Community Advisory Board Members Allen Keller, MD2003 Barbara Chester Award Recipient. NY Barbara Poley, MA - Hopi and Laguna / Bear Clan Retired; Former Executive Director of The Hopi Foundation. Arizona Community Foundation Board, & Spirit Aligned Legacy Leader. AZ Craig M. Oettinger Associate Professor of Sociology (retired), University of Houston, Clear Lake, TX Diana Kordon 2016 Barbara Chester Award Recipient. Argentina Jorge Cabrera Field Office Director, Casey Family Programs. San Diego, CA Kathi Anderson 2Executive Director of Survivors of Torture, International- San Diego, CA; Executive Committee Member of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims- Copenhagen, Denmark; Executive Committee Member of the National Consortium of Torture Treatment Programs Martha Blue Formerly General Council to Havasupai Tribe & legal counsel to members of the Hualapai, Dine & Hopi Tribes; pro bono legal counsel first years of the Hopi Foundation. Flagstaff, AZ 2009 Barbara Chester Award Recipient. Arizona Meredith Larson Human rights Advocate, with MPH focused on Torture Rehabilitation; former Selection Committee member Ryan Kober Former Legal Advocate for Mexican and Central American Asylum Seekers; Current Collaborative Facilitator with Building Healthy Communities. Del Norte County & Tribal Lands, CA Shari Eppel 2000 Barbara Chester Award Recipient. Zimbabwe Valaura Imus-Nahsonhoya Hopi Tribal Member with 16 years of direct victim services to crime victims. Executive Director/Founder of Hongwungsi Consulting Services & employed with the National Criminal Justice Training Center
Selection Committee Members: The Barbara Chester Award recipient will be determined by vote of the Selection Committee. Selection Committee members have demonstrated substantial lifetime commitment to the field of human rights, and many have worked specifically with survivors of political torture. Juan Almendares, MD Executive Director, Center for the Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture, Tegucigalpa, Honduras Alp Ayan, MD Consultant Psychiatrist & Psychotherapist of the Turkish Human Right Foundation, Izmir, Turkey Martha Blue, JD Formerly General Counsel to the Havasupai Tribe, former legal counsel to members of the Hualapai, Navajo, and Hopi tribes, Flagstaff, Arizona Esad Boskailo Survivor and now working as a attending Psychiatrist in the Phoenix area Jorge Cabrera, MSW, ACSW Field Office Director, Casey Family Programs, and Board of Directors, Survivors of Torture International, San Diego, California Cynthia Dagnal-Myron Retired educator, published author, former features reporter for the Chicago SunTimes and Arizona Daily Star, contributing writer for Medium & the Huffington Post Shari Eppel Solidarity Peace Trust, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Mary R. Fabri, PsyD Senior Director Formerly Executive Director, Heartland Alliance Marjorie Kovler Center, Chicago, Illinois Abby Hungwe From Zimbabwe and now the Managing Director at Owl and Panther, in Tucson AZ James M. Jaranson, MD, MA, MPH Senior Clinical Advisory Group, International Rehabilitation Council for Victims of Torture, Copenhagen, Denmark; Vice President, Board of Directors, Survivors of Torture, International, San Diego, California; Formerly Medical Director, Center For Victims of Torture, Minneapolis, Minnesota Allen S. Keller, MD Director, Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture, Associate Professor of Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York Joanne Kittel, MSW Psychiatric Social Worker (ret). Has worked for many years in the field of trauma with survivors and perpetrators. Yachats, Oregon Diana Kordon 2016 BCA Recipient, coordinator of the Argentine Team of Psychological Work and Research, Argentina Aryeh Levenson, MD Staff Psychiatrist, South Central Foundation, Anchorage, Alaska Marianna Neil, MA Formerly Director of Social Services, Task Force on Central America and Family Outreach, Center for the Prevention and Resolution of Violence, Tucson, Arizona Craig M. Oettinger, PhD Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Houston, Clear Lake, Texas Lucy E. Wilson, PhD Clinical Psychologist. Formerly with Center for the Prevention and Resolution of Violence, Tucson, Arizona 2019 Coordinator: Danielle Romeyn, LMT Has lived on Hopi for 14 years and has immersed herself in encouraging the wholeness of ones self Past Committee Members: Hélène Jaffe, MD Former Medical Director, Association for Victims of Repression in Exile (AVRE), Paris, France. Advisor on Torture to World Health Organization. Formerly President and Council Member, International Rehabilitation Council for Victims of Torture, Copenhagen, Denmark Bernard Albaugh, MSW, MPH Former Director, Center for Native American Development, Weatherford; Former Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal Historian Rita Maran, PhD Lecturer on Human Rights, University of California at Berkeley; Board Member, Center for Justice and Accountability, Berkeley, California Julie Shaw Founder and Formerly Executive Director, Urgent Action Fund for Strategic Initiatives by Women in Areas of Armed Conflict, Boulder, Colorado Loris Taylor, MEd - Hopi and Acoma / Masauu Clan President and Chief Executive Officer, Native Public Media, Flagstaff, Arizona Sima Wali, MA Formerly President, Refugee Women in Development, Washington D.C. Recipient of Amnesty International's Third Annual Ginetta Sagan Fund Award |
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