Another World is Neccessary: Anarchism, Christianity and the Race from the White House Presenters
Presenters at the conference are listed alphabetically. Check back
for additional speakers and bios.
Tawd Bell
Bio forthcoming...
Session: Christianity, Anarchism and Black Liberation
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Martha Hennessy
Martha Hennessy is the seventh grandchild of Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement founded during the Great Depression in May of 1933. She lives in Vermont with her husband and works part time as an occupational therapist.
Session: Dorothy Day: Portrait of a Catholic Worker
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Alana L
Alana has been practicing yoga since 1995 and was certified as a hatha yoga teacher by the Integral Yoga Institute in 2003. She has experience instructing kids and adults and has worked with formerly incarcerated men and women. Alana first got active in anarchist politics in 2002 and has been affiliated with Anti-Racist Action, Critical Resistance and Anarchist People of Color (APOC) as well a few small collectives. Currently, she is a member of the New York Metro Alliance of Anarchists (NYMAA), a founding member of the Rock Dove Collective and working towards earning her MA in health and sex education. Alana believes that in order to fight for and ultimately create a truly fair and free world, you must simultaneously maintain a healthy mind, body and spirit.
Session: Remedying our Unhealthy System of Care
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D. John Lee
D. John Lee works as a psychologist and serves as the Coordinator of the Multi-Ethnic Counseling Center Alliance (MECCA) at Michigan State University. John believes that helping professionals should work "towards individual, cultural, and global change simultaneously since one without the other two is illusory and at best temporary." His initial reflections on Jesus' Beatitudes, published in Radical Grace (Vol. 19(3)) the journal of the Center for Action and Contemplation, outline a strategy for wholistic revolution. Having lived for two years in an intentional Christian community and participated in house churches, John is eager to address the challenges of living on the margins of (or in opposition to) North American culture. Before moving into clinical practice, John taught psychology at Tabor College (KS) and Calvin College (MI). He has edited four books and contributed to several articles to professional and scholarly journals. John lives with his wife and two children in Lowell, Michigan.
Session: Jesus' Beatitudes: A Blueprint for Anarchists
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Michael McCoskey
Michael is currently a graduate student at Ohio State University's Knowlton School of Architecture and a part of the Landing Place faith community. More specific to bicycles, he is a dedicated year round cyclist and interested in the way in which the urban environment is perceived differently through varying modes of transportation (i.e. the difference between walking, biking and driving).
Session: Radical Bike Ride
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Peter Rohloff
Peter is currently the director for Wuqu' Kawoq, an NGO working in Guatemala with indigenous Maya communities. He did his graduate work at the University of Illinois and is currently a medical resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Children's Hospital Boston.
Session: Imagining a Stateless World
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Joel Shuman
Joel Shuman teaches Christian ethics and bioethics at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Joel earned a degree in physical therapy from Medical College of Wisconsin, practiced physical therapy for several years, and then returned to school to develop his interests in Christian theology and moral and political philosophy. His three books include: The Body of Compassion: Ethics, Medicine and the Church, Heal Thyself: Spirituality, Medicine and the Distortion of Christianity (with Dr. Keith Meador), and Reclaiming the Body: Christians and the Faithful Use of Modern Medicine (with Dr. Brian Volck), . Currently he is co-editing a collection of essays, Places of God: Theological Voices in Conversation with Wendell Berry.
Session: Remedying our Unhealthy System of Care
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Mark Van Steenwyk
Mark Van Steenwyk is a member of Missio Dei, an Anabaptist intentional community anchored on the West Bank of Minneapolis that pursues Jesus’ way of simplicity, prayer, hospitality, and peace. He is a writer, speaker, and grassroots educator and founder of the Christarchy! network. In addition, he conspires with emerging Anabaptists (and anabaptistic emergents) through Submergent, a network of leaders who, informed by an Anabaptist vision, are living into the Kingdom of God in a postmodern, post-colonial, post-Christian world. He and his wife Amy have been married since 1997. They, along with their son Jonas, live with a random assortment of friends in South Minneapolis.
Session: Christianity and the Nation-State
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Sarah Thompson
Bio forthcoming...
Session: Christianity, Anarchism and Black Liberation |
