Mary Kay Diakite is the family social worker coordinating African Services' Family Case Management program. She provides counseling and case management services to help HIV positive individuals and their families navigate the medical, legal, educational and social systems that surround them. She is also a Ph.D. candidate at Rutgers University School of Social Work, focusing on social policy with a specialty in immigration policy and anti-terror legislation.  She has taught as an adjunct professor at both Rutgers and Monmouth universities.  For the last nine years, she has worked with refugees, immigrants, asylum seekers, survivors of torture and detainees and has run school-based programs for refugee and immigrant children in three public school districts.  After 9/11, she was recruited to work with Arab, Muslim and South Asian communities.  She conducts psychological evaluations on survivors of torture who are seeking both defensive and affirmative asylum.  A former Peace Corps volunteer, she served in Mali from 1996 to 1998 and spent several summers conducting Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) cross-border conflict resolution workshops in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. She has also worked providing cross-cultural training to corporate executives and their families as part of their relocation program.  Mary Kay is fluent in French and Bambara, as well as English.