Kat Curry is the 2025 Padosi Fellow with the Appalachian Center for Equality (ACE), working to implement policy and programs that advocate for and serve disabled youth in Appalachia. They've served on steering committees with AFSC and the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy to help develop the 2025 Summer and Fall Policy Institutes. Kat is an alum of Fairmont State University, recently earning their Bachelors of Science in Sociology.
Kay serves as an advisor to the Women Advocacy Coalition- Myanmar (WAC-M). She was a Women Peace Maker Fellow (2023-2024) at the Kroc School of Peace and Justice, University of San Diego. She holds an MPA from Sciences Po, Paris and an MA from Webster University, St.
Laura joined the Religious Society of Friends as a college student in 1971 and served in faith-based organizations both as a committee/Board member and a staff member throughout her professional life. Laura’s primary field of expertise has been the criminal legal system, but also experience with peace issues, as an activist, housing issues, racial justice. It matters greatly to Laura that AFSC is a multi-issue organization working all over the world. She has also held countless positions within her monthly meeting and yearly meeting and has served as clerk of Pacific Yearly Meeting.