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Ari Agha, Ph.D
Grants Officer
Biruktawit Bekele, LL.M.
SOT Program Manager
Amy Berlin, MD
Consulting Psychiatrist
Sheila Bharat, MSW
Social Worker
Alison Chou, MSW
Clinical Coordinator
Dennett Edwards, MS, MBA
Interim Financial Officer
Sarah Flessa
Data & Reporting Manager
Eliza Hollingsworth
Human Rights Clinic (HRC) Clinical Assistant
Na Limopasmanee, MA, MEd, LMFT
Supervising Psychotherapist
Sandra Lopez, MA
Program Manager
Jessica Lopez-Morales
Interpreter Program Manager
Kathy Lotsos, LCSW
Director of Client Care
Zulian Marecos
Office Coordinator
Jean Pierre Ndagijimana, MA, Ph.D
African Communities Wellbeing Coordinator
Akosua Ombonga
Individual Donor and Communications Officer
Aron Oqubamichael, LLB
African Communities Wellbeing Coordinator
Gianina Pellegrini, Ph.D
Program Director
Mariyam-Ifteam Rufael, MA
African Communities Mental Health Specialist
Larissa Sajous
Case Manager
Celeste Sekigahama
Financial Officer
Leah Spelman, MPH
Executive Director
Annika Sridharan, MSW, Psy.D
Founder, Clinical and Global Mental Health Director
Jason Straussman, LCSW
Trauma Therapist
Kissanet Taffere, MSW
Psychosocial Care Manager
Tizita Tekletsadik, LLB, MA
African Communities Program Manager
Penélope Mato Vilar, MA, LMFT
Counseling Program Manager
Sabrina Williamson, MPH
Data & Reporting Assistant
Our Global Healing and Human Rights clinical trainees join PTR with a strong commitment to human rights and social justice. They have a keen interest in providing trauma-informed, culturally aware and linguistically accessible mental health care for international survivors of human rights abuses, and contributing to the psychosocial well-being of refugee and asylum seeking populations. As a group they bring to PTR a rich diversity of languages, cultural backgrounds, and international and professional experiences.
Isabel Unanue, MPH, MA
Emma Liu
Monica Espinasse
Mina Dailami
Kalyani Akula
Faten Kamel
Arabic Interpreter
Hoi Lam Chung (Karena)
Cantonese, Mandarin Interpreter
Enieh Yazdanpanah
Farsi & Dari (Persian) Interpreter
Mouneissa
French Interpreter
Issiaka Dembele
French Interpreter
Alta Bayanjargal
Mongolian Interpreter
Myriam Da Silva
French, Spanish, Portugese Interpreter
Robin Nazarian
Spanish, Portugese & French Interpreter
Cristina Ceballos
Spanish Interpreter
Dalia Lizbeth Nava Jacobo
Spanish Interpreter
Gisslle Perez-Leon
Spanish Interpreter
Joanna Oyarzabal
Spanish Interpreter
Yanett Kenney
Spanish Interpreter
Yolando Romo
Spanish Interpreter
Eugnia Arbol
Spanish Interpreter
Aidan Muñoz-Christian
Spanish Interpreter
Irene
Spanish Interpreter
Kisanet Tekie
Tigrinya, Italian Interpreter
Tsgereda A. Syoum
Tigrinya Interpreter
Joseph Asunka, Ph.D
CEO, Afrobarometer
Gauri Bhardwaj, MBA
PTR Board Treasurer & Operations Manager, Toronado Capital Management
Cathy Chen, MPH
PTR Board Co-Chair & Director
Medicare Strategy and Operations, Kaiser Permanente
Akawak Ejigu, MBA, DBA
Finance and Administration Expert
Erica McKnight, Esq.
Hillary Pollaro, MSc
Grants Manager, One Hearts Worldwide
Stephanie Wu
Operations Expert
Nahid Fattahi
Research Associate at Kaiser Permanente Division of Research
Tara Ghassemikia
Strategy and Implementation Consultant
Caroline Powell Donelan
Partner, Labor & Employment, Blank Rome
Molly McCoy, Esq., MPH, JD
Chief Privacy Official and Privacy Counsel at Blue Shield
Gilbert Newman, Ph.D.
Dean and Director of Clinical Training, Wright Institute
Monika Parikh, MA, MPA
PTR Founder and Board Chair
Jonathan Rico
Software Engineer, Salesforce
Ope Peters
Attorney, Boornazian, Jenson & Garthe
Isabel “Izzy” Smith
Customer Success Manager, Everwise
