MRC and VOICE MALE Name National Advisory Board

A national advisory board has been established to assist VOICE MALE and its publisher, the Men's Resource Center for Change."Members of the advisory board represent some of the most able, accomplished and articulate men engaged in promoting healthy, violence-free masculinity," said VOICE MALE editor and MRC executive director Rob Okun. "Their collective wisdom and their commitment to a male-positive, gay affirmative, racially inclusive, and profeminist vision of manhood has been invaluable to both our organization and magazine over the years. We are honored to hear their ideas and delighted that their help will be collectively concentrated through their membership on the advisory board."

Juan Carlos Areán, a key trainer and program manager with the Family Violence Prevention Fund of San Francisco and Boston who, for more than a decade, worked for the Men's Resource Center for Change in a variety of capacities, including conducting trainings in Siberia, Chile and Mexico.
Read Juan Carlos's account of his Siberia trip.

John Badalament lectures nationally and internationally to schools, colleges, parent groups, non-profits and prisons about gender issues and the critical role fathers play in children’s lives. His first documentary film, All Men Are Sons: Exploring the Legacy of Fatherhood, aired on PBS stations across the country. John holds a Master’s Degree in Education from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. Over the last 15 years, he has worked in clinical settings as a counselor for adolescents and adults, public and independent school settings as a Dean and teacher, and developed a private consultancy.
Read John’s online article on fatherhood in VOICE MALE.

Byron Hurt is the producer of the award-winning documentary film, I Am A Man: Black Masculinity in America. He recently produced and directed Beyond Beats and Rhymes, a documentary film about machismo in rap music and hip-hop culture. He is also the associate director of Mentors in Violence Prevention-Marine Corps, the first system-wide gender violence prevention program in the history of the United States military.
Read MRC executive director Rob Okun's VOICE MALE article about Byron and his latest film.

Robert Jensen, author and professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin and frequent contributor to VOICE MALE, among whose many books are The Heart of Whiteness: Race, Racism and White Privilege and Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality.
Follow this link to read his on-line articles from VOICE MALE.

Sut Jhally, founder and executive director of the Northampton, Mass.-based Media Education Foundation, producers of important social-issue video documentaries, and professor of communications at the University of Massachusetts.

Bill T. Jones is co-founder, artistic director, and choreographer of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. He has received the 2005 Wexner Prize, the 2005 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement, a 2005 Harlem Renaissance Award, and the 2003 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize. Mr. Jones choreographed and performed worldwide as a soloist and duet company with his late partner, Arnie Zane, before forming the company in 1982.

Jackson Katz, founder of Mentors in Violence Prevention and MVP Strategies of Long Beach, Calif., author of The Macho Paradox and a violence-prevention presenter who has worked with the U.S. Marines and professional sports teams (Jhally and Katz teamed up to produce the video Tough Guise).
Read his articles from the Spring 2006 and Winter 2007 issues of VOICE MALE

Joe Kelly, founder and president of Dads and Daughters, the Duluth, Minn.-based national organization promoting strong father-daughter connections and challenging corporate marketing campaigns that exploit or disaparage girls and women.

Michael Kimmel, the Brooklyn-based scholar, author and editor with numerous titles to his credit including Manhood in America: A Cultural History, The Gender of Desire: Essays on Masculinity and Sexuality and Against the Tide: Profeminist Men in the United States 1776-1990 (with Thomas E. Mossmiller), and a professor of sociology at Stony Brook University.

Don McPherson, former quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles and Houston Oilers who after retiring from football in 1994 joined the staff of the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University before becoming the first executive director of the Sports Leadership Institute at Adelphi University on Long Island, N.Y.

Michael Messner, chair of the sociology department at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and author of several books including Sex, Violence & Power in Sports (with Don Sabo), Power at Play: Sports and the Problem of Masculinity and Men's Lives (edited with Michael Kimmel).

Craig Norberg-Bohm, coordinator of the Men's Initiative for Jane Doe in Boston, a cutting-edge statewide effort to strengthen men's antiviolence activities across Massachusetts, who in 1977 cofounded RAVEN in St. Louis, a center for ending men's violence, and was formerly chair of the board of directors of Emerge, a Boston-based center working with domestic abuse offenders.

Haji Shearer, director of the Fatherhood Initiative at the Massachusetts Children's Trust Fund in Boston, and a frequent contributor to VOICE MALE who founded the fathers' program at Boston's Family Nurturing Center serving men in urban communities and who, in presentations, addresses father involvement, male intimacy and co-parenting and facilitates men's healing circles, boys-to-men rites of passage and couples' workshops. His on-line articles from VOICE MALE are listed below.