Lisa Abdallah PhD, RN received her PhD in Nursing from UMass Boston in 2003. She is an assistant professor in the Nursing Department of the School for Health and Environment at UMass Lowell. She is a John J. Hartford Institute Geriatric Nursing Scholar and her current area of research focuses on quality improvement initiatives in nursing homes and health promotion and risk reduction in the elderly. Lisa has served as a Board Member of the Lawrence Branch of the Merrimack Valley YMCA for over six years and is a Lawrence resident. She is an active team member promoting community collaborations with Lawrence teens. Lisa_Abdallah@uml.edu

Sakila Afroz, M.Sc in Chemistry, is the Research Officer of Dhaka Community Hospital. She is involved in various research projects with arsenic poisoning as well as Arsenic and Health in Bangladesh in collaboration with the Harvard University School of Public Health. She has presented papers in national & international seminars on health care delivery system as well as arsenic problems in Bangladesh. dch@bangla.net.

Joan Arches received her PhD in Sociology and Social Work from  Boston University. She teaches Human Services, Community Planning and is Coordinator of the Youth work concentration at UMass Boston. She is the 2005 recipient of the University of Massachusetts President’s Award for Public Service.  Professor Arches is on the Urban Mission Coordinating committee and has developed many service learning and community-engaged classes. She has received several grants for this work and has published and presented extensively on her work with student engagement and community university partnerships. joan.arches@umb.edu

Yovani Baez received her Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Maine at Farmington.  After graduating Ms. Baez spent a year working as a legislative aide for First Middlesex District State Senator Steven C. Panagiotakos.  Ms. Baez left the Senator’s office to pursue her Master’s degree in Regional Economic and Social Development at UML.  She graduated in the spring of 2006, and is now employed as a Community Organizer with the Coalition for a Better Acre. yovani.baez@cbacre.org

Cynthia J. Bent graduated from UMass Lowell in 2005 with a Bachelor of Liberal Arts (BLA) Degree with concentration in English and Economics. She is Assistant Program Director for the University’s College Prep and Young Scholars Program (CPP/YSP), serving middle and high school students in Lawrence, Massachusetts. She is a member of the Lawrence Teen Program Planning Committee, a partnership between the University and the Lawrence Mayor’s Health Task Force. Ms. Bent is a Member of the University’s Transformation Project Service Excellence Committee. The project’s mission is “to develop a plan to advance a culture of inclusiveness, respect and dignity which will become the guiding principles for customer service to the university’s internal and external constituents.” Cynthia_Bent@uml.edu

Judith A. Boccia, Ed.D., Director of the Center for Field Services and Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, received her Ed.D. from Teachers College Columbia University. Her work focuses on building and sustaining school-university collaborative programs. These programs link university faculty and resources with public schools in support of such efforts as urban school redesign; teacher professional development; Science, Technology, Engineering and Math student pipeline issues; and college readiness programs for youth.  She teaches curriculum and leadership courses in the Graduate School of Education and co-chairs the university wide Committee of Federated Centers and Institutes, a consortium of 32 research and service centers at UMass Lowell. Judith_Boccia@uml.edu 

Mary-Ellen Boyle, MBA, PhD Boston College, researches and teaches about corporate citizenship, university-community partnerships, and private sector approaches to poverty. She is the author of The New Schoolhouse: Literacy, Managers, and Belief (Praeger 2001), an analysis of workplace literacy. She has presented papers and published articles on such topics as service-learning, corporate change and the arts, the social responsibility of business schools, organizational aesthetics, social health indicators, and immigrant education policy. mboyle@clarku.edu

Margaret Brabant PhD directs the Center for Citizenship and Community of Butler University. She coordinates the University's service-learning opportunities and facilitates, with the assistance of practitioners in both the private and public sectors, the development of new interdisciplinary and inter-college service-learning courses. She also chairs the department of Political Science and teaches political theory courses. Her publications include articles on the service-learning pedagogy. She frequently presents research papers on the topics of citizenship education, service-learning, urban revitalization, and the politics of community outreach. She served as the director of Butler University's Community Outreach Partnership Centers grant and its Community Outreach Partnerships Centers New Directions Grant. mbrabant@butler.edu

Donald Braid, PhD serves as Associate Director for Butler University’s Center for Citizenship and Community. A folklorist and ethnographer, his research interests include traditional arts, storytelling, and performance, especially as they intersect issues of worldview, cultural identity, meaning, and belief. Over the past six years he has used service learning in his courses, including “Exploring Cultural Diversity,” “Our Stories Tell Us Who We Are,” and “Finding Ourselves in the Other.” He was selected to serve as an Indiana Campus Compact Fellow during 2005–2006. In his capacity as Associate Director of the CCC he has helped the university develop and implement service learning efforts and has coauthored a number of grants to support community outreach work. dbraid@butler.edu

Barbara Brown is a second year PhD student in the Community and Regional Planning Program at the University of Texas at Austin. With an MA in architectural history, Barbara is investigating the  relationship between social equity and the built environment and its  institutional manifestations.  As the first Luce Fellow associated  with the Center for Sustainable Development at UT, she works to  foster relationships among the School's BaSiC initiative, local  communities and the budding Austin Community Design and Development  Center, while also engaging in the social architecture movement  through her active participation in the SEED Network. BEBROWN@MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU

