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Our
History
The Ignacio
Martín-Baró Fund for Mental Health and Human Rights was founded by friends
and colleagues of Ignacio Martín-Baró, many of whom were also psychologists
and academics in related areas. Over the years, individuals from a variety
of other fields have brought their experience, skills, and interests
to enhance the work of the Fund, and we have also been strengthened
by the energy and enthusiasm of our student members.
To
construct a new
person in a new society...
"Whether or not it manifests in individual disorders, the deterioration
of social interaction [by war] is in and of itself a serious social
disturbance, an erosion of our collective capacity to work and love,
to assert our unique identity, to tell our personal and communal story
in the history of peoples… For this reason, the challenge is not limited
to addressing the destruction and disorders caused by the war. The
challenge is to construct a new person in a new society."
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Ignacio Martín-Baró
 Our
Members
The Fund
is managed by its all-volunteer Program Committee. As a result, we have
very minimal administrative costs. Eighty-five percent of all contributions
received by the fund are used for grantmaking to our projects. We put
out The Just Word, organize our annual Bowlathon and other fundraising
events, solicit and evaluate proposals, and maintain contact with our
grantee organizations around the world. The present members of the Program
Committee are listed below; their professional affiliations are listed
for informational purposes only.
Program
Committee
Ben Achtenberg, MA
Documentary filmmaker and owner of Fanlight
Productions, an educational video distribution company specializing
in healthcare, mental health, and disability issues.
Eliza Bliss-Moreau
Doctoral Student in Psychology, Boston College.
Eliza's research focuses on affective and emotional learning and the
development of emotional processes.
Erzulie Coquillon
Graduate student in
Counseling Psychology at
Boston College, and has
worked in citizen participation in the US and Ecuador. Erzulie's
interests include community-based interventions in communities emerging
from violence, and the impact of civic participation on mental health.
Maria De Jesus, MA
Doctoral Student in Developmental Psychology,
Boston College. Interests include interdisciplinary work in community
mental health, cultural psychology, and liberation psychology.
Melisa Flores
A psychotherapist from Guatemala, now working with the Latino Population
in Boston. Melisa’s interests include Community Mental Health, Human
Rights and Chemical Dependency.
Brian Gangemi
Undergraduate,
University of Massachusetts, Boston, studying psychology and spanish
literature. Chairperson of the UMass Boston Human Rights Working Group.
Alden Jackson, PhD
Senior Network Scientist, BBN Technologies.
Cynthia Kennedy
Karen Leiter, JD, MPH
Researcher, educator and advocate in community
health and women's rights.
Joan H. Liem, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychology and Director
of Clinical Training, PhD Program in Clinical Psychology, University
of Massachusetts Boston.
Ramsay Liem, PhD
Professor of Psychology, Boston College.
Ramsay's interests include human rights and mental health, Asian American
studies, and US-Korean relations.
M. Brinton Lykes, PhD
Professor of Psychology, Boston College, and
recently Chair in Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand, South
Africa. An activist scholar whose work explores links between indigenous
cultural practices and those of western psychology.
Catherine M. Mooney, PhD
Associate Professor of Church History, Weston
Jesuit School of Theology.
Ann Brian Murphy, PhD
Professor of Literature, Assumption College.
With an extensive background in political organization and activisim,
Ann also teaches in a court-sponsored program, "Changing Lives
Through Literature," for young men and women on probation.
Samantha Wechsler
Advocate for expanded after-school
programming for low/moderate income families, with a background in non-profit
program development, project management, policy, grantmaking, and fundraising.
Currently studying Spanish in Guatemala.
The
Funding Exchange
The Funding
Exchange is a unique partnership of activists and donors dedicated to
building a permanent institutional and financial base to support progressive
social change through fundraising for local, national, and international
grantmaking programs.
For
more information, visit the Funding Exchange's website,
or contact the Funding Exchange by e-mail.
You can also request a free copy of FEX's Guide
to Creative Giving.
The
Funding Exchange believes that the tremendous disparity of wealth and
power in the United States is based, in large part, on an ongoing history
of exploitation, and that current political, economic, and social systems
perpetuate and strengthen this destructive dynamic. Through its grantmaking
activities, the Funding Exchange pursues the goal of a transformed society,
characterized by true democracy, economic justice, and lasting peace.
Within
this network of community foundations and special projects, the Ignacio
Martín-Baró Fund for Mental Health and Human Rights is a unique project
whose all-volunteer, Boston-based Program Committee makes grants which
support communities, primarily outside the United States, in the process
of collectively healing the wounds of repression and violence.
The Funding Exchange
666 Broadway, Suite #500
New York, NY 10012
U.S.A.
Phone (212) 529-5300
Fax (212) 982-9272
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English
to Spanish translations
courtesy
of Melisa Flores
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2007, Ignacio Martín-Baró Fund for Mental Health & Human Rights
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