Kaethe Weingarten is an associate clinical professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School and directs the program in "Family, Trauma and Resilience: Integrating Biology, Psychology, Family and Community Perspectives" at the Family Institute of Cambridge. She is founder and director of The Witnessing Project, a nonprofit organization that consults to individuals, families, and communities locally, nationally, and internationally to transform passive witnessing of violence and violation to effective action. Her most recent book is Common Shock - Witnessing Violence Every Day: How We Are Harmed, How We Can Heal. Dr. Weingarten has worked in Kosovo and South Africa for the last several years, addressing issues of community-wide trauma. She has over 40 publications, including six books; is on the editorial boards of five journals

She served on the AFTA Board from 1995-2001; and was honored by AFTA in 2002 with the Award for Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Theory and Practice. Current interests include developing models for communities to use witnessing to intercept multigenerational transmission of the impact of historical trauma and political violence.