Judith Jenya, Founder, has been working for 32 years as a teacher, social worker, family and art therapist, attorney, and workshop leader in many aspects of child development, care and advocacy. Mother of two grown children, she has graduate degrees from Harvard University, University of California at Berkeley, and University of Hawaii School of Law. Judith has worked with groups in Russia, Japan, Ireland, Norway, Canada, Jordan, New Zealand, Bosnia, Croatia, and the U.S. to help change conditions for children. Judith has conducted training throughout the world. She has won numerous awards and recognition for her work with GCO, including International Humanist of the Year, the Temple Award for Creative Altruism 2001, the Giraffe Award 2001, and University of California at Berkeley Alumna of the Week 2002. Read an excerpt from Judith Jenya's story.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Kathy Buck is a graduate of Northern Michigan University with a B.S. in Art Ed. and a M.Ed. from the University of Arizona.  She is a retired elementary school art teacher who has spent many years working with children's art  programs and developing curriculum.  She and her
husband have been GCO volunteers in Ireland and Croatia.

James A. Cook is President of the nonprofit Joint Custody Association for children of divorce and Executive Director of the nonprofit National Congress for Fathers and Children, of which he was the original organizing chairman. He was the producer of a five-year long public affairs television series. Insider/Outsider, portraying the plight of inner city minorities following the Watts (Los Angeles) riots. He was also a member of the Santa Monica based RAND Corporation, the "think tank" about governmental policies. Cook also served for a decade in the U.S. State Department’s U.S. Information Agency with specialization in the Middle East, having served at the American Embassy in Tehran and at the American University in Beirut.

Karen Fagerstrom a licensed psychologist, received her doctoral degree from The George Washington University, and completed pre and post doctoral training at the University of California in San Francisco and the Judith Wallerstein Center for the Family in Transition in Marin County, California.  As a clinician in private practice in Berkeley, California, Dr. Fagerstrom works with separating and divorcing couples and their children, providing diagnostic, consultation and counseling services to parents and children during and following divorce. She has volunteered with GCO every summer since 1999, participating in programs in the Balkans and Ireland.

Linda Hunter is a licensed psychologist and Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor who directs a nonprofit agency which provides no-cost therapeutic services to children and families in schools, clinics, shelters and hospitals.  She has been working with children and families for over 20 years in Hawaii, Florida, and New York.  Linda presents, teaches, and writes extensively on play and sand tray play therapy.  She has authored several articles and a book, Images of Resiliency: Troubled Children Create Healing Stories in the Language of Sandplay. She has volunteered with GCO for four summers since 1999, three on Badija, and once in Ireland.

Roger O'Sullivan is Principal of O'Sullivan PLLC, a New York-based law firm with a concentration in the life sciences.  Mr. O'Sullivan is actively involved in the biotechnology industry in New York.  He is a member of the New York State Bar Association's Committee on Biotechnology and the Law and the American Bar Association's Committee on Biotechnology.  He is also affiliated with a number of industry-specific organizations both in the United States and Australia including the New York Biotechnology Association, Australia's Biotechnology Organisation, BioMelbourne Network and Lab to Wall Street. Mr. O'Sulllivan has a particular interest in the bioethical and regulatory issues raised by new technologies. He is a member of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and the International Association of Bioethics. He received his law degree from the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law.

Fred Tanenbaum served as GCO President for seven years. He graduated from UCLA in 1963 with a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and a graduate of Hastings College of the Law 1966 with Juris Doctor degree. Fred is a Member of the California State Bar, Los Angeles County Bar Association, California Applicant's Attorney's Association and the Southern California Applicants' Attorneys Association. Fred has participated in GCO programs in the Balkans and Ireland since 1996.

BALKAN COORDINATOR

Alma Elezovic has participated in GCO programs since 1999, and currently serves as Balkan Coordinator. Over the past 12 years, Alma has been active in numerous humanitarian efforts providing aid and assistance to victims of war, including work in a local hospital, supervision of children's programs, coordination of the opening of Pavarotti Music Center in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina (BIH) and work as a trainer with OSCE (Organization of Security Council of Europe) and EC-TAER (European Council-Technical Assistance to the Education Reform in BIH).

BALKAN PLANNING COUNCIL

Antonio (Toni) Pesikan, Sarajevo
Zagi Terzic, Sarajevo
Marija Vagagic, Novi Sad
Lea Gotvusa, Sarajevo
Jasmin Elezovic, Mostar
Vanja Matic, Banja Luka
Elvir Solak, Sarajevo

ADVISORY COUNCIL
 

BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA          Ambassador Sven Alkalaj          Zoran Ivancic       CANADA           Ken Faier CROATIA          Zorica Beus  ECUADOR          Arturo Cabrera    UNITED STATES   NEW YORK      Dr. Peter Steinglass, MD MAINE       Sandy Yakovenko PENNSYLVANIA      Susan Ellis       Dr. Julie Linden NEW MEXICO      Nancy Hazen MINNESOTA      Dr. Katia Petersen HAWAII      William Chung      Christine Altweis Nicholson      Jackie Young OHIO     Rashi Jackman

ENGLAND           Dr. Denes Bulkai           Peter Kenyon IRELAND          Whidby McClay NORTHERN IRELAND          Janice (Jaz) Pollock SCANDINAVIA          Robert Bender, PhD, LLM JORDAN          Margaret Shurdan       CALIFORNIA      Magany Abbass      Randy Beckwith      Jesse Bernstein      Bob Cabeza      Vann Ferber      Diana Malin      Dafer Dakhil      Jane Olson      Rev. William Rankin      Abby Sher      Jennifer Sugiyama      Carl Terzian     COLORADO                               Barbe Chambliss MASSACHUSETTS                  Robin Reath Graves UTAH     Angela Skolnick

FRIENDS OF GCO
 

UNITED STATES NEW YORK       James Goren MAINE       Sandy Yakovenko HAWAII      Sabra Rae Feldstein       Fritz McKenzie, Esq. MASSACHUSETTS      Robin Reath Graves

CALIFORNIA     Edie Hartshorne      Amy Jo Johnson      Mimi Kennedy      Chris Landreth      Manuel Lares      Marilyn Sonners COLORADO     Barbe Chambliss

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