Ronit Avni: e-mail ronit@justvision.org
Ronit Avni is the Program Associate at WITNESS. WITNESS advances human rights advocacy through the use of video and communications technology.  In partnership with non-governmental organizations and activists, WITNESS strengthens grassroots movements for change by assisting its partners to create and use video as evidence before courts and the United Nations, as a tool for public education, and as a deterrent to further abuse. Ronit works with NGOs from around the world to assist them in identifying ways to use video and the internet to promote their advocacy goals. She oversees projects and produces videos with partners in Senegal, Burkina Faso, Haiti, the United States, Israel, Lebanon and Brazil. She has coordinated trainings for partners in Honduras and Pakistan and will be leading a workshop with her colleagues at WITNESS on video advocacy and post-production for activists from Sierra Leone, Cambodia and the United States. In recent months, Ronit has co-produced several documentary videos.

 Les Bock: e-mail lesbock@idaho-humanrights.org
Les Bock is the Executive Director of the Idaho Human Rights Education Center in Boise, Idaho.  The mission of the IHREC is to promote respect for human dignity and diversity through education and to foster individual responsibility for justice and peace.  The IHREC's statewide programs include K-12 and community education regarding human rights concerns. Before joining the IHREC, Mr. Bock was a partner in the law firm of Dillion, Bosch, Daw & Bock in Boise, Idaho.  He has written and edited several publications including the Handbook for Idaho Nonprofit Corporations - First and Second Editions, and is considered an expert in the area of the law and taxation of tax-exempt organizations.  

Mona Chun: e-mail mchun@ceshra.org
Mona Chun is currently the Director of the Center for Sustainable Human Rights Action (CeSHRA).  CeSHRA aims to promote and protect a culture of human rights observance by strengthening human rights organizations worldwide. Since joining CeSHRA (formerly the Human Rights Program of the Fund for Peace) in 1997, she has been responsible for developing new institution-building handbooks and regional training programs. She has also worked on curriculum design and facilitation of numerous human rights institution-building training workshops, on such topics as organizational health, fundraising, credibility and consensus-building. Mona worked for numerous years in the private sector in France, where she also started and maintained the first Anglophone Amnesty International group in the country, mobilizing the expatriate and immigrant communities.

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.

Malia Davidson: e-mail mkupahu@hotmail.com
Malia Davidson follows her parents and grandparents in taking an active leadership role in the community.  Some of these positions have been as President of the Hawaiian language immersion preschool, a Commissioner on the University of Hawai'i President's Commission on the Status of Women, and Vice President of the Hawai'i Institute of Human Rights. In May 1999, Malia co-founded the Hawai'i Institute for Human Rights, a non-profit 501c3.  Through this organization she has been able to specifically focus on human rights issues organizing events to educate college students and the public in the areas of women, children, and indigenous peoples.   

Nuusa Faamoe: e-mail nuusa@hotmail.com
Nuusa is presently employed by the McLean County YouthBuild, an organization working with young men and women who have had difficult lives through various social ills such as drugs, abuse etc. She is the Education Coordinator responsible for ensuring our students get their GED's, knowing what their rights are while at the same time encouraging them on to either employment or other higher-level educational opportunities. 

Nancy Flowers: e-mail nflowers@igc.org
Nancy Flowers after a quarter century as a high school teacher and administrator, is now a consultant for human rights education. She has worked to develop Amnesty International USA's education program and is a co-founder of Human Rights USA. As a consultant to UN agencies, governments, and NGOs, 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. She is the author of articles and books on human rights education, most recently Local Action/ Global Change: Learning about the Human Rights of Women and Girls (UNIFEM, 1999) and The Human Rights Education Handbook (Univ. of Minnesota Human Rights Resource Center, 2000). She edits the University of Minnesota Human Rights Resource Center's Human Rights Education Series. 

Zana Friganovich: e-mail zfriganovich@stanleyfoundation.org
Zana Friganovich is a Program Associate at the Stanley Foundation works with several programs.  Within the Euro-Atlantic Initiatives Program, she is working on the project Serbia and the Challenge of Regional Integration.  Given her background and understanding of complex issues in the region of former Yugoslavia, her work includes researching and developing suggestions for future activities of the Phase III of the project.  For the program Human Security and Protection, Zana assists the Program Officer in identifying the topic areas that participants will discuss with the goal being: achieving the maximum outcomes of the UN humanitarian assistance programs. 

Andrea Holley: email 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.

