Staff

Elizabeth Anglin Knox, Managing Director
Elizabeth Knox is the founding Managing Director of the Outward Bound Center for Peacebuilding. Her focus in the start-up phase of the Center is business planning, overall management and capacity-building, board development, fundraising, and liaising with the international Outward Bound community. Ms. Knox joined Outward Bound as a field instructor in 1995. She has served the organization in multiple capacities since that time, including as Director of Operations and Safety and Director of Marketing in North Carolina, and as a Development Associate in New York City. She served as the Development Officer for Outward Bound International/Global Leaders Program, and more recently, was the Interim Vice President, Development for Outward Bound, Inc. Ms. Knox has been actively engaged with the international Outward Bound network, including participation in Outward Bound World Conferences in Australia, Malaysia and South Africa, and visits to developing Outward Bound programs around the world. In addition to her work with Outward Bound, she served as General Manager of Yamnuska Inc. in Canada, where she co-proposed and co-managed adventure training contracts for the British and Canadian militaries. Ms. Knox has an undergraduate degree from Guilford College, and holds a masters degree in Public Policy and Administration from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

Shira Loewenberg, Director
Shira Loewenberg joined Outward Bound as a consultant in July 2006, and came onboard as a Director with the launch of the Outward Bound Center for Peacebuilding in January 2007. In the start-up phase, her focus is on institutional relations, partnerships, program development and evaluation, and communications. Her prior experience includes working with two United Nations peacekeeping missions in the former Yugoslavia in the mid-1990s, and more than a decade of documentary film and television production and management. She teaches at The New School, Graduate Program in International Affairs, and has written and presented on the subject of media and communications in post-conflict environments. She serves as an Associate at the Center for International Conflict Resolution at Columbia University. Ms. Loewenberg has a masters degree in International Affairs from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

 

Julie Burns, Consultant
Julie Burns is the Outward Bound Center for Peacebuilding special consultant to Outward Bound Rwanda, and in that role serves in both grant monitoring and advisory capacities. She comes to the Outward Bound Center for Peacebuilding and to OB Rwanda through a long path of professional engagement with experiential and outdoor education programs and with Africa. After completing her B.A. in Economics, she served for several years as a Peace Corps volunteer (1988-1991) in North Kivu, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo), where she lived among Rwandan refugees from pre-1994 episodes of violence in Rwanda. After evacuation from Zaire in 1991, Ms. Burns started her Outward Bound career with the North Carolina Outward Bound School in the USA, first as an apprentice, then as instructor, course director, and course manager for international courses in Costa Rica. In 1999, she began as Director of Wilderness Programs at Cornell University Outdoor Education, where she continued to also lead international expeditions to Mexico and Ecuador. She left this position to begin full time graduate studies, first attaining a Masters in Public Administration from Cornell University’s Institute for Public Affairs, and then beginning her Ph.D. in Education at Cornell University. Her masters research was on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in South Africa, and her doctoral dissertation is focused on the processes of reconciliation in women’s groups in Rwanda. She travels to Rwanda and DRC frequently for her research and for consultancies with both the Outward Bound Center for Peacebuilding and with IMPACT development training group.

 

 

The Global Staff Network of Outward Bound
Outward Bound International

The operational work of Outward Bound peacebuilding programs will be implemented by the highly experienced Outward Bound staff members and instructors around the globe.