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Keynote Speakers
George Lakey George Lakey

George Lakey has been an activist since joining the FOR as a young adult. His first arrest was in the civil rights movement; he went on to give leadership on peace, anti-sexist, gay rights, and economic justice issues. Author of seven books, he's taught at the Martin Luther King School of Social Change, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges, and the University of Pennsylvania. He directed a Quaker Action Group's mission to South Vietnam on the sailing ship Phoenix, was an unarmed bodyguard for Peace Brigades International in Sri Lanka, and has led over 1500 social change workshops on five continents. A Quaker, he's the great-grandfather of three and loves to play piano for Broadway sing-alongs.
Maryrose Dolezal Maryrose Dolezal
Not Your Soldier: Supporting Youth to Resist Militarism

Maryrose Dolezal has been on the national FOR staff since 1999. She currently coordinates FOR's youth and militarism program work, including the Not Your Soldier and I Will Not Kill campaigns to support youth led resistance to the Poverty Draft and militarism, the Peacemaker Training Institute (PTI) program for young adults, and the Nonviolent Youth Collective, a network of young adult artists, facilitators and organizers working on principles of anti-oppression, arts-based organizing, and spiritually based self-care.
Ethan Vesely-Flad Ethan Vesely-Flad
Movement-Building: Four Decades After the Assassination of Dr. King:
FOR's Efforts to Support Interfaith and Multi-Generational Coalitions for Justice & Peace.

Ethan Vesely-Flad is editor of Fellowship magazine at the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), serves as FOR's co-director of communications, and supports organizing campaigns with national coalitions and FOR local groups. Prior to joining FOR in mid-2005, Ethan edited The Witness magazine; served in the Episcopal Church's national Peace and Justice Ministries office, particularly addressing anti-racism and environmental justice.