Nancy J. Murakami DSW, LCSW, is the co-founder, technical advisor, and clinical supervisor of Friends of Kisoro. Dr. Murakami has extensive direct practice, program development, and training experience in the fields of trauma and refugee mental health and psychosocial wellbeing. Dr. Murakami is an assistant professor at Pacific University in Oregon, USA, where she teaches across the master of social work curriculum. Dr. Murakami has been an adjunct assistant professor at New York University (NYU) Silver School of Social Work and at Columbia University School of Social Work, where she designed and teaches courses on social work practice with survivors of persecution and forced displacement. She received her Doctor of Social Welfare in Clinical Social Work from NYU where she held a graduate research assistant position at the Center on Violence and Recovery. She has recently held clinical and leadership positions at the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture in NYC and at Burma Border Projects in Thailand. Dr. Murakami practiced as a psychotherapist at the Safe Horizon Counseling Center in NYC, working with adult and child survivors of international human trafficking, domestic violence, and sexual violence. Dr. Murakami conducts live and web-based trainings domestically and internationally on topics including trauma-informed care, refugee services, social work approaches with survivors of torture and forced displacement, working with interpreters, and service provider wellbeing. She is co-editor of Trauma and Recovery on War's Border: A Guide for Global Health Workers, a book in the Geisel Series in Global Health and Medicine. Dr. Murakami served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malawi, Africa, and received her Master of Social Work from Columbia University.