My
commitment is to global healing through personal transformation,
community-building, interfaith, intercultural, and interdisciplinary
understanding, strategic omni-local nonviolence education, and
compassionate activism.
Co-founder
and Project Director - The Gandhi King Chavez Season for Nonviolence
1998-present; Program Director - Parliament of the World's Religions
centennial celebration in Chicago; Co-founder and Project Director
of the Synthesis Dialogues with His Holiness, the Dalai Lama of
Tibet, Dharamsala, India, 1999, Trent, Italy, 2001, Castelgandolfo,
2004, Rome-Florence, 2012; Retreat organizer and liaison for the
Dalai Lama and personal entourage 2009 UCSB, 2011 UCLA; Coordinator
of U.S. based omni-local initiatives for Harvard-based Project
on Negotiation's Abraham Walk Initiative in the Middle East; Conference
and Program Director for the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies
in Chicago, IL and Tacoma, WA; Program Director - International
Buddhist-Christian Theological Encounter, Purdue University and
the Lilly Foundation (2000-2005); Participant - UNESCO Seminar
on Religion and Peace, Granada, Spain. Awards include: Honorary
Doctor of Humane Letters, Holmes Institute, 2005, Religious Science
International's first Peace Award in 2003; the Gandhi-King-Ikeda
Award from Martin Luther King Jr. Chapel at Morehouse College
2002, The Peace Museum's Community Peacemaker Award in the area
of Diplomacy; Serves on the Board of the Foundation for Conscious
Evolution. Co-founder of The Earth Network, a non-profit alternative
television organization dedicated to the environment, social action,
and the human spirit for which she received the Visionary Award
from the Center For New Television; Contributing author, The Community
of Religions (Continuum Press, 1996), Two Hundred Visionaries
(Conari Press, 2010), numerous articles and publications: Kosmos,
Interreligious Insight, Unity Contact, Science of Mind.
