ADVISORS

Our advisors play an essential role in developing the Refuge Media Project’s message and approach, and will help to guide our outreach strategy for the completed films. Current advisors include:

• Dabney Evans, MPH, Executive Director of the Emory University Institute of Human Rights, in Atlanta, Georgia, and faculty advisor to Emory’s Student Chapter of Physicians for Human Rights and Human Rights Action.
• Sarah Ignatius, JD, MPH, Executive Director of PAIR, the Political Asylum/Immigration Representation Project, in Boston, Massachusetts.
• Douglas A. Johnson, MPPM, Executive Director of the Center for Victims of Torture in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the first treatment center for torture survivors in the United States.
• Kitty Kelley, PhD, a medical & psychological anthropologist and former Director of the Center for Torture and Trauma Survivors, Atlanta, Georgia.
• Kim Kronenberg, MPH, a health communications specialist and documentary filmmaker. Her film, Sight Unseen, examines hysterical blindness among Cambodian refugees in the United States.
• Christine Mitchell, RN, MTS, FAAN, Director of Ethics for Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, and a consultant and author on healthcare ethics. Co-producer with Ben Achtenberg of numerous films on healthcare ethics including the Academy Award nominee, Code Gray.
• Richard Mollica, MD, and James Lavelle, LICSW, co-founders of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Mollica is HPRT’s Director and the author of Healing Invisible Wounds: Paths to Hope and Recovery in a Violent World. Lavelle is HPRT’s Director of International Programs and Community Organizing.
• Samantha Morse, former Asylum Program Coordinator for Physicians for Human Rights.

• Linda Piwowarczyk, MD, MPH, a psychiatrist, is Co-Founder and Co-Director, Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights.