Cara Curtis is a lifelong Quaker who currently lives and worships in West Philadelphia. She is a listener, sometimes writer, researcher, woman-encourager, triathlon finisher, mashed potato maker, Frisbee player, and believer in stories. She is currently participating in the Word and World mentoring program and was one of the editors of Spirit Rising: Young Quaker Voices, published by Friends General Conference. Cara is unsure of w
Paul Lacey earned a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and was awarded a Ph.D. by Harvard University. He taught in the English Department at Earlham from 1960-2003 and is Professor Emeritus of English. Well-known on an international level, Lacey has shared his wisdom through extensive writing and speaking.
Angelina Conti lives in Philadelphia and works in higher education. She taught Peace Studies for two years at the Woolman Semester. This piece also appears on her blog:www.notafraidofthunder.com.
George Lakey has been a leader in the field of nonviolent social change since the 1960s and has published extensively for both activist and academic readers. He was the founder and executive director of Training for Change, a Philadelphia-based organization internationally known for its leadership in creating and teaching strategies for nonviolent social change.
Kathleen Wooten is a member of Lawrence Monthly Meeting in Massachusetts, and serves as co-clerk for Salem (MA) Quarterly Meeting's Ministry and Counsel. She currently travels among Friends within New England as part of the NEYM intervisitation committee, and her travel minute names a concern for encouraging intervisitation among Friends. Kathleen is also a music educator in the NH public schools, where she seeks to create and nurture community through arts-based learning experiences.
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Dan Seeger is a retired non-for-profit administrator and organizational leader, and a Quaker religion and social issue writer. In 1965 the Supreme Court, in the case of the case of The United States of America vs. Daniel A. Seeger, greatly expanded the religious qualifications for allowing pacifists exemption from military service on conscientious grounds.
Gabriela Flora works in the Denver Office of AFSC as the Regional Project Voice Organizer. You can learn more of her story by watching a video she put together as part of the Denver Immigrant Digital Storytelling project.
Erin Polley is Program Coordinator of the Indiana Peacebuilding Program and the "If I Had A Trillion Dollars" Youth Film Festival. Erin started out as a volunteer with the Chicago office of American Friends Service Committee shortly after the start of the Iraq War in 2003.