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Speaker's Bureau

   

 

Teach Peace offers a Speaker's Bureau for schools and groups interested in teaching peace. We have experts on teaching kindness, leadership development, nuclear proliferation, depleted uranium, post traumatic stress disorder, torture, monetary policy, militarism, the weaponization of space, conflicts in the Middle East, economic justice in Africa, the Gaza siege, the power of nonviolence, and current threats to democracy.

Please read below to learn about specific speakers and use the e-mail addresses provided to contact individual speakers. Costs associated with this program vary by speaker and the travel required.

Stephanie Abundo

Stephanie graduated from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in Urban Planning. She also is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Masters degree in Operations Research. Her undergraduate training includes degrees in Mathematics and Economics from Wellesley College.

Originally from San Francisco, Stephanie now lives in Davis, California.

Stephanie is an advisor to the Teach Peace Foundation board and a key team member. She has a passion for sustainable living, nonviolence, and giving the gift of education. Her knowledge of books is extremely unique as is her valuable advice to our organization.

 

Topics:

  1. Why teaching peace is important for our children
  2. Teach peace books that are ideal for book club discussions

Contact Stephanie at sfa1117@yahoo.com.

Fadhil Al-Kazily

Fadhil earned a bachelor degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Liverpool in the UK. He earned his Master and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. Fadhil's engineering career included design, construction teaching, research, and management.

Fadhil is an amazing speaker. He often starts his presentations by observing his roots are in Iraq and his branches are here in the United States. His perspective on the Iraq War is incredibly powerful because he explains how his branches are attacking his roots (i.e., his family living in Iraq). Attendees hear solutions to the Iraq War that are very different than what is constantly reinforced by the corporate owned media. For Fadhil, the occupation of Iraq is a continuous nightmare as he worries each day about his family.

 

Topics:

  1. Life in Iraq and solutions to violence in Iraq
  2. Iraq's desperate need for rebuilding
  3. Peace is necessary for all of us

Contact Fadhil at falkazily@yahoo.com.

Dr. Linda Copeland

Dr. Linda Copeland graduated from UC Davis Medical School with honors. She completed residency training in Pediatrics and fellowship training in developmental pediatrics and child psychiatry at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.  While in Iowa, she was a founder and first president of the initial Iowa Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Linda works as a developmental pediatrician at Kaiser Permanente in the Rancho Cordova Autism Spectrum Disorders Clinic. A long time peace activist, Linda was part of the Nuclear Freeze movement in the 1980s.

Linda leads Teach Peace's programs to teach peace to children. Under Linda's leadership we expect to make great advances in helping children learn about the importance of being kind, protecting the environment, and discovering alternatives to violence.

Topics:

  1. How Teach Peace can help individuals and organizations

Contact Linda at lecopeland372@yahoo.com.

Dave Dionisi

Dave Dionisi is the president of the Teach Peace Foundation. He delivers peace education programs and organized acts of kindness both in the United States and around the world. Dave's experience includes service as a senior executive with MetLife, DirectAdvice, and New England Financial. Prior to working in corporate America, Dave served the country as an Army Intelligence Officer. His business and military experiences over the last 29 years are complemented by an extensive background as an international volunteer in Asia, Central America, Europe and Africa. In 2008, Dave was presented with the Martin Luther King Jr. Outstanding International Peace Leader award for his work helping orphans and poor children in West Africa.

Click here to listen to an example of a high school student presentation to approximately 1,500 students.

Topics:

  1. How to build peace with acts of kindness
  2. Why peaceful leadership education and training is essential
  3. First-hand experiences breaking the cycle of poverty in West Africa (click here for a documentary)
  4. Helping Africa's disabled children
  5. Transforming war orphans into peaceful leaders
  6. The first casualty of truth is war (the primary focus can be any conflict)
  7. Nonviolence - A Force More Powerful (click here for the documentary)

Contact Dave at ddionisi@sbcglobal.net.

Dr. Don Forrester

Don Forrester received his undergraduate training as a chemical engineer and is certified by the American Academy of Family Practice and the American College of Physician Executives.  He has worked for over 29 years with the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in Sacramento, California. In addition to his medical practice, he has held several administrative and leadership positions. He is also the principal of The Clinical Catalyst which focuses on building high performing sustainable clinical teams. He feels strongly that informed citizens are critical to achieve peace, protect the environment, and improve the well being of citizens of the world. His presentations are appropriate for ages 15 and above.

 

Topics:

  1. Nuclear: Power, Depleted Uranium, and Weapons
  2. Medical Effects of War: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and beyond
  3. Preventing Violence with Nonviolence
  4. Conventional Capitalism: Why we fight and the alternative - Natural Capitalism
  5. Torture through Genocide: History, Prevention, and Treatment

Contact Don at donf@cwnet.com.

Mary Anne Kirsch

As a teacher, Mary Anne has taught peaceful conflict resolution to students for over 30 years. During those years, she always held to the firm belief that education was the key for forming a spiritual basis in a young person's heart for peaceful attitudes. Since Mary Anne's retirement from teaching full-time, she has been active in many volunteer projects. She worked for the unsheltered homeless through an interfaith program called the Interfaith Homeless Task Force. In addition, Mary Anne is a key leader on the St. James Gospel Justice Peace Group. Presently, Mary Anne teaches art to Plainfield Elementary students on a grant funded by the Rumsey tribe. One of the highlights of Mary Anne's life happened this year when she went on a peace building trip to Mission Honduras, an orphanage and school complex for children and mothers in need.

