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2010 to 2012 Board Members  

 

Fadhil Al-Kazily

Fadhil earned a bachelor degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Liverpool in the UK. He earned his Master and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. Fadhil's engineering career included design, construction teaching, research, and management.

Fadhil is an amazing speaker. He often starts his presentations by observing his roots are in Iraq and his branches are here in the United States. His perspective on the Iraq War is incredibly powerful because he explains how peace is within our reach instead of a world where his branches are attacking his roots (i.e., his American family is attacking his family in Iraq).

 

Dr. Linda Copeland

Dr. Linda Copeland graduated from UC Davis Medical School with honors. She completed residency training in Pediatrics and fellowship training in developmental pediatrics and child psychiatry at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.  While in Iowa, she was a founder and first president of the initial Iowa Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Linda works as a developmental pediatrician at Kaiser Permanente in the Rancho Cordova Autism Spectrum Disorders Clinic. A long time peace activist, Linda was part of the Nuclear Freeze movement in the 1980s.

Linda leads Teach Peace's programs to teach peace to children. Under Linda's leadership we expect to make great advances in helping children learn about the importance of being kind, protecting the environment, and discovering alternatives to violence.

 

Dave Dionisi

Dave Dionisi is the president of the Teach Peace Foundation. He delivers peace education programs and organized acts of kindness both in the United States and around the world. Dave's experience includes service as a senior executive with MetLife, DirectAdvice, and New England Financial. Prior to working in corporate America, Dave served the country as an Army Intelligence Officer. His business and military experiences over the last 29 years are complemented by an extensive background as an international volunteer in Asia, Central America, Europe and Africa. In 2008, Dave was presented with the Martin Luther King Jr. Outstanding International Peace Leader award for his work helping orphans and poor children in West Africa.

 

Matt Hayes

Matt Hayes experience includes leading teams helping orphans and poor children in Honduras and Liberia. He is a college student and brings the perspective of college students to the Teach Peace Foundation board of directors. Matt's international experiences help the board with projects helping to break the cycle of poverty and enable the disabled to live with dignity. Matt is actively involved helping disabled children with the Special Ambassador program

 

 

Mary Anne Kirsch

As a teacher, Mary Anne has taught peaceful conflict resolution to students for over 30 years. During those years, she always held to the firm belief that education was the key for forming a spiritual basis in a young person's heart for peaceful attitudes. Since Mary Anne's retirement from teaching full-time, she has been active in many volunteer projects. She worked for the unsheltered homeless through an interfaith program called the Interfaith Homeless Task Force. In addition, Mary Anne is a key leader on the St. James Gospel Justice Peace Group. Presently, Mary Anne teaches art to Plainfield Elementary students on a grant funded by the Rumsey tribe. One of the highlights of Mary Anne's life happened this year when she went on a peace building trip to Mission Honduras, an orphanage and school complex for children and mothers in need.

 

Mike Pach

Mike Pach is a founding member of the Teach Peace Foundation whose business background and passion for human rights and equal justice  enhance the organization’s strategic planning efforts and achievement of its overall objectives.  His commitment to promoting peaceful activities and supporting equitable justice and human rights is unwavering, and his association with Teach Peace is a reflection of this commitment.  

 

 

 

Timna Medovoy

Timna Medovoy is currently a senior at the Davis Senior High School. She began her involvement with the Teach Peace Foundation in 2008 when she participated in the leadership development trip to Washington, DC.  Thereafter, she worked on creating the Dr. Seuss social justice training guides, worked as a Teach Peace intern, and co-led the 2009 Evening of Peace awards dinner.  Planning on majoring in international relations, Timna looks forward to bringing a student perspective and her passion for global issues to the board.

 

 

Howard Mendoabor

Howard Mendoabor led an 800 person school in Tappata, Liberia prior to his country's 14-year civil war. In 2003, literally at the same time his town and school were being destroyed, Howard started working with Dave Dionisi. For the next two years Howard worked with Dave leading a program to care for war orphans. As a result of Howard's leadership, the program for war orphans was acknowledged by the government of Liberia as the best program in the country. Today, Howard works for the Teach Peace Foundation as the Executive Director of the Community Micro-business program. Under Howard's leadership we are on track to far exceed our 2009 goal of helping 10 villages with self-sustaining gifts of goats and chickens.

 

 

Eileen R. Rockensies, R.N., M.S.N.

Eileen Rockensies is a native New Yorker although she now lives with her family in Northeast Pennsylvania.  She possesses a Masters degree in Nursing from Russell Sage College in New York and has taught for many years in St. Clare’s Hospital School of Nursing, Russell Sage College and the City University of New York. Since her retirement, she has kept busy volunteering with community projects for the homeless, the aged and those unable to help themselves. For the last 14 years, she has closely worked with Sister Sponsa Beltran and the disabled children of Our Lady of Fatima Rehabilitation Center in Liberia.  Eileen continues to help disabled children working with the Teach Peace “Special Ambassador” program, submitting grant proposals, public relations, and networking to help special needs children.

 

Mary Wind

Mary Wind is in charge of strategic planning for the Teach Peace Foundation. Mary has spent the past twenty-five years in the field of management facilitation and training. She has designed and provided specific programs to meet a wide range of issues confronting public health professionals. Organizations have often asked her to assist them in the design of actions that will enable them to meet specific objectives while facing dynamic and conflicting personality and system demands. Mary enjoys the challenges and rewards that come with using creative design to solve “real world” dilemmas. Mary has a BA degree from the University of San Francisco , and a Masters of Public Administration from Golden Gate University. As national president of Teach Peace, Mary eagerly works to bring the truth out of hiding and inspire others by teaching peace.

Leadership Council

One way to be considered to be a board member is to serve for at least one year on the Leadership Council. Click here to learn about the Leadership Council.

Founding Members

Click here to access a list of Founding Members.

Staff

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For more information please send a message to contact@teachpeace.com.

 

 

 

 

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