Featured Presenters, Speakers and Workshop Facilitators for
"Many Stories, One Vision for a Nuclear Free World"

Bishop Steven Charleston
Bishop Steven Charleston is a Native American Episcopal Bishop currently serving as dean of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass. As the former bishop of Alaska he helped champion the cause to protect the habitat from additional oil exploration. As a long-time supporter of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship, Bishop Charleston's words, writings and witness help us form the link between a healthy environment, a willing spirit and peace among peoples and nations.

Dave Robinson

Robinson is the Executive Director of Pax Christi USA, and has represented Pax Christi International on disarmament issues and the United Nations.

Rabbi Arthur Waskow
Rabbi Waskow is the Director of The Shalom Center. He will also lead Jewish services during the conference.

More speakers are to be announced. Continue to check back for more details on additional speakers.

Nonviolent Communication (NVC)
Nonviolent Communication and Social Change helps people connect compassionately with themselves and with one another. NVC and Social Change seeks to contribute to a peaceful and sustainable future by modeling and teaching connection, transparency, and compassion as the foundation of social change work. This workshop will be led by Miki Kashtan, a certified trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication, as well as project coordinator for NVC and Social Change. For more information, visit their Web site at www.baynvc.org

Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service
Pace e Bene is convinced that one of the solutions to the growing crisis of violence lies in furnishing transformation of violence and conflict. Pace e Bene works to develop within ourselves and to share with others the understanding of active nonviolence. Pace e Bene has introduced nonviolence to more than 8,000 people, and its From Violence to Wholeness program offers individuals and organizations a set of tools to respond to the growing crisis of violence. Workshop presenters will include Ken Butigan, Laura Slattery and Ken Preston-Pile. For more information, visit their Web site at www.paceebene.org.

Fellowship of Reconciliation
The Fellowship of Reconciliation's nonviolence training, Creating a Culture of Peace - Nonviolence Training for Personal and Social Change, prepares new facilitators to offer a spiritual formation program in communities and to empower others for personal and social change. It grounds participants in the creative, liberating and democratic power of active nonviolence, exposes them to facilitation skills and an education methodology, and allows time to practice leadership and to receive feedback. For more information, visit their Web site at www.forusa.org

Frida Berrigan
Berrigan is a Senior Research Associate at the World Policy Institute. She will lead a workshop on “The Military Industrial Complex: How to Research the Corporate Connections of your Region and Representatives.”

Katherine Blossom (invited)
Blossom is an elder of the Western Shoshone Nation, the native people of the land where the Nevada Test Site is built. She will lead a workshop on “Indigenous Life and Lands Poisoned by Nuclear Weapons.”

Darwin Bond-Graham
Graham is a Ph.D. student at the University of California-Santa Barbara. He will lead a workshop on “The Universities and Militarism: Researching your Campus and its Connections.”

John Burroughs
Burroughs is the Executive Director of the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy. He will lead a workshop on “International Law and the Military”

Jackie Cabasso and Andrew Lichterman
Cabasso is the Executive Director of Western States Legal Foundation, and Lichterman is the Program Director for Western States. They will lead two workshops on “Nuclear Weapons, Globalization, and the Crisis of the World Order,” and “Nuclear Weapons: Programs and Policies.”

Michael Coffey
Coffey is the Director of Youth Programs for the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. He will lead a workshop on “Nuclear Weapons and the University.”

Msgr. Ray East
Msgr. East is the Executive Director and Vicar for Evangelization of the Office of Black Catholics for the Archdiocese of Washington,D.C. He will receive the 2005 Pope Paul VI Teacher of Peace Award from Pax Christi USA during the conference.

Corbin Harney
Harney is the spiritual leader of the Western Shoshone Nation and founder of the Shundahai Network. He will lead the opening ritual on Thursday evening and a sunrise service on Sunday.

Lisa Ledwidge
Ledwidge is the Outreach Coordinator for the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. She will lead a workshop on “Nuclear Weapons and the Environment: National and
Global Impacts.”

Peggy Maze-Johnson
Maze-Johnson is the Executive Director of Citizen Alert. She will lead a workshop on “The Resurgence of Nuclear Power and Yucca Mountain.”

Jonathan Parfrey
Parfrey is the Director of Physicians for Social Responsibility (L.A.). He will co-facilitate a workshop on “The Nevada Test Site: History, its Place in the War System, Health and Environmental Impacts.”

Alan Senauke
Hozan Alan Senauke is a Soto Zen priest and teacher, and the Senior Advisor for the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. He will lead Buddhist meditation and ritual throughout the conference.

Anne Symens-Bucher
Symens-Bucher is the co-founder of Nevada Desert Experience. She will facilitate Christian prayer during the conference.

Dr. Dina Titus
Titus is a Nevada State Senator and author of Bombs in the Backyard: Atomic Testing and American Politics. She will co-facilitate a workshop on “The Nevada Test Site: History, its Place in the War System, Health and Environmental Impacts.”

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