BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Still Harbor gratefully relies on the guidance and vision of our Directors:
- Edward M. Cardoza
- Frederick N. Dello Russo, Jr.
- Melissa Gillooly
- John C. Hart
- Albert J. Kaneb
- Carolyn MacNeil
LEADERSHIP
Edward M. Cardoza, MA.Min. founded Still Harbor in 2008 and is currently serving as Executive Director. Ed received a Masters in Arts in Ministry from Saint John's Seminary School of Theology in 2003. He completed a practicum in spiritual direction at the Center for Religious Development through the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, MA. Ed also serves as a consultant and member of the Development Committee at Partners In Health (www.pih.org), where he was the Vice President for Development for six years.
C. Perry Dougherty, also a veteran of Partners In Health, currently serves as Associate Director. Perry comes to Still Harbor with a background in nonprofit administration and a personal interest in spirituality and community. While at Partners In Health, she managed organization-wide retreats, planned major outreach events, and developed various communications and educational materials. Perry received her bachelor's degree in Social Thought and Analysis with a specialization in Education from Washington University in St. Louis in 2005.
Colleen Sharka, MA, LMHC, is a licensed psychotherapist and trained spiritual director. She facilitates classes, workshops, and retreats as part of the Still Harbor team. Her private psychotherapy practice focuses on the spiritual life as central in meeting the desired goals and changes that bring people to therapy. She previously served as the assistant director of Trinity Boston Counseling Center, which included developing programs to address secondary trauma and self-care for people working with those who have suffered traumatic loss. Colleen currently serves on the advisory committee of the Center for Psychotherapy and Spirituality at the Massachusetts School for Professional Psychology.
Arville I. Stephen, LICSW is a psychotherapist, consultant, and trainer with over thirty years of clincal experience in the areas of mental health, addiction recovery, stress, trauma and bereavement. She was co-founder and Clinical Director of the Trinity Boston Counseling Center and has recently joined the Still Harbor team as a facilitator.
IN RESIDENCE
Hannah Burnett moved into the Center for Discernment & Action as a live-in resident in the summer of 2011. Hannah is a Global Health Corps fellow working with Tiyatien Health as the Development and Advocacy Coordinator. Hannah graduated in 2010 from Middlebury College where she was an independent scholar in Global Health and co-founded Middlebury’s GlobeMed chapter. Before moving to Still Harbor, she lived in Cape Town, South Africa, where she was a Princeton in Africa fellow at mothers2mothers, working on curriculum development and program innovations. She plans to pursue a master’s in Divinity.
John Hammock, MALD, PhD moved into the Center for Discernment & Action as a live-in resident in the summer of 2010. John is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. He is the co-founder and North American Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative at the University of Oxford. Dr. Hammock founded and directed the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University, was President of Oxfam America for eleven years, and served as Executive Director of ACCION International, a micro-finance agency. Currently, Dr. Hammock serves as the Chair of the Board of Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation. He holds a doctoral degree in international relations from the Fletcher School and an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Denison University. He was born in Cuba. He has two married daughters and two grandchildren.
Peter Luckow moved into the Center for Discernment & Action as a live-in resident in the summer of 2010. Peter is the Director of Operations for Tiyatien Health, one of the seven Praxis Network member organizations. Before taking on his current role at Tiyatien Health, Peter for four years co-led GlobeMed, a network of university students which partner with grassroots organizations around the world to improve the health of people living in poverty. As a member of the founding team, Peter helped to expand GlobeMed from Northwestern University to 33 universities across the country. Peter graduated in 2010 from Northwestern University.
Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) moved their offices into the Center for Discernment & Action in the fall of 2010. IJDH works with grassroots groups in Haiti to develop an effective human rights advocacy program with global outreach. In the United States, IJDH collaborates with organizations, including faith-based, solidarity, humanitarian, and development organizations, to coordinate advocacy on human rights in Haiti and to network with Haitian Diaspora activists throughout the world. Read more at www.ijdh.org.
Nyaya Health opened their first US-based office at the Center for Discernment & Action in the summer of 2011. NH was founded in and currently works in Achham District located in the hills of far-western Nepal. Nyaya (meaning 'justice' in Nepali), delivers hospital- and community-based care via a public-private partnership with the Government of Nepal and in parallel, utilizes the only open-access operations model in Nepal in order to increase efficiency, collaboration, transparency and accountability while building an accessible platform for replicability to be used by other organizations across the world. Read more at www.nyayahealth.org.
Tiyatien Health has established their first office in the United States at the Center for Discernment & Action. Founded by survivors of Liberia’s civil war, Tiyatien Health seeks to pioneer a community-based health system -- led by the poor themselves -- which will serve as a model for rebuilding rural health care in war-torn countries. Through services, research, advocacy and training, TH is working to improve access to HIV treatment, care and support; build models that deliver primary healthcare fairly and for all; and bolster social justice in rural Liberia. Read more at www.tiyatienhealth.org.