Board of Directors and International Advisory Board

Board of Directors

• Vicki Polin, MA, LCPC - CEO, Founder, President, Psychotherapist   
• Michael J. Salamon, PhD - Treasurer, Psychologist
• Leah Marinelli, RN, CNM, NP - Secretary, Certified Nurse-Midwife, Nurse Practitioner 
• Chaim Levin - Director at Large, Activist, Survivor of sexual abuse.
• Judy Mitzner - Director at Large, Para-Legal, Survivor of clergy sexual abuse
• Wendy Schudrich, LMSW, PhD - Director at Large, Researcher and Adjunct Professor
• Marcia Cohn Spiegel, PhD - Honorary Board Member - Activist 

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International Advisory Board
 

• Shalom Atlas, MA, MSW - Clinical Social Worker, Specialist in sexual abuse of men, Former director of the sexual abuse hotline for Orthodox men.  Jerusalem, Israel

• Mesa Leventhal Baker, MD - Pediatrician and expert in the detection and diagnosis of cases of child abuse, Baltimore, MD

• Debra Guckenheimer, PhD - Sociologist

• Isaac Hersh - Survivor of child abuse and neglect

• Simonne Levi-Jameson PhD (MA) MAPPA - Founder and Director - Children's Right Foundation Inc and Curator/Director - Art Sans Frontieres, Survivor of childhood sexual abuse - Melbourne University, Australia

• Rabbi Nochem Rosenberg - Activist in chassidic (ultra-orthodox) communities globally

• Robin Sax - Director at Large, Former Deputy District Attorney, legal analyst and commentator, author.

• Rabbi Michael Schudrich - Chief Rabbi of Poland - Warsaw, Poland

• Richard C. Schwartz, PhD - Marital and Family Therapy, Educator and Author - Chicago, IL

• Heather Steele - The Innocent Justice Foundation - Encinitas, CA 

• Harriet Wadeson, PhD, LCSW, ATR-BC, HLM - Pioneer in the field of Art Therapy; educator, researcher and author - Chicago, IL

• Manny Waks - Jewish Community Leader and Human Rights Advocate - Melbourne, Australia 

• Motie Weiss - Advocate for Children's Rights - Williamsburg, NY

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The Awareness Center is also grateful for the time and energies of the following individuals who spent time on our executive board and advisory board.  These individuals include:

Past Executive Board Members

• Rabbi Yosef Blau  - Yeshiva University, New York, NY (2004 - 2005)
• Ruth B. Guggenheim - Director of Jews For Judaism, Baltimore, MD (2003)
• Laura Shaw Frank, JD, Baltimore, MD (2004 - 2005)
• Na'ama Yehuda, MSC, SLP, APP, New York, New York (2001 - 2009)

Past Advisory Board Members

• Ellen Bass - co-author, Courage to Heal (2000 - 2005)
• Rabbi Reuven Bulka - Congregation Machzikei Hadas, Ottawa, Canada (2002 - 2004)
• Rabbi Yosef Blau  - Yeshiva University, New York, NY (2002 - 2005)
• Renee Cannella - Attorney at Law, Stamford, CT (2002 - 2011)
• Laura Davis - co-author, Courage to Heal (2000 - 2005)
• Rabbi Mark Dratch -  JSAFE (2003 - 2004)
• Rabbi Cindy Enger - Faith Trust Institute, Seatle, WA (2003 - 2004)
  
• Esther Giller - Sidran Foundation, Towson, MD (2001 - 2003)
• Debbie Gross - Crisis Center for Religious Women, Jerusalem, Israel (2001 - 2003)
• Marci Hamilton, JD - Attorney, Professor at Yeshiva University (2006 - 2008) 
• Rebecca Hoffberger - American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (2002 - 2010)
• Phil Jacobs - Editor, Baltimore Jewish Times (2003)
• Rabbi Ari Kahn - Givat Zev, Israel (2004)
  
• Mike Lew, M.Ed. - author, Victims No Longer (2000 - 2005)
• Jeannie Meece - Executive Director, STTAR Center, Ellicott City, MD (2006 - 2010)
• Rabbi Shlomo Porter - Etz Chaim Center for Jewish Learning, Baltimore, MD (2002 - 2006)
• Rabbi Ze'ev Smason - Nusach Hari B'nai Zion, St. Louis, MO (1999 - 2002)
• Vivian Skolnick, PhD - Psychologist and Psychoanalyst, Chicago, IL (2006 - 2010)

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