Peace is Sexy

Liz Gannon-Graydon – Acting like Gandhi, Dressing like Cher

I got started in peace work as a child. My parents raised me during the Civil Rights Movement as a student of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gandhi. My father taught me the importance of peaceful, non-violent action as a force for change. Specifically, my organization, What BETTER Looks Like, was inspired by my work as

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Federico Hewson – Seeding Peace with Flowers

I started doing leadership classes in Los Angeles and my community peace project was volunteering for Congressman Dennis Kucinich.  I wanted to evolve the conversation of peace from an out there, overly large, impossible endeavor by creating an attractive creative tool of engagement.  I remembered all these fun activities and attention around Earth Day, and

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Travis Hellstrom – Advancing Humanity from Mongolia

  Advance Humanity has been my dream for many years, since high school actually. During Peace Corps I really discovered my love for writing and found myself doing it all the time. Sometimes those writings turned into blog posts and sometimes into books. Write now I write weekly on AdvanceHumanity.com and I’ve written two books, the Unofficial Peace

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Talyn Rahman-Figueroa – Helping Governments and NGO’s Communicate

Tell me how you got started. During my time at university, I was fascinated by how the United Nations was able to host peace talks with 192 countries that were, at one time, at war with each other. I was incredibly eager to learn about how an institution that operated on a multilateral diplomatic level

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Michelle Bernard – Remembering to Dream

I am michellebernard, a sculptor of mind, body, and jewel! I am a transformation teacher for children and adults. I aim to illuminate Self-awareness through movement {exercise and strength training, dance, and yoga} and the creative arts. Through these modalities, I encourage my students to honor their unique life experiences. I am certain that acquiring

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