Ishita Sanyal (class of '08, pictured at left) is a psychologist and the founder of Turning Point, an NGO fighting the stigma of mental illness in Kolkata, India. In 2009 Ishita led a six-month class in social therapy for special educators, rehabilitation specialists, NGO directors and patients. An article about her practice, entitled "Skits and Games to De-stress," appeared in the March issue of Telegraph Calcutta.  Representing Turning Point at Health Care Challenge 2, an international conference/competition in Amsterdam this past October, Ishita won a second-place award for social innovation.

Prativa Sengupta (class of '09) is chief psychologist and coordinator of SEVAC (Sane and Enthusiastic Volunteers Association in Calcutta), a mental health and human rights NGO in Kolkata, India. Prativa has begun practicing social therapy with children and adults and also introducing improvisational and theatre games to staff members and other colleagues. This past November Prativa attended a Delhi forum for human rights activists where she participated in a seminar on the "Correlation between mental illness and human rights."

Syed Rahman (class of '07) is a trained economist and founder of TREE (Theatre for Education, Research and Empowerment) based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He recently joined the Business and Economics faculty at Daffodil International University. This fall he was selected to serve on the working group of the XVIII International AIDS Conference which will be held in Vienna in July, 2010.

Miguel Cortes (class of '08) is the education coordinator at the Centro de Asesoría y Promoción de Juvenil (CASA) in the violently turbulent city of Juarez, Mexico. Miguel's work with CASA was recently featured in The Washington Post as part of its high profile series "Mexico at War," which portrays the challenge of being young, poor and susceptible to the lure of drug lords. Miguel has infused his youth work and family therapy practice with social therapy. He participates in weekly phone supervision with Christine LaCerva, director of the Social Therapy Group in New York. This past fall, Miguel organized a program of presentations and training workshops by Lois Holzman and Carrie Lobman to introduce CASA, the university and the broader Juarez community to the social therapeutic approach to development.

Itzel Gonzalez (class of '08, pictured at right) is a community organizer and activist, also based in Juarez, Mexico. She has been active in the fight to stop violence against women and helped to found a feminist collective, Kolectiva Fronteriza (border collective). Women in the collective are encouraged to perform acts of resistance using art, improvisation, music, film and comedic writing.

Peter Nsubuga (class of '09), founder of Hope for Youth  near Kampala, Uganda, recently began a social therapy-inspired multi-family support group for villagers. The first "therapy" ever in the village, the group is a context for villagers to discuss emotional issues.

Kitche Magak (class of '06), lecturer at Maseno Univeristy, who played a key peacekeeping role in his city of Kisumu in the violent aftermath of the failed elections in Kenya, devised a secret feeding program for internally displaced Kisumu residents at the height of the violence in 2007.

Svetlana Kijevcanin (class of '08) is a psychologist, a peace trainer and founder of one of the first NGOs in Serbia. Currently, through the World Learning Study Abroad program, she is supervising Princeton University undergraduates who have come to live and work in Serbia in local NGOs. Svetlana directs students' work with families and children in the impoverished Roma (gypsy) communities.

Esben Wilstrup (class of '09), a postgraduate student of psychology at the University of Aarhus in Denmark led a 4-day performative summer camp in Denmark for 10 friends and colleagues designed to introduce them to social therapeutics. He has led three performative team building workshops and three bi-weekly "playground" events: "How can we develop through play?", What is a group and how do you build it?", "What is language and how do we make meaning?" He has also introduced performative psychology to 25 Danish free form "role-players" and trained 25 students of process consultation (http://www.Kaospilots.dk ) in social therapeutics at a workshop he calls: "Improvising Leadership, Building the Group, and Making History." On November 20 he hosted a meeting of the national Performing Network at the University of Aarhus.