Hector Salamanca Arroyo served as grassroots engagement coordinator with AFSC’s Governing Under the Influence project in Iowa. Originally from Puebla, Mexico, Hector has lived in Iowa for the past 20 years and is a graduate of Drake University, where he created a campus organization to improve access to higher education for undocumented immigrants.

Lauren Brownlee is a member of Bethesda Friends Meeting and serves on the Peace and Social Concerns Committee and the Growing Diverse Leadership Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting. She is also a member of the Sandy Spring Friends School Board of Trustees, the DC Peace Team, and the Quaker Palestine Israel Network.

In this fourth installment of our series featuring the writing of Black Quakers on Black Lives Matter, Lauren Brownlee speaks to the intersection of privilege and oppression, the solidarity between Palestinians and Black Lives Matter, and "that of God in everyone." Lauren Brownlee is a member of Bethesda Friends Meeting and serves on the Peace and Social Concerns Committee and the Growing Diverse Leadership Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting. 

Part 1 of a 5 part series

This morning, Tom Brokaw helped kick off NBC’s Super Tuesday coverage with a story about how voter anger and disillusionment are playing out in this year’s presidential primaries. We can talk about how this isn’t the whole story in another post. Today, we want to kick off our #Election2016 series – Election Moments We Love – with a little #SuperTuesday humor.

 “They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.” - Mexican Proverb 

Dr. Amanda Kemp, Visiting Scholar in Africana Studies at Franklin & Marshall College, is currently touring a performance project "Inspira:  The Power of the Spiritual," and her film “To Cross an Ocean Four Centuries Long."   A playwright and Pennsylvania Commonwealth Lecturer on poet Phillis Wheatley, Dr. Kemp regularly writes on African American culture, spirituality, and social change in her blog: "On a Mission to Heal the Planet."  She earned a B.A. and Phd from Stanford and Northwestern Universities, respectively.