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Darfur Rehabilitation Project, Inc
2008 Advisory Board

Meet the Current Advisory Board of Darfur Rehabilitation Project

Barkley Calkins

Mr. Calkins is the Director of the Nonprofit Sector Resource Institute, a funded arm of Seton Hall University’s Center for Public Service. Prior to coming to Seton Hall, Mr. Calkins had a distinguished 25-year career with J.P. Morgan & Company in both New York and London. He is a former Director of the New Jersey program for the National Executive Service Corps, a non-profit consulting organization that uses experienced executives as consultants to non-profits. Mr. Calkins was a key advocate for the decision by the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. to adopt a Sudan divestment policy in 2006.

Jerry Ehrlich, M.D.

Jerry Ehrlich, a pediatrician from Cherry Hill, NJ, who served on three missions to Sri Lanka, was inspired to volunteer again in one of Darfur's largest IDP camps after reading about the genocide in the news. Ehrlich headed to Darfur in the summer of 2004, ill-prepared for the atrocities that would face him. He saw up to 200 patients a day, mainly children and the elderly, who were dying from malnutrition and disease. Upon his return to the United States, Dr. Ehrlich has tirelessly advocated on behalf of the Darfurian people even though colleagues and others have chastised him for taking an uncompromising position--eager to speak out whenever an opportunity presents itself: Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. Mahatma Gandhi.

Margaret Kee

Born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, Ms. Kee received her BA from Kean College. For 20 years Ms. Kee taught in the Newark Public School system where she became a Project Coordinator for Project Accel, a program for at-risk students. Ms. Kee is a life member of the NAACP and 3rd VP/Education Chairperson for their Newark branch. In addition to her service and board membership on a variety of church and community organizations, Ms. Kee is a member of the NJ Coalition Responds to the Crisis in Darfur, Sudan.

Robert H. Manley, Ph.D.

Dr. Manley was a founder of the Center for Public Service and the John C. Whitehead School for Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University. He served as chair of the Political Science Department and as Associate Dean and Director of Graduate Studies at the Whitehead School. Dr. Manley is a graduate of Colgate University, Cornell University Law School, the Kennedy School at Harvard and the State University of New York at Albany.

Eric Reeves, Ph.D.

Dr. Eric Reeves is a professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. He has spent the past seven years working full-time as a Sudan researcher and analyst, publishing extensively both in the United States and internationally. He has testified several times before the Congress, has lectured widely in academic settings, and has served as a consultant to a number of human rights and humanitarian organizations operating in Sudan. Working independently, he has written on all aspects of Sudan's recent history. He has recently received a generous grant from the Humanity First Initiative of the Omidyar Network to support his research and travel. He is presently at work on a book surveying the international response to ongoing war and human destruction in Sudan. (Source: Wikipedia)