Who We Are
Mary Lee Morrison, LCSW, PhD. Founder, President, and Director
Dr. Morrison holds a Ph.D. in Educational
Studies/Curriculum and Instruction from the Neag School
of Education at the University of Connecticut and a Master's
in Social Work from the University of Iowa. A former practicing
clinical social worker for over 20 years, she has taught
educational foundations and courses in global social work
and sociology at several universities. She has authored
books and articles on peace education and has been providing
consultation and trainings for schools and community groups
for the past eighteen years. Dr Morrison is the co-author
of Peace
Education (with Ian Harris) McFarland Press, 2003
and of the Elise
Boulding: A Life in the Cause of Peace (McFarland
Press, 2005). Dr. Morrison teaches at Central Connecticut
State University, a course for incoming freshmen on educating
for a more sustainable world.
2008-09 HIPP Coordinator
Kate Cota - Kate has a B.A.
in Psychology and English from Fairfield University, with
a minor in Eastern European Studies.
She
recently returned from the Republic of Georgia, having received
a Fullbright grant for travel, research and involvement in
community and non profit educational and humanitarian initiatives. She
now teachs high school English in New Orleans with the
Teach for America Program.
Student Interns
Chassidy Swaby -
Student Intern Spring 2009 - Senior, Big Picture High
School, Bloomfield, CT
Kaitlyn Newman -
UCONN Student intern - Spring 2008
Jessie
Agnesi - Saint Joseph
College intern - Fall 2007
Student Associate
Jacob Ritter - 2007 Student
Associate
Advisory Board
David Adams -
United Nations Global Movement for a Culture of Peace
* Carol Shaw Austad - Department
of Psychology, Central Connecticut
State University
* Ray Boucher -
Alternatives to Violence Project
* Carolann Boucher - Hartford
Friends Meeting
Elise Boulding - International
Peace Research Association (emeritus)
Victoria Christgau - Connecticut
Center for Nonviolence
* Diane
Desnoyers, Chair, Board of Directors, Connecticut
Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR)
* Sage
Hardesty - Student,
Watkinson Upper School
Marjorie Henry - Connecticut
Network to Abolish the Death Penalty
Jeanne Morascini - Curriculum
of Hope Project of Delta Kappa Gamma
International
Elizabeth Nabateesa Nabeta -
The Ugandan American Nakuwadde
Mission Project
Helen Raisz - University
of Hartford and the Women’s International League
for Peace and Freedom
* Diane
Weinholtz - Head of Watkinson Middle School
NOTE: * Denotes
Members of Board of Directors of Pax Educare, Inc.
Diane Desnoyers, Chair, Board
of Directors
Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery
(CCAR)
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