Elizabeth Jennings: e-mail liz@idealist.org |
Since 1996 Liz has volunteered with Amnesty International USA, an international human rights organization. Working with local volunteers as well as regional and national projects, she's committed to the development of rural activists. She's particularly interested in the human rights of women and girl children, and she's helping to pilot a women's human rights action team in Colorado and Wyoming. She volunteers as a laborer for the Lincoln Community Center, and is board vice president of the Albany County SAFE Project, the local domestic violence and sexual assault program. She's a founding member of the Wyoming Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, and she is involved in the area's literary community.

George Kent: e-mail kent@hawaii.edu
George Kent is professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i. He works on human rights, international relations, peace, development, and environmental issues, with a special focus on nutrition and children.  His books include: The Political Economy of Hunger: The Silent Holocaust; Fish, Food, and Hunger: The Potential of Fisheries for Alleviating Malnutrition; The Politics of Children's Survival, and Children in the International Political Economy. He is Co-Convener of the Commission on International Human Rights of the International Peace Research Association and also the Coordinator of the Task Force on Children's Nutrition Rights. That Task Force serves both the World Alliance for Nutrition and Human Rights and the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action. He has worked as a consultant with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Children's Fund, and several civil society organizations. He is part of the Working Group on Nutrition, Ethics, and Human Rights of the United Nations Sub-Committee on Nutrition.

Karen Leiter: e-mail kleiter@post.harvard.edu
Karen Leiter is a Senior Policy and Research Specialist and Instructor of Public Health Practice at the Division of Public Health Practice at the Harvard School of Public Health, where her work focuses on international strategies for ending violence against women and girls.  Karen has worked in the areas of civil rights and women's health for the past ten years, both as an advocate and a researcher. In the U.S., Karen has been a litigation attorney for the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, an assistant counsel to the Democratic leadership of the New York State Assembly, and a research assistant at the Domestic Violence Institute at Northeastern. Karen's current projects reflect her experiences in Chile and her interest in integrating human rights principles and methods into public health and social justice work in the U.S.   

Tonya McClary: e-mail tonyancadp@yahoo.com
Tonya McClary is a criminal defense/civil rights lawyer and activist.  She is currently serving as a Soros Justice Fellow with the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty in Washington, D.C.  She is implementing a two-year project designed to bridge the gap between attorneys and grassroots activists that work on death penalty cases.  Ms. McClary also serves as Vice Chair of the ABA's Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities Death Penalty Committee as well as the Women's Steering Committee for Amnesty International USA. 

LisaNa M. Macias-Red Bear: e-mail osodemontana@yahoo.com or lredbear@earthlink.net
LisaNa M. Macias-Red Bear creates artwork in the genres of glass, mixed media, and interdisciplinary arts.   She grounds her work and life in the long tradition of indigenous resistance and cultural pride.  She is a visible woman of color.  She is dedicated to the transformation of societies, which are based on annihilation rather than on social and ecological sustenance. Her work expresses concerns about the life and future of our children, and the quality of life we are shaping for them today. LisaNa is a Mother, Artist, Vocalist, Amerindian Activist, and Registered Counselor (emphasis in Indigenous post-colonial psychology/mental health, diverse gender populations).  Presently, she works in a crisis response environment with community members that experience mental illness. LisaNa utilizes counseling, conflict resolution and de-escalation skills to stabilize clients' baseline functionality. She develops art activities as a means of relaxation, self-expression and empowerment.  

Antonio Medrano: e-mail amendrano@igc.org
Antonio Medrano is a long time educator of high school and college students. He has spent 40 years in History, English, Social Studies, Bilingual, and Latin American Studies education. He is also an educational consultant and advisor to Latino students and teachers. 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. During the summer of 2000, he worked closely with the Miguel Augustin Pro Human Rights Center in Mexico City. 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. 

Ellen Moore: e-mail emoore@aiusa.org
Ellen writes the monthly Children's Edition Urgent Action (CEUA) and related educational materials which are used nationally and internationally, and runs the FIRST APPEAL Pledge Program for AIUSA which enables as many as 500 individually-worded telegrams, faxes, and telexes to be sent monthly in the names of pledges. Ellen works on UA program development internally in Amnesty with her colleagues at the International Secretariat and in AI-UK and AI-Canada. Ellen organizes the Ideas Fair for AIUSA's Annual General Meeting, which involves between 50 and 70 member and staff presenters.

Clementine Mukeshimana: e-mail mukeshimana@uni.edu
Clementine Mukeshimana co-taught Health and Human Rights course, and was the first recipient of the Human Rights Activism Award from the University of Northern Iowa in 2001. She is one of the original founders of the Global Health Corps, a non-profit organization at UNI that trains students to conduct culturally appropriate public health programs with underserved and diverse populations in the United States and abroad. Internationally, Clementine has also participated in public health projects and internships in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. She is currently the Director of Refugee and Immigrant Outreach at the University of Northern Iowa Global Health Corps through a "New Voices Fellowship" from AED. 

