#1: Reverend Sarah Pirtle
Sarah Pirtle, Traprock Peace Education Coordinator, founded the Common Threads Program in 2015.
In that role she launched A Long Line of Women Leaders for Racial Justice program for teens and has developed collaboration with Sierra Leone WILPF teens on The Respect Girls Project. Sarah authored Traprock booklets on sexism and ageism, and since 1994 directs Journey Camp for young people on peacebuilding.
Find her five peace education books and songs at https://sarahpirtle.com/
#2: Anne Yeomans
Anne Yeomans has been a psychotherapist and group facilitator for 50 years. She has three books of poetry. She has led women's circles in the U.S., Canada, England and Russia. Her background is in an approach called psychosynthesis. She launched a women's circle program called Women's Well in 1994 along with Susan Chiat, Rose Thorne, and Patricia Reis. Women’s Well’s first home was a center for holistic education in the Boston area, the Interface Foundation, where our original nine-month program, the Women’s Spirituality Program (WSP), was launched in 1994. The WSP included nine weekend workshops and weekly meetings, as well.
#3: Dr. Patricia Hynds
A retired environmental engineer and Professor of Environmental Health, Pat worked on multi-racial and low-income issues of the urban environment; environmental justice; and feminism at Boston University School of Public Health. She has won numerous awards for her writing, teaching, and applied research, and has authored and edited 7 books, most recently Hope, but Demand Justice. Traprock director from 2010-2020, Pat continues to help build Traprock as an educational center in peacemaking. Her “From Global to Local,” monthly column in the Greenfield Recorder, is posted on this website: https://www.traprock.org/media/the-pen-is-mightier-than-the-sword-2/
