Our Board of Directors

• Michael Herships, Ph.D. - President of the Board
• Candyce M. Brokaw - Executive Director
• Suzanne Stutman - President, Advisory Board
• Sorosh Roshan - International Liaison, Advisory Board
• Ingrid Madera - Member/Art Gallery Liaison
• Margaret Ashe Magistro - Secretary/Treasurer
• Linni Deihl - Director of Dance Arts
• Martin Finkel - Advisory Board Member
• Esther Deblinger - Advisory Board Member
• Marcus Schubert - Advisory Board Member
• Jay Lockett Sears - Vice President of Community Relations
• Michael M. Faenza - Board Member
• Susan Bailey - Board Member

Michael Herships, Ph.D.
President of the Board; SAF Project Leader

Graduated Cum Laude from Princeton University in 1966 with a B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering, and from Stanford University with a M.S. in Aeronautics & Astronautics. Dr. Herships has been working with computers and related engineering design equipment for the past 31 years. From 1968 through 1971 he worked at Grumman Aerospace Corporation, developing computer programs to calculate the fluid flow around the space shuttle during re-entry and low speed flight. He wrote the aerodynamic/heat transfer section of Grumman's space shuttle proposal. He also has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and maintains a private practice on Long Island.

Candyce Brokaw
Executive Director

Ms. Brokaw is a survivor of sexual abuse and rape. She founded Survivors Art Foundation after experiencing the tremendous relief and healing power of the arts directly. She used her particular art forms, illustrations and poetry, to express great feelings of pain, despair and rage. "The arts have allowed me to purge many otherwise negative feelings and turn them around into positive healing experiences."

"I hope to help clear the path of obstacles and to better enable survivors to find the resources to market their particular art skills, thus allowing them both the monetary and emotional rewards they deserve. I would also like to introduce survivors with limited art backgrounds to new skills and a vehicle to help them process their pain, allowing them a positive and non- self-destructive path to use in their healing. Art can create a new outlet for frustration and pent-up feelings, removing old behaviors, that could in the past destroy families and further continue the cycle of abuse. The goal is to enable both parent and child with a shared appreciation of each other and the arts."

"The Survivors Art Foundation is cause for hope and celebration, and survivor helping survivor."

Suzanne Stutman
President of SAF Advisory Board
http://www.idealist.com/feather/

Dr. Stutman is a Professor of English, American Studies and Women's Studies at Penn State University. She is the author of four books and over two dozen articles. She has participated in cooperative exhibitions with the UNICEF Organization and other Non-Profits. She is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse.

Dr. Stutman's poem, " I, a Woman", will be read publicly for the first time next March in New York at the IHAN (The International Health Awareness Network) conference on "The Elimination of Violence Against Women," to be held at the United Nations March 8, 1999. More info about this event will be forthcoming.

"I believe so deeply that we, as artists who have been so wounded yet have survived to sing, to tell, to create a world of beauty which enriches life, have a special gift and purpose as healers."

Dr. Stutman is also on the Board of "Friends of the Children," http://www2.friendsofthechildren.org/children/.

Dr. Sorosh Roshan, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.O.G.
International Liaison for the SAF Advisory Board

Dr. Sorosh Roshan, President of IHAN, International Health Awareness Network, has joined the SAF Advisory Board. Dr. Sorosh Roshan will act as SAF's International Liaison for the Advisory Board. IHAN has hosted 8 symposiums at the United Nations and participated in countless other crucial collaborative efforts to stop violence towards women and children worldwide.

Sorosh Roshan is a Board Certified Obstetrician and Gynecologist, and a Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is an Attending Physician at Overlook Hospital, Summit, N.J. In 1988, she received her Masters in Public Health from New York University, where she is now an Adjunct Assistant Professor teaching "Women's International Health Issues."

As a Non-Governmental Organization's delegate to the United Nations since 1987, Dr. Roshan has been on the forefront of issues affecting women throughout th world. As such, she is the Coordinator of the Standing Committee of General Well Being for the International Council of Women and the first Vice President for the National Council of Women/U.S.A.