Val Buchanan received her B.A. in Recreation from Southwest Baptist University in 1995.  After a year working with homeless families in Los Angeles, Val moved back to Missouri to become the Director of Discipleship at SBU, during which time she led seven service-learning trips to Chicago and South Africa.  Gordon College selected her in 2003 to begin a campus/ community partnership program between Gordon and the City of Lynn, MA.  In the last three years, Gordon in Lynn has developed dozens of partnerships though which hundreds of Gordon students have completed over 20,000 hours of service. val.buchanan@gordon.edu

Gabriel Cámara, Convivencia Educativa, A.C., México, was trained as a Jesuit and received his doctoral degree from Harvard University in 1972. Since then, as a lay person, he has engaged in the design and implementation of formal and informal alternative education models. He has taught at the Mexican National University and worked in education research institutions. He served for five years in the Doctoral Fellowship Committee of the Inter-American Foundation and now works at Convivencia Educativa, A.C., an institution that promotes learning communities that benefit university students and teachers in public schools. Six books have been published on this work. gcamara@laneta.apc.org

Anne Chalupka is a graduate student at UMass Lowell in the Department of Regional Economic and Social Development (RESD). In 2003 Anne received her B.A. from Trinity College (Hartford, CT), where she majored in Modern Languages and Literature (concentration on Latin America) and minored in Human Rights Studies. In college Anne spent a year in Santiago, Chile, studying at the Universidad de Chile, teaching English, and working at CODEPU, a non-profit law firm dedicated to justice for victims of the Pinochet dictatorship. She now works as a research and teaching assistant for RESD’s Professor Robert Forrant and is writing her master’s thesis on the adoption of green cleaning technology. anne_chalupka@student.uml.edu

Janet Cherrington received her PhD in Urban Affairs and Public Policy from the U. of Delaware in 1998. An associate professor in the Urban and Regional Studies Institute at Minnesota State University, Mankato she teaches courses in city management and urban studies.  Prior to entering academia, Janet spent over twenty years in local government. She is a member of Minnesota Women in City Government, the International City/County Management Association and has served on the League of Minnesota Cities’ Research Advisory Board. She served as vice chairperson of her home town’s planning commission.  Her research, publications, conference presentations, etc. can be viewed at www.intech.mnsu.edu/cherrington.

George Chigas received his PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London in 2002.  He teaches interdisciplinary courses at UMass Lowell on genocide, global issues and national identity with a focus on Southeast Asia, particularly Cambodia. He is a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement and is a faculty advisor for UML STAN (Students Taking Action Now), which is advocating for a resolution to the conflict in Darfur, Sudan. His most recent publication is a translation and analysis of a Cambodian verse novel, Tum Teav, published in 2006 by the Documentation Center of Cambodia. George_Chigas@uml.edu

Patty Coffey is Project Associate to Special Assistants at UMass Lowell for Collaborative Research and Community-University Partnerships. She is a member of the University’s Community-University Advisory Board and managed a team of high school, undergraduate, and graduate students who produced a video, ‘What's Art Got To Do With It?’ that examined the impact of cultural and artistic activities on Lowell’s economy. Patty received her Bachelor's degree in Political Science from University of Massachusetts Lowell in 1997and is a graduat student in UMass Lowell’s Dept. of Regional Economic and Social Development. Patricia_Coffey@uml.edu

Michaela Colombo, Assistant Professor Leadership in Schooling at UMass Lowell, received her Ed.D. in Language Arts and Literacy from UMass Lowell in 2004. Prior to this, she worked in PK-12 public schools as a bilingual teacher, supervisor, and professional development provider. Colombo has worked with “at-risk” populations for more than 20 years and has been the principal investigator on various grants focused on literacy and biliteracy for children and families whose first language is not English. Her research interests are grounded in social justice and focus on improving literacy and educational opportunities for underserved populations and their families. Michaela_Colombo@uml.edu

Benjamin Cuellar, DSW is the Dean of the College of Health and Human Services at California State University, Fresno. Dr. Cuellar also provides oversight to the Central California Center for Health and Human Services which is the external research and program development arm of the college. Through the center he has provided leadership to the development of numerous centers, institutes, and partnerships in social welfare, health policy, public health, obesity, nursing, children and aging with a Central California regional focus. His teaching and research areas are social policy and planning, cultural competence, organizational ethnicity, and social work with the Latino community.benc@csufresno.edu

George de Lange, a professor in Co-operative Education at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth South Africa, holds the position of Director for the Centre for Academic Engagement and Collaboration at the 25,000 student University. He is responsible for: developing strategies to increase participation by an increasing diversity of interest groups in the activities of the University and achieving greater responsiveness of the University to the social and economic needs of the community. He served as President of the South African Society for Co-operative Education. George.deLange@nmmu.ac.za

Jonathan Delman, Executive Director of Consumer Quality Initiatives, Inc., a community-based mental health research and evaluation organization, has expertise in mental health participatory action research, and consults on this topic for several public agencies and universities.  He is a co-investigator on an NIMH grant, through the Boston University School of Public Health, to develop the Boston Community Academic Partnership. Mr. Delman, who lives with bipolar disorder, is a Doctoral candidate in Health Services Research at the Boston University School of Public Health.  jdelman@cqi-mass.org

Rachel DeMotts completed her PhD in political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005.  She specializes in African environmental politics, with an eye towards social dimensions of conservation, citizen participation in environmental initiatives, and transboundary conservation.  Prior to completing her PhD, Rachel worked in public education in Seattle and for the EPA's Office of International Activities in Washington, DC.  She taught at Lake Forest College in Illinois and is engaged in research on women's participation in community-based conservation in Namibia as well as relationships between HIV and the environment.  Rachel will be an assistant professor at UML-RESD beginning in September 2007. rbdemotts@yahoo.com

Heather M. Derby received Bachelor's degrees in International Relations and Political Science from Florida International University in Miami, Florida. She spent several years working in the social services field before pursuing an M.A. Master's in the UMass Lowell Department of Regional Economic and Social Development. She is a Research Assistant at the University’s Center for Family, Work, and Community and was part of a team of high school, undergraduate, and graduate students who produced the video, ‘What’s Art Got To Do With It?’ that examined the impact of cultural and artistic activities on Lowell’s economy. heathmhd@gmail.com

Fausto da Rocha, a Brazilian immigrant, emigrated to the United States in 1988. He has been the Executive Director of the Brazilian Immigrant Center (BIC) since 1998. He received a certificate in Community Leadership Development from the UMass Boston. As the Executive Director of the BIC he has led several campaigns for the rights of Brazilian immigrants, and has received numerous awards from Massachusetts Foundations and Brazilian Organizations for his commitment to improving the living conditions of Brazilian immigrants.

Kathy Dixon, holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from Lesley College In addition she has earned an advanced certificate of Human Resource Management and Employee Relations.  She is currently the Human Resource Director for the YWCA of Greater Lawrence and has worked in the Lawrence Community for over ten years.  She is a certified rape crisis counselor and volunteers for the YWCA Sexual Assault Program providing advocacy and support to victims at local hospitals.  Through her work at the YWCA, she has become a member of a coalition of representatives from local agencies promoting the cooperative and seamless services to teen in the Lawrence area.

James M. Dubinsky, an Associate Professor of English, directs the Professional Writing Program at Virginia Tech. He recently won a college award for outreach excellence and the university's teacher scholar award. His research focuses on professional writing pedagogy, service-learning, and community-university partnerships. He is the author/editor of Teaching Technical Communication, has contributed articles to journals such as the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning. He edited a special issue of Technical Communication Quarterly on civic engagement. He co-chairs Virginia Tech’s task force on student engagement. dubinsky@vt.edu

Mary Duquin, Department of Health and Physical Activity, School of Education University of Pittsburgh, received her PhD in Education at Stanford University in 1975. Involved in promoting University-Community relations for over 30 years, most recently her University-Community program provided tutoring and health education to Roselia School for teen mothers and won an  award for Service Learning.  She has participated on projects providing health education for grandparents raising grandchildren. She has served as President of both the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport and the Sport Sociology Academy of AAHPERD. mduquin@pitt.edu

Altab Elahi, MD, completed a Master of Science in Mathematics, and is working as a program officer of Dhaka Community Hospital, assigned as a ‘Project Coordinator’ in the ‘Community Based Safe Water Supply and Arsenic Mitigation. He received national and international training on: ‘Rain Water Harvesting System’; ‘Detection and Management of Arsenicosis’; ‘Participatory Reflection and Action Towards Self-Reliance in Development’. He is experienced rural water, sanitation and disaster management programs, including participatory processes for community development. dch@bangla.net.

Stephen Engle oversees the Center for Community GIS, a division of the non-profit Quebec-Labrador Foundation dedicated to the use and participatory application of geospatial technologies. He assists a range of rural institutions to access Geographic Information Systems for community-based planning and local area assessments. He works in northern New England, Atlantic Canada, and Central Europe and serves as Adjunct Professor of Geography at the University of Maine Farmington. Stephen holds an M.A. in Development Studies from Victoria University Wellington New Zealand and a B.A. in Geography from Middlebury College. sengle@qlf.org

Robert Engvall is an associate professor of justice studies at Roger Williams University,  in Bristol, RI. He holds Ph.D. and J.D. degrees from the University of Iowa, and a B.A. from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. His research interests focus upon marginalization and social justice issues in higher education and has presented at numerous academic conferences on topics ranging from public-sector unionization to parental involvement in public schools. He has written three books, numerous articles and book chapters on similar topics. rengvall@rwu.edu

KC Ferrara is the Coordinator of the FSL program at Roger Williams University.  She holds a B.S. in Sociology from Suffolk University (MA) and a  M.Ed. in Counseling and Guidance from Providence College (RI).  She is responsible for developing strategic and sustainable partnerships between the University and local community that involve co-curricular and academic community-based work by students.  She currently holds several leadership positions with Girl Scouts of RI and is a board member of two local non-profit, community based organizations.  Prior to her position at RWU, she spent 15 years in student affairs focusing on leadership development, student activities, residence life, and judicial affairs.  kferrara@rwu.edu

Jane Fleishman has been an organizer and educator for over 30 years.  She believes in an empowerment model for social change through popular education. She got her Master's in Labor Relations at UMass Amherst in 1983 and was in the labor movement as an elected official, an organizer and an educator, in workplaces and communities. She works with local, statewide and regional coalitions around issues of empowerment for GLBTQ youth, racial and sexual healing, public education and environmental literacy. She gets her energy primarily from her partner and two fabulous kids, ages 10 and 14. She has been consulting to The New England Consortium primarily around quality improvement, evaluation, organizational and trainer development for six years. jane@janefleishman.com

Robert Forrant received his PhD in history from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.  A professor in the UMass Lowell Department of Regional Economic and Social Development, he has consulted on development issues for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and the International Labour Organization. He serves as a regional economy analyst for the journal Massachusetts Benchmarks, a joint publication of the University of Massachusetts and the New England Federal Reserve Bank and has published numerous academic articles and popular studies on the Connecticut River Valley economy. He is co-editor of three books on community-university partnerships. Robert_Forrant@uml.edu

Dr. Jim Frabutt, PhD, is a faculty member in the Institute for Educational Initiatives and a Concurrent Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. He previously served as Deputy Director of the Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has directed a local collaborative, community-university partnership featuring the involvement of schools, parents, law enforcement , mental health practitioners, the faith community, and juvenile justice professionals. He has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and masters and doctoral degrees in human development and family studies.  jfrabutt@nd.edu

Sarah Gates received her M.A. in clinical psychology from the University of Colorado in 1999 and she is currently a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at Antioch University- New England. She serves as adjunct professor in the Organization & Management and Applied Psychology Departments at Antioch U., and works as a student research assistant at the Tomey Center and the Center for Research on Psychological Practice. Sarah_Gates@antiochne.edu

Varkey George was born in Kerala, India. In South Africa he taught Accounting and Business Studies at a rural school for refugees from Mozambique. In 2004, he became Director of SHAWCO, the Students’ Health and Welfare Centres Organisation, at the University of Cape Town, the largest student-run welfare organisation with 1,200 student volunteers. In 2003 he helped to start and was first Chairman of the Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Reserve in the Kruger National Park. In 2006, his contributions to South Africa’s development earned him recognition as one of five South African social entrepreneurs by the SCHWAB Foundation at the World Economic Forum. vgeorge@global.co.za

Ezra Haber Glenn, Adjunct Professor, Department of Regional Economic and Social Development, UMass Lowell, is Director of Community Development in Lawrence. Past positions include Director of Planning & Development for the City of Somerville, MA and teaching urban planning and politics at Tufts University. He serves on the board of directors for the National Community Development Association (Region I) and the Somerville Community Corporation. For five years he edited New England Planning. He has an M.A. in social anthropology from the University of California at Davis, and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners. eglenn@public-planning.org

Gary R. Grant has been the Executive Director of the internationally acclaimed Concerned Citizens of Tillery (CCT) for the past twenty-five years and is the founding president of the National Black Farmers & Agriculturalists Association, a founder and  chairperson of the African American Environmental Action Justice Network based in Atlanta, GA, and a founder and Co-Director of the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network (NCEJN). He is the holder of a BA degree from North Carolina College at Durham. Mr. Grant was a teacher in the Tillery community, Halifax County School System for 12 years. tillery@aol.com

Milagro Grullon, MA is the Neighborhood Planner for the City of Lawrence, working out of the City of Lawrence Community Development Department. She spearheads the Mayor’s Health Task Force and oversees all of its subcommittees. Milagro received her Masters in management from Cambridge College in 2003. Ms. Grullon’s academic background is in planning, community organizing, and management.

Patrick Hafford, assistant professor of management at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, MA, has an MBA from Babson College. He joined Wentworth following a number of senior leadership positions in industry. His primary interest is curricular service learning as it supports experiential and collaborative learning. He chair’s the institute’s service learning committee, working with students from management and technical majors. Volunteer work includes serving as a member of the Economic Restructuring Committee for Mission Hill Main Streets. hafford@wit.edu

Melissa Hagan is the Project Director of the Boston Community Academic Mental Health Partnership, a NIMH-funded initiative to create a mechanism for people with mental health and/or addiction recovery needs to fully participate in the mental health research process. Ms. Hagan earned her Master of Public Health with a concentration in Epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health. mjhagan@bu.edu

Michael Hanrahan is an instructor of Computer Science and a past co- chair of the service-learning initiative at Keene State College. Since 2003 he has provided interdisciplinary Problem Based Service Learning experiences to his Internet programming course involving database construction and web-page design. Mike is currently conducting his doctoral research in faculty motivation related to service-learning. mhanraha@keene.edu

Homero Harari, is an Environmental Engineer who has worked as a Research Assistant at the Institute for Work Environment and Production Development in Ecuador. His work has focused on Occupational and Environmental Health in Flower Culture and Banana Plantations with trade unions and communities. He has co-edited three books about flower culture in Ecuador, and is an M.A. candidate in Industrial Hygiene at UMass Lowell. homeroharari@gmail.com

