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