Title: Executive Director
Company: Refugee Immigration Ministry
Location: Boxford, MA United States
Affiliations/Associations/Societies:
- American Association of Pastoral Counselors
- Association of Refugee Service Professionals (board of directors, 2010-Present) (chair, national committee on certification standards, 2010-Present)
- Association of Trauma Stress Specialists
- Boston Theological Institute Working Group on Restorative Justice
- Church World Service (refugee welfare committee, 1986)
- Democratic Town Committee, Boxford, MA, (2018-Present)
- Diocese of Massachusetts, Women’s Crisis Committee
- Healing Abuse Working for Change (HAWC) (board of directors, 2019-Present)
- International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
- Massachusetts Council of Churches (strategy and action committee)
- Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (member)
- National Coalition Against Sexual Assault
- National Society of Fund Raising Executives (Association of Fundraising Professionals)
- NOVA Trauma Team, Oklahoma City, OK (leader, 1995)
- Peace at Home (board of director, member, 2003-2004)
- Refugee Advisory Council, Connecticut (member, 1984-1989)
- Task Force on Domestic Violence, Lowell, MA
- The Assembly of Episcopal Chaplains
- Wider Mission Commission Diocese of Massachusetts (member, 2001-2004)
- Women’s Crisis Center, Norwalk, CT (member, board of directors, 1980-1983)
Achievements:
- Honoree, Distinguished Worldwide Humanitarian Award (2019)
- Inductee, Top Professionals of the Year, Marquis Who’s Who (2018)
- Recipient, Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award (2018)
- Featured Listee, “Who’s Who in America,” Marquis Who’s Who (2000-2004)
- Featured Listee, “Who’s Who in the World,” Marquis Who’s Who (2000)
- Featured Listee, “Who’s Who of American Women,” Marquis Who’s Who (1997-1998)
- Author, “Let’s Begin” (1974)
- Author, “English Through Folk Songs,” (1974)
- Author, “Healing Traumatic Memories: A Spiritual Journey”
- Author, “Outside the Gates” a chapter in Theological Literacy in the Twenty First Century, BTI
Contact The Rev. Dr. Ruth Bersin