Member Spotlights
Environmental Peacebuilding and the Power of Belonging. Member Spotlight: Caroline Walsh
Caroline Walsh’s earliest memories of the world are shaped by movement, water, and difference. Born in South Africa at the end of apartheid, she enters life in a place defined…
Read MoreHolding Space for Change: Conflict, Trauma, and Human Connection. Member Spotlight: Andrea Bassin
Andrea Bassin joins the conversation from Santa Fe, New Mexico, where the desert landscape feels both grounding and expansive, much like the work she has devoted her life to. A…
Read MoreFrom Engineering to Peacebuilding. Member Spotlight: Dr. Ernest Thiessen
Dr. Ernest Thiessen has spent more than three decades working at the intersection of engineering, decision science, and peacebuilding. As President of Smartsettle Resolutions and iCan Systems Inc., he has…
Read MoreFrom Law to Listening. Member Spotlight: Elizabeth Lajayi
Elizabeth’s journey into peacebuilding has been shaped less by a single defining moment and more by a gradual awareness of how people experience conflict, power, and justice in their everyday…
Read MoreFrom Courtrooms to Conversations. Member Spotlight: Ed Timken
Nelson Edward Timken, known to most simply as Ed, has spent his professional life guided by law, learning, and a deep belief in the power of listening. A third-generation New…
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