Panelist

Grace H. Christ is a Professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work and has conducted research in the fields of psychosocial oncology, end-of-life, palliative care, and interventions in childhood bereavement and traumatic loss. She is internationally known for her book Healing Children's Grief: Surviving a Parent's Death From Cancer. Most recently she directed the FDNY-CSU/Columbia University Family Guidance Program for families in which a firefighter father was killed in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

Panelist

Donna DeCesare is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas School of Journalism, a faculty affiliate of the Latin American Studies program, and an Advisory Board member of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas.  She is best known for her groundbreaking photographic reportage on the spread of Los Angeles gangs in Central America. Her current exhibition, Sharing Secrets, documents — through photographs and testimonies — children in Guatemala and Colombia who face stigmatization in their communities because of their HIV status, or their past experiences as child soldiers or survivors of sexual abuse. The project helped UNICEF to develop protocols for photographing children at risk.

Panelist

Jack Saul is an Assistant Professor of clinical population and family health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and Director of the International Trauma Studies Program. As a psychologist, he has created a number of psychosocial programs for populations that have endured war, torture and political violence in New York City and is known for his innovative work integrating testimony, healing, media and the performance arts. He has worked internationally with reporters and photographers on the coverage of survivors of severe human rights violations with the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma and the Center for War, Peace and News Media at New York University.

Moderator

Bruce Shapiro is the Executive Director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma.  Shapiro is a regular contributor to The Nation and many other publications and for the past decade has taught investigative journalism at Yale University.  Shapiro's most recent book is Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America (Nation Books). He is co-author of Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America's Future, with Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (New Press).