Tarique Hasan, MD is the filed officer of DCH – Harvard University Arsenic Research Program of Dhaka Community Hospital. He is involved in various research projects with arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh in collaboration with the Harvard University School of Public Health. pabcomcl@bttb.net.bd

Toni-Marie Henry is pursuing an undergraduate degree in Psychology at University of Massachusetts Lowell.  She is a member of the University track and field team; she took second place at the 2006 NCAA competition for the triple jump. She was part of a team of high school, undergraduate, and graduate students who produced the video, ‘What’s Art Got To Do With It?’ that examined the impact of cultural and artistic activities on Lowell’s economy.

Marc Horne is completing his master’s degree thesis on transit-oriented development in New England in UMass Lowell’s Dept. of Regional Economic and Social Development. He was part of a team of high school, undergraduate and graduate students who produced the video, ‘What’s Art Got To Do With It?’ that examined the impact of cultural and artistic activities on Lowell’s economy. He is a researcher at Northeastern University in Boston. horne81@yahoo.com

Karrie Kalich is an Assistant Professor of Health Science at Keene State College, where she provides meaningful service-learning experiences for her students while bringing health-based initiatives to underserved population groups. As co-chair of Keene State College’s service-learning initiative she was successful in hiring a grant-funded service-learning coordinator.  She also played an integral role in planning two Service-learning symposiums. Dr. Kalich has been conducting research in the area of health promotion for over 12 years. kkalich@keene.edu

Dean Cleghorn is a health professions educator, having served as a faculty member and associate dean. Since 1996 he has worked at the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center; he is now the Director of Quality Management and Research and Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts, Worcester. His primary research interest is seeking new ways to improve health outcomes through population-based and community-based methods.  He is the principle investigator for the CDC-funded, Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) 2010 Latino Health research grant, in Lawrence, MA.

Gretchen Latowsky, M.Ed. is Director of Community Technical Assistance Programs at JSI Center for Environmental Health Studies in Boston, MA and Coordinator of Community Partnerships for the School of Health and Environment at UMass Lowell. Ms. Latowsky has over twenty-five years experience investigating and addressing community environmental health problems, promoting citizen involvement in environmental decision-making, developing education and training programs, and serving as a representative of the public on policy making advisory boards. Recent projects include Casa de Salud: A Model for Engaging Community, Urban Air Toxics Literacy, and a program to bring teen providers together for joint programming in Lawrence, MA. Gretchen_Latowsky@uml.edu

Charles Levenstein is professor emeritus of Work Environment at UMass Lowell. He is the former principal investigator of the Hazardous Waste Worker Health and Safety Training Program at UMass Lowell and continues as a senior adviser to the program. He chairs the advisory committee for the United Steel Workers DOE/EPA/NIEHS-funded programs, is editor of New Solutions Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health Policy and is adjunct professor of occupational health at Tufts University School of Medicine. He is co-chair of the Massachusetts Teachers Association Environmental Health and Safety Committee and a board member of the Harriet Hardy Institute and the Massachusetts Public Health Association.  chuck_lev@comcast.net  

Alisa Lincoln earned her MPH from Boston University and her PhD at Columbia University. She is the Principal Investigator of the Boston Community Academic Mental Health Partnership, a NIMH-funded initiative to create a mechanism for people with mental health and/or addiction recovery needs to fully participate in the mental health research process. She is the Principle Investigator of the BMC ACCESS Project, a grant to open and evaluate a Safe Haven Shelter for people who are chronically homeless, substance abusing and have a severe mental illness. alincoln@bu.edu

L. Magole is a research fellow at the University of Botswana’s Harry Oppenheimer Okavango Research Centre. Her research and interest is in land and natural resources management policy and rural communities development. She is currently looking at implementation problems of land management plans, with particular reference to the Okavango River Panhandle Management Plan and development of the San communities through tourism. Dr. Magole worked with the Okavango River and Delta communities to ensure their participation in the Okavango Delta Management Plan (ODMP) planning process. lmagole@orc.ub.bw

Golam Mahiuddin, BSc (Hons) in Chemistry, M.Sc in Biochemistry. He is the Director of Environmental Research of Dhaka Community Hospital (DCH). Previously he served as a Director of Agricultural Engineering and Management Consultant Ltd. from 1992 to 1998. He works on DCH–Harvard School of Public Health research projects, including Arsenic & Health in Bangladesh, Biomarker of Arsenic Related Reproductive Toxicity. dch@bangla.net

Heather Makrez, a graduate student at UMass Lowell in the department of Regional Economic and Social Development, received her B.A. in History from UMass Lowell.  She is a research assistant for the Academic Affairs, Student Affairs and International Relations Office at the UMass President’s Office where she focuses on international education initiatives and opportunities. She has traveled to China and Germany for various study abroad programs offered by the University and serves as the Lowell campus Student Trustee on the University of Massachusetts System Board of Trustees.  hmakrez@umassp.edu

Paul Morse is the Project Director and Co-Principal Investigator for The New England Consortium, providing popular education training in health and safety for an average of 800 workers per year. Prior to his work at UMass Lowell, he was an adult education instructor for Second Start in Concord, NH and the Executive Director of the NH Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health. Mr. Morse served on the NH Civil Liberties Union board of directors, the coordinating committee of the NH Central America Network, and the Haymarket People’s Fund allocation boards. He has traveled to Mexico and Nicaragua relative to issues of occupational health and safety, fair trade and economic justice. Paul_Morse@uml.edu

Golam Mostofa, MD is the project manager of Dhaka Community Hospital. He received his Master of Commerce in Management from the National University of Bangladesh. He is involved in various research projects with arsenic poisoning as well as Arsenic Exposure in Bangladesh in collaboration with the Harvard University School of Public Health. He is doing research on the social impact of arsenicosis & community epidemiology. He previously served as a center manager of Bangladesh-Australia Center for Arsenic Mitigation Project in association with South Australia University. mostofa07@gmail.com

Naeema Muhammad is a Community Organizer for the Concerned Citizens of Tillery and the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network. She is also a founding member of the Black Workers for Justice.  Recent work has focused on organizing in communities impacted by the industrial hog operations and landfills in Eastern North Carolina and participating in group discussions looking at how to affect policy changes in communities faced with these environmental injustices and has worked as co-investigator on several community-based participatory research projects in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Kellogg Health Scholars Programs.

S. Mustakim is the General Secretary of Pabna Community Clinic & member of Maa - o – Shishu Community Hospital of Dhaka Community Hospital. He is involved in various research projects with arsenic poisoning as well as Arsenic and Health in Bangladesh in collaboration with the Harvard University School of Public Health. pabcomcl@bttb.net.bd

James Nehring, Assistant Professor Leadership in Schooling, has worked as both practitioner and researcher in the field of high school redesign for over two decades. Nehring has pursued a research agenda focusing on the fate of small progressive schools in both public and independent contexts.  His current research seeks to identify historical and contemporary patterns that may inform contemporary high school redesign efforts.  He is the author of four books that focus on charter schools and learning. James_Nehring@uml.edu

Judith Oleson, Associate Professor in Sociology/Social work at Gordon College, coordinates the senior field practicum, and teaches research methods and organizational systems. Her interests include: cross-sector partnerships for social change, conflict resolution/ sustainable reconciliation in organizations and communities, and international social development. Judith received her Doctorate in Ministry at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, an MSW from the University of Minnesota, and an MPA from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. Her practice over the years has included program and community development in family support services, facilitating inter-governmental and Tribal partnerships, and democracy building initiatives. Judith.Oleson@gordon.edu

Miguel A. Perez, PhD, CHES is an associate professor of Health Science and Director of the Master of Public Health Program at California State University, Fresno. Research interests focus on  international adolescent health issues. He is a three times Fulbright awardee. His work as a faculty fellow with the Central California Public Health Partnership, a consortium of six county health departments and the University, established a region-wide program on diabetes and obesity prevention. Dr. Perez's academic responsibilities include teaching health promotion courses which incorporate service learning opportunities. mperez@fulbrightweb.org

Catherine A. Powers received her EdD in child development and educational program management from Nova Southeastern University in 1998. In 2006, Dr. Powers completed a post-doctoral fellowship in medical education at the Harvard University Macy Institute. Dr. Powers is a research associate and instructor of socio-medical sciences and public health at Boston University School of Medicine, and faculty at the Harvard Macy Institute. Dr. Powers is the national director for PACE: Prevention and Cessation Education for Medical Students, a consortium of 12 US medical schools funded by the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Powers has served as both a faculty mentor and reviewer for the Schweitzer community service graduate fellowship program and has published numerous peer-reviewed articles. powersoz@bu.edu

Dianne Quigley, an ethics researcher and doctoral candidate in the Religious Studies department at Syracuse University, is principal investigator of a grant from the National Institute on Health titled ‘Collaborative Initiative for Research Ethics in Environmental Health?’. The project has produced course syllabi and training materials for community-based research ethics. Ms. Quigley is an adjunct instructor at Brown University’s Environmental Studies Department, teaching community research ethics. She has published on community-based research ethics, and on CBPR with Native communities. Her Master’s Degree is from Clark University, Worcester, MA in the Environment, Science and Policy Program. diquigle@syr.edu

Quazi Quamruzzaman, MBBS, FRCS (Edinburgh, U.K), FRCS (Glasgow, U.K), FICS (International College of Surgeons, USA), is the Chairman of Dhaka Community Hospital Trust; Professor of Pediatric Surgery at Dhaka Shisu Hospital and Institute of Children; President of Society of Pediatric Surgeons, Bangladesh, Visiting Lecturer, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medical, UK; Co-Founder, Gonoshashthaya Kendra. He is involved in various research projects with arsenic poisoning as well as Arsenic Exposure in Bangladesh in collaboration with the Harvard University School of Public Health. dch@bangla.net

