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Founder
Board of Directors
Dennis Briefer
Dennis Briefer is a successful engineer and inventor with a interest in advanced physics. |
Will Bueché
Will Bueché worked with Dr. John Mack from 1999 as administrative support and media liaison. After Dr. Mack's death, Bueché served as archivist of his writings. He lives in Boulder, Colorado. |
Dominique Callimanopulos
Founder and President of Elevate, Dominique Callimanopulos has worked with non-profits in the fields of human rights, the arts, social justice, women's rights and psychological transformation for twenty years. With an academic background in cultural anthropology and counseling psychology, she has worked and researched internationally. Ms. Callimanopulos grew up in New York City and Paris, France. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
Terry Hunt, Ed.D.
Terry Hunt is a nationally known therapist and lecturer on the problems of adult children of alcoholic and abusive homes. He is co-author, with the late Karen Paine-Gernee, of two books including Secrets to Tell, Secrets to Keep, which stresses that important secrets should be revealed only in safe environments, which they call "sacred space". Applying this concept of appropriate story telling - and keeping - empowers you to move beyond therapy, develop a sense of personal faith, and realize your potential for creativity, love, and joyous self-expression. |
Daniel Mack
Daniel Mack, son of the late John Mack, is the chief software architect of New Millennium Communications in Boulder, Colorado. |
Janis A. Pryor
Janis Pryor has been professionally employed in politics and media, holding a variety of positions. She has also worked at the three-affiliate stations in Boston as a producer and as Editorial Director, where she received an Emmy nomination for a composite entry. In 1984, she produced a series of three one-hour documentaries on Jesse Jackson as presidential candidate and political leader. The production received several nominations and two awards, one being from the International Television and Film Festival and the second, the highly respected Iris Award for talk show programming. Ms. Pryor spent over six years as political and media consultant for Boston's Ten Point Coalition during their nascent years. Recently she has devoted her time to writing, art and corporate consulting with like-minded colleagues. She currently sits on the boards of the Cambridge Center for Adult Education and the John E. Mack Institute. Ms. Pryor is a native New Yorker, a southerner by upbringing and a New Englander by choice. Her primary residence is Cambridge where she lives with two demanding cocker spaniels. |
Judith Thompson, Ph.D.
Judith Thompson, Ph.D., has been engaged as a practitioner and scholar in the fields of peace education, human rights, community organizing and reconciliation for over two decades. She has received the Peace Fellowship at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies and the International Peace Prize of the Dolores Kohl Education Foundation for her work with the award winning organization Children of War, Inc. which she co-founded. This organization helped to create healing circles and leadership skills for teenagers from 20 different warzones and engage them in partnership with U.S.youth for the purposes of education and action. Currently she is a Research and Program Associate at the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding (KCP), a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that offers international training programs in conflict transformation, intercommunal dialogue, and reconciliation. At KCP she heads an initiative entitled Compassion and Social Healing. The Compassion and Social Healing Initiative is an interdisciplinary research, public education and training initiative aimed at exploring compassion’s moral and psychosocial dimensions and its role in transforming conflicts and building a culture of peace. She also co-directs the Frontiers of Social Healing dialogue series funded by the Fetzer Institute, which serves as a theory building learning community for scholar-practitioners worldwide engaged in reconciliation and intercommunal dialogue. Other affiliations include the Boston Research Center for the 21st Century where she has co-sponsored joint efforts and has been a featured speaker, and The Institute for Noetic Sciences where she co-hosts a monthly webcast on the topic of social healing. |
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