She has presented at the U.N. Conferences on Women's Health in Nairobi (1985), Rio de Janeiro (1929), Guatemala (1f992), Vienna (1993), Copenhagen (1994) and Beijing (1995). In 1990 Dr. Roshan founded, and is President of the International Health Awareness network (IHAN), a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the health and welfare of women and children, particularly in developing countries. IHAN has been instrumental in planning and implementing international health conferences and field projects in Kenya, Jordan, Ethiopia, Egypt and Iran. Through Dr. Roshan's fund-raising efforts, IHAN was able to realize important health projects in Kenya: building a health clinic, donating an ambulance, and vaccinating 10,000 children; for a hospital for children in Romania; for a battered women's shelter in Brooklyn; and donating a mammography unit for women of Ghana, among other projects. With Oxfam and Zonta, IHAN enabled a cyclone-proof shelter to be built in Bangladesh.

Born in Iran, Dr. Roshan was inspired by her grandmother, a midwife and traditional healer, to become a physician. She received her medical degree from Tehran University, and completed her residencies at London University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, N.Y. For twenty-five years, Dr. Roshan has maintained an Ob/Gyn practice in Summit, N.J. The mother of two grown children, she enjoys sports, opera, classical music and fund-raising for projects that make a difference in people's lives. She raised funds to establish the Persian Cultural Humanitarian Association, and a chair honoring Professor Nasrollah Fatemi, at Fairleigh Dickinson University, N.J.

Dr.Roshan's achievements have been recognized by awards from: the Union County commission on the Status of Women (1993); State of New Jersey Professional Business Women's "Women of Achievement" (1989); Professional Business Women's Association, Millburn/Short Hills, N.J.; "Recognition Award for Achievement in Promotion of Women's Health"; the National Network of Women Award (1977).

Deeply committed to women's empowerment through health and education, Dr. Roshan works to improve women's lives at the grass roots level, and to affecting policies at the highest governmental levels.

For more information pertaining to Dr. Roshan, and IHAN, please refer to the hyperlinks below.

IHAN /UN Press Release
http://www.house.gov/slaughter/news/prs_98/ihan.htm

IHAN and Princeton Press Release
http://blue.temple.edu/~visnic/semitic.html

IHAN and women in the Ukraine Press Release
http://www.brama.com/issues/un-sfujo.html

Ingrid Madera
Member/Art Gallery Liaison

Sculptor and mixed media artist. Born July 29, 1959 in the Dominican Republic. Raised in Central America and the U.S.A. Moved to NYC in 1980 where she studied performance and visual arts with interim's during which she devoted herself to raising her son and to earning her livelihood. For a few years maintained residence in both NYC and the East End of Long Island. In 1993 established year round residence in Springs and now in Sag Harbor, NY.

From a basic human desire to know herself she creates sculpture. " My mission as an artist is to continue developing my vision and to find balance when great power and that vision come together. What I attempted is to attain true understanding of things as they are, rather than overloading myself with ideas that become commentaries or interpretations. I chose to develop direct and simple appreciation, simple understanding without criteria or strings attached. It is the only way for me. My way of connecting with the experience of the human condition."

Education: Academia de Bellas Art, Arts Students League, School of Visual Arts, Southampton College. Artist in Residence Program East End Arts Council, 1996.

Exhibitions: East End Arts Council " Separations" showing,1997, with a simultaneous showing at Christies Art Gallery in Sag Harbor,1997; the show then traveled to the "Verona America" exhibit, Verona Italy in late 1997. Artists Space, 1995. Taller Contemoranio de Arte, 1994. Asawag Hall ,1993. Artists and Homeless Collaborative 1992-1993. Public Art Project: Created on site projects with homeless woman to motivate and inspire independence by cultivating self-expression. She has been shown in single and group exhibits both nationally and internationally. Upcoming exhibits at Hofstra Museum in Jan 1998, Verona, Italy in October 1998, Christies Gallery+ Sag Pond Vineyards outdoor sculpture exhibit in October 1998, In January 1999 in her native home of the Dominican Republic, and through Christies Galleries International in Germany ,March 1999.

Ms. Madera has been selected to show her work among up-and-coming young artists at the Whitney Museums Bi-Annual exhibit, in the spring of 1999.

Ms. Madera structured and participated in out-reach programs for New York City shelters. She was part of the "Homeless and Artists Collaborative" for the N.Y.C. Woman's Shelter at Park Avenue and 68th street, teaching video, performance art and sculpture. She brings to the Foundation an enormous resource in her energy, knowledge and familiarity with the arts community at large

Margaret Ashe Magistro
Secretary/Treasurer

Ms. Magistro is known as a passionate supporter of survivors issues. She has been actively involved in many survivor related causes, such as AIDS programs, Breast and Ovarian Cancer organizations, and on a more grass roots level, community activities such as local food pantries and soup kitchens, supplying food for the needy.

Ms. Magistro's business background is extensive. She has worked for the City Council of Greater New York and for Citibank, as assistant to the Vice President of Real-estate Management from 1976 through 1980.

The role of Secretary /Treasurer is a very familiar one for Ms. Magistro. She continues to sit on the Board of Directors of the Bronx Pro-Management Corporation in that same capacity since 1983. The Corporation is currently involved with the City of New York in a ten million dollar revitalization program that is designed to provide low income housing tenants with freshly renovated apartments, giving otherwise struggling families a home with a secured lower rent.

Long time advocate's for families in need, Ms. Magistro and her husband Peter continue to work and strive for a higher quality of life for all. " I feel very fortunate in life and my family is a huge part of that. I would like to do what I can to help others raise their families with quality, safety and integrity." She resides on Long Island with her husband and three children.

Ms. Magistro is member of the Road Runners Club, and enjoys running as both a sport and to help support fundraising efforts of organizations like the CURE.

"Although I am not an artist, I have always felt drawn to the arts. Theater, music and dance are all in my heart."

Linni Deihl, M.Ed, ADTR
Director of Dance Arts

Ms. Deihl has extensive professional ballet and modern dance teaching and performing experience. She studied dance therapy with Marion Chace, Mary Whitehouse, and other pioneer dance therapists, and Effort/Shape Movement Analysis with Martha Davis, Irmgard Bartenieff, Marion North and others. Her psychiatric background includes training in psychoanalytic psychology, gestalt therapy, family therapy and sexual therapy. She has been a member of the Board of Directors of the American Dance Therapy Association for eight years.

Ms. Deihl resides on Long Island with her daughter Jessica and has private psychotherapy practice in Quogue, NY. She provides supervision for alternate route students working toward DTR and Dance Therapists working toward ADTR; conducts dance therapy workshops, courses and training groups; has served as a faculty member and guest lecturer at many colleges and universities including Columbia University, Brown University Medical School, Pratt Institute, Sarah Lawrence College, Barnard College, Smith College, Connecticut College, Rhode Island School of Design, York University, Drake University, Naropa Institute, Rutgers University, George Washington University, Queens College, Southampton College, Hahnemann Medical College, and SUNY at Buffalo and conducted a two month dance therapy workshop tour of Western Europe in 1985.

In addition she conducted the Dance Therapy Courses at the American Dance Festival from 1973-1979. She has worked as a clinical dance therapist in hospitals such as the New York State Psychiatric Institute, Harlem Hospital, Dingleton Hospital in Scotland, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the New York City Prison Mental Health Unit and Downstate Medical Center Department of Child Adolescent Psychiatry. In addition, she has presented dance therapy concepts to psychiatric conferences and has published various articles on her work. She is the editor of the Dance Therapy Bibliography 1981 published by the ADTA. She currently specializes in treating eating disorders, from anorexia to obesity, other P.T.S.D./stress related problems and the terminally ill (AIDS and Cancer).

Ms. Deihl brings to our Foundation an immense volume of knowledge and experience in the fields of both dance and dance therapy, to help survivors heal and go forth.

Dr. Martin Finkel
Member, SAF Advisory Board
http://www2.friendsofthechildren.org/children/

Martin A. Finkel, D.O., FACOP is a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Medical Director and Founder of the Center for Children's Support at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-School of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Finkel was the first clinician to introduce colposcopy on the east coast for the evaluation of the sexually abused child and authored the first paper in the medical literature on the healing chronology of acute anogenital trauma as a result of sexual abuse. He has been a leader in the development of services for abused children in New Jersey where he co-chairs the Governor's Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect and is a founding commissioner of the Children's Trust Fund.