Mahmuder Rahman, MBBS, MRCP (U.K), FRCP (Glasgow) is coordinator & member of Dhaka Community Hospital Trust. He is a Professor of Medicine and Principle of National Medical Collage, Dhaka. He is involved in various research projects with arsenic poisoning as well as Arsenic Exposure in Bangladesh in collaboration with the Harvard University School of Public Health. He is a member of the Bangladesh National Expert Committee to formulate National Arsenic Policy and Arsenic Mitigation Action Plan. dch@bangla.net

Kazi Sarwar Rahman is Financial Secretary of Pabna Community Clinic & member of Maa - o – Shishu Community Hospital of Dhaka Community Hospital. He is involved in various research projects with arsenic poisoning as well as arsenic exposure and skin diseases in Bangladesh in collaboration with Harvard University School of Public Health. pabcomcl@bttb.net.bd

James Rather, a 2006 graduate of the University of Massachusetts-Lowell’s Regional Economic and Social Development program, is Assistant Project Manager of Real Estate Development at the Lowell-based nonprofit Coalition for a Better Acre, and is a member of the Lowell Green Advisory Committee. In the past, he served as a HUD Community Development Fellow and Environmental Justice Intern with the Environmental Careers Organization (ECO). His interests include affordable housing issues, sustainable development, and Green building design.

Janice Rienerth received her PhD in Sociology from Southern Illinois University. She holds the rank of Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Work, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina. As an ASU-Public School Partnership Social Studies Focus Group member, she participated in a workshop on developing a University-High School Partnership at the 2006 National Conference for the Social Sciences. Dr. Rienerth is one of three N.C. representatives for the American Sociological Association’s University and Public School Initiative. This program encourages partnerships between university faculty and high school teachers to improve the quality of high schools social studies programs. rienerthjg@appstate.edu

Rob Rosenthal is Professor of Sociology and Director of Wesleyan's Service-Learning Center.  Among his publications are Homeless in Paradise (Temple U., 1994) and Playing for Change: Music in Social Movements (University of Minnesota, forthcoming). rrosenthal@wesleyan.edu

Deborah Shelton completed her PhD at the University of Virginia in 1994 and her post-doctoral work at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in 1997.  The focus of her work has been on the intersection of mental health and justice systems and related health inequities for minority populations.  Dr. Shelton is an Associate Professor and fulfills the role of Associate Dean for Research at the University of Connecticut School of Nursing.  She participates on editorial boards for several journals, has over 50 publications and over 60 national and international presentations, and is currently funded on two federal and one private grants. deborah.shelton@uconn.edu

Linda Silka, PhD, Professor in the interdisciplinary Department of Regional Economic and Social Development, directs the Center for Family, Work, and Community at UMass Lowell and is Special Assistant to the Provost for Community Outreach and Partnerships. A social and community psychologist by training, Dr. Silka develops programs that create and evaluate community and university partnerships. Recent partnerships include the Southeast Asian Environmental Justice Partnership and the New Ventures Partnership funded in part the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Dr. Silka teaches graduate courses in research ethics with underserved groups, applied research, program evaluation, and grant writing, and consults to partnerships around the country on capacity building, program evaluation and community-based research. Linda_Silka@uml.edu

Eduardo Siqueira received his ScD in Work Environment Policy from the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 1998. He is assistant professor in the Department of Community Health and Sustainability and associate editor for the journal New Solutions. He published the book Dependent Convergence: The Struggle to Control Petrochemical Hazards in Brazil and the United States. He is the Principal Investigator of the Environmental Justice Partnership Project “Collaboration for Better Work Environment for Brazilians” in Massachusetts. He has developed technical cooperation projects for graduate training of Brazilian students and joint research with Brazilian scholars in occupational safety and health issues. Eduardo_Siqueira@uml.edu

Jessica Skolnikoff is an associate professor of anthropology at Roger Williams University, in Bristol, RI. She holds Ph.D. and M.A. degrees from American University in Washington, DC, and a B.A. from the College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio. Her research interests focus upon the role that learning disabilities play within our society, as well as the role that sports play within the lives of college students. She has presented at numerous academic conferences on topics ranging from the role that learning disabilities play within educational settings, to the impact of high stakes testing upon individuals with learning disabilities. jskolnikoff@rwu.edu

Craig Slatin received his Sc.D. in work environment policy from UMass Lowell in 1999, is an associate professor in the UMass Lowell Department of Community Health and Sustainability, and co-director of the Center for Public Health Research and Health Promotion. He is principal investigator of The New England Consortium, a regional hazardous waste worker health and safety training program and principal investigator of Promoting Healthy and Safe Employment in Healthcare Project, which has studied health disparities among healthcare workers in hospitals and nursing homes.  He is on the editorial board of New Solutions, a Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health. Craig_Slatin@uml.edu

Christoph Strobel, Assistant Professor in the History Department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, teaches classes in World, Native American, African, and Islamic World History. Much of his published research has been in Native American and in comparative American and South African history. He is co-author with Alice Nash of Daily Life of Native Americans from Post-Columbian through Nineteenth Century America. He works with a team of researchers on a grant-funded project, An Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Immigration, Globalization and Enterprise in the ‘all American City’. Christoph_Strobel@uml.edu

Melinda Stylos-Allan, graduate of Smith College, is currently working at John Snow, Inc., a public health consulting firm. While at JSI, Melinda has worked on projects evaluating services ranging from the care of people living with HIV/AIDS in Africa and Thailand, Mother to Child
Transmission Plus, to the comprehensive case management of youth connected with the Essex County Juvenile Drug Court. She is also the data manager for Options, a nation-wide, multi-site evaluation of a positive prevention intervention.

