Cheryl Kennedy, M.D. was Professor and Vice-Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School in Newark. An early Medicine For Peace volunteer, she helped plan and initiate the much-praised Bosnian Children’s Project in Kozarac. Cheryl recognized the desperate condition of children who had witnessed ethnic cleansing and transformed the Kozarac School into a safe, healing space. She was devoted to teaching mental health workers in the United States as well as Vietnam, Myanmar, Cuba, Guatemala and Peru.