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Rebecca Shaffer. Implements a support group and website for members of the LGBT community who are victims of intimate violence. The website, at http://breakingsilence.com, includes a moderated chat room. She is a graduate from IUSB, with a Bachelor's in psychology, and is currently completing a Masters of Social Work.

 

Team Leader Psychology Department Indiana University South Bend 1700 Mishawaka Avenue South Bend, IN 46634 (574) 520-9114 rsshaffe@iusb.edu http://www.iusb.edu/~sbsocact

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Wanakee Brown. Is developing a dance and movement class for children at the Center for the Homeless in South Bend, IN. She is a Women's Studies major at IUSB. She will replicate the Umcebo Trust model for using the arts with vulnerable peoples to develop income generating skills when the team travels in 2009.

 

 

 

Team Leader Psychology Department Indiana University South Bend 1700 Mishawaka Avenue South Bend, IN 46634 (574) 520-9114 wanbrown@iusb.edu http://www.iusb.edu/~sbsocact

 

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Mary Robinson. Uses the arts to create social change by exploring issues of women's empowerment in relationships and in society. She is a sculptor, using mixed mediums. She is developing an exhibit on the theme or co-dependency.

 

Team Leader
Psychology Department
Indiana University South Bend
1700 Mishawaka Avenue
South Bend, IN 46634
(574) 520-9114

mrobinso@iusb.edu
http://www.iusb.edu/~sbsocact

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   Lakisha White-Clark. Joined SOCACT so recently that she is in the "hanging out and talking" phase of the work. She is talking with community members and reading the SOCACT archives and thinking and letting ideas percolate. She is a 2007 graduate of Indiana University South Bend, with a Bachelor's degree in General Studies.

  

  Team Leader Psychology Department Indiana University South Bend 1700 Mishawaka Avenue South Bend, IN 46634 (574) 520-9114 lwhite1@iusb.edu http://www.iusb.edu/~sbsocact

   

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André Anderson. Founded and facilitated the Poetry Jams, a monthly open mike gathering that appeals to high school and college students. After graduating from IUSB with a B.A. in psychology (1999), he went on to earn an M.A. from Fisk University (2002), and is now pursuing his doctorate at Capella University. He is returning to SOCACT to move the project to the next level: replication of the service-learning model.

Chief Executive Officer & Director
Positive Redirections
Antioch, TN

www.myspace.com/drethepoet

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Dé Bryant Community psychologist, specializing in grass-roots social change, community-based action research, and international service-learning. She holds a Ph.D. in community psychology and urban studies from Michigan State University. She is a professor of community psychology at Indiana University South Bend. She is the Director of the Social Action Project and is conducting the program evaluation for the Children's Rights Initiative.

    

Project Director Psychology Department Indiana University South Bend 1700 Mishawaka Avenue South Bend, IN 46634 (574) 520-4447 dbryant@iusb.edu http://www.iusb.edu/~sbsocact

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