Imagine Worcester

Virginia Swain is the host of Imagine Worcester and the World, your source for local and global interviews with peacemakers around the world. Judy Freedman Fask , Director, Deaf Studies, College of the Holy Cross. Judy was born in Newton, Massachusetts but she always lived in Worcester, Massachusetts. She attended the University of Massachusetts in Amherst for her undergraduate degree and went to graduate school at Smith College and to Springfield College for a second master’s degree. Judy is married with five children, several of whom have health complications. Growing up in a large family, Judy is still close to all of her siblings, and her elderly parents live with her. Judy stresses the importance of working together to solve a problem, and enjoying life the way it is and not the way one wishes it was. Judy accepted the Excellence in Higher Education Award recently for the program she directs--the only one of its kind in the nation as it mandates the active involvement of all students with members of the Worcester-area deaf community. The Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (MCDHH) provided their staff interpreter, Lynda Carmel, to be the interpreter for the show. http://academics.holycross.edu/asl-deafstudies

Virginia Swain is the host of Imagine Worcester and the World, your source for local and global interviews with peacemakers around the world. Ira Ockene, M.D and Suzanne Cashman, ScD from the Community Engagement & Research Section, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Ira is Director of the CCTS Community Engagement & Research Section and is a Cardiologist in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine University of Massachusetts Medical School. Suzanne is with the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health as well as the Co-Director of the CCTS Community Engagement & Research Section/ The goal of the UMass CCTS Community Engagement & Research Core, is to help university researchers and community leaders form equal partnerships for health research. This approach is called community engaged research. Other names for this type of approach include Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR), Community Collaborative Research, Community Partnered Research, and Participatory Action Research. For more, go to http://www.umassmed.edu/CCTS/Community/index.aspx

Virginia Swain is the host of Imagine Worcester and the World, your source for local and global interviews with peacemakers around the world. Evelin Lindner and Linda Hartling. Evelin was born in Germany and is now a global citizen and a scholar, author and practitioner. She holds two doctorates in medicine and psychology.. Her research focuses on human dignity, and she believes that the humiliation of honor and dignity may be among the strongest obstacles on the way to a decent world community. She is the Founding President of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS), a global transdisciplinary fellowship of concerned academics and practitioners who wish to promote dignity and transcend humiliation.Linda Hardling, Ph.D. is the HumanDHS Director. Before joining the Human DHS organization, she was the associate director of the Jean Baker Miller Center at Wellesley College. Linda holds a doctoral degree in community/clinical psychology. Together, they hold conferences around the world to promote human dignity. They have also founded a World Dignity University. and http://www.humiliationstudies.org/

Virginia Swain is the host of Imagine Worcester and the World, your source for local and global interviews with peacemakers around the world. Jonas Himmelstrand, Management Consultant, Social Critic, Writer and Educator. As a representative of an expert United Nations working group, Jonas Himmelstrand travels the globe lecturing on the educational and psychological needs of children. Click here. After Jonas gave a speech to member of Swedish Parliament about the deteriorating psychological health of Swedish children, he changed his career from being a leadership trainer and coach to being a social critic of Sweden’s daycare system. He has found that attachment psychology, educational psychology and neuroscience are proving that children and adolescents need their parents more than most parents are aware and that their needs are not being met. Jonas has 30 years experience in training and coaching for Swedish businesses that led to his co-publishing the international newsletter “Strategies to Learn & Grow”. Jonas says he wife, Tamara, and their three children have enriched his life experiences enormously. Because he is self-employed, he has enabled a family-oriented lifestyle which is otherwise difficult to manifest in Sweden today. His new book, Following your Heart, can be found in a condensed English version. For more, go to The Haro organisation, Jonas Himmelstrand, articles in English, the English Book; Watch one of Jonas’s speeches.

A show about peace hosted by Virginia Swain. Virginia Swain, is the founder of the Coalition for the Human Right to Peace (HR2P), an integral part of the Global Alliance of a Culture of Peace. http://www.centerglobalcommunitylaw.org/wl_initiative_splash.html and http://www.aedidh.org/?q=node/1969 and http://www.aedidh.org/. The Center for Global Community and World Law, which Virginia directs and co-founded, has become the umbrella organization for the HR2P endeavor in the United States. The Center has been given consultative status at the United Nations in 2011. For more about the Center, go to www.centerglobalcommunitylaw.org. http://www.telegram.com/article/20110630/FLASH/106309652/1239/telegramtowns&TEMPLATE=TOWNPORTAL&WT_TOWN=telegramtowns and http://www.telegram.com/article/20111013/COLUMN21/110139455/0/COLUMN

A show about peace hosted by Virginia Swain. Joseph Baratta, is a Senior Advisor and Think Tank Member of the Coalition for the Human Right to Peace, an integral part of the Global Alliance of the Culture of Peace. Joseph is an expert on human rights and has written many books and articles on the subject. http://www.aedidh.org/?q=node/1969 and http://www.aedidh.org/. The Center for Global Community and World Law, which Virginia directs and co-founded, has become the umbrella organization for this endeavor in the United States. The Center has been given consultative status at the United Nations in 2011. For more about the Center, go to www.centerglobalcommunitylaw.org. http://www.telegram.com/article/20110630/FLASH/106309652/1239/telegramtowns&TEMPLATE=TOWNPORTAL&WT_TOWN=telegramtowns and http://www.telegram.com/article/20111013/COLUMN21/110139455/0/COLUMN

