Consulting

Consultant on institutional racism

2000-2023: Co-organizer in Boston of Undoing Racism workshop with Peoples’ Institute for Survival and Beyond, and follow-up work at Boston College 

1988: Confronting the ‑isms on the college campus. Staff training, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI

1987: Racism in the college classroom. Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA

1981: Identifying and Combating Institutional Racism, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT

1979: Executive Staff Conference, Church Women United, Malvern, PA. Consultation on Feminism & Racism

Consultant on feminist issues/women's studies

2007-2017: Gender and Reparations in post-conflict Guatemala. With UNAMG, Guatemala and Alison Crosby, York University, Toronto, Canada

1992-2003: Bi-annual workshops on sense of self, women’s creative responses to the psychosocial effects of war and state-violence. Asociación de la Mujer Maya Ixil - Ak’ saq’ eb’ al [Association of Maya Ixil Women – New Dawn], Chajul, Guatemala – see below and above.

1982: Feminist Theological Institute, Cambridge, MA 

1982: Boston Sisters Senate, Boston, MA

1981-1988: Women's Theological Center, Boston, MA

1980: Resource Staff, National Conference, National Assembly of Women Religious, Reflecting on Women's Work Lives, Milwaukee, WI

1977: Feminist Studies in Theological Education, National Consultation, Center for Women and Religion, Berkeley, CA

1976: Consultation on Human Sexuality, Commission on Women in Church and Society, United Church of Christ

Consultant on organizational development/community psychology

2008: Community psychology as a resource for community development in contexts of war and violence. Workshop, Training for Transformation Program, Kleinmond, South Africa, June 2008

2003-2006: Consultant, AFAB: Association of Haitian Women in Boston, Design and carrying out of Focus Group training program, towards development of leadership development program, with Rebecca Johnson

1999: Consultant, Juvenile Offender Project, Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, Johannesburg, South Africa

1994-2000: Staff development and training and program resource consultant with Asociación de la Mujer Maya Ixil - Ak’ saq’ eb’ al [Association of Maya Ixil Women – New Dawn], Chajul, Guatemala – see below. 

1987: Staff development and program resource consultant, Women's Theological Center, Boston, MA

1985: Workshop on Skills Development. Boston Women's Fund

1981: Center for Educational & Pastoral Ministry, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA. Program evaluator

1981: University of Lowell, Department of Psychology. Designed and developed Field Training component of Masters Program in Community/Social Psychology 

1980: Workshop on Administrative Decision‑making, Conference on Career Development for Undergraduate Women, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA

1977-1978: Advisory Resource Center, Boston University, Boston, MA Consultant to student organizations

1973-1976: Women's Counseling and Resource Center, Inc., Cambridge, MA. Administrator, staff, and fundraiser

1971-1972: Cambridge Clergy Consultation, Cambridge, MA Needs assessment, interview construction, interviewing, data analysis and final report: "Pastoral Care in Cambridge, MA: A Survey of Cambridge Clergy, 1972."

Consultant on/with children, women, families, and war

2006-2007: Consultant to InterPares, Canada/Guatemala. Co-design and co-facilitation of workshop, “Acompañamiento Psicosocial y Justicia Integral para Mujeres Víctimas de Violencia Sexual en Conflictos Armados” [Psychosocial Accompaniment and Integral Justice for Women, Victims of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict. Guatemala

2003, May: Consultant to Psychosocial Working Group Annual Forum on Children in War. Sponsored by: Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh & Refugee Studies Program, Oxford U., New York, NY

2001-2004: Consultant to GTZ on designing and evaluating training programs for rural promoters providing psychosocial, community-based accompaniment to communities surviving from war and state-violence

1998-1999: Consultant to Comisión para el esclarecimiento Histórico [Commission for Historical Clarification] UNOPS, United Nations –Collaboration in preparation of sections of final report on Psychosocial Effects of War and Recommendations for Reparation Process

1995-2000: Consultant to non-governmental organizations in Guatemala, coordinating workshops with mental health workers and NGO staff on issues of war repression and community mental health in a multicultural context

1994-2000: Consultant to Asociación de la Mujer Maya Ixil - Ak’ saq’ eb’ al [Association of Maya Ixil Women – New Dawn]. Work with Ixil women in rural Guatemala who coordinate programs with Maya women and children in mental health and community self-determination including: A corn mill to raise income for widows and their children, a mental health and educational program for children ages 6-12, and women’s health action research project/center.

1991-1993: Consultant to Patricia Goudvis, professional filmmaker, in production of film: Si el Arbol de Mango Pudiera Hablar [If the Mango Tree Could Speak]

1991-1992: Consultant to Funding Exchange, NY Publication of Guatemala Funders’ Guide, with John Ruthrauff

1991: Consultant to Christian Children's Fund, Richmond, VA. Presentation on responses to children in situations of organized violence