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.
Silas Wanjala just finished six months as the Friends Relations intern at AFSC. He was born and raised in western Kenya in Kitale. After graduating from seminary in 2003, he worked as a pastor in Elgon East Yearly Meeting. Silas has been involved in community development and peace work. Silas was a member of the Friends Church Peace Team. He has a Masters of Arts in Religion with a focus on Peace and Justice Studies from the Earlham School of Religion. His time at Earlham helped him to further his understanding of conflict transformation.
Patricia Sellick has been serving as the Regional Director for the Middle East for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) since 2009. Her connection with the Middle East began in 1987 when she served as a volunteer with the British Friends agency, Quaker Peace and Service. She was based for two years in Hebron, in the occupied Palestinian territories, at the time of the first Palestinian intifada.