I live in Canada and am a Master of Social Work student at the University of Regina in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. My area of interest is Indigenous Peoples, especially Indigenous people of North America. I am an Indigenous person of Cree descent and am a member of the Cowessess First Nation. I am also a member of an organization called P.A. Women of the Earth, Inc. which is a non-profit organization that seeks to advocate for and provide support to Aboriginal women and their children.

Present Director for ABC4All SIERRA LEONE.(A Better Community For All). Our Organisation is taking care of the Homeless, Widows,Sexually abuse girls,and Children who's parents were killed in the past rebel war.Presently,we have large numbers of homeless victims sleeping in streets and need high attention.Our areas of support needed is Education, Feeding, Shelter, Health Care, Clothing. Donors can kindly contribute to our victims of HOMELESS, WARCHILD,ORPHANS, WIDOWS, SEXUALLY ABUSE GIRLS.For further informations, pls contact:Eddie Boston-Mammah, Director,ABC4All SIERRALEONE.Tel:+232-77550075 / 77562432Email:sierraleoneabc4all@gmail.comWebsite:abc4all.net/local/sierraleone/abc4all.htmlWe would appreciate your cooperation to share ideas together to get these victims off the streets so we can improve their lives,as we love to connect and share the causes we each care about.

Neville Robertson (PhD, MSocSc, BA, DipPsych(Com)) is a Pakeha of Scottish descent. He is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Waikato where he is part of the Graduate Programme in Community Psychology. Much of Neville’s research and professional work focuses on family violence. For many years he has facilitated stopping violence programmes, he has served on various local and national family violence committees, conducted workshops and seminars and he has an extensive portfolio of family violence-related research, particularly studies of institutional responses to men’s violence against women and children. Other aspects of Neville’s work include anti-racism and Treaty of Waitangi education and the evaluation of health and social service programmes. Neville is a registered community psychologist.

Esther Agbarakwe is from Nigeria, West Africa. She has been a very passionate youth advocate for sustainable development for more than 6 years. She is the Africa Regional Coordinator, United Nations Youth and Children Major for the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (UN CSD). Esther also Coordinate the Nigerian Youth Climate Coalition (NYCC) which she co-founded (www.nigerianyouthclimatecoalition.blogspot.com)Esther has been highly active in Earth Charter Initiative’s youth network. She is the Earth Charter Youth Group coordinator of ECYG Calabar and Manage the Earth Charter Youth Special Project-Nigeria that focuses on Peace development in the Niger Delta. The Earth Charter takes a special interest in promoting youth activism in sustainable development.She is a Group member of the “First Steps Campaign” a youth group that was birthed during the 2008 Civicus Youth Assembly in Scotland which aims ti inspire actions and she happens to be one of the committee members. Esther was actively involved as the African representative at the International Organizing committee of the 5th World Water Youth Forum in Istanbul in March 2009.In May 2009, She was supported by the German Government for Participation at the UN Commission on Sustainable Development 17th session held at the UN headquarters in New York for her work on Youth in Sustainability in Nigeria where she delivered the Youth Opening Statement for the Youth and Children Major Group. In response to her youth work in the Niger Delta, She was awarded the Prestigious Dekeyser & Friends Foundation 2009 full Fellowship in Germany. She is currently undergoing the Fellowship with some 14 Fellows around the world!.Esther is also the focal person for the Young Commonwealth Climate Network in Nigeria.Esther will also be representing African youths at United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties (COP 15) in December 2009 in Copenhagen, DenmarkEsther has also volunteered,

I graduated in Psychology - address Clinical and Community - at the Second University of Naples (S.U.N.) and the title of my thesis was: The emotions regulation after negative life events in young people. I played the practical training in the same department conducting, for the first half, research on the regulation of emotions (theoretical study, collection data and electronic data processing, research reports presented at conferences) while the second research and study on university counseling. Currently I’m Doctoral Student in Gender Studies at the University of Naples “Federico II” and, during my course of studies, I will take an interest in representation that the Italian women and those immigrants who are mutually.

Professor of Social and Community psychologyTechnical Commitee of Phd Course in Gender StudiesECPA- European Community Psychology AssociationSIPCO- Società Italiana di Psicologia di Comunità Deputy president of fondazione Mediterraneocaterina.arcidiacono@unina.it

I will graduate in May of 2009 wtih a BA in psychology. I am currently looking into Masters and Doctorate programs, as I wish to become a child psychologist. I am the current president of Chi Omega women's fraternity.

Dr. Terry Mitchell is a registered psychologist with a degree in Community Psychology from OISE, University of Toronto. Her research focusses on women's health, breast cancer and survivor dragon boating, Historical trauma, Indigenous rights and resilience. She is currently developing south-north dialogues for Indigenous health research in Chile. Dr. Mitchell has taught qualitative research since 1991. She is the Director of CCRLA, the Centre for Community Research Learning and Action, WLU.

Nicole Allen, Ph.D. completed her doctorate in Ecological Community Psychology at Michigan State University in 2001. Her research interests include intimate partner violence, community collaboration, and social change. She is currently investigating the role of coordinating councils in the development of an effective response to intimate partner violence, how to foster broader community accountability for such violence, and how the community response affects survivors’ lives.

ODATS—Organizational Leadership Development and Training System was developed and spearheaded by Kim Eagles in 2001. ODATS is currently a bridge between United States and China. ODATS uses strategies and characteristics based on ‘leading change’ for effective leadership. “Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship (GLE) have provided ODATS with an outstanding education for preparing today's leaders—emphasizing innovation, excellence and the impact of valuable principles in today's business world. More specifically ODATS is equipped for building new leaders interested in internships, business development, job readiness, training and recruitment as we promote extensive learning of attaining successful dynamics that drive effective business, management and organizational leadership.Currently, Dean of the World Academy for the Future of Women, Foreign Faculty at Sias International University and a global business consultant. She is thrilled about new opportunities in Organizational Leadership for 2010. Ms. Eagles has an excellent reputation at Sias International University and is gaining clear understanding of the Chinese culture, as well as having the sincere support of the Sias faculty, students and administration. Kim has a Masters Degree in Organizational Leadership, Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship - the program was developed at Regent University, Virginia Beach, Virginia. With major attention directed toward international collaboration the discipline name was changed to Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship. The School of Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship (GLE) has provided her with an outstanding education for preparing today's leaders—emphasizing innovation, excellence and the impact of valuable principles in today's business world. She is currently teaching for Fort Hayes State University in Organizational Development and Change that is a fantastic fit for bridging students of the concept of “East meet West”. Topics of her teaching experience includ

I am Research Director for the Women’s Health Research Network. I earned an interdisciplinary PhD from the University of British Columbia (2002) and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University (2007). I am most interested in examining social justice issues in relation to health and working in partnership with community to develop meaningful and accessible approaches to research.

My dissertation was a qualitative critical and autoethnography examining the intersection of domestic violence and human rights in the United States. While not a participatory action project, I plan to move into PAR research as I continue to develop my research interests. I hope to integrate critical theory related to social movements and the development of social problems with PAR—with a particular interest in how privilege functions within social movements and advocacy.

I will be graduating from ASU in august of 2008 (yay!), and from there I hope to attend graduate school for forensic psychology. Aside from taking online classes at ASU this summer, I am also participating in an internship with the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections. I help young women who are being released back into the community become reacquainted with the community outside of secure care. Thus, I have an interest in Community Psychology and the effect the community can have on the success of a young person. Hope everyone is having a good summer!

Joanne Sobeck, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She is the Director of Research, Director of the Center for Social Work Practice and Policy Research and Co-Chair of the Community Practice and Social Action Concentration. She teaches advanced practice for community social work. As a political scientist and social worker she has effectively combined the disciplines into a professional approach that reflects knowledge of social and political theories and frameworks with an emphasis on practical applications to community based settings. Her research interests include risk and protective factors in drug use and abuse, capacity building for community-based organizations, applications of evidence based programs in community settings, and processes related to policy and program development. Sobeck has published articles and book chapters on women and substance abuse, predictors of adolescent substance use, and Native American elders and depression. Her more recent publications address the cost effectiveness of capacity building, sustaining grassroots organizations, school-based substance abuse prevention and co-occurring disorders. She has made more than 25 national presentations to professional societies. She has served on numerous state committees concerning substance abuse, cardiovascular health, and prevention, and is a current board member for American Indian Health and Family Services of Southeastern Michigan.

I was born and raised by my father in Dayton, Ohio. After high school graduation I moved to Phoenix, Arizona. I am graduating from Arizona State University in May 2008 with a Bachelor's Degree from the college of business with a major in finance. I am engaged to be married next summer, and moving to Chicago, IL to work as a financial analyst after graduation.Along with being interested in economic affairs I am also interested in childhood development research, and women's rights.