Pardeep Kaleka is a hate and violence prevention advisor and Co-Executive Director of Not In Our Town. He is a de-radicalization and trauma psychotherapist, assisting individuals offramp from violent ideologies. Pardeep is a faculty member in the Peace Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the author of The Gifts of Our Wounds, and an award-winning columnist with the Milwaukee Independent. In 2012, following the murder of his father in the hate crime killings at the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, he co-founded Serve2Unite, an organization nationally recognized for bridging school and community groups. As a first-generation immigrant from India, Mr. Kaleka has spent more than 25 years in the public arenas of law enforcement, education, social services, counseling, and assisting hate crime survivors and perpetrators across the United States with recovery. Pardeep is the former executive director of the Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee and has worked on numerous coalition-building efforts across ethnic, racial, and religious differences. With a specialization in understanding the impacts of communal trauma, he has developed policies and practices to help mental health workers, social service practitioners, law enforcement agents, and educators build healthier, safer, more inclusive communities across the U.S. Pardeep understands that genuine healing must happen both internally and externally and that we all must empower one another to communicate, connect, and create a world that is less hateful and divided.