About the Contributor(s): Nancy Nason-Clark, PhD, is the Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of New Brunswick in Canada and Director of the RAVE Project. She is the author of The Battered Wife: How Christians Confront Family Violence. Barbara Fisher-Townsend, PhD, works as a Contract Academic in the Department of Sociology at the University of New Brunswick and teaches family violence related courses in the Department of Sociology and for the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research certificate program in family violence. Victoria Fahlberg, PhD, lived in Brazil where she founded ACODE, a social service/mental health clinic in a large favela (City of God) in Rio de Janeiro. She returned to the US in 1997 and has been working with immigrants and refugees since 2001.