Quaker Affairs

Wendy Sanford

Author, Feminist, Health and Justice Activist

Exploring Issues of Gender, Race and Class with an Aging, White, Cis-gendered, Feminist Quaker. Wendy’s programs this semester will be virtual.

Wendy grew up in an upper middle class white suburban family in Princeton, New Jersey, and attended private schools throughout her life. During the socially turbulent time of the 1970’s, she became a feminist, a lesbian, and a Quaker. A founding member of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, Wendy co-authored and edited many versions of the women’s health and sexuality classic, Our Bodies, Ourselves, from 1973 to 2011. She contributed to the inclusion of trans issues in OBOS, and in later years wrote the Afterword for the first edition of Trans Bodies, Trans Selves.

In her 50s, Wendy began to reckon with her own white skin and the benefits that come to her through being white. In 2003, she earned an MFA in Writing from Vermont College.

In October 2021, She Writes Press published These Walls Between Us: A Memoir of Friendship Across Race and Class. In These Walls, Wendy chronicles her sixty-five-year friendship with Mary Norman, an African American woman who began her work life as a domestic worker in Sanford’s family in the 1950’s. Wendy brings a critical lens to her own upbringing as a white, upper-middle-class female, reveals realities of domestic service rarely acknowledged by white employers, and traces social movements, like multiracial feminism, that made this unlikely friendship possible. Co-created with Mary Norman, the book offers complex portraits of both women, while illuminating the historical and social context of white supremacy culture within which they have sought to become friends.

Topics that Wendy could address during her residency include:

• The vision, publication, and recent history of Our Bodies Ourselves
• The women's health movement and current women's health issues
• The writing journey for her memoir, These Walls Between Us: A Memoir of Friendship Across Race and Class
• Modern challenges for White Feminism
• The role of Quaker spirituality in her personal work for justice and equality.

Wendy will be accompanied by and receive spiritual support from Polly Attwood, her spouse of 42 years. Jude Brandt of Chestnut Hill Meeting and Inspira (Joyce) Williams of Haddonfield Friends Meeting, both members of Friends for LGBTQ Concerns, will serve as Wendy’s elders.

Watch

Public Book Talk on "These Walls Between Us" with Mary Norman (March 21, 2022)

Author Wendy Sanford and Co-Creator Mary Norman are interviewed by Dean Theresa Tensuan about their relationship and the memoir that was many decades in the making.

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Public Talk: What is "Women’s Health" (March 24, 2022)

What is "Women's Health" in the context of gender fluidity? Moderated by Director of the Center for Gender Resources and Sexual Education, Sayeeda Rashid, we hear from Wendy Sanford, Trans Bodies Trans Selves Board Member Kelsey Pacha, and Haverford Board of Managers member Petra Doan '77.

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Public Talk: On Writing Memoir (March 31, 2022)

A tender and stimulating conversation between authors and memoirists Wendy Sanford and Lori L. Tharps.

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Masaru Edmund Nakawatase

Japanese American Human Rights Activist and Organizer

Mas was born in Poston, Arizona, in one of the 10 war-time internment camps set up by the US government to detain American citizens of Japanese ancestry. He grew up in Seabrook, New Jersey, with many kids whose parents, like his, had been interned. At age 20, he dropped out of Rutgers and had a seminal experience working in 1963-64 with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Atlanta, Georgia. He began his direct connection with AFSC in 1965 in a summer program as a community organizer in rural South Jersey in the initial efforts with the support of the state of New Jersey, to establish local antipoverty boards. His extended stint as national American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) staff began in 1972 as the first staff for the Third World Coalition (TWC), an institutional effort to address some of the programmatic concerns of people of color connected with the organization. Beginning in 1974, and for the next 31 years, he was the National Representative for Native American Affairs for AFSC, working within the Community Relations Division.

Mas is available for virtual engagement throughout the semester. Possible topics include:

• Japanese American history and identity,
• The early civil rights movement,
• Native Peoples’ concerns,
• The history and practice of the American Friends Service Committee,
• Viet Nam war activism,
• Anti-poverty programs

Photo: American Friends Service Committee Peace Works Program

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Asian/American Identity & Anti-Asian Racism: A Conversation with Friend in Residence Mr. Mas Nakawatase (May 6, 2021)

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Anti-Asian hate crimes are on the rise since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Why? What can we do about it? The student facilitators will be asking Mr. Masaru Edmund Nakawatase, Friend in Residence, questions such as: “Is anti-Asian sentiment in the US new?,” “How has Asian American activism changed overtime?,” “How are you navigating being an activist during the pandemic?,” and “What does it mean to be in solidarity with other minority groups, such as Black and Asian solidarity?”

Contemporary Issues in Indigenous Justice (May 29, 2021)

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Native peoples on this continent have survived despite relentless efforts to plunder their land and resources and undermine their cultures and their sovereignty. During this event, we explored the challenges that Native peoples currently face as they seek to renew their communities, strengthen their institutions, and protect indigenous rights. As part of that exploration, we focused on the affirmative work currently being done by local Oglala Lakota leadership at the Pine Ridge Reservation and within the broader Lakota Nation.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell: A Quaker Astronomer Reflects

In 1967, working as a postgraduate student, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered the first radio pulsars known to modern science – a key breakthrough in the development of radio astronomy, the study of celestial objects at radio frequencies. For this work, Burnell received the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2018.

Over her illustrious 55 year career, she has conducted research and taught at numerous universities and observatories, served as President of the Royal Astronomical Society, and President of the Institute of Physics. She is currently a Visiting Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Mansfield College, and Chancellor of the University of Dundee.

Burnell is an active Quaker, having served as Clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting, and an internationally sought after speaker. She has delivered the Swarthmore Lecture in Britain, the Backhouse Lecture in Australia, and addressed the plenary at Friends General Conference here in the United States.

She will serve as Haverford’s first all virtual Friend in Residence from October 7–25, 2020 – visiting classes, giving research talks, meeting with students, and speaking about how her spiritual and scientific lives co-exist.

Events

• Tuesday, October 15
  12:00-1:00 p.m. EST
  Transient Astronomy
  An academic research talk
  Online, Zoom url TBA
• Thursday, October 22
  4:00-5:30 p.m. EST
  A Quaker Astronomer Reflects
  A professional and spiritual look back.
  Co-Sponsored with Family and Friends Weekend
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Photo courtesy of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge: Lessons in Transition to Peace

Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge is a Quaker South African politician and activist who started her life of political activism under the tutelage of Steve Biko, a leading light of the grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement. Madlala-Routledge moved on to join the ANC and the South African Communist Party, which were both banned, and as was detained a number of times without trial. The latest period was serving a year in solitary confinement.

After the first democratic elections she served as a Member of Parliament, Deputy Minister of Defense and of Health in the post-apartheid government and then as Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly. She is the founder and Executive Director of Embrace Dignity, a non-profit campaigning for legal reform to abolish the exploitative system of prostitution and support South African women wanting to exit the sex industry. She is serving as Friend in Residence in spring 2020. In addition to public events, Nozizwe is teaching an anthropology course titled "Lessons in Transition to Peace - The South African Example", that will give students an opportunity to engage with issues, theories and methodologies of nonviolent and violent struggles, peace negotiations, transitional justice, post conflict reconstruction and peacebuilding by looking at South Africa as a case study.

Nozizwe's QuakerSpeak video: A Quaker Response to State-Sponsored Violence

Learn more at QuakerSpeak: State Violence.

Events

• Monday, February 24
  4:30-6:00 p.m.
  Race, Power, and Quakerism in South Africa
  Co-sponsored by Quaker and Special Collections
  Lutnick Library
  Watch "Race, Power, and Quakerism in South Africa"
• Wednesday, May 20
  6:30 p.m.
  Peace Talk: Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge and Bridget Moix
  Quaker Welcome Center Events - Watch at Home
  Co-sponsored with Friends Committee on National Legislation
  Watch "Peace Talk"
• Thursday, May 28
  7:30-9:30 p.m.
  Stories of Hope and Courage: Quakers from South Africa
  Co-sponsored by Friends World Committee for Consultation, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, and Haverford College Alumni Relations

Roots of Injustice, Seeds of Change:
Towards Right Relationship with America’s Native Peoples

Paula Palmer is a sociologist, writer, and activist for human rights, social justice, and environmental protection. Since 2012 she travels in Quaker ministry, working with Native and non-Native people to build relationships based on truth, respect, and justice. Her Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples ministry recently became a program of Friends Peace Teams. Paula created and facilitates workshops titled, “Roots of Injustice, Seeds of Change: Toward Right Relationship with America’s Native Peoples” (for adults) and “Re-Discovering America: Understanding Colonization” (for middle schools and high schools). As the 2016 Pendle Hill Cadbury Scholar, she conducted research and produced articles and videos about the role Quakers played during the era of the Indian Boarding Schools. She is a frequent speaker for faith communities, civic organizations, and colleges and universities, and has published widely.

Paula is a recipient of the Elise Boulding Peacemaker of the Year Award (given by the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center), the Jack Gore Memorial Peace Award (given by the American Friends Service Committee), the International Human Rights Award (given by the United Nations Association of Boulder County), and the Multicultural Award in the “Partners” category (given by Boulder County Community Action Programs). She is a member of Boulder (CO) Quaker Meeting (IMYM)

Events

• Friday, November 1
  7-8:15 p.m.
  The Land Remembers: Connecting with Native Peoples Through the Land
  Interactive lecture
  Co-sponsored with Family and Friends Weekend
  Sharpless Auditorium
• Friday, November 8
  1-2 p.m.
  Where the Truth Leads: A Journey of Listening
  Sharing her spiritual journey
  Co-sponsored by Quaker and Special Collections
  Lutnick Library Room 232
• Friday, November 8
  4:30–6:15 p.m.
  Two Rivers: The Film and Discussion
  Co-sponsored by the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship
  VCAM 001 Screening Room
• Saturday, November 9
  11 a.m.–1 p.m.
  Roots of Injustice, Seeds of Change: Toward Right Relationship with America’s Native Peoples
  Interactive workshop
  MCC: Stokes 106

More about Paula:

In collaboration with the Ojibwe attorney Jerilyn DeCoteau, Paula founded Right Relationship Boulder, a community group that works with local governments and organizations to lift up the history, presence, and contributions of Indigenous peoples in the Boulder Valley. Through workshops and presentations, they promote formation of “Right Relationship” groups in other parts of the country.

For 17 years, as executive director of the non-profit organization Global Response, Paula directed over 70 international campaigns to help Indigenous peoples and local communities defend their rights and prevent environmental destruction.

In Costa Rica, where she lived for 20 years, she published five books of oral history in collaboration with Afro-Caribbean and Bribri Indigenous peoples, through a community empowerment process known as Participatory Action Research. With Monteverde Friends, she helped establish the Friends Peace Center in San Jose and began worshiping among Friends there. She has been a member of Boulder meeting, Intermountain Yearly Meeting, since the mid-1990s.

From 1995 to 2001, Paula served as editor for health and environment of Winds of Change magazine, a publication of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES). She holds an M.A. degree in sociology from Michigan State University and has taught courses in the Environmental Studies Department of Naropa University. She is profiled in American Environmental Leaders From Colonial Times to the Present (ABC-CLIO, 2000) and Biodiversity, A Reference Handbook (ABC-CLIO 1998).

City Love is a West Philly musician educator duo who share performances and workshops at schools, colleges, and conferences throughout the country.  From the heart. For the people. Sterling and Caselli write songs to spread the love, speak truth, make people move, make people laugh, and foster dialogue about the issues of our times.  Their music is a meeting point between the city and the suburbs; black and white; heavy and light. City Love seeks to bring people together and works to help heal the racial divide in our country.  They synthesize the power of music and deep conversation to reach audiences in ways that dialogue alone often cannot. 

Together and separately, they have played shows throughout the country and world.  Sterling Duns is also part of the 9-piece hip hop sensation, Hardwork Movement which has shared the stage and played in festivals with members of Wu-Tang, Chance the Rapper, Talib Kweli, Charles Bradley, Rebirth Brass Band, Rhiannon Giddens, Hurray for the Riff Raff, and many more.  City Love has presented and/or performed at The National Association of Independent Schools People of Color Conference, The National Conference on Race and Ethnicity, The White Privilege Conference, The Progressive Education Network Conference in addition to opening up for Michelle Alexander, Dr. Reverend William Barber II, Dr. Howard Stevenson, Jonathan Kozol, and other social justice & education heroes. 

Sterling and Caselli will come to campus numerous times throughout the winter and spring visiting classrooms, presenting workshops, holding office hours with their “ice cream social justice” series, and drawing on the creativity of Haverford students to build community across differences in identity, social cause, or orientation. They will accompany the Haverford delegation to the 2019 White Privilege Conference in Cedar Rapids, IA, where the team will lead a workshop: A Little More Universal: Creating Accessible Classrooms for Marginalized Identities by Expanding on the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Framework.  City Love’s work on campus will culminate with their Wake the Mic social justice gallery/showcase event drawing on the creativity of Haverford students to build creative community, belonging, and equity through the arts.

Events:

Thursday, September 13
6:30 – 8 p.m. 
White Privilege Conference Vision and Planning Group
Faculty Dining Room

Thursday, December 6
4 – 8 p.m. 
Student Leaders Cooperative Cooking, Dinner, and Conversation
VCAM Kitchen and Lounge

Friday, February 1 
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Ice Cream Social Justice #1: "Who belongs at Haverford?"
MCC Stokes 106

Thursday, February 7
7 – 8:30 p.m.
Conflict Workshop
Stokes 102

Thursday, February 21
6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Ice Cream Social Justice #2: "Organizing Student Orgs"
MCC Stokes 106

Tuesday, February 26
4:15 – 6:15 p.m.
Creating Accessible Classrooms for Marginalized Identities
Location TBD

Thursday, March 7
7:30 – 9 p.m.
Ice Cream Social Justice #3: "Dreaming Up a Party Space"
MCC STokes 106

March 20 – 23
The White Privilege Conference
Cedar Rapids, IA

Thursday, April 4
4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
The Origins of City Love
Co-sponsored with Quaker and Special Collections
Chase Auditorium

Thursday, April 4 
6:30 – 8 p.m.
Ice Cream Social Justice #4: "Arty Party"
MCC Stokes 106

Sunday, April 14 
11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Create the Change Workshop
MCC Stokes 106

Thursday, April 18 
7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Wake the Mic – Creative Convergence
City Love Capstone Event
Zubrow Commons

M. Antonio (Toño) López Galicia is the director of Casa de los Amigos, a Quaker Center for Peace and International Understanding associated with the Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in Mexico City. He collaborates with the Working Group of Chaplains on death issues and the Committee on Latin American Affairs of Pacific Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.  He is also a Professor of Thanatology at the Mexican Institute of Psycho-oncology, specializing in topics such as death as a condition of existence, human spirituality, and the human rights of victims, migrants and refugees. He has training in human rights, law and psychology. He has published and researched on children's human rights, migrations and education for peace. He is a Researcher Candidate for the National System of Researchers of the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico. He has defended and promoted human rights for 20 years and has provided direct assistance and support to migrants, refugees, orphaned children, people with mental health problems and various vulnerable groups. He gives lectures in Mexico and abroad on migration and refugee issues, Thanatology, death and spirituality, human rights and Spirit-led activism. He currently collaborates in the process of national pacification in Mexico from the Casa de los Amigos and participates as Judge of Conscience in the International Court of Conscience of Peoples in Movement.

News:

Friend in Residence Touts “Radical Hospitality” | The Haverblog
As one of the public events of his campus residency, M. Antonio “Toño” López Galicia, the executive director of the Casa de los Amigos in Mexico City, spoke about La Casa’s mission to an audience of thirty or so people.

Events:

Lunch with students interested in Casa de los Amigos Mexico City internships
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM (Drop-in)
Dining Center 119 Swarthmore Room

Death, Dying, Spiritual Health, and Migrant Communities in México
Friday, October 26, 2018
1:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Chase Auditorium
Co-sponsored by the Quaker Affairs Office, Health Studies, Health Professions Advising, and the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship

Radical Hospitality Across Culture: Migration, the Border, and the Casa de los Amigos in Mexico City
Friday, October 26, 2018
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Stokes 102
Co-sponsored by the Quaker Affairs Office and the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship

Classroom visits in Health Studies, History, Peace Justice and Human Rights, Quaker Studies, Spanish, and the Writing Program.

Mary Tuomanen is a playwright and performer recently named the 2017 F. Otto Haas Emerging Philadelphia Theatre Artist by Theatre Philadelphia. She received the inaugural Artist Residency at Christ Church Neighborhood House for her play, Peaceable Kingdom (2017). The play was nominated for 7 Barrymore Awards, receiving honors for outstanding costume design as well as the Virginia Brown Martin Philadelphia Award for best particular understanding of our global community.

Tuomanen is a founding member of Orbiter 3, Philadelphia’s first producing playwright’s collective, and a company member since its inception in 2009 of the radical theater collective, Applied Mechanics.

Named Best Theatre Artist by Philadelphia Magazine in 2015, she was a finalist for the Haas Emerging Artist Award in 2014, 2016, and a grantee of the the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage for her collaboration with Aaron Cromie, The Body Lautrec.

A collaborator at heart, she will be working while at Haverford with a new creative team of five on an emergent play about the peasant revolt of 1381 and rehearsing for the debut performance of their newest play with her collective theater troupe, Applied Mechanics.

She has performed with many regional theater companies and devised companies in Philadelphia and beyond, including Lantern Theater Company, Arden Theatre, The Riot Group, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Opera Philadelphia, Theatre Exile, Azuka Theatre, and Interact Theatre Company, who premiered her play Marcus/Emma in 2017 (now nominated for the Independence Foundation Best New Play Award.) Her one-woman shows, Saint Joan, Betrayed and Hello! Sadness!, have been performed at the Annenberg Center, the Kimmel Center’s SEI Independence Studio, Bloomsburg Theater Ensemble, and FringeArts.

She alternately attends Friends Meeting of Philadelphia and Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting.

News:

At The Intersection of Imagination and Social Justice | Haverford Headlines
Award-winning playwright and performer Mary Tuomanen will spend her time as this semester's Friend in Residence making, workshopping, and performing theater that imagines a better world.

Events:

When Eve Span
Saturday, February 3
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Sunday, February 4
9 a.m. – 3 p.m. 
GIAC Swan Multi-Purpose Room

For logistical details and to save you a spot contact: wsulliva [at] haverford.edu

Haverford students and other Tri-Co community members are invited to workshop early scenes of a fledgling collaborative theater project about the English peasant uprising of 1381, working with Mary, historian and author Mark O'Brian, theatermaker John Cresswell, and UPenn professor of sociology Andy Lamas.

Workshop: Introduction to Immersive Work
Saturday, February 10
11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. 
Stokes 106

Applied Mechanics makes work that engages all the senses. The Introduction to Immersive Work takes students through the process of creating a fuller experience for the audience member, through mindful use of sound, movement, text and space. The Mechanicians help students transform the raw material of themes and images into theatrical provocations, and experiment on fellow classmates to hone and improve their projects. Students experience the thrill of putting performer and audience in direct contact, learning creative ways to negotiate and mine that relationship.

Performance: Hello! Sadness!
Saturday, February 10
7:30-9:00 p.m.
Stokes Auditorium

Hello! Sadness! is a dark comedy that weaves a story from Joan of Arc to the Black Panther Party to misogynist stand-up to awkward French New Wave dancing. With imagination, visual projections, and a perfectly interspersed sound design, audiences move about from the here and now to 1960s Chicago, an intoxicating poppy field, fifteenth century France, a street run by prostitutes, a museum, a trial, a speeding car, a secret place of joy and rage. Mary Tuomanen proposes humor as a weapon for social activism—to laugh at the oppressor in all of us, then punch him in the face.

Workshop: World-Building
Thursday, February 15
7:00-9:30 p.m. 
Stokes 106

The World-Building Workshop allows students to do the impossible: create, in detail, an imaginary society. In this class, both utopias and dystopias are built from scratch, and entire cultures can be invented with their own language, soundscape, physicality and architecture. Once multiple worlds exist, they are brought into contact with each other in guided improvisations, exploring cross-cultural communication and translation. This is a fabulous challenge for students in a multitude of courses of study, including theater, modern language, sociology, anthropology and political science.

Performance: This is On Record (Formerly titled CHRONOTOPE)
Saturday, April 14
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 

This is On Record is about the challenges of documenting a historical moment. We are investigating stories themselves -- how humans use media to construct and perpetuate cultural narratives. In a time when our American cultural narrative seems so fractured and the role of media as government watchdog so imperiled, This is On Record is an essential piece to make. The audience has the opportunity to “watch the watchers,” as they follow the lives of journalists, artists, documentarians, translators, etc. who tell the story of their time. You could spy on a sculptor as she designs a memorial to a national tragedy, or watch a documentarian as she edits a film about that same sculptor. This is On Record presents the human creators of our cultural understanding of memory, and exposes the filters, pressures and privileges that inform how history is recorded. It both raises questions about the idea that we “consume” media, and reveals the ways in which we inherit values and assumptions without even realizing it. The stories we encounter become an unconscious part of us, and people we never meet can shape our most dearly held beliefs without our notice. CHRONOTOPE also brings us the added challenge of incorporating more technology into our work than ever before -- a design that utilizes projections, live audio and online elements to investigate how media is created and consumed.

On Campus:  October 31–November 5, 2017

Zachary Moon, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Practical Theology at Chicago Theological Seminary. He is author of Coming Home: Ministry That Matters with Veterans and Military Families (2015). He formerly served as a military chaplain with sailors and Marines, as a chaplain resident in the VA hospital system, and as a chaplain with combat veterans diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in residential recovery. He was born and raised in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

News:

A Quaker Minister in the Military? | Haverford Headlines
This semester's Friend in Residence, Zachary Moon, will share with the community how serving as a military chaplain was a faithful expression of his Quaker identity and what he learned in that service.

Events:

Moral Dimensions of Trauma (public talk at Swarthmore College)
Tuesday, October 31
5-6:30 pm
Kohlberg, Scheuer Room
Swarthmore

A Brown Bag Lunch in Quaker and Special Collections: A Quaker Minister in the Military
Friday, November 3
Noon to 1pm
Magill Library, Special Collections
Haverford

Dinner with Haverford Christian Fellowship
Friday, November 3

Brunch with Quaker House
Sunday, November 5
Haverford College Apartments 23

Classroom visits in Psychology and Peace Justice and Human Rights

Consultation with Counselling and Psychological Services

Attendance at Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Continuing Sessions
 

On Campus:  March 19-25 and April 2-15, 2017

Eileen Flanagan is a graduate of Duke and Yale, the award-winning author of three books and scores of articles. She speaks to international audiences on topics ranging from personal empowerment and spirituality to climate justice and its intersections with race and class. Her activism is focused through Earth Quaker Action Team, whose board she chairs. She is a member of Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting, in Philadelphia, PA. www.eileenflanagan.com

Events:

Thursday April 6
Writing as Activism Workshop
7:00-8:30 p.m.
Stokes 106, Multicultural Center (MCC)

Friday April 7
Brown Bag Talk; "A time of crisis and division: Quaker resources then and now"
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Magill Special Collections

Sunday April 9
Nonviolent Direct Action (NVDA) Training in Strategic Planning
1:00-3:30 p.m.
Stokes 106, Multicultural Center (MCC)

Wednesday April 12
Nonviolent Direct Action (NVDA) Plan and Role Training
8:00-10:00 p.m.
Stokes 106, Multicultural Center (MCC)

Thursday April 13
Public talk: "We Were Made for This Moment"
7:00-9:00 p.m.
KINSC H109

Friday April 14
Time and place still TBD
A nonviolent direct action associated with EQAT: Power Local Green Jobs

Benigno Sanchez-Eppler is a Quaker and a member of New England Yearly Meeting.

He has traveled in the ministry among Friends in Costa Rica, Cuba, Peru, Bolivia, and the United States. He led the Bible Half-hours at NEYM Sessions in 2007, and at the Friends General Conference Gathering in 2008. Benigno teaches at Amherst College and at the Cuban Quaker Peace Institute. His decades of work as interpreter and translator for Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) led him to serve as Co-Clerk of the Quaker Youth Pilgrimage for the last three years. Benigno is a founding co-editor and translator of raicescuaqueras.org. He serves as clerk of the FWCC Section of the Americas. 

At Haverford Professor Sanchez-Eppler visited Haverford during Religion and Spiritual Life week under a concern for Spiritual Hospitality. He was a guest in classes in Quaker History and advanced Spanish. He met with college administrators supporting international service and digital humanities and visited with Quaker and Latin American student groups.

News:

Friend In Residence Explores "Spiritual Hospitality" | Haverford Headlines
Teacher, translator, and Clerk of Friends World Council for Consultation Section of the Americas Benigno Sánchez-Eppler joins us on campus for Religion and Spiritual Life Week.

Events:

• Bible Study in the manner of Friends.
• A Spanish Voice for Early Friends: a brown-bag presentation in Quaker and Special Collections.
• Translation as a Digital Humanities Practice: an interactive workshop.
• A public talk – From Lodging to Visitation: Hosts and guests pass the threshold of cultural and spiritual irritants

Dr. Amanda Kemp blends activism and spirituality, theatre arts and history.

She earned her PhD in Performance Studies at Northwestern University and completed undergraduate studies in African and Afro-American Studies at Stanford University. Formerly, an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University and Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at Dickinson College, Kemp has taught courses on the performance of race, African American playwrights Black theatre, and cultural studies. Currently, A Commonwealth Lecturer for the Pennsylvania Humanities Council on Phillis Wheatley, Kemp is also a sought after speaker and performer. Her unique blend of performance and lecture have taken her to Yale University, Washington University in St. Louis, Roanoke College, and Stanford University among others.

At Haverford Dr. Kemp visited classes talking about everything from race to theater performance and how she views the intersection of the two. She also performed #sayhername, a multimedia performance focusing on Black women who have resisted slavery, Jim Crow, and our criminal injustice system. The performance was written by Amanda Kemp and features poetry, narration, and film excerpts and is scored by soulful violinist Michael Jamanis whose renderings include Bach, African American spirituals, and improvisation.

News:

Friend In Residence Brings #SayHerName to Haverford | The Haverblog
Dr. Amanda Kemp spent a week on campus this fall, culminating in a performance.

A Friend Returns | The Haverblog
Poet-performer Dr. Amanda Kemp came back to campus for a second time this year as Haverford’s Friend in Residence.

Events:

• #sayhername
• Making the Invisible Visible: Working as an Artist, Change Maker, and Intellectual
• Engaging Race Questions: Preparing for the White Privilege Conference
• Class Visits

Kody Hersh is a queer, trans, sex-positive, Christian, young adult Quaker.

They have written blog posts, led workshops, and advocated for change in the understanding of the intersection between religion and sexuality, the gender spectrum, the spirituality of queerness, and the meaning of Jesus. Kody has traveled in the ministry among Quakers across North America, served as an elder, and is a former co-clerk of Friends for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Concerns. He is a member of Miami Monthly Meeting, Southeastern Yearly Meeting.

Kody participated in a CPT delegation to the Mexico/U.S. border to learn about the effects of border militarization, U.S. immigration policy, and "free trade" on migrants and border communities. Shortly after his residency at Haverford, Kody participated in a month-long nonviolent direct action training to join CPT's reserve corps.

A copy of Kody’s talk at Haverford can be found here:
https://hc.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=169642ff-0dd8-48c6-8bc5-d842b987c638

A published article which came out of the talk at Haverford can be found here:
http://www.friendsjournal.org/quaker-sex-sexuality-jesus/

Events:

• Questions of Peacemaking, Anti-Racism, and Globalization
• Community Dinner
• Know One Another in the Light: Quakers and Sexual Morality
• Having Sex Like a Quaker

Jens and Spee Braun are Quaker humanitarians and advocates for communal living.

Their farm, the Quaker Intentional Village- Canaan (QIVC) in East Chatham, NY, is just one product of their passion for creating spaces that promote their core principles of spiritual living, intergenerational alliance, economic and environmental integrity, and an overall joy for service. Both of them are active participants in humanitarian endeavors; Spee works for Save the Children and Jens devotes much of his time to the Alternatives to Violence Program (APV). Before settling in New York and founding QIVC, the couple lived in many regions around the world including Ecuador, Gaza, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua. They are involved in many projects at QIVC such as organic farming and meat production, bee-keeping, and sustainable construction, skills they shared with three Haverford students on the “Alternative Spring Break” that the couple hosted directly following their visit to the college.

You may refer to the article “Friends in Residence Bid Farewell” for more information on Jens and Spee.

News:

Friends in Residence Bid Farewell | The Clerk
Experienced international peace activists Jens and Spee Braun concluded their two-week visit to campus last Friday after a packed schedule of classroom visits and public events.

Events:

• Is Quakerism at Haverford a Myth?
• AVP basic workshop
• Non-Profits Abroad: Careers in International Service
• Responding to HIV/AIDS and Ebola in Real Life
• Dinner with Quaker and Quaker Interested Students
• Safety Fourth: Nurturing Courage for a Thriving World

Vanessa has been a guest speaker for many churches, organizations and Quaker conferences.

She is an active member of the Religious Society of Friends, serving on numerous committees in her local meeting (Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, CPMM) and Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (PhYM) as well as on the boards of Quaker organizations. Vanessa has a calling to ministry with a concern for helping the Religious Society of Friends become a whole blessed community.

Vanessa has established several organizations to empower people of Color. She has written several articles about her experience as a Friend of Color in the Religious Society of Friends. Her photographs were printed in the Philadelphia Tribune accompanied by an article written about the 2000 Gathering of the Fellowship of Friends of African Descent (FFAD) in Jamaica.

Vanessa worked for a couple of years with the Green Circle Program, a human relations program that helps children and adults understand and appreciate difference. Prior to that she was the Associate Secretary of Friends World Committee for Consultation, Section of the Americas for many years. Vanessa is currently writing a book that explores the relationship between African Americans and Quakers from the 17th Century to the present day. She wrote the forward for a pamphlet published in January 2003 by Friends General Conference by Margaret Hope Bacon, “Sarah Mapps Douglass, Faithful Attender of Quaker Meeting: View from the Back Bench.”

For an extended version of this biography, visit http://www.quaker.org/vanessajulye/id20.htm

Event:

• Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship

evalyn parry is a Canadian Quaker, and an award-winning musician, poet and theatre artist.

Her interdisciplinary performance works, inspired by a deep commitment to social justice, explore themes that range from 19th century cycling heroines to bottled water, from queer identity to the quest for the Northwest Passage. Whether accompanying herself on guitar, water bottle, shruti box or loop pedals, or joined by a percussionist playing an amplified bicycle, parry's unique work has been performed all over North America, and been widely broadcast, commissioned and anthologized; she has released four critically acclaimed CDs, and directed, written and acted in numerous original theatrical productions. In her hometown Toronto, evalyn serves as the director of the Young Creators Unit at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, mentoring and directing young queer artists in the creation of solo performance. She has lead workshops at colleges and universities, community, professional arts and Quaker organizations across the US and Canada, using writing, music, movement and theatre to explore diverse themes, and to give expression to the unique creative voice within each of us. evalynparry.com

News:

Canadian Quaker evalyn parry takes Haverford by bicycle! | Quaker Affairs
Innovative, award-winning Toronto artist evalyn parry takes her audience on an uncommon theatrical and musical journey in SPIN, her tour-de-force performance celebrating the Bicycle as muse, musical instrument and agent of social change.

Events:

• Welcome Lunch
• A Taste of evalyn parry
• What the F*** is Feminism Anyway?: An interactive workshop
• From Outrage to Creation
• SPIN

Marcelle Martin travels widely in the ministry, talking to meetings and facilitating retreats on different aspects of spiritual life.

She is also a writer and scholar who is completing a book about the Quaker spiritual journey and writes the blog A Whole Heart. As a member of Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting Marcelle has a deep understanding of god in her life and strives to share that with others. She has spent most of her adult life traveling in the ministry and taking on jobs as they presented themselves to sustain herself financial, she worked at Pendle Hill for a time, but has a deep passion for traveling and helping others find the god within themselves and their meetings.

At Haverford Marcelle lead workshops on yoga and ecstatic dance as well as visiting many classes and talking about her spiritual and scholarly work.

News:

Friend in Residence Marcelle Martin on the Quaker Spiritual Journey | The Haverblog
During a visit to Professor of History Emeritus Emma Lapsansky-Werner’s “History and Principles of Quakerism” class this week, Friend in Residence Marcelle Martin talked about what she sees as her ministry, helping people “pay attention to spiritual experiences they have had and might have pushed aside, and helping them to be open to more of those experiences.”

Events:

• “The Body Speaks” workshop
• Brown Bag Lunch on Women Quakers
• Spoke on Quakers and Witchcraft
• Class Visits

Peterson Toscano is a playwright, actor, Bible scholar, blogger, gay activist, and Quaker.

Toscano spent nearly two decades undergoing ex-gay treatment and conversion therapy before accepting his homosexuality and coming out as a gay man. He has since shared his experiences internationally through various media outlets, especially plays.

During his time at Haverford, as part of the President’s Social Justice Series, he presented Transfigurations–Transgressing Gender in the Bible, a rare showing of his full theatrical production along with short pieces presented by trans people from Philadelphia. He also performed Peterson Uncut: The Raw Version, a stand up comody performance which gave him the opportunity to “tell some bawdy Bible stories and saucy tales from the Homo No Mo Halfway House and more.” Along with these two events he helped coordinate the climate summit, visited classes, and spent time doing research in special collections.

News:

Peterson Toscano: Friend in Residence | The Haverblog
On the tail end of his three-week stay at Haverford as the 2013 Friend in Residence, performance artist, bible scholar, and queer and environmental activist Peterson Toscano sat down with us to answer a few questions about his work and time on campus.

Events:

• Transfigurations–Transgressing Gender in the Bible
• Peterson Uncut: The Raw Version
• The Climate Summit
• Class Visits

Peter G. Brown is 1961 graduate of Haverford, is a professor at McGill University, where he is affiliated with the School of Environment, the Department of Geography, and the Department of Natural Resource Sciences.

Before going to McGill, he founded the University of Maryland's Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, as well as its School of Public Policy, and established the School's environmental policy program.

Brown is a member of the Religious Society of Friends and the author of Restoring the Public Trust: A Fresh Vision for Progressive Government in America and The Commonwealth of Life: Economics for a Flourishing Earth. He is the co-author, with Geoffrey Garver, of Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy, which expands the Quaker concept of“right relationship” to advocate for a global perspective on using the earth's resources and a shift away from the emphasis on growth. As part of his residency, Brown gave a public talk titled “Saving Our Future: Is What You Are Learning Helpful? Rethinking the Human-Earth Relationship.” The talk was part of the President's Social Justice Speaker series.

News:

Friend in Residence 2012 | Quaker Affairs
Quaker scholar of environmental policy Peter G. Brown '61 will be "Friend in Residence" and give a public lecture on March 21 at 6:30 p.m.

Events:

• Saving Our Future: Is What You Are Learning Helpful? Rethinking the Human-Earth Relationship.”
• Class visits

Joe Volk, our first Friend in Residence, is the former Executive Secretary for Friends Committee on National Legislation.

Volk has devoted his life to advancing peace and social justice. Prior to his 21-year term at FCNL, a non-partisan, Quaker lobby and the first registered national religious lobby in the United States, he worked for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) for 18 years and served as its national secretary for peace education from 1982 to 1990. While at FCNL, he lobbied Congress to support peaceful prevention of deadly conflict, nuclear disarmament, peace in Iraq and many other issues.

During his time at Haverford Volk gave a talk entitled, “If War Is Not The Answer, What Is?: A Peace Activist on Capital Hill”, as part of the President's Social Justice Speaker series. He also attended classes, ran workshops and met with interested students and community members.

News:

New "Friend in Residence" Program Launches | Haverford Headlines
Joe Volk comes to the College for a three-week stay as Haverford's first Friend in Residence. The aim: to highlight the College's Quaker roots and increase connections to the Quaker community.

Events:

• Talk “If War Is Not The Answer, What Is?: A Peace Activist on Capital Hill”
• Visited Classes
• Talked at Quaker retirement communities
• Attended local monthly meetings
• Lunch rountable discussion as part of the Center for Peace and Global Citizenships Perpetual Peace Project.