Award Recipients

The Hopi Foundation established The Barbara Chester Award for outstanding clinicians/practitioners who treat victims of torture, their families and communities. In issuing this award, we hope to honor the worthy persons who undertake the difficult and often dangerous work of providing healing services in circumstances of torture. We hope also to call attention to such abuses directed against specific regions and communities, and draw worldwide support for prevention of torture and associated trauma.

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Since its creation, eight invaluable individuals from seven countries have received The Barbara Chester Award. Each of these recipients has demonstrated a capacity for healing in the harrowing sphere of torture, and helped to carry the torch of Dr. Barbara Chester.