March 2010 Delegation
The March 2010 delegation to Haiti formerly launched the ongoing project to identify candidates for emergency Humanitarian Parole to the U.S. among the neediest of earthquake survivors. We interviewed more than 100 Haitian families, and identified 40 new candidates for humanitarian parole.
Team members traveling to Haiti in March 2010 included:
Jayne E. Fleming(team leader)
Ms. Fleming has practiced in the area of human rights law for many years and leads the 50-member Human Rights team at Reed Smith. She has represented torture survivors and asylum seekers from every continent and has extensive experience working with traumatized children who have suffered violence, displacement and family separation. She has been engaged with human rights issues impacting women and children in Central America since 2006 and has traveled there eight times since then. In 2009, she led two community service trips to Guatemala to support women and children living in extreme poverty. In 2008, she participated in an art project to assist street youth in Honduras. She sits on the Executive Committee of the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies and the Board of Directors of Survivors International. In 2006, Jayne was named a California Attorney of the Year by California Lawyer Magazine. In 2008, American Lawyer recognized her as one of the 50 Most Influential Women in the United States. In 2009, Mathew Bender honored her for her work on behalf of refugees. In 2010, the National Law Journal profiled Jayne's human rights work in its annual edition on pro bono services.
Moira Duvernay (legal team)
Ms. Duvernay is an attorney with expertise in the areas of civil rights litigation and criminal appellate work, including death penalty appeals. Previously, Moira served as a staff attorney for the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) in San Francisco, California. She litigated high-impact international human rights cases brought in federal court on behalf of survivors of torture or other severe human rights abuses. She conducted international investigations requiring travel to Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa; she acted as media spokesperson for the organization; and served as counsel in legal victories against death squad leaders and former military officers from around the world. In March 2007, Moira was named an Attorney of the Year by California Magazine for her role in the securing a $19 million judgment against a Haitian death squad leader who was living and working openly in New York. Moira has a B.A. in International Relations from Brown University and a J.D. from UC Hastings College of the Law, where she helped found the Hastings-to-Haiti Partnership. Before becoming a lawyer, Moira worked as a teacher in Haiti, and as the Haitian Program Coordinator for the San Francisco-based human rights group, Global Exchange. She speaks Haitian Creole, Spanish, and French.
Holly S. Cooper (legal team)
Ms. Cooper is an attorney with expertise in the areas of human rights and immigration law. She runs the immigration clinic at U.C. Davis School of Law, has extensive experience representing refugees and torture survivors. Prior to assuming her position at U.C. Davis, she worked as a managing attorney of the Florence Project, serving immigrants and asylum-seekers in Arizona. She has also worked with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights.
Daryn Reicherter (medical team)
Dr. Reicherter is a Psychiatrist and Clinician at Stanford University School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science. Dr Reicherter is the co-director of the Stanford University International Initiative's working group on Orphans and Vulnerable Children. Dr. Reicherter provides a combination of administrative and clinical services in the area of "cross-cultural" trauma mental health. He is the Director of Cross Cultural Psychiatry at Gardner Mental Health Care Clinic, the Senior Psychiatrist at the Eastern European Service Agency, and a Consulting Psychiatrist at the Center for the Treatment of Survivors of Torture. He is the President of the Board of Directors for Survivors International. He serves as a consultant to the Documentation Center of Cambodia. He is on the Advisory Council for the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation. Dr. Reicherter created and directs the programs for Integrated Behavioral Health for the Ravenswood Family Health Clinic and the Mental Health Services for Palo Alto's Opportunity Health Center. Dr. Reicherter served as Chief Resident to complete his psychiatry training at Stanford University, School of Medicine. He completed his medical training in New York and his undergraduate degree in Psychobiology and Philosophy in Santa Cruz.
Victor Carrion (medical team)
Dr. Carrion is an Associate Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Director of the Stanford Early Life Stress Research Program. He is in the faculty at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford and Associate Editor for the Journal of Traumatic Stress. After completing medical school training at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Dr. Carrion completed his residency at University of Pennsylvania and his fellowship in Child Psychiatry and Research at Stanford University. Since joining the faculty at Stanford, Dr. Carrion’s research has concentrated in understanding how early life stress, such as traumatic experiences, alter behavior and emotion and the role of brain structure and function in these findings. He is also interested in the development of new treatment modalities that are focused and targeted. He has been awarded Young Investigator Awards by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, the National Association for Research in Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the National Institute of Mental Health.
Suzan Song (medical team)
Dr. Song is a licensed M.D. and is finishing her child psychiatry fellowship at Stanford after doing her adult training at Harvard. She also has an MPH in health policy from Harvard. Dr. Song has worked in the area of global mental health (mainly in post-conflict countries, for war-affected youth) for many years. She has worked as a clinician for Physicians for Human Rights for the past 5 years. She is a policy advisor to the MOH of Sierra Leone and Liberia, has done clinical child mental health work in Ethiopia, and community work in Natal. She was a White House Fellow, and a George Soros Health Fellow, doing community health work with domestically abused immigrant women and their children.
Dina Frid (medical team)
Dr. Frid is a licensed M.D. and Child Psychiatry Fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Especianise Loresca (interpreter/guide)
Ms. Loresca is a medical student at UCSF School of Medicine. She is Haitian born and was in Haiti the week after the earthquake. She is an avid supporter of social justice movements aimed at advancing the rights of the poor. She is a past member of the Haitian Action Committee.
U.S.-based consultants for the March 2010 delegation included:
o Walter Riley and Pierre Labossiere
Haitian Emergency Relief Fund
o Sr. Maureen Duignan
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant
o Brian Concannon
Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti