June 23, 2017 | Board of Directors
Nolan L. Fontaine was born in Chester, PA and is an Army conscientious objector (CO); his shift in conscience came after being deployed to Louisiana for both Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita in 2005. Nolan holds a bachelor’s degree from Penn State University...
September 3, 2014 | Board of Directors
Ellen Barfield is active with Veterans For Peace, War Resisters League, National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance, School of the Americas Watch, the Plowshares movement, and others. She has been a nonviolent activist for nearly 30 years, after leaving the US Army...
April 6, 2012 | Board of Directors
A Christian pacifist/conscientious objector during his sophomore year of high school in upstate New York, Dan Cole registered as a CO under 1AO status in 1972. Dan later became active in FOR and Amnesty International while attending graduate school and living in...
April 5, 2012 | Board of Directors
George is an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of North Carolina and a retired U.S. Navy Captain (Chaplain Corps). Among his activities while on active duty were teaching the philosophy of religion at the Naval Academy, ethics at the Naval Postgraduate School,...
May 10, 2011 | Board of Directors
Camilo Mejia is an Army conscientious objector (CO) and was the first soldier to refuse to return to the war in Iraq. He is the former chair of the board of directors for Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) and author of the book Road to Ar Ramadi: The Private...
February 28, 2009 | Board of Directors
Jordan Blevins is outgoing Advocacy Officer and Ecumenical Peace Coordinator for the Church of the Brethren and National Council of Churches, U.S.A (NCC). Previously, Jordan served as assistant director of land and water programs, as well as coordinator of the poverty...
