Center for Victims of Torture

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The Center for Victims of Torture "is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization founded in 1985. With headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and offices in St. Paul, Minnesota and Washington, D.C., CVT also operates healing centers in Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo." [1]

Staff

Accessed August 2008: [2]

Funders (2007)

Accessed August 2008: [3]

Guardian – $100,000+

Activist – $25,000–99,999


Other interesting lesser funders of their work included the United States Institute of Peace.

Board

Accessed March 2011: [4]

  • Chair: Patti Andreini Arnold, Chief Operating Officer, University of Minnesota Physicians.
  • Vice Chair: Babette Apland - Senior Vice President, Health & Care Management, HealthPartners.
  • Treasurer: Connie Magnuson - Co-owner, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Caribou Technologies, Inc.
  • Past Chair: John Cairns - Charter School and Tax Exempt Organizations Attorney, John Cairns Law, P.A.
  • C. Scott Cooper - Director of Engagement and Communication, The Bush Foundation.
  • Julie W. Elder - Vice President and Group Counsel, Technology and Enterprise Procurement, Ameriprise Financial, Inc.
  • Nancy Feldman - President and Chief Executive Officer, UCare Minnesota.
  • Roger Hale - Retired Chairman of Tennant Company.
  • Sheila Kiscaden - Consultant. Former Minnesota State Senator.
  • Venetia Kudrle - Consultant. Former President, Mercy and Unity Hospitals
  • Ellie Lucas - Chief Campaign Officer, Hunger Free MN
  • Steven H. Miles - Professor Center for Bioethics, Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School. Author of Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror
  • Charlie Rounds - Former President, RSVP Vacations
  • Pamela Pappas Stanoch - President/Owner, Athena Group International

Directors (2008)

Accessed August 2008: [5]

Officers

  • Chair: Venetia Kudrle - Consultant. Former President, Mercy and Unity Hospitals
  • Vice Chair: John Cairns - Charter School and Tax Exempt Organizations Attorney, John Cairns Law, P.A.
  • Treasurer and Chair, Finance Committee: Gerald J. Knutson - Chief Financial Officer, Ovations Business Segment, United Health Group
  • Past Chair and Development Committee Chair: Ellie Lucas - Vice President, Strategic Marketing, Bewiki, Inc.

Committee Chairs

  • Audit Committee - Nancy J. Feldman - President and Chief Executive Officer, UCare Minnesota
  • Governance Committee - Harold E. Massey - Founder and Principal Consultant of HRCI
  • Public Policy Committee - Sheila Kiscaden - First Steps Interim Director. Former Minnesota State Senator

At Large Members

  • Barbara Forster - Chair, Project Tandem, Inc.
  • Seymour Gross - Chief Clinical Psychologist, Hennepin County Mental Health Center
  • Richard M. Magraw - Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota; Chief of Psychiatric Services (retired), Veterans Administration Medical Center
  • Anne E. Mahle - Vice President, Recruitment, Teach for America
  • Steven H. Miles - Professor, Center for Bioethics; Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School; Author, Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror
  • Richard Oketch - Special Education Instructor, St. Paul Schools; Doctoral Candidate, Walden University
  • Sheryl A. Ramstad - Judge, Minnesota Tax Court
  • Charlie Rounds - President, RSVP Vacations
  • Terry Saario - Retired Foundation President and Community Leader

Emeritus Directors

  • Neal Gault, Jr. - Retired Dean, University of Minnesota Medical School
  • Reverend Richard Lundy - Retired Pastor, St. Luke Presbyterian Church
  • Paul Quie - Regents Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Dept. of Pediatrics, Fairview-University of MN Hospital
  • Tom Triplett - Attorney and Business Consultant

Contact

717 E. River Parkway
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Tel: (612) 436-4800
Web: http://www.cvt.org

Resources and articles

Related Sourcewatch articles

References

  1. ↑ Introduction, Center for Victims of Torture, accessed August 6, 2008.
  2. ↑ Staff, Center for Victims of Torture, accessed August 6, 2008.
  3. ↑ 2007 Annual Report, Center for Victims of Torture, accessed August 6, 2008.
  4. ↑ Board, Center for Victims of Torture, accessed March 12, 2011.
  5. ↑ Directors, Center for Victims of Torture, accessed August 6, 2008.
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