Having served in nonprofit leadership since 2012, John Bidwell is a wonderful asset to the Advisory Board. As chief development officer of the nonprofit organization Way Finders, the largest affordable housing organization in western Massachusetts, John oversees fundraising, grants, marketing, and communications. He previously served as Executive Director of United Way of the Franklin and Hampshire Region, which supports 44 nonprofits. John was also the director of marketing and digital strategy at Baystate Health and for 12 years, consulted with nonprofits as the founder and president of the branding and marketing company, Bidwell ID. A graduate of McGill University and a Certified Fund Raising Executive, John has worked on numerous nonprofit boards and committees. John was a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali, concentrating on water resources and rebuilding a maternity ward, and was a US Administrative Director for a Malian maternal and child clinic. He is co-author and editor—respectively—of the critically acclaimed books Shore Beyond Shores: From Holocaust to Hope and Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali.

Kris Holloway is President & CEO of CIS Abroad, an innovative education abroad company dedicated to creating a more connected and compassionate world. Kris holds a MPH from the University of Michigan where she focused on community-based public health and midwifery-centered care. She served as a community health agent in the Peace Corps in Mali, West Africa in the early 1990s and speaks (almost) fluent French. Kris is the author of a best-selling personal ethnography, Monique and the Mango Rains, based on her Peace Corps experience, and co-author of Shores Beyond Shores, the memoir of a Holocaust survivor. She is a founding board member of the Global Leadership League. She deeply believes in the transformational power of international collaboration.

Joshua Miller is a professor emeritus at Smith College School for Social Work, where he taught for over 30 years. He was also a visiting professor at Beijing Normal University for 10 years. His areas of focus have been anti-racism, responding to major disasters and armed conflicts, and psychosocial work with people who are socially targeted, oppressed or have experienced violence. The author of several books and articles, he has done presentations on these topics at many conferences and workshops. Josh has responded to major disasters in the U.S. (e.g. Hurricane Katrina, 9/11) and mass shootings (e.g. Aurora, CO and Newtown, CT) as well as in other countries (e.g. China, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Haiti, Canada). He continues to offer crisis interventions to people in the U.S., including police, firefighters and medical responders. In his most recent book, he considers ways to offer psychosocial interventions to BIPOC people in North America and Europe and to people living in non-Western countries around the world without imposing White, Western, and Eurocentric values and assumptions, instead centralizing local and Indigenous social and cultural practices. Josh was the creator of STEP-UP, WOtW’s predecessor. His integral knowledge of the Acholi culture, the predominant tribe in Gulu District, makes him uniquely valuable on the Advisory Board.