Speakers

Kevin Danaher
Dr. Kevin Danaher manages the Outreach Program of the San Francisco Department of the Environment.
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Noah Dillard
Noah Dillard, a native of Maine, has been working internationally for economic and ecological justice and human rights since 2003, in support of local grassroots struggles in Palestine and Colombia. In 2003, after the US bombing campaign in Iraq intensified, he traveled to the Gaza Strip, Palestine, volunteering as a non-violence trainer and coordinator for the International Solidarity Movement for 6 months. He lived and worked with families in support of their non-violent resistance to the illegal Israeli occupation and destruction of their land and homes.
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Tex Dworkin
Tex Dworkin is an active participant in the Fair Trade movement, both as an independent Fair Trade Consultant and Director of Social Media for Global Exchange, an international human rights organization. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Social Thought and Political Economy from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and has a background in cooperatively structured business and non-profit entrepreneurship.
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Zein El-Amine
Zein El-Amine is a longtime DC community activist and regular contributor to Left Turn magazine (www.leftturn.org). Zein was born and raised in Lebanon and most of his immediate family was recently evacuated from there. He is now a member the newly formed Coalition for Justice and Accountability—a DC based group of Arab Americans, African Americans and Jewish American activists who are focusing on grassroots education and action to deal with the most current attack on Lebanon and the occupied Palestinian territories.
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Laila El-Haddad
Laila El-Haddad is a freelance Palestinian journalist and writer based between the United States and the Gaza Strip. She spent the past three years in Gaza reporting for the Aljazeera Satellite Channel's english language website (now known as Aljazeera International) and Pacifica Radio's Free Speech Radio news. Her work is also frequently found in the Guardian Unlimited, the BBC World Service, the Electronic Intifada, Le Monde Diplomatique, and the New Statesman.
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Mike Ergo
Mike Ergo grew up in Walnut Creek and graduated from Northgate High School. Mike enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on May 11th, 2001 (his senior year in high school). He left for boot camp on October 9th that year and upon completing boot camp at the School of Infantry, Mike was stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. His unit spent only a month in Iraq during the initial invasion of 2003, even though his deployment aboard a ship lasted eight months.
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Jodie Evans
Jodie Evans has worked on behalf of community, social-justice, environmental, and political causes for more than thirty years.
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Malía Everette
Since 1997, Malía Everette has been the Director of Global Exchange's popular and rapidly expanding Reality Tours program. During her tenure at Global Exchange's Reality Tours she has overseen the growth and development of alternative travel programs, study seminars and fact finding human rights delegations to 30 countries around the world.
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Delvis Fernández-Levy
Delvis Fernandez-Levy will discuss the debilitating effects the U.S. embargo has had on Cuban citizens from a humanitarian and ethical perspective. His presentation will assess the embargo from a moral standpoint and will emphasize how this perspective succeeds in de-politicizing the debate.
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Vivien Feyer
Vivien Feyer is a psychologist, educator, mediator and peace activist. She began lecturing at Harvard University in the 1970s, teaching communication skills to psychologists, teachers, physicians and professionals in other fields. She has facilitated workshops throughout the U.S. on group process, diversity and alternative dispute resolution. Much of her work has focused on bereavement, trauma, death and loss. Vivien trains and coaches community mediators and promotes direct person-to-person, heart-to-heart communication between adversaries and across borders.
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