Lisa M. Bellanger: e-mail azgah@yahoo.com
Lisa is a graduate of the Heart of the Earth Survival School and continues to remain active throughout the community being active on local boards.  Lisa has been the Executive Director of the Indigenous Women's Network for the past year and has just accepted a position with the new Native Arts High School in Minneapolis. 
 
Louise Cainkar: e-mail cainkar@uic.edu
Ms. Louise Cainkar is a Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor Great Cities Institute University of Illinois – Chicago.
Louise Cainkar works on issues of human rights and issues of concern to immigrants, migrants, and refugees. Louise is
a well-known specialist on Arab/Muslim migrants and Arab/Muslim Americans.

Lesley Carson: e-mail lesley_carson@yahoo.com
Lesley Carson has served as founding Director of Forefront, a technical assistance and advocacy network for human rights defenders in 30 countries, since 1998. She came to Forefront from Amnesty International-USA, where she served as Acting Director of Advocacy for the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe.

Steve Chase: e-mail Steven_Chase@antiochne.edu
Steve Chase is a writer, editor, and educator keenly interested in the intersection of corporate globalization, human rights, and environmental concerns. His primary activities these days are as a doctoral candidate at the Antioch New England Graduate School's Department of Environmental Studies and the Department's project director for developing and launching a new Environmental Advocacy and Organizing Program by September 2002.

Elizabeth F. Clifford: e-mail bethcbest@yahoo.com
Elizabeth was raised in an atmosphere where she was encouraged and expected to speak up and out against injustice. In the late 1980s, she received training from a group called Witness for Non-Violence in preparation for pilgrimages to Northern Wisconsin where tribal fishermen were being subjected to violent attacks. Today, Elizabeth lives and teaches on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. She is raising and educating the next generation of activists... another family tradition. Throughout her life the most significant motivator in her work has been “the inborn spirituality of my people, nurtured by my grandmother, family and other community and Movement members. It is the spirit of the Movement in which I was raised.”

Charmaine Crockett: e-mail charmaine@igc.org
Charmaine crockett is a human rights advocate and educator. In the last few years she has worked with a number of international non-governmental organizations, trained individuals and communities, compiled and edited manuals, and designed training modules for specific issues for organizations and entities in developing countries on site. Since returning home to Hawaii, she is about to complete graduate work in conflict resolution, has designed modules for workplace conflict and workplace harmony for non-profits and has facilitated groups and mediated on issues throughout the state. She is active in politics, sits on the board of numerous organizations and is currently working on a project integrating human rights and conflict resolution for the future. Her human rights education vision is that of integrating conflict resolution methodologies with a dynamic human rights education. She has also started to integrate the arts with human rights with two projects completed and one underway. Her dream is to find meaningful pathways to prevent human rights abuses in the future.

Carrie Cuthbert: e-mail: ccuthber@wellesley.edu
Ms. Carrie Cuthbert works at the Women’s Rights Network, which is a human rights organization that works to end domestic violence and sexual abuse in the United States and worldwide. The Women's Rights Network is based at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College.

Jane Dalton: e-mail altonje@aol.com
Jane Dalton currently teaches Art at Cary Academy, an independent school in North Carolina. Currently she is collaborating on a book of curriculum for teachers concerned about human rights and spirituality in a book entitled “Soulful Teaching: 77 Ways to Nurture Spirit in the Classroom.”

Joy DesMarais: e-mail joy@ties2.net
Joy DesMarais created a youth-led service learning project called 'The Troupe.' The mission of 'The Troupe' is to empower youth through improvisational drama, peer education and service learning to make healthy choices." Joy currently is the Director of Strategic Youth Initiatives at the National Youth Leadership Council.  She coordinates several programs that involve young people in organizations, communities and schools through service learning.

Curtis F. Doebbler: e-mail cdoebbler@netzero.net
Curtis F. Doebbler is an international human rights lawyer who has represented individuals pro bono before international tribunals in Europe, Africa and the Americas during the last ten years. He has also taught human rights to a variety of audiences, including internally displaced persons and homeless persons. His interests cover a broad range of issues related to human rights, but particularly the human rights of the most vulnerable individuals such as refugees, internally displaced persons, homeless persons, HIV/AIDS patients, etc.

Larry Dohrs: e-mail info@GlobalSourceNetwork.org
Mr. Larry Dohrs is co-director of Global Source Education in Seattle, a non-profit organization that provides professional development programs on global topics to educators. Larry also acts as Director of Public Education for the Free Burma Coalition, the world's largest grass-roots effort to support the democracy movement in Burma.

