Healthy Tomorrow Core Group

Susan McLucas, Director
SusanMcL@StopExcision.net
Susan McLucas has worked for over 20 years for peace, development and social justice organizations and initiatives in the U.S., Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America. The founding director of Project Stop Excision, she has traveled to Mali for six extended stays, beginning in 1997, and has worked with numerous Malian partners building a coalition to educate, raise awareness of, and stop female genital mutilation. She designed and produced the poster "Let's Stop Excising" (1997) later distributed by UNICEF; the album "Stop Excision" involving top Malian artists (2000) and the video "We Can Say 'No! We Refuse!'" which has run on Malian television. She helped initiate the "Pledge Against Excision" and her Malian partners founded Sini Sanuman which now coordinates the Pledge, with its coalition of partner groups. She has also worked with Earth Works Urban Orchards in Somerville, Mass, overseeing 15 public fruit gardens, and she operates the Bicycle Barn & Riding School, where about 2000 adults have learned to ride a bicycle.

keith harmon snow, Secretary
keith@allthingspass.com
www.allthingspass.com
keith harmon snow has worked in varying capacities in some 16 countries in Asia, Latin America and Europe, and 14 countries in Africa. A human rights investigator working with Genocide Watch and Survivor's Rights International, he attended the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda, and has testified at a congressional hearing in Washington, D.C. He is published in the U.S., U.K. and Japan, and has won Project Censored awards for his Africa reportage. Using photographic narratives of world events to raise awareness of social, political and environmental issues, he has presented at over 30 academic institutions, and he gave the opening address at the 2001 International Africa Students Association conference at Yale University. With a Master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts, he was previously employed as Engineer, and then Manager, Business Development, for GE Aerospace Electronics Laboratories.

Ellie Schimelman
Aba@CulturalCollaborative.org
www.crossculturalcollaborative.org
Ellie Schimelman runs a non-profit organization, Cross-Cultural Collaborative, promoting cross-cultural exchange in the arts in Ghana. She also operates a tour business, taking people to Ghana. Cross-Cultural Collaborative is the 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor for Healthy Tomorrow.

Patty Zubini-Weiss
SilverWingDance@comcast.net
Patty Zubini-Weiss is a dance artist & choreographer exploring dance as a medium for social change, in hopes of bringing awareness to health issues of women. She has recently completed a work entitled CUT which explores the voices of women silenced through FGC. In addition to dance she is also a nurse, and is dedicated to health education as a means for improving women’s health. Patty is currently teaching dance at Green Street Art Center, a performing arts program through Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT.

Christine Yantis
CYantis@hds.harvard.edu
Christine Yantis is a Master of Divinity candidate at Harvard Divinity School, where she studies and produces feminist theology. During her undergraduate work at Vanderbilt, she majored in Religious Studies with minors in Women's Studies and Spanish. She is happy to be working with Healthy Tomorrow because of its effectiveness, its intentions, and its structure.

Eva Moss
wingedpharaoh@yahoo.com
Eva Moss graduated with a theater and film concentration from Smith College in 2003. Working in a bookstore and volunteering her time for important social and political causes, she has in the past volunteered with organizations ranging from food banks, teen centers, hospitals, after-school activities and tutoring, and she has worked with a support group for children with a deceased parent. She hopes to eventually use film and video as a means to promote social change and introspection. She is currently aiding in the production of a documentary and is very excited to work with Healthy Tomorrow.

Narelle Bouthillier
nbouthillier@hds.harvard.edu
Narelle Bouthillier has a Master's in Theological Studies from the Harvard Divinity School (June 2004) and a Bachelor's of Arts, Religion and Biblical Literature, with highest honors, from Smith College (May 2000). A writer and a student of the world's religious traditions, she has a special interest in women's religious lives; women's autobiography; the intersection of religion, health, and healing; and indigenous religions and cultures. She has worked as a development professional for the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation (Boston, MA) and the Georgia O'Keefe Museum (Santa Fe, NM), and as a researcher for the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society (Northampton, MA) and the Kahn Institute at Smith College.