The NATRC coalition currently consists of members who contribute a rich blend of experience, knowledge, determination, and inspiration. They have backgrounds in advocacy, mediation, psychology, social work.
Neil Brick
Neil Brick (http://NeilBrick.com) is a survivor of ritual abuse. He has worked for years educating the public about these cases and advocating for survivors. His large website on ritual abuse and child abuse crimes (http://ritualabuse.us) presents many articles and court reports. Neil also edits a newsletter on this subject, called the S.M.A.R.T newsletter. In each of the last 15 years he has brought together survivors and supporters in an international conference in Connecticut USA. He hosts online discussion groups for survivors of ritual abuse.
Trish Fotheringham
Trish Fotheringham is a Canadian born in 1960. As a child, she endured ritualized abuse, torture, sexual exploitation, medical experimentation, and use as a demonstration model for the sale of mind control training techniques. Trish’s chapter in the book Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-First Century explains how dissociated identities are created and developed. As the subject of Dr. Ellen Lacter’s documentary Healing from Ritual Abuse & Mind Control, Trish shares helpful tips, hope and inspiration. (See MoreThanAnIdea.wordpress.com; YouTube.com/user/TrishFotheringham – Trish has a background in communicative arts, social services, and spiritual leadership. Her passion is promoting understanding of Dissociation as a powerful tool for change, particularly in the reform of mental health and addictions treatment, criminal justice, and activism. Email RainbowTrish@Myself.com
Carmen Holiday
Carmen Holiday (pseudonym) is a survivor of child pornography, human trafficking, ritual abuse-torture and mind control. She has been an advocate for other survivors since 2001, developing and facilitating trauma recovery workshops and presenting as a survivor of RA-MC for several organizations. She is the author of “Survivors of Extreme Abuse: The Awful Rowing Toward Social Emancipation”.
deJoly LaBrier
deJoly LaBrier is a survivor of extreme abuse, a military sex ring, government experimentation, extreme mind control and cult abuse. She is the author of two books: Diary of A Survivor in Art and Poetry, and All Together Now, A Multiple’s Story of Hope & Healing, available either through her website or through Amazon.com. With 22 years of recovery work, deJoly is an advocate for child abuse victims, and speaks at various conferences, seminars and churches to help bring the reality of extreme abuse into the public eye, and to bring hope to those who still suffer the affects of this abuse. She and her partner live in a cabin in the Mountains of Northwest Georgia. deJoly can be contacted either through her website: http://www.dejoly.com or by mail: P.O. Box 447, Menlo, GA, 30731. lifeasaonesie@gmail.com
Hal Pepinsky
Hal Pepinsky retired Jan. 2009 from after 33 years on the criminal justice faculty at Indiana University, Bloomington. His papers and such are archived at http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?docId=InU-Ar-VAA9639.xml&brand=general&text1=Pepinsky&field1=text&startDoc=1. He is known as a co-founder of “peacemaking criminology.” Page proofs of his latest, 2006 U of Ottawa Press book, Peacemaking: Reflections of a Radical Criminologist, are freely available at http://critcrim.org/sites/default/files/Pepinsky_proofs_0.pdf, the end of which lists his publications, nine books and over 80 articles and chapters in all, on a wide range of subjects from the international to the interpersonal level. His preceding book, A Criminologist’s Quest for Peace, is also freely available at http://critcrim.org/pepinsky. Hal Pepinsky, pepinsky@indiana.edu, pepinsky.blogspot.com, 209 St. Pierre St., Worthington, OH 43085-2262, 1-614-433-7386
David Shurter
David Shurter is an SRA survivor whose father was a practicing high priest in Omaha NE during the 60′s and 70′s. Involving himself in an investigation into his family and their involvement, David has created DavidShurter.com in order to bring exposure to the practice of ritual abuse and government sponsered mind control. One of the founding members of the NA TRC, he has spent the last four years researching and reaching out to victims of ritual abuse, and he can be contacted at davidshurter1@gmail.com
Staci Sprout
Staci Sprout, LICSW, CSAT is a psychotherapist from Seattle, Washington, whose therapy practice is dedicated to those in recovery from sexual and related addictions. She is a survivor of extreme trauma including sexual programming, pornographic exploitation, trafficking, and cult ritualized abuse, and her healing has inspired her work as an activist on behalf of personal and global sexual transformation. Staci can be reached at http://stacisprout.com