Nancy Flowers: e-mail nflowers@igc.org
Nancy Flowers has worked to develop Amnesty International USA’s education program and is a cofounder of Human Rights USA. She has helped establish national and international networks of educators, develop materials, and train activists, professionals, and military and police personnel in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East.

Jan Marie Fritz: e-mail fritzj@email.uc.edu
Jan Marie Fritz, a certified clinical sociologist (CCS), is a faculty member in the School of Planning at the University of Cincinnati. She teaches courses such as social science research, mediation skills, organizational theory and environmental dispute resolution. Her areas of research include environmental justice and tobacco control. Jan also has been a mediator for over 15 years.

Elisabeth E. Garrett: e-mail lisag@seva.org
Ms. Elisabeth E. Garrett currently serves as a member of the bridges Advisory Board. Lisa is a current Youth Advisory Board Member for the Women’s Institute for Leadership Development (WILD) for Human Rights.  Presently, Lisa is also the Director of the Native American Funding Programs at the Seva Foundation in Berkeley, CA. and was recently accepted to a Multicultural Alliance Program sponsored by the National Society of Fund Raising Executives.

Jill Goldesberry: e-mail jillg@stanleyfdn.org
Jill Goldesberry is a Program Officer for Global Education K-12 with the Stanley Foundation, Muscatine, Iowa. She directs youth programs that focus on global themes, and provides presentations to Iowa schools.  She sees a convergence between global education and human rights education where each is essential to the other.

Laura Grenholm: e-mail lgrenholm@lacorps.org (ph. 213-389-3103)
Laura Grenholm received her BA in Political Science (major) and Religious Studies (minor) from Macalester College in St. Paul, MN. She currently runs EcoAcademy High School, a public charter school of the Los Angeles Conservation Corps and Excelsior Education Center. EcoAcademy, located in the Pico-Union neighborhood of Los Angeles, serves 15- to 17-year olds who have been unsuccessful in the traditional school system.  Laura is planning on completing her MA in Spring, 2004 from Lesley University with the Audobon Expedition Institute's Ecological Teaching and Learning Program.

Jack Hammond: e-mail jhammond@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu
Jack Hammond teaches sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is a specialist in Latin America. He teaches classes on the sociology of human rights. Jack has been a human rights activist in and outside the academy, has worked at the Nongovernmental Human Rights Commission of El Salvador and been chair of the Human Rights Task Force of the Latin American Studies Association. Since attending TOT, he has also attended courses at the International Human Rights Academy in Ghent, Belgium, and Acción pro Educación en Derechos Hmanos, Querétaro, Mexico, and has facilitated workshops for the Campaign for Fiscal Equity which recently won a major lawsuit against New York State to guarantee adequate education in New York City public schools.

Andrea Holley: holleya@hrw.org
Ms. Andrea Holley currently works at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival where she assists in the programming and production of full-scale film festivals in New York and London. She also manages the traveling section of the film festival.

Karyn Kaplan: karyn@mail.iglhrc.org 
Ms. Karyn Kaplan is HIV Program Coordinator at the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) in New York.

Ted Leach: e-mail leach@mail.massed.net
Ted Leach is an English teacher at Newburyport High School (MA) and a member of Amnesty International Local Group 133 in Arlington/Somerville, MA. He serves on several committees, including the Graduation Outcomes Committee, and has advised the school's Amnesty International student group. He has written an instructional booklet on academic writing for use within my school system, and is currently working on an article discussing Emerson, Thoreau and education reform.

Leland Little Dog: e-mail lelandld@yahoo.com
Leland Little Dog, Sicangu Lakota, is a bi-lingual cultural research consultant for Native's, African's, Asian's, Latino's, and Allies (NAALA), an organization under the Association for Experiential Education (AEE), to develop experiential and adventure based educational programs for the Sicangu Homeland.

Margaret Manderfeld: e-mail mmanderfeld@yahoo.com  
Margaret Manderfeld is an attorney practicing employment and immigration law. Since 1992, she has been a volunteer with the Partners in Human Rights Education program, in which she has taught in classrooms in Saint Cloud and Minneapolis schools. Her training experience includes human rights training to a variety of groups in the United States, South Africa and Moldova. She also has training experience in various employment topics including sexual harassment, Americans with Disabilities Act and comparative employment law.

Antonio Medrano: e-mail amedrano@igc.org
Antonio Medrano is a long time educator of high school and college students. Antonio is a member of numerous human rights commissions in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Mexico. As a bilingual educator, Antonio offers workshops both in Spanish and English. He is an active member of the retired division of the United Teachers of San Francisco, AFT-NEA, Rethinking Schools, Resource Center of the Americas, Teaching Tolerance (Southern Poverty Law Center), Latin American Teacher’s Association, and the Peace, Justice and Human Rights Committee of the United Educators of San Francisco.

