Our Team

Rebecca Tinsley

Rebecca Tinsley is a journalist and human rights activist who has worked in nine African countries.

She founded Waging Peace, a London-based group campaigning on Darfur, and she is on the international council of Human Rights Watch.

Together with her husband Henry, she was asked by President and Mrs Carter to start the Carter Centre UK.

Rebecca did a law degree at the London School of Economics. She is a former BBC politics reporter, she stood for election to the UK parliament twice during the 1980s, and two of her novels have been published.

Christa Bennett

Christa Bennett serves as Projects Coordinator for N4A. Christa has worked with with N4A to develop and implement projects in Rwanda since 2006.

Having spent the past year as the London-based coordinator, as of October 2007 Christa is based in Palo Alto, CA.

She will continue liaising with UK contacts, while also providing support for establishing N4A in the US. Christa has been to Rwanda twice, including work as team leader for the Summer ’07 projects.

She graduated with a masters in international relations from King’s College London. Her primary interests are the recognition of women and children in global, national, and local politics and the development of communities where all members have opportunities to thrive.

Christa is also a director of Waging Peace and Sudan Divestment UK and a member of the London Network of Human Rights Watch and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Dr. Barbara Bauer

Dr. Barbara Bauer is a psychologist who has been involved in the training of lay volunteers and mental health professionals in the treatment of trauma since 1995.

As a member of the International Center for Psychosocial Trauma, she made numerous trips to Bosnia, Kosovo, Russia, Pakistan, and Palestine.

In 2003, Dr. Bauer completed a five-month mission in Nepal with Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) where her assignment was to train volunteers in trauma interventions to help women victims of violence, including those caught up in the civil war. In February 2005, she went to Sri Lanka and Indonesia to train Tsunami aid workers. She is a member of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress and is vice president of Step Up! American Association for Rwandan Women.

As a member of Step Up! and in coordination with the Tinsley Charitable Trust, Dr. Bauer has made three trips to Rwanda to aid genocide survivors. In this capacity, she has trained 30 nurses in Butare as well as 60 volunteers though Solace Ministries in Kigali in Psychotherapy for Survivors of Trauma. Her training manual is currently being translated into the Rwandan language.

Rosalind Gater

Rosalind Gater graduated from Cambridge University in July of 2006 and has since been teaching at a school in East London.

The program that brought her there is called, Teach First, where top graduates are trained to work in secondary schools and enable learning opportunities both in their given subject and outside the curriculum. The experience of teaching in inner city London has challenged her enormously but has also become truly rewarding.

In the summer of 2007, Rosalind helped coordinate teaching projects being piloted by Network For Africa in Kigali, Rwanda. While it was thousands of miles away from her teaching experience in London, it proved strangely similar; for when it comes to educating underprivileged students, she found that these young people bring both courage and enthusiasm to their learning experiences.

The qualities she witnessed in those individuals have inspired and motivated her to strive for a Master in Arts, specializing in education in developing countries. With that, Rosalind hopes to change the crippling effect that limited education has created and ultimately, take her knowledge and skills back to East Africa.

Mary Jo Terrill

Mary Jo Terrill, RN, MSW, is a healthcare activist who works to educate and empower women, supporting them through pregnancy, birth, and lactation.  She provides counseling to women who struggle with single parenting, depression, and the effects of physical and sexual abuse. 

In Rwanda, she has worked as part of a Trauma Counseling Training Team and has taught classes to nurses and midwives.  Her immediate goal is to understand the critical healthcare needs of the Rwandan people in order to effectively work alongside them in their communities to improve the delivery of care. 
 
Mary Jo resides and works in Santa Barbara, California, USA

Betsy Kain

Betsy Kain received her Master of Science in Social Work in 1966. She has had extensive experience in both indivudual and group psychotherapy.

Her career included appointments at the University of Michigan Hospital, psychiatry unit,   and  the University of Pittsburgh  Child Guidance Clinic.  Later, she formed a private practice specializing in psychotherapy with  with adults and adolescents.
 
Betsy has volunteered twice in Rwanda. She organized groups of professionals to teach methods of dealing with the psychological aftermath of the genocide. 

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Deborah Bowerman Davies

Deborah Bowerman Davies combines cognitive training skills with physical reprogramming skills, physiologically changing the memory of trauma in the practice of psychology.

Specializing in trauma care in women and children, she has worked extensively in South America training mental health professionals in somatic reprogramming.  Deborah has trained volunteers in Australia, Uganda, Kenya, Ghana, Korea, Bosnia, Indonesia and India.   In 1991, she assisted in the development of a trauma care orphanage in Ghana.

In November 2006, Deborah traveled to Rwanda with the Tinsley Charitable Trust.  She spent two months counseling genocide survivors and began a peer counseling training program.  She has written four manuals to support the training program, two of which have been translated into Kinyarwanda. Deborah is returning to continue training in November 2007 and April 2008.  She is the Director of Rainbow Over Rwanda, an organization committed to educating children and communities in the US about Rwanda and financially supporting the counseling programs that assist Rwandan genocide survivors.