Program Principal & Faculty Advisor

Rita Nakashima Brock, RelM, MA, PhD., (she, her) is a founding principal of Collective Approaches to Moral Injury Recovery (CAMIR). She has been a university chaplain, educator, scholar, editor, mentor to women of color scholars, and is an award-winning author. She is co-author of Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury After War (Beacon 2012), and she co-founded and directed the Soul Repair Center at Brite Divinity School from 2012-2017. From 2017-2025, she was Senior Vice President for Moral Injury Recovery Programs at Volunteers of America (VOA), a large social services non-profit.