Charity Tatah Mentan: email tata0006@umn.edu
Charity holds an LLM in Philosophy of Law and legal perspectives. She has worked as legal adviser to the minister of agriculture for thirteen years and as adviser to NGOs involved in advocacy. She is a mother of five daughters and knows that they will learn from her example. As a 1999-2000 Hubert H Humphrey fellow from Cameroon, she focused on International Human Rights Law especially as it concerns women and children. Charity is affiliated with various human rights organizations and desires to improve her knowledge on how to better advocate for the community. She is very eager to train in Human Rights Education to be able to make a difference in her community by setting up training programs for human rights education and organize symposia for the media to educate the public. She has attended several international conferences that have helped her to interact with human rights advocates, which has been an enriching experience.

Ellen V. Moore: e-mail emoore@aiusa.org
Ellen Moore is a coordinator with Amnesty International USA. Ellen also writes the monthly Children’s Edition Urgent Action (CEUA), helped develop the human rights curriculum “Human Rights Here and Now”, and has extensive experience as a presenter on human rights education to schools and conferences around the United States and abroad.

Robert N. Munson: e-mail bobm@mplsredcross.org  
Robert N. Munson has been Director of Disaster Services for the American Red Cross - Minneapolis Area Chapter for 10 years.  He is also a national trainer for the American Red Cross in several courses detailing "Humanity in the Midst of War" the principles and procedures of the international humanitarian laws (Geneva Conventions), and the humanitarian programs of the International Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement.

Eileen Reilly: e-mail EileenSSND@aol.com
As a member of an international catholic religious congregation of sisters – the School Sisters of Notre Dame – Eileen was asked in 1997 to become the justice and peace coordinator for the SSNDs on the east coast. Her primary tasks have been focused on debt relief issues and human rights education. She works with sisters in her congregation and with the people they work with giving workshops, faculty retreat days, preparing curriculum materials, and encouraging advocacy efforts.

Kristi Rudelius-Palmer: e-mail krp@umn.edu
Kristi Rudelius-Palmer is a human rights educator, activist, and idealist. Kristi has been involved in the field of Human Rights Education (HRE) since 1986 in various capacities.  She founded a campus Amnesty International group, facilitated prejudice reduction workshops for teachers, taught decision groups and parenting classes for fathers in prison and for mothers on the outside, and developed a self-esteem class for young children with parents in prison.  Kristi edited the first report for Article 19, a freedom of expression organization, in London and assisted economically disadvantaged individuals obtain legal assistance with the Minnesota Justice Foundation for two years. In 1989, Kristi became a founding Co-Director of the Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota.  She organized three community-wide HRE series from 1989 to 1992, including a mock trial of Christopher Columbus, which was carried in newspapers throughout the world. In 1997, Kristi was a founding member of Human Rights USA and creator of the national Human Rights Resource Center and Web Site, which services the nation with resources and training for building a human rights movement in this country. Kristi directs the publishing of The Human Rights Education Series, produced by the Human Rights Resource Center with diverse organizational partners.

David Shiman: e-mail dshiman@zoo.uvm.edu  
David Shiman is a Professor of Education at the University of Vermont. He also directs the Center for World Education, a curriculum resource center on global and multicultural education. He has written curriculum on human rights, prejudice reduction, and world hunger. He also conducted human rights education workshops in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Guyana, United States, and for Palestinian human rights activists on the West Bank.

David Shorr: e-mail dshorr@stanleyfdn.org
David Shorr has spent his career with NGOs, most of them in Washington, whose mission is to promote international peace, human rights, and humanitarian action.  Currently a program officer at The Stanley Foundation, he devises programs to advance the Foundation's goals of international peace and justice and a stronger United Nations.

Stephanie Smith: e-mail boo3gie@yahoo.com
Stephanie Smith's human rights career began last year when she joined Amnesty International, although her interest in human rights issues has spanned many years. Her role then evolved to Group Coordinator for a new Amnesty Local Group in Atlanta, GA. Stephanie's particular area of interest is human rights atrocities committed in Latin America and, in particular, the US role in those violations. Stephanie currently works at CNN in general news.

Jackie Stanley: e-mail jstanle@hcsd.sccoast.net
Currently Jackie serves her district as Coordinator of Multicultural Affairs.  She works to provide comprehensive race relations training and racial harmony dialogue for school district employees, administrative staff, students and community members.