About Voices in Wartime Education Project
Using the arts and humanities to promote critical thinking and compassionate action to bring about social change.
Vision
Acknowledging that conflict is inevitable, we envision a world in which nations, communities, and individuals move beyond polarization and destruction, instead viewing conflict as an opportunity to create understanding, empathy and positive change. Through education, the arts, and self-expression, Voices aims to transform how we respond to, engage in, and recover from conflict. By working directly with instructors and students we strive to model pedagogical methods and social processes that challenge and enrich the arts, humanities and social science curricula.
Why We Need You
Around the world, in neighborhoods and schoolyards, cities and countries, we can lay the basis for a more hopeful world by creating a new type of conversation in which all voices can be heard, and all points of view included, without engendering fear, hatred, or anger. Difference can lead to dialogue and growth rather than violence. By understanding the mechanism of conflict, we may be able to move beyond the seeming inevitability of war. The Education Project offers tools, philosophies, and learning methods that can help us transform the conditions under which conflict becomes intractable and violent.
Discovering solutions to conflict is a task that galvanizes young people especially. Through the Voices in Wartime Education Project, we provide films, curricula, books, photo exhibits, web-based self-publishing and information resources, hands-on training for teachers – and a methodology of conflict resolution – that will help young people understand the roots of conflict, confront the pain and fear at the heart of conflict, and help to rebuild healthy human communities.
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Staff and Key Volunteer Bios
- Marilyn Turkovich has been involved in education in various capacities; teacher, curriculum coordinator, principal and at the undergraduate and graduate levels in teacher training, for several decades. She was the former director of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest's Urban Education Program in Chicago, the Committee for Teaching about Asia for the Association of Asian Studies, and the Textbook Committee of the National Council for the Social Studies. Her teaching has led her from the U.S. to work in India, Guatemala, Japan and Brazil. She frequently designs training for the corporate world and study and activity guides for media companies. Marilyn enjoys travel, reading, being involved in the art world, and cooking.
- Charles Baker completed UW's Certificate Program in Accounting in 2004. He has worked on the accounting staff of the San Francisco Symphony and, in Seattle, of Community Home Health Care.
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Jeff Deveaux lives in Seattle, where he works by day as a grant writer for nonprofit organizations, and flies by night as an amateur trapeze and aerial rope artist. Jeff has a bachelor’s degree in English and has been a writer and editor for eight years. He also writes fiction and is a graduate of the Clarion West Writer's Workshop.
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Renan Jeffreis is a software and database developer, and a volunteer for many nonprofit organizations in Seattle. Renan was the first Web software developer at Microsoft, responsible for building one the first website development tools in the software industry, and part of the founding team of the Microsoft Developer Network.
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Rich Moniak, of Juneau, Alaska, is the father of an army soldier who has served two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. He is a civil engineer for the US Coast Guard. He began publicly speaking out against the Iraq war in August 2005 in a series of guest commentaries published in the Juneau Empire. He co-founded the Alaska Chapter of Military Families Speak Out, is a central figure in the Juneau People for Peace and Justice, and is an associate member of the Veterans for Peace.
Board Bios
Karl Bischoff
Karl is president of Phinney Bischoff Design House, specializing in integrated brand design, including research and strategy, design, interactive, and ideation with a special emphasis on a transparent and inclusive approach to client collaborations. Karl’s diverse experience in photography, music, art direction and production prompted him to establish PBDH’s interactive practice, one of the first in the region to design for the emerging Web. Devoted to the long-term success of PBDH clients, Karl leads a team of award-winning developers in creating a successful interactive presence for such brands as Adaptis, Oldcastle Precast, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle University Law, Margaret Thatcher Foundation and Silver Creek Outfitters.
Raleigh A. Bowden, M.D. (Board President)
Raleigh is a physician who currently serves as the Executive Director for the Seattle African American Comfort Program, a nonprofit working to support end-of-life counseling, education and referral hospice care. Prior to this she worked in the Clinical Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and ran the cancer and inpatient hospice program at Providence Hospital in Seattle. She currently teaches at the UW Medical School and is serving as the Committee Chair for Inclusiveness with WA Women’s Foundation, on the Development Committee for Puget Sound Neighborhood Centers. She has served in the past on the Boards of the Pike Market Medical Clinic and the Cross Cultural Health Care Program.
Lisa Chin
Lisa is a former Amazon program manager, SVP board member, former ED of Open Arms, co-founder of Asian and Pacific islanders in Philanthropy. She is a community volunteer focusing her energy on issues involving education, social justice and the environment. She served on the 2003 K-12 Grant Committee, the Diversity and Cultural Competency Working Group and the Portfolio Granting Committee. In addition to her work with SVP, she currently devotes time to Asian American/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, Statewide Poverty Action Network and Asian Counseling and Referral Services. Lisa worked for 18 years in program management, most recently for Amazon.com. She holds a B.A. from Wellesley College and a Ph.D. from the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.
