Speakers & Presenters

Manga artist and Illustrator

Betsy Zucker spent 15 years as a nurse practitioner with the Portland,

Member of Culinary Workers Union Local 226 in Las Vegas for the last 37 years

Ellen Barfield has belonged to VFP since 1988, served on the board from 2000...

Greg Corning is a Coast Guard enlisted veteran

Jackson Potter is the Vice President of the Chicago Teachers Union.

Juan Bettancourt is a Senior Airman in the United States Air Force...

Kathy Wan Povi Sanchez is a social activist and community educator

Actor, writer, and teaching artist

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Mike Prysner organized Iraq veterans and lead civil disobedience against the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Paul is the retired Director of Veteran Outreach at Bergmann & Moore. He served as Deputy…

Rose Roach is the National Coordinator for the Labor Campaign for Single Payer and Chair of Healthcare for All Minnesota

Susan Schnall is President of the Veterans for Peace national Board ...

Contributing editor on border and immigration issues for NACLA Report

Ann Wright is a 29 year US Army/Army Reserves veteran who retired...

Charlotte Dennett is an attorney, author and investigative journalist, identified by Time magazine as an “expert in resources-based politics.”

Dora serves as Founder and Director of Salvavision, a nonprofit offering aid and support to migrants and deportees

Gary was drafted into the US Army during the Vietnam War and then declared as...

Ian Mooney is a veteran of the US Army and a graduate worker at the...

John Braxton is an associate VFP member and a member of the VFP

K.J. Noh is a peace activist, journalist, and scholar specializing in the geopolitics...

Ken’ichi is a life-time member of Veterans for Peace and co-representative of Veterans for Peace Japan (VFP Japan).

Linda Ward-Smith is a dedicated nurse, union president

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Michael T. McPhearson is the Executive Director of Veterans For Peace

Mike Tork is VFP Treasurer and a member of the VFP Board of Directors

Marine Corps Veteran

Shirine Jurdi is the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regional representative of the Women’s international League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), the MENA regional liaison officer for Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (MENAPPAC) and project coordinator for projects in the Permanent Peace Movement

Suzanne Gordon is a journalist and the author of Wounds of War: How the VA...

Wilson (known by one and all in Veterans For Peace as “Woody”) Powell is...

Arlys Herem, Workshop Moderator

Daniel Shea, is the President of Veterans For Peace PDX Chapter 72 Portland Oregon and former VFP National Board of Directors. 

Doug Rawlings was drafted in 1968. He was in VietNam from July of ...

Gerry Condon is a Vietnam-era veteran and war resister

Ian Zabarte is Shoshone from the Duckwater community

Joy Metzler is a 2023 USAFA graduate who is part of a growing movement of active...

Kanako is a member of Okinawa Environmental Network and of Ginowan Churamizu kai (Society of Clean Water in Ginowan City, Okinawa)

Leon Cloder is a Japanese Peace Activist

Lulu Matute is the Organizing Coordinator for School of the Americas Watch (SOAW)

Marlene Eid, graduate of the Sorbonne university in Paris

Michael Wong is a board member of Veterans for Peace, San Francisco chapter...

Mohyeddin is a founder and volunteer coordinator of the Arizona Palestine Solidarity Alliance (APSA) and a founder and board member of the Arizona Palestine Network.

Robert Vivar is Executive Director of the Unified U.S. Deported Veterans...

Steve is a veteran of Vietnam and GI Resistance

Taylor Smith-Hams (she/her) is a US Senior Organizer with 350.org based in...