Executive Committee

The Executive Committee guides the Dart Center's mission through policy formation and program evaluation. The committee is comprised of thirteen members, including four officers, the executive director and eight at-large members. Learn more ...

	Deborah Nelson | President Deborah Nelson is the Carnegie Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland. Previously, she was an investigative reporter and editor in The Los Angeles Times Washington Bureau and, before that, at The Washington Post. She co-authored a series of articles in August 2006 based on declassified U.S. war crimes records from the Vietnam War. Her work has won national awards, including the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.
	Beth Frerking | Vice President Frerking is a veteran journalist with more than two decades’ experience as a national reporter, Washington bureau chief and journalism educator. Most recently, she served for six years as executive director of the Casey Journalism Center on Children and Families. (Photo by Preston Merchant)
	Seamus Kelters | Secretary Kelters is a television producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation and co-creator of Lost Lives, a highly detailed chronicle of the lives of the more than 3,600 men, women, and children killed in Northern Ireland from 1966-2000.
	Frank Ochberg | Chair Emeritus Frank Ochberg, M.D., is a founding board member of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and recipient of their highest honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award. He edited the first text on treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and served on the committee that defined PTSD. He was associate director of the National Institute of Mental Health and director of the Michigan Mental Health Department. At Michigan State University, he is clinical professor of psychiatry, formerly adjunct professor of criminal justice, and adjunct professor of journalism.
	Nayan Chanda Nayan Chanda is the Director of Publications and the Editor of YaleGlobal Online Magazine at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. For nearly thirty years before he joined Yale University Chanda was with the Hong Kong-based magazine the Far Eastern Economic Review as its editor, editor-at-large and correspondent.
	Donna DeCesare An award-winning photojournalist with extensive experience covering Latin America, Donna DeCesare is widely known for her groundbreaking coverage of the spread of Los Angeles gangs in Central America. She is currently on the faculty of the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin and a member of the Advisory Board of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas.
	Edwin Chen Edwin Chen is federal communications director for the Natural Resources Defense Council. The former White House correspondent for The Los Angeles Times, he has also authored three nonfiction books and written for numerous magazines, including The Atlantic, The New York Times, People and The Nation.
	Stephen Jukes Stephen Jukes is the Head of The Media School at Bournemouth University. He has spent most of his working career as a foreign correspondent, covering news in eastern and western Europe, the Middle East and the United States for the international news agency Reuters.
	James Lammers Vice-President of the Dart Foundation and Dart Container Corp., a leading manufacturer of disposable food-service products, Lammers also serves as managing director of Cayman Shores Development Ltd.
	Susan D. Moeller Moeller, the director of the International Center for Media and the the Public Agenda, is an associate professor in the Philip Merrill College of Journalism and an affiliated faculty member of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park.
	Elana Newman An Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Tulsa, Newman has conducted research on a variety of topics regarding the psychological and physical response to traumatic life events, assessment of PTSD in children and adults, journalism and trauma, and understanding the impact of participating in trauma-related research from the trauma survivor's perspective.
	Bruce Shapiro | Executive Director A veteran reporter on human rights, criminal justice and related issues, Shapiro is the executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma.
	Clarence Williams A nationally-acclaimed photojournalist, Williams received a 1998 Pulitzer Prize for “Orphans of Addiction,” a Los Angeles Times series documenting the plight of children whose parents are addicted to drugs, Williams has lectured and taught at a variety of workshops and colleges. He is a native of Philadelphia and a graduate of Temple University.