Michele Corey
Michele is a consultant and adviser on branding, organizational development, and Internet communications. She has a decade of experience in Fortune 500 and 1000 companies such as Grand Metropolitan, whose well-known consumer products include many household names such as Pillsbury and Green Giant, Clorox and The Dial Sales Corporation. She has successfully created and executed complex sales and marketing programs with an emphasis on the bottom line, building long-term business partnerships and generating customer loyalty.
Cambrea Ezell
Cambrea Ezell (Board Secretary and Vice President) is the CEO of Reign Capital Management (RCM), an investment firm. In addition to being a hedge fund manager, she is an adjunct law professor at Seattle University. Prior to RCM, she enjoyed a successful career at Goldman Sachs and served as County Director for Texas Senator Rodney Ellis. She holds a degree in Political Science from Texas Technical University, and a J.D. from CUNY School of Law, New York. She lives in Seattle, WA with her partner Robin Romeo and two Shiba Inus.
Andrew Himes
Andrew Himes is a technology consultant, writer, director and producer. He has been working for social change since the 1960's. During the 70s, Himes was a community and labor organizer in Alabama. During the 1980s, Himes spent several years as a technology journalist and editor, and in 1992 went to work for Microsoft, where he helped pioneer the company's embrace of the Internet by managing the first web team at Microsoft. In 2004, he produced his first film, Voices in Wartime, a documentary that uses poetry to explore the trauma of war. He is the co-editor of the Voices in Wartime Anthology, and director of the short film on PTSD, Beyond Wartime.
Gary Howlett
Gary Howlett is a Vietnam veteran and high school counselor and psychologist for the Edmonds, Washington school district, with a special focus on helping troubled youth. He has returned to Vietnam on various occasions and serves as an educational development adviser for the American International School south of Ho Chi Minh City.
Lora-Ellen McKinney
Lora-Ellen McKinney, is the daughter of a third-generation minister. An expert in community health, social services, social justice, and education, she heads her own consulting firm. Her Kellogg National Fellowship Award provided her dispute resolution training through the Harvard Negotiation Project and Eastern Mennonite University’s Conflict Analysis and Transformation program. She is the author of several books on African American faith traditions. McKinney received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in psychology from the University of Washington in Seattle, and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard University. She lives and works in Seattle, Washington and continues to serve as deacon in Metropolitan Baptist Church in Washington, D.C.
Peter Morgan
Peter Morgan (Board Treasurer) is currently executive vice-president for Group Health Cooperative in charge of all Group Health hospitals and clinics in the Puget Sound Region, with many years experience in healthcare manager and financial operations. He has served 14 years on the Board of Country Doctor Health Clinic and is currently on the Board of the Washington Hospital Association.
John Roth
John Roth is a Student and Iraqi War Veteran. He served as Cavalry Scout in the US army from 2001-2005, during which he took part in Operation Iraqi Freedom III. Deployed to the northeastern sector, his main areas of operation were Tal Afar, Mosul, and Rawah from October 2004-05. During his deployment, John served as a gunner, driver and dismount in Bravo 2-14 CAV, part of the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division’s SBCT unit (Stryker Brigade Combat Team). Upon redeployment to the states, John began to have recurring flashbacks/nightmares associated with his wartime experiences. John began attending college at Bellevue Community College, where he took an English class and learned how writing could be a tool used to help alleviate the symptoms of PTSD. John began to work with Voices in Wartime during February of 2006 after being introduced to Andy Himes during a writing competition at BCC. Shortly after, John’s essay "The Eyes of the Children" was aired on 91.3 KBCS. John Roth is an artist; a writer, poet, musician, tattooist, photographer, activist, aspiring filmmaker and spiritual warrior.
Abdi Sami
Abdi was a film executive at Disney and other production companies. He has 20 plus years of experience in all aspects of management and business development. A highly self-motivated leader who inspires and challenges others to excel, Abdi most recently helped the Rick Steve’s production company in producing a PBS special on Iron. Having worked with a number of diverse organizations, Abdi is known for his enthusiastic and collaborative leadership style.
Joanna Smith
Joanna Smith is a group manager for partner marketing in the Mobile Communications Business at Microsoft, directing Microsoft’s worldwide partner strategy and programs to recruit strategic business partners. She has over 15 years experience in marketing and corporate communications and international program management in the technology industry. She is also a long-time board member of FareStart, where she is a board officer and has led both the Marketing and Communications Committees.
Amy Studer
Amy Studer is the major gifts director for Seattle Symphony. She has been a development executive at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle and major gifts director for public television station KCTS, and she works to foster healthy organizational and fund development at nonprofits where she volunteers.
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