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PTI Facilitators Trainings are facilitated by a core training team of local PTI organizer, US FOR staff (national PTIs), and experienced peace and justice activists from the Fellowship of Reconciliation and co-sponsoring organizations. An emphasis at local PTIs is placed on connecting participants to guest facilitators from the local/regional peace and justice community. Maryrose Dolezal is the lead coordinator of the Peacemaker Training Institute program with the Fellowship of Reconciliation. She coordinates and facilitates National Basic PTIs and Regional Advanced PTI training for trainers and supports a team of local PTI organizers who coordinate and facilitate nonviolence trainings in their own communities around the nation. She is currently a student of two graduate programs at Hamline University. Past PTI Facilitators: Natasha Burrowes was an intern with the FOR youth and economic justice programs. She is a graduate of Macalaster College with degrees in comparative North American studies and African American studies. Natasha organized extensively with campus activist groups at Macalaster and also worked with various community-based organizations in the St.Paul/Minneapolis area. Tina Chiarelli is PTI graduate and youth activist in the Pennsylvania area. She is a graduate of Shippensburg University with degrees in social work and psychology. She previously worked with a domestic violence agency as a prevention specialist and currently works as an anger management facilitator. Tina’s activist interests are related to issues of domestic violence, youth advocacy, GLBT rights, education and conflict resolution. Cynthia Crowner is a Presbyterian Minister and long-time peace and justice advocate. Since 1975 she has worked with Latin American relations, human rights, gun violence, environmental advocacy, and peace issues. Cindy is the director of Kirkridge retreat center in Pennsylvania. Andy Mager has been a social activist and nonviolence trainer for nearly twenty years. He has worked extensively on nonviolent direct action campaigns, including draft and war tax resistance, and has facilitated Alternatives to Violence workshops in New York State prisons for a decade. He currently coordinates an educational program for men who batter their partners in Syracuse, New York. In addition to coordinating nonviolent workshops in the US, he has also worked in Europe and Israel. Hayden Nelson-Major: Hayden gets really excited about anti-racist work, queer issues, youth non-violent resistance, and learning about economic and environmental justice. Hayden is in her third year as a women's studies major. At college she edits and writes for a campus feminist journal, organizes with the student activist union, and works part time with the women's studies department. alejandra c. tobar alatriz is an antiracist organizer and trainer with the Fellowship of Reconciliation. As a 2002-2003 Freeman intern, she is woeking with the Peacemaker Training Institute and Racial and Economic Justice program. Born in Santiago, Chile, alejandra was raised as a Chilena in Texas. She attended the University of Texas where she focused her studies on Psychology and the performing arts. alejandra has also worked in hte areas of education, human rights, sexual assault, domestic violence and transforming racism. Dustin Washington is the director of the Cross-Cultural Youth Leadership Development Program with the Seattle American Friends Service Committee. Dustin’s work is centered around anti-racist community organizing and developing leadership for the long-term struggle for social justice. Dusitn’s program sponsors projects that do youth organizing (youth undoing institutional racism), which focuses on militarism and racism in the Seattle schools; campus organizing (UW students against racism), which does educational work at the University of Washington and organizes against racial profiling on campus and in a community based group; and the People’s Coalition For Justice, which works against police brutality. Dustin has been a featured speaker at numerous Seattle area university and community events. He was the winner of the 2001 Fellowship of Reconciliation Martin Luther King award for his persistent commitment to nonviolence and ant-racist organizing. Katie Wepplo is the program assistant with the AFSC Cross-Cultural Youth Leadership Development Program. Katie’s work focuses around organizing anti- racist whites (youth and adults) and is a leader of the Seattle based group the Coalition of Anti-racist whites, which supports people of color-led groups and works to counter racism in the Seattle School District. Katie coordinates all the cross-cultural leadership development educational projects including the Seattle Freedom school, which is a one-week project that educates Seattle area high school and college-aged students about community organizing, sexism, racism, classism, and nonviolence. Katie also runs a monthly popular education class for community members that focuses on issues of oppression. In addition, she has been very active in the anti-globalization movement.
The PEACEMAKER TRAINING INSTITUTE, a project of the FOR, is made possible through generous gifts from Adele Thomas, the New York Friends Group and the Kirkridge New Generation Fund. The FOR gratefully acknowledges their support. |
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