A show about peace hosted by Virginia Swain. Vicente Sanabria, M.S., is Senior Adjunct Professor at Cambridge College and has been the Director of Central MA Center for Healthy Communities since 2006. He provides leadership, operational management, social determinants and vision to community groups and nonprofits, to address alcohol, tobacco and drug prevention. Vicente is bilingual and bicultural and brings a deep sensitivity and compassion to his work in community organizing. He has given trainings in change leadership, family and community systems, youth development theory and practice, cultural diversity, high performance team building among many other topics. For more, go to http://www.cmchc.org/. #65 Vincent Mitchell is a fourth-year medical student at University of Massachusetts Medical School. He attended the New England School of Acupunture, Boston University, Bijing Institute o Education, Cina and Sr. John’s Preparatory School in Danvers MA. What distinguishes Vinny from other students is his deep understanding of Asian culture, language and medicine. He is a medical interpreter for Mandarin Chinese. In June 2009, Vinny was the first UMMS medical student to visit Chinese medical institutions and hospitals. He was selected for the Leadership and Education Program for Students in Integrative Medicine and as a result began an integrative health referral system for Umass Medical School. Vinny has received many awards and honors. He founded the Annual Complementary and Alterative Medicine Expor at UMAss Medical School in 2008. (no number) The Central Massachusetts Addiction Consortium Conference please take this out because of the blurriness During this day-long event, sponsored by the Central Massachusetts Addiction Consortium and held in the peaceful setting of Veterans Inc. in Shrewsbury, MA, participants learned about and discussed current treatment, support and advocacy efforts to help families overcome the consequences of addiction. The event also offered plenty of opportunities to reflect on evidence and personal experiences of successful recovery efforts through the powerful keynote presentation by Joanne Peterson, the founder and executive director of Learn 2 Cope, a successful network of family-run support groups for families coping with addiction, a dynamic panel discussion, and presentations on topics pertinent to family interventions, treatment, support, and advocacy. For more information on the sponsors and speakers, go to Central MA Substance Addiction Consortium Conference

A show about peace hosted by Virginia Swain. Jennifer Wu, Ph.D., is the Associate Director of Communications, Continuing Medical Education and Global Initiatives, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Jennifer facilitates internal and external communications, continuing education and develops and directs global programs for the Psychiatry Department. http://www.umassmed.edu/psychiatry/Global_Activities.aspx. Jennifer received a PhD in Educational Administration from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. She received a BA in English Language and Literature from Central University for Nationalities in Beijing. Jennifer’s publications and presentations include Maximizing Educational Cooperation and Exchange Programs with China (2007) and Challenges in Teacher Training and Educational Reform for Ethnic Minority Education in China.

A show about peace hosted by Virginia Swain. Vincent Mitchell is a fourth-year medical student at University of Massachusetts Medical School. He attended the New England School of Acupunture, Boston University, Bijing Institute o Education, Cina and Sr. John’s Preparatory School in Danvers MA. What distinguishes Vinny from other students is his deep understanding of Asian culture, language and medicine. He is a medical interpreter for Mandarin Chinese. In June 2009, Vinny was the first UMMS medical student to visit Chinese medical institutions and hospitals. He was selected for the Leadership and Education Program for Students in Integrative Medicine and as a result began an integrative health referral system for Umass Medical School. Vinny has received many awards and honors. He founded the Annual Complementary and Alterative Medicine Expor at UMAss Medical School in 2008. (no number) The Central Massachusetts Addiction Consortium Conference please take this out because of the blurriness During this day-long event, sponsored by the Central Massachusetts Addiction Consortium and held in the peaceful setting of Veterans Inc. in Shrewsbury, MA, participants learned about and discussed current treatment, support and advocacy efforts to help families overcome the consequences of addiction. The event also offered plenty of opportunities to reflect on evidence and personal experiences of successful recovery efforts through the powerful keynote presentation by Joanne Peterson, the founder and executive director of Learn 2 Cope, a successful network of family-run support groups for families coping with addiction, a dynamic panel discussion, and presentations on topics pertinent to family interventions, treatment, support, and advocacy. For more information on the sponsors and speakers, go to Central MA Substance Addiction Consortium Conference

A show about peace hosted by Virginia Swain. Robert (Bob) Bachelder joined Worcester Area Mission Society (WAMS) in 1984 and serves today as Minister and President. He was educated at Dartmouth and Yale Divinity School, worked in the investment division of the Rhode Island Hospital Trust, and served churches in Pangbourne, England and Shrewsbury, Massachusetts before coming to WAMS. He has been active in numerous church and civic organizations, serving as president of Worcester Community Housing Resources and the Higgins Armory Museum and as an officer of the Greater Worcester Community Foundation and United Way of Central Massachusetts. He has written widely in the field of economics and ethics, and is included in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World.