Merry Cheryl B. Nacionales: e-mail mary.nacionales@aaci.org
Merry Cheryl B. Nacionales is the Project Coordinator for NCCC's Minority Training Program in Cancer Control. She is the Co-President of the Northern California chapter of Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE).   She serves on SOPHE's  "Open Society" Commission. The purpose of the Commission is to examine SOPHE internally in order to strengthen the diversity within and around the membership. Furthermore, she is an appointee on the American Public Health Association's (APHA), International Human Rights Committee.  It's mission is to develop research, education, and policy toward eliminating international human rights violations which relate to public health, by strengthening the leadership role of public health professionals and their professional associations around the world. 

Her personal mission is:

§         To live a life enriched with knowledge, exploration, challenges, and fulfillment.

§         To continuously seek and pursue opportunities that will offer mental, emotional, spiritual, and professional growth.

§         To foster, encourage, advocate, support, and respect the special people in my life.

§         To leave a positive and lasting impression on all who cross my path in both a personal and professional capacity, whether the interaction is brief or lifelong. 

Clarkson Obasi: e-mail helpout_cam@yahoo.com
Clarkson Obasi is the executive director for Help Out a Cameroon based non-governmental human rights organization. Clarkson has been involved with human rights work since 1995. Clarkson looks forward to the Training of Trainers and gaining experience and gathering information that will be of immense assistance to the overall strengthening of the organization he works for.  He is particularly interested in learning more about community outreach and education so he can further develop the Community Education Program at Help Out. 

Jill Radman: e-mail jillconnect@qwest.net  or jill_anne@excite.com (personal)
Jill Radman has supported human rights and has been actively promoting human rights in other countries.  Jill recently spent significant time in India where she supported a grassroots movement for Dalit (untouchables) human rights, and worked on women's empowerment programs such as income generation programs and savings cooperatives. Jill took an opportunity in Cyprus to document human rights abuses and to support conflict resolution initiatives. Jill has also worked at a children's shelter in Ecuador that provided assistance to children from the streets. Currently Jill works for CONNECT/US-RUSSIA, an organization that implements social development programs in countries of the former Soviet Union.  At the same time, Jill works on occasion at a battered women's shelter providing assistance to victims of domestic violence. 

Phyllis Robinson: e-mail phylrobinson@yahoo.com
Phyllis Robinson worked for five years in El Salvador designing and facilitating workshops in popular education, community and project planning, and gender analysis for non-profit staff and rural farmers.  She also led delegations of North Americans to educate them about the human rights issues, economic and political realities facing the Salvadorans, and was a co-coordinator of the non-governmental citizen observer mission for the 1994 elections. Since her return to the Boston area, Phyllis has worked to improve immigrants' access to health care and other social services, to build leadership in the immigrant community, and to improve cross-cultural understanding between immigrant groups, service providers, and other community members. Phyllis also consults to the Anti-Defamation League, the Massachusetts Prevention Center, the Immigrant Workers Resource Center, and other community organizations, designing and facilitating workshops on diversity, anti-bias, cross-cultural communication, and immigrant rights. 

Kathyrn Rodrigues: e-mail kat7rod@yahoo.com
Kathyrn Rodrigues has spent the last few years committed to social justice issues, mainly focusing around farm workers, immigrant rights, and the border. She has had the opportunity to combine her passion for art and her passion for social justice by making art that has been used on various marches, protests, demonstrations, and rallies. She has most recently worked in Oregon, coordinating art for the March for Farm worker Justice through Oregon's Willamette Valley.  She is currently working with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in Immokalee, Florida, on the Taco Bell Truth Tour campaign, which focuses on the rights of Florida's tomato pickers. Kathryn mostly works with Derechos Humanos, a human rights coalition that fights for immigrant rights, as well as documenting abuses by the border patrol.   

Julie Travis Rogers: e-mail julie@midsouthpeace.org
Julie Travis Rogers is the Executive Director of the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center (MSPJC) in Memphis, TN. During the nineties, she focused on education and leisure time for the differently-abled, Indigenous rights, children's and worker's rights, building participatory democracy, environmentalism, peace and globalization. She participated in projects in the United States, Costa Rica and in Mexico. She is interested in using the framework of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as the focus of her activism, particularly for achieving human rights for some of the most marginalized and powerless in our society: like the differently-abled, children, women, Indigenous, people of color, workers, and immigrants. The Mid-South Peace and Justice Center will also promote the UDHR by offering Human Rights Education to the community and by facilitating the development of Memphis as a Human Rights City.  

