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Our mission is to provide healing for victims so they can go on to live healthy and fulfilling lives after domestic abuse. From children to adults each we are dedicated to creating programs that help enrich the survivors of domestic abuse as well as educate the surrounding communities as a preventative measure to stop domestic violence. We have worked hard to bring together outstanding men and women to live our mission. Our commitment to that mission starts with our top executives.
Board of Directors
Nasrin Ruby Zoghbia | Nasrin founded the International Domestic Violence in 2009. Nasrin has been involved in domestic violence advocacy since leaving a four year physically and emotionally abusive relationship. She firmly believes in order to change our society’s core beliefs and increase moral values each child must be better equipped with the right knowledge to recognize, assimilate and properly identify the various forms of abuse. By educating children and teaching them alternative methods to handling conflict and conflict resolution, children can have a stronger chance of recognizing and strengthening healthy relationships. |
Tom Block | Tom Block is an artist, writer and activist best known for the development and implementation of activist art theory, “Prophetic Activist Art.” His activist work includes the Human Rights Painting Project, Shalom/Salaam Project and Cousins Public Art Project. His most recent activist endeavor was to develop and produce the first ever Amnesty International Human Rights Art Festival which took place April 2010 in Silver Spring, MD. He has spoken about his theories of using art as an activist tool at conferences and universities, including: Al-Azhar University (Cairo), Irish Centre for Human Rights (Galway, Ireland), Depaul University (IL), Villanova University (PA), Xavier University (OH), University of Arkansas (AR), Ohio University (OH), Fetzer Institute (MI), Manhattan College (NY), Vanderbilt University (TN), University of Calgary (Canada), Institute of Art (Birmingham, England), Emory University (GA), Grand Valley State University (MI), American Popular Culture Association, Mid Atlantic Popular Culture Association, International Peace Research Association and at other universities and conferences around the world. His first book, “Shalom/Salaam: A Story of a Mystical Fraternity,” which traces the influence of Sufism (Islamic mysticism) on the direction of Jewish spirituality over the course of 1000 years, is being published in Fall 2010 in the United States (Fons Vitae, Louisville, KY) and Turkey (Bilim Artı Gönül Yayıncılık Ltd. Şti., Istanbul, Turkey). |
Mildred Muhammad | Mildred D.Muhammad is the founder of After the Trauma, an organization with programs to assist survivors to make the transition from existing to living. She is also a domestic violence survivor. Many know her first and foremost by her former husband, John Allen Muhammad – the convicted and now executed DC sniper who terrorized the Washington DC metro region in late 2002. Mildred speaks openly about her day-to-day experiences as a survivor of domestic violence and how it affected her three children. |
Sky Yarosh | Sky is an active member of several community and college boards, whose mission is to educate victims, survivors and the public by raising awareness against violence. As an educator, she is completing her teaching degree and is using her experience as a survivor, with education and the arts as a medium for social change. Sky specializes in art therapy and hosts art empowerment workshops for survivors. Sky is also a member of Be A Voice Arts. |
Angelica Harris | Bio Coming Soon . . . |
Staff
Michelle Johnson Major | Michelle Johnson Major is one of the co-founders of the International Domestic Violence Memorial, master artist and founder of Be A Voice Arts (BAVA). Her painting titled Hope is the first in a series of four murals that will be completed in the project. In August 2008, Michelle Major's husband tried to murder her in an act of domestic violence. Before strangling her to unconsciousness, he took a butcher knife and slashed ninety four of her paintings destroying twelve years of artistic work. Michelle thus founded Be a Voice Arts which is dedicated to shining a light on the ugly societal taboo of domestic violence by sharing a story of courage and hope through artistic expression resulting in strength, inspiration and healing. |
Timeko Lewis | Author, Timeko Lewis, is a domestic violence advocate who began her writing career as a way to heal from the effects of a turbulent relationship that ended in 2006. She is currently employed as a Sr. Compliance Analyst, Census Bureau Field Rep, and Free-Lance Editor, with the hopes of publishing her debut novel, ‘Counterfeit: Do You Know What Real Love Is?’ in early 2010. Timeko is the mother of two teenage sons, who in her spare time, enjoys spending time with family, volunteering, or plotting her next course of action in taking the literary world by storm. She is a firm believer in a grassroots movement approach to recognizing and minimizing the harmful effects of the growing trend of abuse. |
Lyn Twyman | Lyn Twyman is a survivor of domestic violence and is also the founder of Courage Network, an online community which furthers awareness and prevention of violence in the home. Courage Network provides victims with resources and a sense of community, coming together, united and open to all people affected by family violence by tackling the various facets of the issues before them. She provides interviews on the Courage Network site with authors, advocates and leaders in the movement to assist victims of domestic violence. |
Danielle Joy Linhart | Danielle is the monthly contributor to LadyBug Flights an online magazine Domestic Violence Column called Fly Away Home. She is the author of “From Deep Within – blind and bruised” and co-founder of the International Domestic Violence Memorial. She is also the lead project manager for the IDVM’s “Glass Artwork, Votives and Fused Glass” panels. |
