Milton Reynolds is a Senior Program Associate with Facing History and Ourselves. Before joining Facing History he spent over ten years as a middle school teacher, a diversity/communications consultant and as a curriculum design specialist and has over 25 years of counseling experience. Dedicated to improving dialogue and implementing innovative solutions to address difficult social issues such as race relations and juvenile justice and delinquency concerns, Milton sustains a high level of engagement in his home community. In addition to serving as the Vice Chair of the San Mateo Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Commission, he also is the former Governing Board Chair for LEJ (Literacy for Environmental Justice); a San Francisco based environmental justice/youth development non-profit, in addition to serving on the advisory board of The Working Group, producers of the award winning Not In Our Town, PBS series. Milton has a strong interest in understanding how the legacies of collective history manifest themselves in our present society and how the past informs our decision making processes and shapes the institutions and practices that structure our present society. The American Eugenics Movement and its ideological legacies has become a subject of particular interest in Milton’s studies. Milton’s background includes such varied and divergent experiences as being a youth counselor, middle school teacher, service-learning coordinator, tour guide; stand up comedian, and a research associate at U.C. Berkeley and more recently at Stanford University. Milton received his B.A. with distinction in Sociology from San Jose State with a minor in Communications. Lest you think I’m all work and no play, I’m an avid angler and outdoorsman who loves to get out to the sticks as often as possible. I enjoy gardening and cooking as well as spending time keeping w/ you my friends and family. When time permits I also enjoy brewing beer and of course sipping an occasional brew too.