Meet the Team
The National Capacity Building Project, at the Center for Victims of Torture, works in collaboration with the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma and the National Consortium of Torture Treatment Programs to provide capacity building and training to organizations serving survivors of torture in the United States. NCB’s technical assistance partners are recognized leaders in the field of torture rehabilitation, with collectively over six decades of direct service experience and providing technical assistance to survivor of torture direct service grantees and other ORR-supported organizations serving torture survivors, healthcare providers and community-based organizations, including entities in underserved regions.

Hawthorne Smith
President of NCTTP and Director of the Bellevue Program for Survivors of Torture

Huy Pham
Project Manager

Richard F. Mollica
Director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma

Sara Bracewell
eLearning Developer and Website Administrator

Megumi Layman
Program/Project Coordinator

Amy Kamel
Clinical Advisor

Shruti Dasgupta
Clinical Advisor

Lisa Hattori
Program Evaluation Specialist

Eugene F. Augusterfer
Deputy Director and Director of Telemedicine at the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma

Sylvia Acevedo
Vice President of NCTTP and Senior Director of Gulf Coast Jewish Family & Community Services