Erzulie D. Coquillon
Ms. Erzulie D. Coquillon holds a law degree and master’s degree in psychology, both from Boston College. She earned her bachelor’s degree in history at Harvard University. As a Visiting Scholar at the Center, Erzulie will be collaborating with the Post-Deportation Human Rights Project, assisting with legal representation and the Project’s psychosocial and community advocacy dimensions. In addition she will be conducting independent research on psychology and international criminal law.
Erzulie has worked in the Trial Chambers of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, in citizen engagement initiatives in the United States and Ecuador, on the representation of immigrants in asylum and deportation proceedings, and as a counselor for homeless clients. Prior to joining the Center for Human Rights and International Justice as a Visiting Scholar, Erzulie also served as the Center’s graduate assistant and as a teaching and research assistant at the University. Erzulie is the co-author of several handbook chapters on psychology and community-based research.
Ricardo Falla Sánchez
Ricardo Falla Sánchez is a Guatemalan Jesuit anthropologist who completed his PhD at the University of Texas in Austin after having studied theology in Innsbruck Austria with Karl Rahner, among others. He has dedicated his life to documenting the lives and cultures of the Quiché [K'iche'] Maya in Guatemala and other indigenous peoples in Central America. His writings document the massacres of Maya communities, their struggles for justice and human rights, as well as their revitalization with assistance by Catholic Action. He is perhaps most widely know for his 1992 publication on the massacres in the early 1980s in the Guatemalan Highlands, Masacres de la Selva – a volumen that appeared in English, Massacres of the Jungle, in 1994. He has recently published three books on Maya youth, two focused on those from the Ixcán area of Guatemala: Alicia: Explorando la identidad de una joven maya [Exploring identity: The story of a Maya youth] (2005) and Juventud de una comunidad maya: Ixcán, Guatemala [Youth from a Maya Community, Ixcán, Guatemala] (2006) and a third volume, Migración transnacional retornada: Juventud indígena de Zacualpa, Guatemala [Transnational migration and return: Indigenous youth of Zacualpa, Guatemala] (2007) which focuses on youth who have immigrated to the United States and voluntarily returned to Guatemala.
Holly Scheib
Ms. Holly Scheib, MPH, MSW, is a PhD candidate in International Health and Development at Tulane School of Public Health and holds a Master of Public Health and a Master of Social Work from the University of Michigan. She has worked domestically and internationally in health education, promotion, and research. After Hurricane Katrina, Holly changed the course of her PhD to remain in New Orleans to be part of the city’s recovery, where she is actively involved with several community-based programs and initiatives. Her dissertation is titled, “’Que no nos vean como iquales’ (‘They do not see us as equals’): Identity, acculturation, and health in newly arrived Latin American immigrants in post-Katrina New Orleans
Currently, she is working with Professor M. Brinton Lykes at the Center for International Justice and Human Rights on a community-based participatory action research project with Latina and African-American community health workers using PhotoVoice techniques. In addition to this project, she teaches courses in International Social Work at Tulane’s School of Social Work is the Program Director for the New Orleans Schweitzer Fellows Program, and sits on the Advisory Board of the Latino Health Access Network. Holly has worked as a photographer and regularly provides free and low-cost photography to local agencies and individuals.