FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 1, 2006
Contact: Crystal L. Noble
Phone: (617) 521-0125
Email: cnoble@casamyrna.org
CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ APPOINTS NEW MEMBERS
TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Casa Myrna Vazquez, New England’s most comprehensive provider of services to victims of domestic violence, has appointed Kaberi Banerjee Murthy and Lynne Stevens to its Board of Directors.
Kaberi Banerjee Murthy, Education Program Officer at Hemenway & Barnes, manages educational programming for a number of charitable lead trusts that fund non-profits in the New England area, and develops educational programming on key issues. She was previously a Program Officer with the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation in Chicago. She began her career as a student teacher in the Minneapolis, Minnesota public school system, after which she joined Chicago advertising agency giant Leo Burnett as a business development associate, rising to account executive. She is a graduate of Carleton College and the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Banerjee is a founding member of the Asian Giving Circle in both Chicago and Boston, and is also a member of EdVestors and Asian-Americans in Philanthropy. She is fluent in Bengali, is an avid traveler, photographer and reader, and lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Lynne Stevens is Director of the Responding to Violence Against Women Program and an Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Medicine Family Medicine Department. A licensed psychotherapist who has been in private practice for many years, Ms. Stevens has done extensive research and published widely in the area of violence against women(VAW), developing a program model that integrates the assessment and treatment of VAW into health care systems. Working with such groups as the International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere and the United Nations Population Fund, she has developed and implemented these programs in both mid-level and developing countries. In her current role at BUSM/Boston Medical Center, she is working with department and hospital clinical leadership on the planning of a centralized domestic violence program that will provide both identification and support to victims of violence at BMC and the BMC affiliated Community Health Centers. Ms. Stevens is a city gardener, yoga enthusiast and world traveler, whenever possible.
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Casa Myrna Vazquez is a Boston-based organization dedicated to ending domestic violence in the lives of women and children through advocacy, prevention and intervention. What began in 1977 as a single shelter accommodating eight families has grown into New England’s foremost provider of shelter and comprehensive services to abused women and their children, operating the 24/7 statewide domestic violence hotline SafeLink (877-785-2020), two emergency shelters and three transitional living houses. The agency ’s range of programs includes legal advocacy services, mental health counseling, children’s services, housing search assistance and advocacy, and community outreach and training on the issue of domestic violence.