Location: USALevel of Training: (Level II – 2018)Contact Information: jel58@aol.com I had just moved back to Connecticut when Newtown occurred, and I knew I could not sit idly by. I was deeply involved in community conversations about urban and suburban solutions to nonviolence, and discovered Kingian Nonviolence in the process. My husband, Matt Winter and I […]

Location: USALevel of Training: (Level II – 2018)Contact Information: tmariehaak@comcast.net Theresa is a Social Studies Junior High teacher in Santa Fe, Texas with a Master of Arts in Humanities. She first attended the institute last summer, and, according to Theresa, it enlightened her beyond her wildest dreams. She says she was also fortunate enough to travel on […]

Location: USALevel of Training: (Level II – 2018)Contact Information: zgreen999@yahoo.com Zebulon is a Masters of Divinity student studying interfaith organizing. He also attends many protests and mass actions. According to Zebulon, he believes this training will be very helpful in his studies and work in moving forward in both disruption and love. He is a Quaker by […]

Location: USALevel of Training: (Level II – 2018)Contact Information: jimfussell1@gmail.com Jim is the Research Director of the Educators Institute for Human Rights. He has studied nonviolence for social change with George Lahey, Bernice Johnson Reagon, and the late Narayan Desai. A Quaker with a degree in history form Earlham College, Jim has organized in-depth study […]

Location: USALevel of Training: (Level II – 2018)Contact Information: wewb1555@gmail.com After witnessing the tragedy of the Sandy Hook massacre as a teacher in 2012, I retired in 2014 from 32 years of teaching to take my pain and make propane! My  personal mission is to create peaceful school communities using the tools of  nonviolence and […]

Location: USALevel of Training: (Level II – 2018)Contact Information: Rfbenton1@comcast.net I am excited to be one of the first Level I trainers from Texas…the Lone Star State is  long overdue! Being a BOI (Born on the Island) native of Galveston, Texas, I am a fan  of salt water, sun and sand between my toes. My […]

Location: USALevel of Training: (Level I – 2018)Contact Information: bbuckler819@verizon.net Bonnie is a retired nurse and member of the St. Augustine Church on the URI campus. She says that, “several other parishioners have attended the International Nonviolence Summer Institute and have recommended it as a transformative experience.”