Mansoureh Tajik is assistant professor at UMass Lowell School of Health and Environment, Dept. Community Health and Sustainability. Her research and teaching interests include: community-based participatory research, sustainable environment and land development, environmental justice, public policy, health education, and service learning. She is a member of NC Environmental Justice Network and a member of IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy Theme on Sustainable Livelihoods. Mansoureh_Tajik@uml.edu

Craig Thomas is a staff person at UMass Lowell supported through Massachusetts Campus Compact (MACC) and the AmeriCorps*VISTA program. He graduated from Wesleyan University in May with a double major. At the UML Center for Family, Work and Community his focus is increasing UML partnerships with Lawrence, MA. Craig also works to realize the four main goals of the Campus Compact: working with university students; assistance to and creation of service-learning coursework; non-curricular service involvement; and bringing community voice to campus. Craig_Thomas@uml.edu

Kendall Thu, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Northern Illinois U., received his Master’s and PhD (1992) in anthropology from the U. of Iowa. From 1993 to 1999 he was Associate Director of Iowa’s Center for Agricultural Safety and Health and a Research Scientist for the Institute for Rural and Environmental Health, at the University of Iowa. Dr. Thu has chaired the Committee on Public Policy for the American Anthropological Association and is past-President of the Culture and Agriculture section of the American Anthropological Association. His current research focuses on industrial food systems. kthu@niu.edu

Mark Tirpak recently completed a Master of Science in Community and Regional Planning at The University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture. As a CRP student, Mark researched his program’s use of academic service-learning in planning instruction. He launched CRPSHARE (www.crpshare.org) to demonstrate how universities can modify their web areas to increase student and community participation and shared learning. Mark currently facilitates Sustainable Development with American Indian Communities (http://www.sdwaic.org/) a distance service-learning course at UT. Through his research and work, Mark explores the interrelations of sustainable and democratic development and formal schooling. Marktirpak2000@yahoo.com

Robin Toof, MA, Assistant Director of Center for Family, Work and Community at UMass Lowell has her master’s degree in Community Social Psychology and a certificate in Regional Economic and Social Development and is pursuing her doctorate at UMass Boston in Higher Education Administration. She has worked in the field of program evaluation for almost 15 years.  Agencies and/or projects that she has evaluated include: CDC-funded Cambodian Community Health 2010 health disparities reduction program; four Center for Substance Abuse Prevention projects located in Lowell, Worcester and Lawrence; Lowell School Department’s health curriculum; Elder Service of the Merrimack Valley and Lowell Housing.  Robin_Toof@uml.edu 

Hector N. Torres, Sr. Ed.D., University Liaison for the Lawrence Public Schools, Director of the College Prep. Programs, and Adjunct Professor at the UMass Lowell, earned his Ed.D. in Mathematics and Science Education from UMass and completed studies in management of technology for global integration at Babson College’s School of Business Administration. His educational research interests are in school law, linguistic and scientific reasoning skills and their impact on the mathematics and scientific academic performance of Hispanic English language learners.

Kim S. Uhlik is Assistant Professor in the Recreation and Leisure Studies Department at San Jose State University. His Ph.D. program in Higher Education Administration/Sports Administration was grounded in leadership and strategic planning, balanced by practical experience with a Visitors & Convention Bureau, a commercial recreation S-Corporation and several municipal Parks and Recreation Departments.  Kim’s research seeks to discover and develop a partnership-based philosophy and practice that promotes responsible entrepreneurship, stakeholder empowerment, proactive stewardship, sustainable development, and innovative pedagogy through the transformation of students, teachers, clients, and practitioners that leads to life satisfaction and fulfillment for all. kuhlik@casa.sjsu.edu

Steve Wing teaches epidemiology at the U. of North Carolina School of Public Health and is a founding member of the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network . He conducts research on occupational and environmental health. Recent work has focused on health impacts of ionizing radiation, industrial animal production and environmental injustice. steve_wing@unc.edu  

Janice Yee is a professor of economics at Wartburg College in Waverly, IA.  She received her Ph.D. and M.A. from Clark University in Worcester, MA.  Some of her work has focused on changes in women’s economic development in China, but more recently she has begun to explore the impact that social capital changes can have on community development.  Janice.Yee@wartburg.edu 

Jabed Yousuf, MD, M.A in Sociology, is the Director of Project of Dhaka Community Hospital (DCH). He is involved in various research projects with arsenic poisoning as well as arsenic patients management in collaboration with the Harvard University School of Public Health, the Arsenic Foundation, USA, School of Environmental Studies in Jadavpur University, (India), South Australia University, Australia, WHO, UNICEF, UNDP, CIDA, and Oxfam. He is doing research on the social impact of arsenicosis & community epidemiology. dch@bangla.net.