Eva Dittrich: Founder, Personal Advocacy Coach
Prior to establishing Shobha, Eva traveled to 11 countries interviewing and photographing breast cancer patients and survivors. She then returned to graduate school to formalize her findings as part of New York University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Trauma and Violence Transdisciplinary Studies program. Eva earned her Master of Arts degree in Psychology from Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, is a Certified Professional Coach through iPEC (an International Coach Federation-accredited school), and completed a Master of Arts in International Service from Roehampton University in London. As part of this program, she spent five months in Kingston, Jamaica working independently with mothers of gang violence victims through the S-Corner Clinic, and volunteering with Jamaicans For Justice to implement educational workshops in poverty-ridden, gang-controlled neighborhoods. Eva.earned her Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Richmond, The American International University in London with a special focus on intercultural communications and women’s issues and spent her first year of college at the University of Maryland in Schwaebisch Gmuend, Germany.
Eva has a wide variety of experience with a focus on serving sidelined populations, viewing and treating illness and extreme poverty as traumatic experiences, and working from the core belief that every person has the potential to overcome and thrive given the opportunity.
Eva grew up in Kansas City, has also lived in New York City, San Diego, Los Angeles, Germany, England, Jamaica, and Panama, and has traveled to 29 countries overall.
Eva has a wide variety of experience with a focus on serving sidelined populations, viewing and treating illness and extreme poverty as traumatic experiences, and working from the core belief that every person has the potential to overcome and thrive given the opportunity.
Eva grew up in Kansas City, has also lived in New York City, San Diego, Los Angeles, Germany, England, Jamaica, and Panama, and has traveled to 29 countries overall.
Dr. Genevieve Yarrell-Harris: Board of Directors
As a distinguished professional in business, education, and psychology, Genevieve has focused the last 30 years of her life’s work on empowering and enhancing individuals via consulting, diversity training, human resource relations, teaching, independent research, and private practice in the U.S. and internationally. Her diverse background working with underserved adults and youth in culturally diverse and challenging settings has established her in many leadership roles, including as professor of education at Lehman College (Bronx, New York) and psychology at The College of New Rochelle, plus auditing and instructing other university-level courses. She has also served on the New York City Board of Education for Bronx schools since 1987, provides counseling and psychological services at St. Vincent’s Outpatient Clinic in Brooklyn, New York, and was a counselor at The Institute of Applied Human Dynamics in Bronx, New York from 1985-1993. Genevieve also founded her own business in 1997, “Enhancing Minds Services,” that provides consulting, psychological and educational research, and other related services in New York City, the Tri-State area, and internationally.
Genevieve is a licensed New York State Counselor and graduated from Fordham University in New York City as a Doctor of Philosophy in Counseling Psychology (2003), also earning her Master of Science degree there in Counseling Education (1983). Prior to this, she graduated with a Bachelor of Professional Studies degree in Business and Human Relations from Pace University in New York City (1981).
Besides her background and ongoing work in improving the lives of underserved populations, particularly women and youth, Genevieve also brings ten years of business experience from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She has a wealth of knowledge to offer Shobha in many regards as well as a personal desire to help its beneficiaries.
Genevieve is a licensed New York State Counselor and graduated from Fordham University in New York City as a Doctor of Philosophy in Counseling Psychology (2003), also earning her Master of Science degree there in Counseling Education (1983). Prior to this, she graduated with a Bachelor of Professional Studies degree in Business and Human Relations from Pace University in New York City (1981).
Besides her background and ongoing work in improving the lives of underserved populations, particularly women and youth, Genevieve also brings ten years of business experience from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She has a wealth of knowledge to offer Shobha in many regards as well as a personal desire to help its beneficiaries.
