Lynn Brantley retired at the end of 2012 as President and CEO of the Capital Area Food Bank where she led the hunger relief movement in the Washington metro area since 1980.  Under Lynn’s leadership, the CAFB developed a comprehensive approach to addressing hunger by providing nutrition education and training; hosting hunger conferences; attracting some 18,000 volunteers to the food bank annually […]

Helen Heller has worked 25 years as a Special Education teacher at The Summit School in Maryland.  Committed to using her skills as a reading specialist and language arts teacher to empower students to succeed, she has an awareness of the need and the skills for multi-sensory teaching and understands the importance of interactive technology in education. Ms. Heller serves as […]

While we are pleased to announce that the American Museum of Peace (AMP) Inc. has been designated 501(c)(3) status by the IRS, retroactive to the date of AMP’s incorporation, October 2, 2012, the AMP wishes to thank the Institute of Multi-Track Diplomacy (IMTD) for their service as AMP’s 2012-2013 fiscal sponsor.  AMP looks forward to many cooperative ventures in the […]

Locke Rush has over 25 years of experience as a psychotherapist and marriage counselor.  A graduate of Princeton University and a former officer in the United States Marine Corps, he also was co-author and co-producer of “Rooftops of New York,” an Academy Award nominated short subject film. He lived in Japan for four years, studying and practicing the disciplines of […]

CHAIRMAN & CEO INSTITUTE FOR MULTI-TRACK DIPLOMACY (IMTD), Ambassador John W. McDonald is a lawyer, diplomat, former international civil servant, development expert and peacebuilder, concerned about world social, economic and ethnic problems. He spent twenty years of his diplomatic career in Western Europe and the Middle East and worked for sixteen years on United Nations economic and social affairs. He is currently […]

Jacob Needleman is Professor of philosophy emeritus at San Francisco State University.  He was educated in philosophy at Harvard University, Yale University and the University of Freiburg, Germany. He is the author of numerous books including Money and the Meaning of Life, Lost Christianity, The Heart of Philosophy, The American Soul, Why Can’t We Be Good?, What Is God?, and, most recently, An Unknown World: Notes on […]

Colman McCarthy (born March 24, 1938 in Glen Head, New York), an American journalist, teacher, lecturer, pacifist, progressive, a self-proclaimed anarchist and long-time peace activist, directs the Center for Teaching Peace in Washington, D.C. From 1969 to 1997, he wrote columns for The Washington Post.  His topics ranged from politics, religion, health, and sports to education, poverty, and peacemaking. Washingtonian […]

Wendy Chmielewski is the George R. Cooley Curator of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection and an authority on social and peace movements in the United States with particular expertise in women in intentional communities, women’s history, and women and the peace movement through the 19th and 20th centuries.  Her current research interests are on women in the U.S. who ran, and were […]

David Cortright is the Director of Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute and Chair of the Board of the Fourth Freedom Forum. The author or editor of 17 books, most recently Ending Obama’s War (forthcoming May 2011, Paradigm) and Towards Nuclear Zero (Routledge, IISS, 2010) he also is the editor of Peace Policy, Kroc’s online journal. He blogs at davidcortright.net. […]

Jonathan Granoff is an attorney, author and international advocate emphasizing the legal, ethical and spiritual dimensions of human development and security, with a specific focus on advancing the rule of law to address the threats posed by nuclear weapons. He is president of the Global Security Institute, Senior Advisor to the ABA’s Committee on Arms Control and National Security and Co […]