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Voice Male, MRC Assemble National Advisory Board
Anational advisory board has been established to
assist Voice Male and its publisher, the Men’s
Resource Center for Change. “Members of the advisory
board represent some of the most able, accomplished
and articulate men engaged in promoting healthy, violence-free
masculinity,” said Voice Male editor and MRC
executive director Rob Okun. “Their collective wisdom
and their commitment to a male-positive, gay affirmative,
racially inclusive, and profeminist vision of manhood has
been invaluable to both our organization and magazine
over the years. We are honored to hear their ideas and
delighted that their help will be collectively concentrated
through their membership on the advisory board.”
As Voice Male went to press, the list included the following:
Juan Carlos Areán, a key trainer
and program manager with the Family
Violence Prevention Fund of San Francisco
and Boston who, for more than a
decade, worked for the Men’s Resource
Center for Change in a variety of capacities, including
conducting trainings in Siberia, Chile and Mexico.
Robert Jensen, author and professor
of journalism at the University of Texas
at Austin and frequent contributor to
Voice Male, among whose many books
are The Heart of Whiteness: Race, Racism
and White Privilege and Pornography: The Production and
Consumption of Inequality.
Sut Jhally, founder and executive director
of the Northampton, Mass.-based
Media Education Foundation, producers
of important social-issue video documentaries,
and professor of communications at
the University of Massachusetts.
Jackson Katz, founder of Mentors in
Violence Prevention and MVP Strategies
of Long Beach, Calif., author of The
Macho Paradox and a violence-prevention
presenter who has worked with
the U.S. Marines and professional sports teams (Jhally
and Katz teamed up to produce the video Tough Guise).
Joe Kelly, founder and president of Dads and
Daughters, the Duluth, Minn.-based national
organization promoting strong father-daughter connections
and challenging corporate marketing campaigns
that exploit or disaparage girls and women.
Michael Kimmel, the Brooklyn-based scholar,
author and editor with numerous titles to his
credit including Manhood in America: A Cultural
History, The Gender of Desire: Essays on Masculinity
and Sexuality and Against the Tide: Profeminist Men
in the United States 1776–1990 (with Thomas E. Mossmiller),
and a professor of sociology at SUNY–Stony Brook.
Michael Messner, chair of the sociology department
at the University of Southern California
in Los Angeles and author of several books
including Sex, Violence & Power in Sports (with
Don Sabo), Power at Play: Sports and the Problem
of Masculinity and Men’s Lives (edited with Michael Kimmel).
Don McPherson, former quarterback for the
Philadelphia Eagles and Houston Oilers who
after retiring from football in 1994 joined the
staff of the Center for the Study of Sport
in Society at Northeastern University before
becoming the first executive director of the Sports Leadership
Institute at Adelphi University on Long Island, N.Y.
Craig Norberg-Bohm, coordinator of the Men’s
Initiative for Jane Doe in Boston, a cutting-edge
statewide effort to strengthen men’s antiviolence
activities across Massachusetts, who in 1977 cofounded
RAVEN in St. Louis, a center for ending
men’s violence, and was formerly chair of the board of directors of
Emerge, a Boston-based center working with domestic abuse offenders.
Haji Shearer, director of the Fatherhood Initiative
at the Massachusetts Children’s Trust Fund
in Boston, and a frequent contributor to Voice Male
who founded the fathers, program at Boston’s
Family Nurturing Center serving men in urban
communities and who, in presentations, addresses father involvement,
male intimacy and co-parenting and facilitates men’s healing
circles, boys-to-men rites of passage and couples workshops.
To learn about advisory board members, visit our website, mrcforchange.org.
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