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Current Board Members


Matt Meyer

Name: Matt Meyer
Institutional Affiliation: New York City Board of Education
Board Position: At-Large
Term Ends: 10/2008
Biography: Matt Meyer is an educator-activist, based in New York City. Founding PJSA Co-Chair along with USF Dean Jennifer Turpin, Meyer has long worked to bring together academics and activists for lasting social change. A former public draft registration resister and chair of the War Resisters League, he continues to serve as convener of the War Resisters International Africa Working Group. With Bill Sutherland, Meyer authored Guns and Gandhi in Africa: Pan-African Insights on Nonviolence, Armed Struggle and Liberation, of which Archbishop Desmond Tutu wrote, "Sutherland and Meyer have looked beyond the short-term strategies and tactics which too often divide progressive people . . . They have begun to develop a language which looks at the roots of our humanness." Meyer is author of Time is Tight: Transformative Education in Eritrea, South Africa, and the U.S.A., based in part on his experiences as Multicultural Coordinator for the NYC Board of Education's Alternative High Schools and Programs. He has edited the Fellowship of Reconciliation's "Puerto Rico: The Cost of Colonialism;" War in Africa and an African Peace; and the forthcoming two-volume Seeds of New Hope: African Peace Studies for the 21st Century.




Susie Farahat

Name: Susanna Farahat
Institutional Affiliation: On Earth Peace
Board Position: At-Large
Term Ends: 10/2009
Biography: Graduate of Bryn Mawr College; Coordinator for Peacemaker Formation, program for Peace Education at On Earth Peace.




Sigal Ben-Porath

Name: Sigal Ben-Porath
Institutional Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
Board Position: At-Large Member
Term Ends: 10/2009
Biography: University of Pennsylvania assistant professor specializing in philosophy of education, citizenship in peace and conflict, and gender studies. Former educator in Israel for at-risk youth.




Bill Barbieri
Board Position: Awards Committee
Term Ends: 10/2009
Biography: Associate Professor of Ethics; Associate Dean for Graduate Studies; Director, Peace and Justice Studies Program; PhD, Yale University (Religious Studies), 1992; specializing in Comparative Ethics, Social Ethics, Ethics and Political Theory.




Tom Hastings

Name: Tom Hastings
Institutional Affiliation: Portland State Univ
Board Position: Board Co-Chair
Term Ends: 10/2008
Biography:




Margaret Groarke

Name: Margaret Groarke
Institutional Affiliation: Manhattan College
Board Position: Board Co-Chair
Term Ends: 10/2008
Biography: Margaret is an Assistant Professor of Government at Manhattan College, and director of the College's Peace Studies program. She is actively involved in community organizing with the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition.




Joanie Connors

Name: Joanie Connors
Institutional Affiliation: Western New Mexico University
Board Position: Conference Chair
Term Ends: 10/2008
Biography: Adjunct Faculty in Psychology, licensed Psychologist, Systems Theory scholar and therapist.




Randall Amster

Name: Randall Amster
Institutional Affiliation: Prescott College
Board Position: Executive Director
Term Ends: 06/2011
Biography: Randall Amster, professor of Peace Studies and Social Thought at Prescott College, holds a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and a Ph.D. in Justice Studies from Arizona State University. He publishes widely in areas including anarchism, ecology, homelessness, and social justice; writes a regular op-ed newspaper column; and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Contemporary Justice Review. With his partner Leenie and young sons Arlo and Zeno, he lives on a small ranch in northern Arizona with many animals and a thriving desert garden.




Roberta Hunte

Name: Roberta Hunte
Institutional Affiliation: University of Manitoba/ Portland State University
Board Position: Fundraising Chair
Term Ends: 10/2009
Biography: Roberta is a Ph.D. student in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manitoba, Canada's first Ph.D. programme in Peace and Conflict. She completed her Masters in Conflict Resolution at Portland State University. She started her life in Virginia and lived in Atlanta, GA and Johannesburg, South Africa before moving to Portland, Oregon. Roberta’s background is US-West Indian. She is interested in storytelling, violence intervention and prevention with youth, and anti-oppression dialogues. She loves to sing! Presently she is working on her degree, teaching part-time, and working on a Manitoba research project on trauma healing interventions with war effected peoples.




