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Dr. Mario Burns was born and raised in St, Louis, Missouri. He served six years of honorable service in the United States Air Force (1999-2005) as a Security Forces member and is a combat veteran having served tours in Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Mario received his Ph.D. in counselor education and supervision from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Mario is a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor (LPC-S; Missouri & Tennessee), Certified Rehabilitative Counselor (CRC), and Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC). Mario currently works as a readjustment counselor with the VA Vet Center in Nashville Tennessee where he provides therapeutic counseling for military veterans and their families. His research interests include veteran’s studies, disability studies, counselor education, supervision, and issues related to race. Mario is the primary author of Race Metatheory (RMT) and is the Founder, Pastor, and President of Soul Life Ministries Corp. Soul Life is a 501 (C)(3) non-profit church and charity which provides a means to achieve his professional and personal goals of increasing positive societal imagination around unifying shared visions and possibilities towards the betterment of society by addressing complex issues with intelligible approaches. www.soullifechurch.org Dr Burns' Manifesto on Race: https://youtu.be/tsZq2-l53BQ?si=xyPFpPbAZXYay2EK _____________________________________________________________________ If you would like to contact me, my website is: https://theradicalcenterconsulting.com/ and I am on twitter @JLeslieElliott And if you appreciate this ongoing project and would like to support my continued work in this area you can chip in at any of the following (thank you very much!): https://www.paypal.me/jleslieelliott https://www.buymeacoffee.com/radicalcenter https://www.patreon.com/theradicalcenter