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 j.schultz@fordfound.org
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.  These include: Economic and Social Justice: A Human Rights Perspective (1999), Teaching Human Rights (1999), The Prejudice Book: Activities for the Classroom Teacher (1994), He has also conducted human rights education workshops in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Guyana, United States, Israel, and on the West Bank. In 1993, he was a Fulbright Scholar in South Africa where he did research and led workshops on human rights education. He taught at Yunnan Normal University in southern China in 2000. 

Janey Skinner: e-mail janeyskinner@mindspring.com
Janey Skinner has been active in the area of international human rights, either as a volunteer or as full-time work, for about 15 years.  She worked with Peace Brigades International (PBI) for a number of years, first with the Guatemala Project, later with PBI/USA, and most recently as a co-founder and team member of the Colombia Project.  Peace Brigades International provides protective accompaniment and human rights documentation in conflict zones. In the past few years, her support for international human rights has been just as a volunteer, with a couple of Colombia-focused groups, while her professional work has turned toward violence prevention in the U.S. For three years, Janey has worked with a statewide training and technical assistance program supporting domestic violence agencies and other allied groups to engage in the prevention of violence against women.  

Dr. Lanny Smith: e-mail lannysmith@post.harvard.edu
Dr. Lanny Smith is founding president of the volunteer humanitarian association "Doctors for Global Health, DGH" (www.dghonline.org), "Promoting Health and Human Rights With Those Who Have No Voice") and Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Residency Programs in Primary Care and Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. At Montefiore he is Assistant Director of the Human Rights Clinic for Victims of Torture (part of the core curriculum of the Residency Programs, in coordination with Doctors of the World-USA) and a practicing community health physician in the South Bronx.  

Carol Tarvin: e-mail tarvin72@msn.com
Carol Tarvin is a social worker and specializes in assisting elderly people maintain their independence.She first became involved in human rights activism in the late '60's in Michigan with the movement to end the U.S war against Viet Nam. She has remained active in social change issues for the 30 years that followed, focusing at different stages on issues concerning racial minorities, women, gays/lesbians, death penalty, disarmament, war in Central American and Persian Gulf, and preservation of the environment, as well as others. Presently she is working to help build the Green Party in Arkansas and to prevent the militarization of space, i.e. "Star Wars II". She participates in Re-evaluation Counseling community in Fayetteville and its role in the international project, United to End Racism (UER) and in the National Coalition Building Institute's local chapter in Northwest Arkansas through the Multi-Cultural Center there. 

Sarah Walls: e-mail sarahwalls@hotmail.com
Her interests and involvement centered on prisoner advocacy, labor struggles and racial justice. Academic work in Peace & Conflict Studies and Women's Studies provided an invaluable context for her community activism. Sarah ran a leadership development program focused on helping high school students strategize around issues that concerned them.  Additionally, she worked with a regional group in Western North Carolina that created a bridge between community members and labor groups and focused on developing a living wage campaign.  Some of her other interests include community-based education, grassroots history and the Israeli occupation of Palestine.  After extensive traveling, Sarah moved to Durham, NC this spring where she now lives and works. 

Sandra Wechsler: e-mail s_wechsler@hotmail.com
She has extensive experience working with issues of sexuality, identity formation, gender, race, and class, with young people.  Sandra developed programming and coordinated volunteer programs for organizations working towards social justice in Costa Rica, Namibia, and Massachusetts.  She is dedicated to addressing issues surrounding sexuality, race, age, gender and class in public schools in order to improve the quality of education, safety and inclusivity for Santa Fe youth. Sandra is currently working at the Santa Fe Rape Crisis Center, in the Outreach and Prevention Department, supervising Project Glyph, an anti-oppression, anti-homophobia program that works with young people in the schools to reduce hate motivated violence and educate about reducing prejudice. 

Fawn Wilderson: e-mail actorlawyer@cs.com
Fawn Wilderson holds a Juris Doctorate degree from Georgetown University Law Center and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre Arts and French from Dartmouth College.  Ms. Wilderson is an instructor for the Maynard Pirsig Moot Court Program, at the University of Minnesota.  She has been coaching law students, lawyers, and other professionals with presentation skills since 1983. Ms. Wilderson also teaches Conflict Mediation and an Introduction to Human Rights Issues for high school students in the Upward Bound Program, which is hosted by the University of Minnesota.   She uses theatre arts as a means of helping students understand these issues.  She looks forward to using the knowledge gained during this workshop in future classes.