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Research Associates  | Paola Betancourt Villiamil |
Paola Betancourt Villiamil studied Government and International Relations at the Universidad Externado de Colombia. She has extensive research experience on armed conflict and post conflict topics, and has served as an adviser to government programs addressing these issues. She is currently a research associate of Praxis, and works on our Weatherhead Center for International Affairs funded project on the paramilitary demobilization process in Colombia. This multsited research focuses on Bogota, MedellÌn and Turbo-Apartado, analyzing the local and regional dynamics of disarmament. |
| Edith Del Pino Huamán |
Edith Del Pino Huamán studied in the department of Public Administration at the Universidad San Cristóbal de Huamanga. Ms. Del Pino has managed a variety of offices and projects, serving as assistant director on the project "Reconciliando el Pasado, Construyendo el Presente: Violencia Política y Salud Mental en Ayacucho, Perú," funded by the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos and the Ford Foundation. An anthropologist at heart, she has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in rural communities throughout Ayacucho, analyzing post-war reconstruction in the sierra and the impact of US anti-drug and anti-terrorism interventions in the Apurimac Valley. Ms. Del Pino is currently working on the USIP funded project, “When the Truth is Not Enough: The Politics of Reparations in Post-TRC Peru.”  | Juan José Yupanqui Llancari |
Soy Bachiller en Historia, egresado de la Universidad Nacional San Cristóbal de Huamanga -UNSC), Desde el 2002 trabajé en temas de violencia política, derechos humanos, salud mental comunitaria en comunidades campesinas y organizaciones de afectados por la violencia política en el departamento de Ayacucho. Fui asistente de investigación en el proyecto "Reconciliando el Pasado, Construyendo el Presente: Violencia Política y Salud Mental en Ayacucho, Perú,” e integrante del equipo de investigadores de diagnostico participativo de salud en comunidades peruanas que sufren pobreza y exclusión ejecutado por el Consorcio de Investigación Económica y Social – CIES y CARE-Perú. Durante el 2005 a 2008 laboré en la Asociación Servicios Educativos Rurales – SER, donde participé en la elaboración de la historia local del distrito de Anco, provincia de Churcampa – Huancavelica, Perú, a través de la memoria colectiva e individual, publicado como libro titulado: Anco haciendo memoria, por la Asoc. SER y municipalidad de Anco 2007. |
 | Daniel Goya Callirgos |
| Daniel Goya Callirgos is currently the deputy editor of the Revista Asia Sur de Lima-Peru. He has worked as a television reporter and web editor for the Empresa Periodística Nacional (EPENSA). Daniel has worked in the political bureau of the newspaper Correo and in the main bureau of Noticias.Peru.com. He was awarded the Honorable Mention in the Juegos Florales de la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) in the category Journalistic Chronicles. He has been a fellow with the Asociación Peruano Japonesa and his articles have been translated in English and Japanese. He writes for various journals in Lima and is currently working on an anthology of his articles. |
| Kelly Phenicie graduated from New York University where she concentrated in Globalization Studies in the Individualized Study program and received the distinction of magna cum laude. She is currently working as a journalist for the human rights news journal Latinamerica Press. With Praxis, she has worked as a field researcher, conducting ethnographic, qualitative field research related to the local victims-survivors movement post-truth commission and providing resources and reports for the United States Institute of Peace funded study "When the Truth is Not Enough: The Politics of Reparations in Post-Truth Commission Peru." Additionally, she has vast international experience, has worked several years in the field of education and volunteers with a non-governmental organization that works with children who live in the street in order to promote their reinsertion in society. |
 | Miryam Rivera |
| Ms. Miryam Rivera is a licensed psychologist and candidate for the Master Degree in Population Mental Health. She is the former director of the Peruvian TRC’s mental health team in Ayacucho, and she has worked on post- war mental health projects with the Peruvian Health Ministry and the European Union. Ms. Rivera has participated in the elaboration of several documents related to community mental health such as “Salud mental: Tarea compartida,” “Salud mental comunitaria: Aportes para el trabajo con poblaciones,” and the forthcoming guide for health workers, “Guia de capacitación para la intervención en salud mental comunitaria.” Ms. Rivera is a member of the Grupo de Trabajo de Salud Mental of the Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos. This working group is currently designing a Law of Mental Health to be discussed in the Peruvian Congress. In addition to her work with Praxis, Ms. Rivera is teaching in the Psychology Department of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, and advises Medicins du Monde in Pisco-Perú, where she is in charge of facilitating the application of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings. |
| Leonor Rivera Sulca |
Leonor Rivera Sulca studied Social Work at the Universidad San Cristóbal de Huamanga. Ms. Sulca is a native Quechua speaker and worked with the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission in their Ayacucho office, taking testimonies in communities throughout the department of Ayacucho. She contributed greatly to the project "Reconciliando el Pasado,
Construyendo el Presente: Violencia Política y Salud Mental en Ayacucho, Perú," and is currently working on our USIP funded project, “When the Truth is Not Enough” The Politics of Reparations in Post-TRC Peru.” |
 | Ana María Vidal Carrasco |
| Ana María Vidal Carrasco received her law degree at Peru's Catholic University, and has had ample human rights experience both within Peru and internationally. In the field of sexual and reproductive rights, she worked as a researcher for Peru's Ombudsman Office, and participated in the Campaign for an Interamerican Convention on Sexual and Reproductive Rights with CLADEM Regional. Within Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, she was in charge of the cases to be presented during public hearings in different regions of the country, and she worked in the Institutional Reform Unit. She was a recipient of an International Human Rights Internship Program scholarship to work at the Washington-based CEJIL (Center for Justice and International Law), where she developed a litigation program for the Interamerican System of Human Rights. She also worked for Peace Brigades International - Colombia Project, where she was in charge of the Magdalena Medio regional team and served as an international observer in diverse human rights verification commissions throughout the country. |
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