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Prescott College
220 Grove Ave.
Prescott, AZ 86301
Phone: 415-422-5238
About Us: The Peace and Justice Studies Association
Current Board Members
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Name: Tom Hastings Institutional Affiliation: Portland State Univ Board Position: Board Co-Chair Term Ends: 10/2008 Biography: |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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Name: Byron Plumley Institutional Affiliation: Regis University Board Position: Liaison to Activists Term Ends: 10/2008 Biography: |
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Name: James Skelly Institutional Affiliation: BCA Board Position: Liaison to IPRA Term Ends: 10/2008 Biography: |
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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. |
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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) |
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Name: Katherine Camillus Institutional Affiliation: Swarthmore College Board Position: Liaison to Students Term Ends: 10/2008 Biography: Undergraduate student at Swarthmore College |
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Name: Elavie Ndura-Ouédraogo Institutional Affiliation: George Mason University Board Position: Publications Term Ends: 10/2009 Biography: Professor of Education, George Mason University |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |