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2023 International Peace Conference 

Speakers & Conference Pillars

Speakers from across the world will speak on topics that focus on the peace conference pillars: Individual Peace, Peace at Homes and in Families, Peace Education in School, Promoting Peaceful Communities and Reducing Violence, Addressing and Preventing Human Trafficking, Empowerment of Women and Girls and International Peace. 

Conference Pillar #1: Individual Peace

Steve Killelea

Dr. Yolanda Lewis-Ragland 

Joel Lesko 

Omar Aleiwi & Fabienne Egli

UAB Arts/Dori DeCamillis

Fabian Debora & Homeboy Industries

Lucy Wairimu Mukuria

T. Marie King

Kristina Canfield

Conference Pillar #2: Peace at Home and in Families

Allison Dearing, Susann Montgomery-Clark, & Dr. LaRhonda Magras

Fran Ross Noland

Lori Foreman

Rebecca Morris 

Dr. Yolanda Lewis-Ragland

Grace Ndanu

Joan Witherspoon-Norris

John Dorsey

Dr. Tina Kempin Reuter

Conference Pillar #3: Peace Education in Schools

Dr. Tommy Bice & Lella Carl Hamiter

Jennifer Hatchett & Andrea Miller

Patricia Shafer

Bishop Van Moody

Mark Dixon

Dr. Jermiah Newell & Donna Dukes

Dr. Patton Furman

Kristin Canfield & Susann Montgomery-Clark

LaTanya Scott

Conference Pillar #4: Promoting Peaceful Communities

& Reducing Violence

Dr. Mona Fouad, Dr. Megan Bonds, Dr. Robert Record and Teresa Shufflebarger

Rusha Smith

Gloria Howard

Rev. Denny Blake & Gay Maloney

Marcus Briggs-Cloud

Dan Dibbert

Bethany Dibbert

Luma Mufleh & Shan Foster

Eva Czermack

Fabian Debora

Dr. Mark Wilson

Conference Pillar #5: Addressing & Preventing Human Trafficking

Dave McCleary

Chris Lim

Rev. Becca Stevens

Carolyn Potter

Conference Pillar #6: Continuing Quest for Racial Equity & Justice

Rev. Dr. Bernice A. King

Ms. Odessa Woolfolk

DeJuana Thompson

Lucy Wairimu & Salaam Greene

Bishop Van Moody & Andrea Miller

Felicia Beard

Charles Person & Pete Conroy

Dr. Mark Martin, Cleo Washington & Dr. Tim Lampkin

Joel Lesko & T. Marie King

Rasheedat Fetuga

Conference Pillar #7: Empowerment of Women & Girls

Jennifer Jones

Melinda MeGahee

Kristen Greenwood

Rev. Becca Stevens

Carolyn Porter

Liz Huntley

Stephanie Sinclair, Lucy Wairimu Mukuria and Grace Ndanu

Dr. LaRhonda Magras 

Conference Pillar #8: International Peace

Mark Maloney

Rudy Westervelt

Bryon Bland

Dr. Tina Kempin Reuter

Grade Ndanu

Luma Mufleh

Bob Roth

John Dorsey

Ravi Ravindran

Dr. Peter VerBeek

Martin Martin

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