Re: Congratulations, Trudy, on receiving the Marcella Prize

From: "Trudy Bond" <drtrudybond@PROTECTED>

In-Reply-To: (no subject)

Date: August 21st 2015

Josie,

Thank you so much for posting this. The days in Toronto at the APA convention were a whirlwind, and this award was an important part of that for me. I'm so grateful that my friends Ben Davis from Toledo and Deborah from Boston came to Toronto to be there with me. I did want to acknowledge you and the other complainants in Ohio when I posted on the PsySR listserv yesterday:

To all,

I apologize for the delay in this response. It has taken me some time to regroup from Toronto. I'm grateful to Yosef for posting this message and especially grateful to Tony Marsella for endowing this award.

As I said in Toronto when I received the award (I think, I can't really remember what I said), I do so clearly remember and have a visual image of sitting at my first PsySR conference in 2009 (which ironically was also in Toronto), when I knew absolutely no one, and watching Jean Maria Arrigo accept the Marsella Award for "recognition of her work in the area of human rights and social action." I can tell you words from her acceptance speech.

Only later did I understand what was occurring when she was given this award. Jean Maria was my hero at the time for "leaking" the PENS listserv and speaking out on her experience - she was a rock star.

Thus, to receive this award is an honor I can't completely describe. I've always been somewhat surprised at peoples' reactions to what I have done in this field, as it has seemed to me to be the only logical action to take. So many people have enabled my work to continue - the attorney from the National Lawyers Guild in Louisiana who responded to my request for help, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Harvard Law School International Human Rights Committee, the three other complainants in the Ohio complaint against Larry James, and especially Deborah Popowski, who made a call to me one day many years ago and said "We've heard you've filed some complaints." That was the beginning of many years of collaboration that have given meaning to my life.

Again, thank you - thank you Tony - I still remember when we were sitting in a circle in 2009 and you asked me a question at that Toronto conference and I looked like a deer in the headlights :))

As ever,

Trudy

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Josie Setzler <josiesetzler@PROTECTED> wrote:

I just learned that Trudy Bond received the Marcella Prize from the Psychologist for Social Responsibility on August 7 for her work on accountability for psychologists who participate in torture. Yes!! Congratulations, Trudy!

http://psysr.org/about/awards/marsella-prize.php

PsySR's Anthony J. Marsella Prize for the Psychology of Peace and Social Justice is given annually to recognize outstanding psychology-based contributions in scholarship and action by an individual in one or more of the following areas: Peace and Nonviolence, Poverty, Human Rights, Humanitarian Assistance, Spirituality, and Social Action.

Dr. Trudy Bond
419-536-3356

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