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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
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.
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Contact Stephanie at sfa1117@yahoo.com. Fadhil Al-Kazily
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.
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Contact Fadhil at falkazily@yahoo.com. Dr. Linda Copeland
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:
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:
Contact Dave at ddionisi@sbcglobal.net. Dr. Don Forrester
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Contact Don at donf@cwnet.com. Mary Anne Kirsch
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Contact Mary Anne at murrayk2@comcast.net. Nadia McCaffrey
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Contact Nadia at nadiaiands@aol.com. Pat McIntosh
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
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.
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Contact Sara at sara.ruebelt@gmail.com.
Julia Sewell
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.
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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. 
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.
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.
Don
Forrester received his undergraduate training as a chemical engineer and is
certified by the 
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. 
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
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.
Julia
Sewell 