Shannon Wills

Name: Shannon Wills
Board Position: Interim Executive Administrator
Term Ends: 06/2008
Biography: Shannon holds a BA in Psychology from University of Colorado at Denver, where she specialized in Cross-Cultural Psychology and Anthropology. She completed a year-long ethnography of Culture and Conflict Resolution in Guatemala, has worked as a domestic violence victims’ advocate, and facilitated Anger Management and Conflict Resolution courses with inner-city Denver youth. She has more than a decade of experience in printing prepress, writing, editing, and project administration. When she is not working, she reads, travels, and studies religion and spiritual traditions.






Name: Christine Hansvick
Institutional Affiliation: Pacific Lutheran University
Board Position: Liaison to Academic Programs
Term Ends: 10/2009
Biography: Professor of Psychology, Pacific Lutheran University; Program Director, Leadership Tacoma-Pierce County, A joint PLU- Chamber of Commerce program




Byron Plumley

Name: Byron Plumley
Institutional Affiliation: Regis University
Board Position: Liaison to Activists
Term Ends: 10/2008
Biography:




Jim Skelly

Name: James Skelly
Institutional Affiliation: BCA
Board Position: Liaison to IPRA
Term Ends: 10/2008
Biography:




Tony Jenkins

Name: Tony Jenkins
Institutional Affiliation: Global Education Associates
Board Position: Liaison to K-12 Educators
Term Ends: 10/2008
Biography: Co-Director of the Peace Education Center at Teachers College, Columbia University. Global Coordinator of the International Institute on Peace Education. Coordinator of the Global Campaign for Peace Education.




Doug Archer

Name: Doug Archer
Institutional Affiliation: University of Notre Dame
Board Position: Liaison to Research Institutions, Harmonizer
Term Ends: 10/2009
Biography: Reference and Peace Studies Librarian, University Libraries of Notre Dame; Ordained Minister and Shalom Team Consultant, Northern Indiana District, Church of the Brethren; Chair, Intellectual Freedom Round Table and incoming Chair, Intellectual Freedom Committee (American Library Association)




Katie Camillus

Name: Katherine Camillus
Institutional Affiliation: Swarthmore College
Board Position: Liaison to Students
Term Ends: 10/2008
Biography: Undergraduate student at Swarthmore College






Name: Elavie Ndura-Ouédraogo
Institutional Affiliation: George Mason University
Board Position: Publications
Term Ends: 10/2009
Biography: Professor of Education, George Mason University




Jeff Paris

Name: Jeffrey Paris
Institutional Affiliation: University of San Francisco
Board Position: Secretary; Nominating Committee Chair
Term Ends: 10/2009
Biography: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of San Francisco; Executive Editor, Radical Philosophy Review; Associate Editor, Peace Review: A Transnational Quarterly. Author of articles and edited books on critical theory and the philosophy of imprisonment.




Daniel O'Leary

Name: Daniel O'Leary
Institutional Affiliation: Old Dominion University
Board Position: Treasurer
Term Ends: 10/2009
Biography: Old Dominion University professor; former Executive Director of COPRED




Amy Shuster

Name: Amy Shuster
Institutional Affiliation: Princeton University
Board Position: Web Manager
Term Ends: 10/2008
Biography: Amy is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Theory at Princeton University. She will defend her dissertation, The Judgment of Generations in May 2008, under the direction of Charles Beitz, Patrick Deneen, Alan Patten and Cornel West. Amy lives and rides her bicycle in Princeton with lots of plants, no pets, and her partner, Tristram.






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