As a result of his efforts, New Jersey is the first state to develop the foundation of a regional diagnostic network linked through video transmission affording case consultation for physicians in the network. Dr. Finkel has been a strong advocate for multidisciplinary intervention strategies and spearheaded the states acceptance of a county model of intervention with full time MDT coordinators. He has provided extensive professional education for all disciplines throughout New Jersey, developed curriculum materials regarding medical evaluation of sexually abused child and authored the medical section of NJ's Best Practices Manual. He completed a term as the Associate Editor for the medical section of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children's publication, "The Advisor." Dr. Finkel co-chairs their Task Force for the development of Medical Standards for the Evaluation of the Sexually Abused Child.

Dr. Finkel's research interest continue to be directed at further elucidating the changes in the anogenital anatomy as a result of trauma and interexaminer reliability in the interpretation of physical findings. The Center has an extensive library of colposcopic case slides and video colposcopic examinations which serve to assist in the training of visiting physicians from throughout the region.

Dr. Esther Deblinger
Member, SAF Advisory Board
http://www2.friendsofthechildren.org/children/

Dr. Esther Deblinger is the Clinical Director of the Center for Children's Support, and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at UMDNJ-SOM. Dr. Deblinger received her B.A. from the State University of N.Y. at Binghamton and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the State University of N.Y. at Stony Brook. Dr. Deblinger was previously the Co-Director of the Child Sexual Abuse Diagnostic and Treatment Center at the Medical College of Pennsylvania and has extensive research, clinical and teaching experience in the field of child sexual abuse. She has been actively involved in the development of research examining the impact of CSA and the treatment of this resulting sequelae and has published and presented research nationwide on this and other abuse related issues. Dr. Deblinger's research has been funded by the Foundation of UMDNJ, NCCAN and NIMH.

Michael M. Faenza, MSSW
President and CEO, National Mental Health Association; Member, SAF Board
http://www.nmha.org

Following over 15 years of experience providing direct service to children and adults with mental disorders, Mr. Faenza has spent the past decade focusing on legislative advocacy and improving societyís commitment to helping people with mental illness.

A social worker by training, Mr. Faenza brings a public health perspective to issues of individual and community mental health. He has held clinical and management positions in public sector mental health services, child protective services, juvenile justice and vocational rehabilitation.

Mr. Faenza holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in Sociology from Indiana University and a Masters of Science in Social Work degree from the University of Texas in Arlington. He currently serves on the National Assembly of Health and Human Service Organizations Board of Directors, was a member of the Planning Board for the Surgeon Generalís Report on Mental Health and is currently a member of the United Way of Americaís Leadership 18. Mr. Faenza has received the Excellence in National Executive Leadership Award from the National Assembly in 1999.

For almost a century, the National Mental Health Association has worked to promote mental health, prevent mental disorders, and achieve victory over mental illness through advocacy, education, research and service. NMHA has 340 affiliates nationwide serving more than two million individuals.

Susan Bailey
Member, SAF Board

Susan Bailey, after growing up in South Africa, spent 10 years travelling the world as a professional dancer and performer. She retired to raise her five children and study alternative healing and shamanism. She continues to dance, teaching African dance to adults on the East End of Long Island where she lives with her husband and children. Her youngest son Daniel teaches African drum techniques and plays for the dance classes.She takes her love of indigenous cultures into the schools where she introduces children to the stories, dances and rhythms of tribal peoples. Susan has a healing practice in the New York area.

Marcus Schubert
Member, SAF Advisory Board
Marcus Schubert, a freelance photographer, sculptor and educator is currently principal curator for the American Visionary Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland. Recently he was awarded an inaugural senior residency at Tryon Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, North Carolina. He retains membership on the International Advisory Boards for both Raw Vision Magazine (U.K.) and the Survivor's Art Foundation of Long Island, New York. He is also a principal correspondent for the U.S. based Meta Museum - a global, collaborative league of artists, curators and educators.

