Meet the Team
The National Capacity Building Project, at the Center for Victims of Torture, works in collaboration with the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma and the National Consortium of Torture Treatment Programs to provide capacity building and training to organizations serving survivors of torture in the United States. NCB’s technical assistance partners are recognized leaders in the field of torture rehabilitation, with collectively over six decades of direct service experience and providing technical assistance to survivor of torture direct service grantees and other ORR-supported organizations serving torture survivors, healthcare providers and community-based organizations, including entities in underserved regions.
Madeline Cohodes
Executive Assistant at NCTTP
Elizabeth DiStefano
Financial and Program Manager for Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma
Mary Bunn
Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) | Co-Director of the Global Mental Health Research and Training Program
Stevan Weine
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Director of Global Medicine & Director of the Center for Global Health
McKenzie Graunke
Research Associate II – Social Sciences at Flourish Lab
Karin Wachter
Associate Professor, School of Social Work (SSW) and Director of Office of Refugee Health, Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center (SIRC)
Talia Ishfaq
Research Assistant at Flourish Lab | MD-MPH student at UIC College of Medicine in Chicago
Tushi Patel
Social Work Intern at Flourish Lab
May Kham Eain
Social Work Intern at the Flourish Lab