Nancy Baron received her Doctorate in Education at the University of Massachusetts, U.S.A. with a concentration in Family Therapy and Counseling Psychology. She is the Director of Global Psycho-Social Initiatives (GPSI) and provides consultation, assessment, research, training, program design and evaluation for UN organizations, Governments, and international and local NGOs in community based and family focused psycho-social and mental health programming for conflict and post-conflict countries. Since 1989, she has lived and worked in Burundi, Guinea Conakry, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan and Uganda; Asia in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Iran, Japan and Sri Lanka; Eastern Europe in Albania and Kosovo and in the South Pacific on the Solomon Islands. She is also the International Training Director for the International Trauma Studies Program (ITSP) of New York. Specifically for UNICEF, she completed a worldwide document on lessons learned in psychosocial programming; assessment and design of country strategies for psychosocial intervention for Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Solomon Islands and Somalia; a comprehensive child protection study for Somalia; and training for a collaborative NGO team in community based interventions in Afghanistan.