The Rev. Dr. Christopher Ney has a long history in peace activism, nonprofit leadership, and ministry beginning with the nuclear freeze and disarmament movement. He grew up in a home that subscribed to Fellowship and other religious peace magazines. As a Peace and Global student at Earlham College, he deepened his commitment to nonviolence and solidarity with Latin America. In 1988, he studied in Chile, learning about popular education in Santiago’s shantytowns, meeting human rights activists (including participants in the Sebastian Acevedo Movement Against Torture) and serving as an international observer to the Chilean Plebiscite in that ended military rule. While earning the Master of Divinity degree at Union Theological Seminary, he returned to Chile with support from the FOR’s Task Force on Latin American and the Caribbean to research the Sebastian Acevedo Movement. He also joined the National Committee of the War Resisters’ League and later served on the WRL’s staff. He has served as an organizer on issues of criminal justice reform, homelessness, affordable housing, and El Salvador solidarity. Currently, he serves as a pastor in the United Church of Christ and recently earned a PhD from Boston University School of Theology with a dissertation on a mission partnership between the UCC and the Pentecostal Church of Chile.