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The first leg of her journey toward directing Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR)<\/a> began in 2001 when Katie Mansfield, then a divisional vice president of Goldman Sachs, lived through the 9\/11 terrorist attack in New York.<\/p>\n

Subsequent legs in her journey:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Three years with Mennonite Central Committee<\/a> in Kenya, where she did STAR work with Doreen Ruto, a master\u2019s degree graduate in conflict transformation<\/a> from Eastern Mennonite University (EMU).
\n\u2022 Four years with the Kroc Institute<\/a> for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where she studied under and then apprenticed with John Paul Lederach, founding director of EMU\u2019s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP)<\/a>.
\n\u2022 Beginning a PhD in expressive arts and conflict transformation from the European Graduate School in Switzerland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It began here<\/h3>\n

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Mansfield was on the 18th floor of an office building in lower Manhattan when she noticed scraps of paper floating by her window. She and her colleagues evacuated the building and began walking rapidly northward to get away. She heard and then saw the collapse of the twin towers. Dozens of people from her home suburb of Garden City died in the attack.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor over a year I couldn\u2019t plan more than five days out,\u201d Mansfield recalls. \u201cA Somali friend later told me, \u2018Now you know how we feel every day.\u2019\u201d Ultimately she quit her job at Goldman Sachs, traveled for a year, and found her way to teachers and mentors working in peace education and conflict transformation.<\/p>\n

One of these teachers was Elaine Zook Barge<\/a>, who co-facilitated Mansfield\u2019s STAR cohort in 2010. Now they are working as a team, together with program associate Jennifer Fawley<\/a> and trainer Vernon Jantzi<\/a>. Zook Barge\u2019s focus is on curriculum development and training; Mansfield\u2019s is on administering the program, developing the STAR network (\u201clearning community\u201d), and producing communications.<\/p>\n

STAR\u2019s birth<\/h3>\n

In late 2001, STAR was born as a partnership between CJP-EMU and Church World Service<\/a> to provide resources for responding to trauma in the wake of the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat began as a program to provide tools to pastors working with traumatized congregations in New York City and Washington,\u201d says CJP executive director Daryl Byler<\/a>, \u201chas blossomed into a valuable resource for peacebuilders from East Africa to the Middle East to Central America.\u201d<\/p>\n

STAR has trained over 5,000 people from 62 countries on five continents. The program has been a springboard for: Coming to the Table<\/a>, which deals with the wounds of racism; Journey Home from War<\/a>, addressing veterans\u2019 re-entry; and Youth STAR<\/a>, emerging from post-Hurricane Katrina work with teenagers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cSTAR is proof that even out of the most dreadful violence it is possible to grow life-giving and peace-supporting responses,\u201d says Jayne Seminare Docherty<\/a>, CJP\u2019s program director.<\/p>\n

Becoming the director<\/h3>\n

Mansfield was named director of STAR in early 2015, a position she will hold while continuing to pursue her doctoral studies focused on dance-based and movement-based healing, restorative justice and transforming the wounds of trauma. She succeeded Zook Barge, who had led the program as both its top administrator and chief instructor for eight years, until her requests for splitting the duties bore fruit.<\/p>\n

Mansfield\u2019s first job after earning a bachelor\u2019s degree from Harvard in 1996 was at Goldman Sachs. She started as an analyst, then became an associate and finally a vice president in the investment management division. She spent four years in New York City and four years in London.<\/p>\n

In STAR trainings, participants create a drawing called the \u201criver of life.\u201d Reflecting on the flow of her river, Mansfield says the powerlessness she experienced immediately after 9\/11 set her on the path \u2013 and helped prepare her \u2013 for her new role with STAR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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