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EPIC Staff
EPIC Board of DirectorsNathaniel Hurd is President of EPIC’s Board of Directors and a Government Relations and Advocacy Officer with the International Rescue Committee (IRC). He manages Congressional relations and analyzes and advises the organization on Congressional activities related to the needs of displaced Iraqis. From 1999-2004, he did consulting, research and analysis on Iraq policy for NGOs, diplomats and journalists. He received his Master of International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Selma Turgut is currently working as an RN at New York Presbyterian Hospital and pursuing her Masters in Human Rights Studies at Columbia University. Selma has volunteered in the efforts of an NGO in Kolkata, India. There she worked for two consecutive summers in empowering and improving the lives of children in the red light districts and survivors of human trafficking. From November 22nd to December 1st, Selma visited Iraqi refugees in Syria and Jordan and met with UN officials and aid agencies in the region. Rebeen Pasha, currently with The Advisory Board Company in Washington, DC, he has worked in several public health and development organizations including Project HOPE, the World Health Organization, and RTI International. In the past, he has helped organize various panels and events including a speaker series on the effects of armed conflict on health, for which he was also a speaker, and a series of panels examining the effects of war on children. He recently received his Masters of Science in Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received his BA in 2004 from The University of Virginia. Originally from Kurdistan, Northern Iraq, Rebeen is fluent in Kurdish and Arabic. Kira Brunner Don is the Executive Editor for Lapham’s Quarterly in New York City. She is the former Project Coordinator, Editor and Researcher for the Initiative for Policy Dialogue and Publications Director for IPD’s Executive Director, Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz. Also a former journalist, Brunner co-edited The New Killing Fields: Massacre and the Politics of Intervention, which described and analyzed the genocides that occurred in Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and East Timor. Polly Aris Stamatopoulos is the CEO of the Rainmakers Group and has been working in all areas of resources development and non-profit management since 1991. Stamatopoulos has previously held the position of Director of Development at numerous local and national non-profit organizations, including Women Empowered Against Voiolence (WEAVE) and Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN). She is a long-time champion of women’s rights, peace and social justice. She has extensive experience working with and on behalf of gay, lesbian and transgender people, people with mental illness, victims of crime, women and children, the elderly, disabled, and the poor and/or homeless.
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Erik Gustafson is EPIC's Executive Director. A veteran of the 1991 Gulf War, he spent eight months in Saudi Arabia with the 864th Engineer Battalion, building hospitals, roads and POW camps. In the mid-1990s, news of Iraq's humanitarian crisis under UN trade sanctions and the repressive regime of Saddam Hussein began to reach mainstream America. To better understand the ongoing legacy of the 1991 Gulf War, Erik traveled to Iraq with a humanitarian delegation in July 1997. Troubled by the intolerable suffering he witnessed, he moved to Washington in 1998 and founded the Education for Peace in Iraq Center (EPIC) to improve humanitarian conditions and human rights in Iraq. Today Erik is a respected authority on Iraq and U.S. policy, who has testified at congressional briefings and delivered countless lectures across North America. He is a frequent guest on the BBC World News, and has appeared on NBC Nightly News, the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, FoxNews, CNN, and other mainstream media outlets. His letters and opinion pieces have appeared in a dozen newspapers, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and USA Today.