AWB Staff

Diana Fried, M.Ac., L.Ac., M.A. Dipl. Ac. (NCCAOM) - Executive Director and Founder

Diana Fried is the founder and Executive Director of Acupuncturists Without Borders (AWB), which she founded in 2005. Diana has worked in disasters and under served communities doing community acupuncture healing in Louisiana, Haiti , Nepal, Mongolia, Ecuador, and Mexico along with supervising disaster relief work in multiple locations worldwide. Diana developed AWB's Healing Community Trauma training program and has trained over a thousand acupuncturists in the United States in how to do mobile community service field work with acupuncture. Diana envisioned and fostered AWB's Military Stress Recovery Project (MSRP), establishing free community clinics serving active duty military,veterans and their families. The goal of the program is to provide free and low cost trauma treatment to help heal the wounds of war, and to stem the passing on of trauma from one generation to the next. Diana's vision has actualized into 27 affiliated MSRP clinics around the U.S. providing many thousands of treatments to active military and veterans each year. Diana Fried has many years of experience and training in emotional/trauma healing work, along with years of work in international grassroots community development (Oxfam America, Grassroots International), including travel and work in Mexico, Central America, Asia and Africa. She graduated from the Academy for Five Element Acupuncture with an M.Ac. (1999), and is a certified Acupuncture Detoxification Specialist trained by the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA) and a certified Qigong Instructor. She was on the staff of Spring Hill in Massachusetts where she co-facilitated "Opening the Heart" workshops, and is trained in Critical Incident Stress Management, Plant Spirit Medicine, and Acutonics. She is also a video producer, writer, meditation practitioner, and has worked as a media consultant. Diana received her B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) from Bowdoin College and her M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin/ Institute of Latin American Studies where she did a video documentary on economic development strategies among the Huichol Indians to fight the deforestation of their land. She also produced a radio show that was aired on National Public Radio about the Miskito Indians in Nicaragua. She has numerous written and published articles about the work she has done with Acupuncturists Without Borders.

Henrietta Duran - Administrator 

Volunteer Staff

Terrie Duda Harris, Doctor of Oriental Medicine, M.S.T.O.M, M.A. Dipl. O.M. (NCCAOM), J.D., A.B. - Program Support

Terrie recently moved to New Mexico from New Jersey to fulfill her life-long dream of living in New Mexico.  Terrie is as passionate about her work as she is about living in New Mexico.  She primarily practices three of the major branches of Oriental medicine: acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, and Chinese dietary therapy.  Terrie had a successful acupuncture practice for eight years in New Jersey, where she devoted a major portion of her energies  to all aspects of women’s health: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.  Terrie has been drawn to Acupuncturists without Borders by a strong desire to work in and build community, particularly with the Military Stress Recovery Project.  Terrie also has been studying shamanic healing and energy medicine since the mid-90s.  She has embodied these practices into her own life and into her spiritual practice in order to make herself a better healer.  Terrie holds an A.B. from Dartmouth College (anthropology/Native American Studies); a J.D. from Rutgers University; and a Master’s of Science in Traditional Oriental Medicine from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine-NY.  She is licensed to practice Oriental medicine in NM and NJ and has a private practice in Santa Fe.

AWB is extremely grateful to the regular volunteer work @ 1 - 2 days/ week that Terrie is donating.

Special Projects

Julia C. Raneri, L.Ac., M. Ac.- AWB Volunteer Relief Worker, AWB Team Leader, AWB Training Instructor, AWB Haiti Operations Manager

Julia graduated in 1994 with a Masters of Acupuncture from the Northwest Institute of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in Seattle, Washington.  She is N.A.D.A. certified   (1995) and a N.A.D.A. registered trainer (1999). Her clinical experience includes 13 years of private practice, relief work in Honduras, Central America and New Orleans, Louisiana, community acupuncture in methadone maintenance centers, work release prisons and mental health facilities. She is currently living in San Francisco, where she cares for her mother, and in Selma, Oregon where she is starting a new private practice and a free community-style acupuncture clinic. She is also fluent in Spanish.

Healing Community Trauma Trainers

Melanie Rubin, AWB former Managing Director, M.Ed. (Instructional Design), Acupuncture Detox Specialist, Certified Business Coach

Julia C. Raneri, L.Ac., M.Ac., AWB Volunteer Relief Worker, AWB Team Leader, AWB Haiti Operations Manager, Certified NADA Trainer

Deb Boehme, Ph.D., LPPC, DOM, Dipl.AC, CISM Instructor

Coleen Connolly, R.N., M.Ac., Certified by the NCCA

AWB Would Also Like to Thank the Following Volunteers:

Celia Hildebrand - Trainings, International Programs, Japan Disaster Response

Mark Emery - Computer whiz

Dean Johnson - Website Administrator
Mariya Kai Gold -Facebook Administrator
Patrick Hildreth - Graphic Design
Cody Dodo - Graphic Design

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