A graduate of Media Studies at Ryerson Polytechnic University’s Department of Film and Photography (1976-1981), he is the recipient of numerous Canada Council for the Arts grants and awards for his work in landscape, architectural and portrait photography. Mr. Schubert, an active member of the Toronto Photographer’s Workshop since 1979, has held positions there on the board of executives and exhibitions committee, and has served as juror for the Ontario Arts Council. He resides in his birthplace (b.1955) of Toronto, Canada.

Fellowships/Residencies
Inaugural Senior Artist-in-Residence, Tryon Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Principal Exhibitions
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA., New Orleans Museum of Fine Art, New Orleans, LA., Museum of Art & Design, University of N. Carolina, Raleigh, NC., Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland, Winthrop University Galleries, School of Visual and Performing Arts, Rock Hill, SC., Durham Arts Center, Durham, NC., Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York City, Spirit Square, Charlotte, NC., Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron, OH., Yucatan Cultural Institute, Merida, Mexico, Aaron Packer Gallery, Chicago, Ill., Colleen Greco Gallery, Philadelphia, PA., Montebello Park Gallery, Suffern, NY., Center for Visual Arts, Newcastle, ON., Presentation House, Vancouver, BC., Toronto Venues: Italian Cultural Institute, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto Photographer’s Workshop, Wuohela Galleries, Toronto Image Works, l’Alliance Française, Market Gallery.

Noteworthy Publications
Self-Made Worlds, Aperture, New York, Outsiders II: Visionary Environments by Marcus Schubert, Kyoto-Shoin, Japan, Raw Vision: The International Journal for Outsider Art, London, U.K., Inner Architecture as Outsider Art: The Photographs of Marcus Schubert, an essay by John MacGregor Ph.D., San Francisco, California.

Lecture Engagements
Museum of American Folk Art, New York City, Ontario College of Art, Toronto, ON., University of Akron, School of Art, Akron, OH., Tryon Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC., Winthrop University - School of Visual Art, Rock Hill, SC., Haliburton School of Fine Art - Sir Sanford Flemming College, Haliburton, ON., Three Arts Club, Chicago, Ill., Meta Museum, Black Mountain, SC., Eigensinn Art Park, Singhampton, ON.

Teaching Engagements
Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, ON., Photography: Studio & Darkroom Techniques.
Sir Sanford Flemming College/Haliburton School of Fine Arts, Haliburton, ON.., Wire Sculpture.
Southampton School of Fine Art, Southampton, ON., Ferro-Cement Sculpture, Wire Sculpture.
Meta Museum, Black Mountain, NC., Creative Biscotti, Styles of Sushi.
Georgian Bay School of Art, Collingwood,ON., Beyond Basic Photography, Ferro-Cement Sculpture, Wire Sculpture. Tryon Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC., New Photographic Processes: The Giclée Print.

Collections
The Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, PQ., Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON., Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MA., Presentation House, Vancouver, BC., New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA.,Tryon Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC., Bibliotèque National, Paris, France, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Chartres, France, Musée de l’Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland, Outsiders Archive, London, U.K., Museo Zoologico della Specola, Florence, Italy, Istituto di Anatomia, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, Museo Storico Nazionale delle Arte Sanitaria, Rome, Italy, Maogräflich Badische Verwaltung und Museen, Salem, Germany, Toronto Collections: Toronto Image Works, Toronto Photographer’s Workshop, Centre for Visual Resources, Ryerson Polytechnic University.

Curatorial Projects
“Breaking the Walls of Bias” - Survivor’s Art Foundation, Hofstra Musum, Long Island, NY.
“Treasures of the Soul: Who is Rich?” - American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland.
“Introit for a Third Millennium - The works of Paul Lowry” - Gallery 44, Toronto.
“Offerings from the Dharmakaya” - l’Alliance Française, Toronto.
“Landsites: Ryerson Alumni” - Harbourfront Photographer’s Gallery, Toronto.
“Distant Lands, Imagined Worlds” - Centre for Visual Art, Newcastle, Ontario.

Grants & Awards
Millennium Arts Fund: 1999 - 2000
Canada Arts Council: 1987, 1985, 1983, 1981, 1980
Ontario Arts Council: 1989, 1986, 1983
Photoperspectives Œ85 Purchase Award
Ontario Society of Artists Juried Exhibition - Award of Excellence

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