Our Advisors

  • Dr. James J. Zogby

    Founder and President of the Arab American Institute

  • Letty Cottin Pogrebin

    American Author, Journalist, Lecturer, and Social Activist

  • Mubarak Awad

    Founder of Nonviolence International

  • Rev. Canon Nontombi Naomi Tutu

    Human Rights Activist, Daughter of Archbishop Desmond Tutu

  • Reem Ghunaim

    Executive Director for the Rotary Action Group for Peace

  • Rabbi Michael Lerner

    American Political Activist, Editor of Tikkun Magazine, Bestselling Author

  • Nizar Farsakh

    Founding Chair, Museum of the Palestinian People

  • Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis

    Author, Activist, Public Theologian, and Senior Minister at Middle Church

  • Rev. Dr. Serene Jones

    President of Union Theological Seminary

  • Peter Yarrow

    American Singer and Songwriter

  • Rabbi Sharon Brous

    Senior Rabbi of IKAR

  • Dr. Galia Golan

    Internationally Acclaimed Peace Activist, Scholar and Author

  • Maya Berry

    Executive Director of the Arab American Institute

  • Aziza Hasan

    Executive Director of NewGround: A Muslim Jewish Partnership For Change

  • Kathleen Peratis

    Human Rights Lawyer, Founding Chair of Human Rights Watch Women's Rights Division

  • Rabi’a Keeble

    Founder of Qalbu Maryam Women's Mosque, Social Justice & Human Rights Activist

  • Rabbi Arthur Waskow

    Founder and Director of The Shalom Center, Author & Activist

  • Nada Khader

    Executive Director of WESPAC Foundation

  • Eldra Jackson, III

    Co-Executive Director, Inside Circle

  • Stephen Apkon & Marcina Hale

    Directors and Producers of "Disturbing the Peace"

  • Nancy Kaufman

    Nancy Kaufman

    Former CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women

  • Don Raphael

    Founding Board Member of American Friends of Combatants for Peace

  • Ibrahim AlHusseini

    Philanthropist and Entrepreneur, Founder of FullCycle, a Sustainable Investment Firm

  • Anisa Mehdi

    Emmy Award-winning Broadcast Journalist, Executive Director of the Abraham Path Initiative

Academic Advisory Team

  • J. Ann Tickner

    Professor Emerita, School of International Relations, University of Southern California; Distinguished Scholar in Residence, School of International Service, American University

  • Michelle Gawerc

    Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Studies, Loyola University Maryland

  • Franke Wilmer

    Professor of Political Science & International Relations, Montana State University

  • David Elcott

    Taub Professor of Practice in Public Service and Leadership at the Wagner School of Public Service at NYU

  • Donna J. Perry

    Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School Graduate School of Nursing

  • Nancy Stern

    Associate Professor of Education, The City College of New York and Linguistics, Graduate Center (CUNY)

  • Stephen Zunes

    Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco

  • Sherman Teichman

    Founding Director Emeritus, Institute for Global Leadership

  • Gordon Lafer

    Professor at University of Oregon's Labor Education & Research Center

  • Rachel Feldman

    Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Franklin & Marshall College

  • Sonja Arsham Kuftinec

    Professor of Theatre at the University of Minnesota

  • Warren Spielberg

    Associate Teaching Professor of Psychology, The New School

  • Stellan Vinthagen

    Professor of Sociology, and the Inaugural Endowed Chair in the Study of Nonviolent Direct Action and Civil Resistance at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

  • Jonathan Levine

    Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, The University of Michigan

  • Susan Linfield

    Associate Professor of Journalism, NYU

  • Steven M. DeLue

    Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Miami University of Ohio

  • Alexander Warren Marcus

    Blaustein Postdoctoral Associate in Ancient Judaism, Yale University

  • Benina Gould

    Adjunct Professor, Department of Transformative Social Change, Saybrook University

  • Joel Federman

    Chair, Department of Transformative Social Change, Saybrook University

  • Ellie Friedland

    Clinical Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education in the BU Wheelock College of Education and Human Development

  • Alan Singer

    Historian in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Technology at Hofstra University

  • Emily Raboteau

    Professor of Humanities and Arts at the City College of New York, CUNY

  • Anwar Mhajne

    Assistant Professor at Stonehill College