To learn more about Atieno Fisher, visit her website at www.usoni.com, which includes papers on topics such as the use of simulations in training, the causes of violence, and collaborative leadership.

After graduating from Graceland College, Sandee spent nine months living in Haarlem, The Netherlands, and traveling through Europe. She returned to the United States and began her career as an elementary school music teacher, which lasted more than 27 years.

Sandee is an elder in the Community of Christ. She has served the church in the areas of worship, pastoral care, music, and clown ministry.  She was a senior high youth leader for 18 years. She enjoys traveling and reading novels of mystery and intrigue.

During the last 10 years of teaching, Sandee developed and coordinated a comprehensive conflict resolution program in her school. In 1990 Sandee and Diane Kyser helped to create the Community Mediation Center in Davenport, Iowa. Some of the areas in which they mediated were neighborhood disputes, small claims, victim/offender, parent/child, churches, and businesses. During her 10 years with the Community Mediation Center, Sandee was the co-trainer for all of the center's training, a mediator, and case manager. They were responsible for training staff and children in conflict management skills at more than 30 schools. During the last 12 years, Sandee has received more than 275 hours of training in the area of conflict resolution and mediation.    

I am the Executive Pastry chef for a 6.1 million dollar catering company in Chapel Hill, NC.

Presently I sit on the Policy Oversight Committee for the United Network for Organ Sharing, whose 30 members evaluate all National public organ transplant issues. I also volunteer for Carolina Donor Services as well as Independent Animal Rescue.

I continue to be an avid runner and fitness instructor, and I live in Durham with two cats, Turk and Elliot.

2617 Chapel Hill Road
Durham, NC 27707
Phone: 919 419-9471 (home)
919 929-4775 (work)

9/07

I am working with healing through massage and bodywork.

After graduating from the conflict transformation program and coming from a pacifist background, I felt there was something I still needed to learn in order to do authentic work.  It involved being rooted in the body and encountering others on a terrain common to all of us.  Somatic Experiencing (Peter Levine approach to trauma), visionary craniosacral work and most recently indigenous approaches to nature, ritual and community under Malidoma Some are leading me forward in a way for which I'm most grateful.

I work full-time at Massanutten resort spa in Virginia where I see a wide variety of people coming with all sorts of strengths and needs.  I also work part-time out of a private office in Harrisonburg.

I was born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel , where I studied political science, communication and law. Then I worked for six years at the Peres Center for Peace in Tel Aviv, directing projects using sports, drama, theater, film production and culture to facilitate dialogue between Israeli and Palestinian youth.  

In April, I completed the M.A. as a Fulbright Scholar in the advanced study of the arts and peacebuilding in the Conflict Transformation Program at EMU. As part of my practicum, I began to develop an arts-based program for trauma awareness and resilience. This summer I traveled to New Orleans to lead two workshops for youth victims of Hurricane Katrina.

For the past seven years, Bill Goldberg has worked in various capacities for the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. He is currently working in an administrative capacity for both the Summer Peacebuilding Institute and the Conflict Resolution Fulbright grant that is centered at EMU. Bill holds a Masters degree in conflict transformation from Eastern Mennonite University.

Claudia coordinates a community restorative program called the Youth Justice Initiative (YJI) in West Des Moines, Iowa. The program is in its seventh year. It is housed in the police department and most referrals come from the police as a diversion from Court. Funding for the first five years of the program came from grants, but the city and schools now share most of the on-going financial cost. YJI does received additional funds from United Way and community members.

The local newspaper reported: “Instead of letting youth offenders sit in jail, Claudia Henning coordinates YJI to get kids counseling, connect them with the community and make them responsible to the people they harmed.” This year (2006) Claudia and YJI received one of three awards bestowed by the International Association of Chiefs of Police. The award stated: “Last year 89 youth participated in YJI. On average, 90 percent of those who start the program complete it, according to program records, and of those who have completed the program, fewer than 10 percent have repeated their crimes.”

Claudia is married, with two daughters and four grandchildren. Her younger daughter is in law school and also has an interest in restorative justice.

Mark is now teaching at Bridgewater College in Bridgewater, VA. He was instrumental in designing the Master of Arts in Education program after joining the EMU faculty in 1994 and revising the secondary education program at the undergraduate level. Dr. Hogan has presented research papers at national and international conferences in the areas of improving university and college teaching, thoughtful literacy, and collaboration between universities and schools. He also serves on the Business Partnership Board of Rockingham County Public Schools and on the Planning Task Force of the Regional Academic Year Governor's School.

Jan Jenner directs the Practice Institute, CJP’s practice arm. She formerly served as co-country representative for seven years with Mennonite Central Committee in Kenya. Ms. Jenner is co-author of When You are the Peacebuilder: Stories and Reflections on Peacebuilding from Africa. She holds a masters in conflict transformation from EMU.

Phoebe Kilby is energized by her opportunity to support the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding through fundraising. She received a graduate certificate from CJP in 2004 and sees her work in the Devlopment Office at EMU as forwarding CJP’s important peacebuilding work around the world. Phoebe brings a business background to her development work, having owned and managed with her husband, Barry, an environmental and land use planning consulting firm for 20 years. She has been a volunteer fundraiser for a number of non-profits, including serving as president of the board for Response, the domestic violence program in Shenandoah County, Virginia.

March 2008:

Aaron Kishbaugh is now working at Rosetta Stone, Ltd. in Harrisonburg, VA where he is the Editorial Team Manager. In November 2007, Aaron and his wife Tara welcomed a son, Willem Silverthorn, into their family.

I am completing a Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution at Nova Southeastern University in Florida . My area of research encompasses peacekeeping, peacebuilding, the circulation of small weapons in Africa, Democracy and local capacity building. My focus is on the impacts of the UN peacekeeping on target nations. In this regard, I recently completed an internship in the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations in New York .  

I am also currently an Adjunct Faculty in the John Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations of Seton Hall University, teaching Peacekeeping and Peacemaking as well as Conflict and Displacement in Africa.

Tammy Krause is Director of JustBridges, National Clearinghouse for Defense-Based Victim Outreach, and a Federal Public Defender employee. Krause is an Ashoka Fellow and was a Soros Justice Fellow (1999-2001) with the Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel Project, working with victims in capital cases and victim sensitivity training for defense attorneys. Her first capital case was with the Timothy McVeigh defense team. She holds an M.A. from the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University.