Leora Hudak, LCSW, is deputy director of global clinical services, providing operational leadership to translate clinical strategy into coordinated, high-quality program delivery across CVT’s global portfolio of mental health and psychosocial support, physiotherapy, case management and related services. Leora served for many years as CVT program manager for migration partnerships, overseeing mental health and psychosocial support programming at the U.S.-Mexico border and in Latin America. In this role, she provided supervision, oversight and training to CVT staff and partners on best practices working with torture survivors and people in migration in the Americas.

Leora also led CVT’s work on statelessness and provided training to external partners on staff wellbeing and trauma-informed practice. Leora has worked with CVT since 2014 in various roles, including as a psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer. Leora holds a Master’s Degree in social work from the University of Chicago Crown School of Social Work, Policy and Practice. She is fluent in Spanish.