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Leaders of the Emancipation Project | ||
 Nora
J. Baladerian, Ph.D.President and Board Member Dr. Nora Baladerian is a clinical psychologist with a private practice in West Los Angeles. She is the Director of the Child Abuse, Neglect and Disability Outreach Project, which is funded in part by the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services. Dr. Baladerian has served as a member of the California Commission on Personal Privacy and the Los Angeles City Task Force on Family Diversity. She has worked for many years in the field of child abuse prevention. Dr. Baladerian has been a board member and officer of Spectrum Institute for 15 years. | ||
 Thomas
F. ColemanExecutive Director and Board Member
Thomas F. Coleman is an attorney who, for the past 30 years, has focused
his legal, political, and educational skills on protecting human rights
and promoting respect for diversity. He has participated in equal
rights litigation in federal and state appellate courts, and has worked
with elected officials at all levels of government to promote justice and
liberty for all people regardless of age, disability, gender, sexual
orientation, marital status, religion, race, or ethnicity. His
latest human rights venture -- the Emancipation Project -- was stimulated
in the summer of 2004 when he spearheaded an effort to rescue a Michigan
girl who had been abducted and transported to a reprogramming facility in
Montana. Mr. Coleman is a founding director of Spectrum Institute. | ||
Michael A. Vasquez Michael A. Vasquez has provided
administrative services for Spectrum
Institute and its various projects for the past five years. He was
formerly employed by the State of California as a Psychiatric Technician at
Camarillo State Hospital. In that capacity he worked on a daily
basis providing supervision and treatment for troubled teenagers who were
living there in a long-term residential rehabilitation program.
Working with the newly created Emancipation Project allows Mr. Vasquez to draw
on his administrative skills as well as his years of experience as a
mental health professional helping juveniles. | ||
| From 2004 to 2006, the Emancipation Project monitored and reported on all aspects of the "teen help industry" as it networked with scholars who study, and professionals who provide services to, juveniles who have been abused or neglected and parents who have been defrauded. | ||
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The Emancipation
Project was a function of
Spectrum Institute, | ||