 

Topics:

  1. Teach Peace's Leaders program.
  2. How to teach peace with young children.

Contact Mary Anne at murrayk2@comcast.net.

Nadia McCaffrey

Nadia McCaffrey resides in Tracy, California and is the founder of Angelstaff.org, a group of volunteers who bring a caring presence to terminally ill patients and their families. When her son, Sergeant Patrick McCaffrey, died on June 22, 2004 in Iraq, Nadia began to focus much of her work on promoting peace and justice and reaching out to parents that have lost loved ones in the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. Nadia McCaffrey went on Global Exchange's trip to the Jordan and Iraq border at the start of 2005 with the Families for Peace delegation which delivered over $650,000 of medical and humanitarian aid for the thousands of refugees, mostly women and children, made homeless by the U.S. attack on Falluja. Nadia received international attention as the "mother who defied the Bush Administration" when she asked the media to be present at the airport to photograph her son's flag-draped coffin.

Topics:

  1. Journey To Peace
  2. The Need For Veteran Villages & Support Services
  3. How Teach Peace Can Help Peace Organizations Be More Effective
  4. Forgiveness

Contact Nadia at nadiaiands@aol.com.

Pat McIntosh

Just as charity begins at home, so does peace. Pat believes teaching adults and children about community restorative justice practices is the foundation of a peaceful world. She brings extensive experience in education and restorative justice with unique personal insights in an energetic and empathic presentation style. Pat graduated from the University of Georgia with a Bachelor’s Degree in Education and is earning a graduate degree in Mediation from Woodbury College. She has been an etiquette instructor, a high school teacher, a corporate trainer, a public servant at the state and local levels, and an active volunteer for the cause of peace. She currently works for the Vermont Department of Corrections, serving on the Board of the Vermont Correctional Academy as well as her local Reparative Justice Panel.

Topics:

1. Restorative Justice (focused on those affected, taking into account the affect of crime on the community, and emphasizing common ground between all people so that tangible steps can be taken to repair and avoid recidivism).

Contact Pat at PMcIntos@doc.state.vt.us.

Lauren Payne

Lauren is a graduate student at the University of Bradford in the UK and is working towards a Masters in Conflict, Security and Development. At undergraduate level Lauren was President of her university's European Society, regularly organizing events for international students to mix with home students in order to facilitate cross-cultural exchange. She has previously volunteered with a support forum for refugees and an international women's group. Lauren took part in the recent Teach Peace trip to Liberia and found it a fulfilling and enriching experience.

Topics:
1. International cooperation and global understanding
2. Peace education and widening participation
3. The European Union as a security community (the impossibility of war due to interdependence)
4. Pacifism and neutral states
5. The rights and treatment of refugees and asylum seekers

Lauren is from Suffolk in England and is the UK Teach Peace Country Leader. Contact Lauren at
teachpeaceuk@gmail.com.

Sara Garrow Reubelt

Sara Garrow Reubelt is a Diversity Fellow at Saint Louis University Missouri and a Visiting Scholar at UC Davis. Her Master’s degree was in Counseling and Family Therapy. While at UC Davis Reubelt, working toward her doctoral degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, will conduct research with cross cultural couples and families. Hear about Ruebelt’s five year work and association with Afghan refugee widows.

Topics:

  1. Afghan Refugee Widows Care, Resettlement & Adjustment
  2. War Trauma Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Contact Sara at sara.ruebelt@gmail.com.

 

Julia Sewell

Julia Sewell is a Senior at Augsburg College in Minnesota studying psychology and theater. She is an actress, a model, a motivational speaker, and a published poet. She started her volunteer work in soup kitchens and homeless shelters. Julia attended the National Youth Leadership Training and became involved with the National Youth Leadership Council. Her first presentation was for the Ryan White Conference for HIV/AIDS. She is the Director of Education for People of Pluralism, a promotional member of Soul Food, and a regular participant with Chicago Cares.

Julia was a member of State Farm's Youth Advisory Board 2007-2008 where she helped to give out $5 million to service-learning projects across the country. She was recently selected to serve on the America’s Promise Alliance Youth Partnership Team and became a Bonner Scholar at her college (she is also a McNair Scholar).

Topics:

1. Poverty: Without a dime: Looking at the root causes of poverty in the US. Also, :Money Matters: looking at the epidemic of poverty in our nation.

2. Education: Closing the Achievement gap, one student at a time. Getting quality, effective education to all students. Also, I work with topics around the achievement gap and education.

3. Homelessness: Speaking up for the muted: strategies to end homelessness.

4. Youth Action: Speak Up and Speak out, the power of youth voice.

Contact Julia at jleader06@hotmail.com.
 

Mary Wind

Mary Wind has spent the past twenty-five years in the field of management facilitation and training. She has designed and provided specific programs to meet a wide range of issues confronting public health professionals. Organizations have often asked her to assist them in the design of actions that will enable them to meet specific objectives while facing dynamic and conflicting personality and system demands. Mary enjoys the challenges and rewards that come with using creative design to solve “real world” dilemmas. Mary has a BA degree from the University of San Francisco, and a Masters of Public Administration from Golden Gate University. As national president of Teach Peace, Mary eagerly works to bring the truth out of hiding and inspire others by teaching peace.

 

Topics:

  1. Why We Must Teach Peace
  2. Leadership Development & Community Service
  3. Breaking the Addiction to Materialism

Contact Mary at windml@gmail.com.

For general inquires about our speakers, please send an e-mail to contact@teachpeace.com.

The above video is dedicated to victims of

war and violence.

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