The Steering Committee is comprised of an interdisciplinary collaborative of veterans, students, staff, faculty, and researchers aiming to address moral injury and raise awareness about the psychological and spiritual pain of those impacted by invisible wounds. As practitioners of various disciplines, arts, faiths, and spiritual perspectives, we have united to embrace the multiple forms of dialogue that address moral injury and foster moral repair. In doing so, we situate ourselves within the broader context of acknowledging moral injury, both as activists working to increase understanding and as facilitators working to promote healing and integration.
Eileen E. Schell, Ph.D. is Professor of Writing and Rhetoric and the Laura J. and Douglas L. Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence at Syracuse University. Schell is the author of nine books and co-edited collections, and she teaches courses in rhetoric, academic writing, creative nonfiction, and war narratives. She is the founder and co-leader of the Syracuse Veterans’ Writing Group (2010-present) and co-editor of the group’s literary anthology The Weight of my Armor (Parlor/New City Press). Schell is the current facilitator of the Moral Injury Project. Her work explores ways that writing can function as a healing modality for those experiencing trauma and loss.
Jennifer Reddy is the Associate Director and Veterans Services Coordinator at LeMoyne College.
Jennifer Jeffery, M.S. Jennifer is the Chief of Library, Information, and Archives Services at the SUNY Potsdam College Libraries. She is an academic librarian, writer, and poet and a member of the Syracuse Veterans Writing group. Her writing has been published in the anthology The Weight of My Armor, the Journal of Veterans Studies, Blueline, and Intertext. Jeffery is a veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard veteran and has been a member of the Moral Injury Project steering committee since 2014. Her work is in facilitating access and effective use of information and in holding space for non-dominant narratives.
Susan B. French is the co-founder of the Montessori School of Syracuse. She studied Conflict Resolution at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School and has worked with organizations of all sizes teaching communication and conflict resolution skills. Through her work, she seeks to reduce the incidence of violent conflict and war, and ameliorate the harmful effects of war on those negatively impacted.
Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz is the Interim Dean of Hendricks Chapel.
Former Founding Steering Committee members:
Peg Stearns is the former Director of Financial Aid at University College and the former Director of the Veterans Resource Center at Syracuse University, now retired.