Anthony Nicotera: Clinical Social Worker, Teacher
Contact Information:
Phone: 617-894-8614City: Jamaica Plain
State/Province: MA
Postal Code: 02130
Country: us
Any and all New England area members are more than welcome to contact me as we try to connect with the Franciscans at the St. Anthony Shrine to utilize Pace e Bene's wonderful materials and initiate nonviolence education workshops.
My Bio
I recently moved to Boston with my wife who is a surgical resident at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. I currently serve as a clinical social worker with inner-city youth involved via Youth Service Providers Network., a partnership between the Boston Police and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston. My office is in a police precint/idistrict and I receive all of my referrals from police officers. Previously, I served as Chaplain to the College of Law and School for New Learning via DePaul University Ministry's Center for Spirituality and Values in Practice (CSVP) in Chicago, Illinois. I helped initiate and direct DePaul’s Peace, Conflict Resolution, and Social Justice Studies program. I also served as an adjunct faculty member, designing and teaching peace studies courses in both the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the School for New Learning. Currently I am a member of Pax Christi: Boston; the interfaith peace and justice coalition United for Justice and Peace; and I work with youth at St. Mary of the Angels parish in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
I received my BA from Georgetown University, where I also studied law. I recently completed my law degree in the evening at DePaul. I received my MSW from Loyola University, Chicago where I also studied philosophy and theology. I was selected by Loyola’s School of Social Work to receive a prestigious “Connecting to Communities” alumni service award on the occasion of their 90th anniversary. I was "ruined for life," by the Jesuit Volunteer Corp and spent almost 6 years as a Jesuit - novice and scholastic. I currently attend a Jesuit parish in Roxbury and serve as local support person for the Boston Jesuit Volunteer community - once a Jesuit...
As a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), I have worked extensively with disadvantaged youth, especially gang youth in Chicago and impoverished youth in Camden, New Jersey. I lived and worked in India and Latin America as well as in a Catholic Worker community in Camden, New Jersey. I am a member of the School of the Americas Watch; and previously served on the Advisory Board of the Mercy Home for Boys and Girls: MercyWorks volunteer program and as Treasurer on the Board of Directors of Catholic Charities' Brothers and Sisters of Love gang ministry program. I was asked to present a paper entitled, The Brothers and Sisters of Love: Gandhian Principles in Practice at the First Annual Gandhian Nonviolence Conference, hosted by Arun Gandhi, at the Christian Brothers University in Memphis, Tennessee. I was also asked by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Mairead Maguire, to address an Arms Control Conference in Belfast Northern Ireland.
In my faith-based work for peace and justice, I have led nonviolence trainings and have been arrested numerous times for non-violent civil disobedience. I was interviewed for the documentary, Where We Stood, aired on PBS-WTTW in Chicago, nominated for a local Emmy, chronicling Chicago’s peaceful resistance to the United States “shock and awe” campaign in Iraq. I was also featured in articles on academics and activism and the living out of Dr. King’s nonviolent vision in both the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun Times.
I understand my teaching, advocacy, activism, social work and ministry to be a labor of love rooted in the nonviolent spirit of Jesus and the Christian scriptures. I am blessed by the community of actively nonviolent persons with whom I have had the privilege to work and walk. I am grateful for God's gentleness, loving kindness and mercy; and I seek to live out of this gratitude with others in the building of the beloved community. For, as Dr. King so eloquently proclaimed, "darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that; hatred cannot drive out hatred, only love can do that."
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