Nancy Bothne worked as the Midwest Regional Director for Amnesty International - USA from 1994 to 2004. In that position she served as primary spokesperson for Amnesty International in the Midwest and was charged with developing and implementing strategies for Amnesty's human rights agenda in the region. Beginning Fall 2005, Ms. Bothne will be pursuing a Ph.D. in community psychology at DePaul University, studying how human rights trauma impacts the community as well as individuals, and how communities recover and rebuild themselves following such trauma.














