stopping Violence Community-Accountability Model” (Violence Against Women, An International and Interdisciplinary Journal - Sage Publications, 2008) and “Men Stopping Violence’s Definition of Male Sexual Violence Against Women: Implications for Prevention and Intervention” ( R. Geffner et al. (eds.), Handbook of Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan, Springer Publication, 2020).