A "climate emergency choir," including several EMU students, performed in Richmond on Monday to ask Governor Northam to put an end to the Mountain Valley Pipeline and demand solutions to climate change. ... read more about NPR covers climate singers from NPR-WMRA
Eastern Mennonite University announces a new partnership with the Peace Corps Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Program. The program offers financial assistance and internships to Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs) who ... read more about EMU announces new partnership with Peace Corps
Jes Stoltzfus Buller, a graduate student in the MA in Transformational Leadership program, talks about her work with churches. She is the peace education coordinator at Mennonite Central Committee. ... read more about ‘LEAD Pods’ Podcast features CJP student, MCC peace education coordinator from LEAD
Cousins: Connected Through Slavery, a Black Woman and a White Woman Discover Their Past — and Each Other is co-authored by Betty Kilby Baldwin and Phoebe Kilby GC '04. Revealing their families’ connections through slavery, their stories intertwine historical trauma and current race relations with courageous acts of grace. ... read more about CJP alum co-authors ‘Cousins: Connected Through Slavery, a Black Woman and a White Woman Discover Their Past — and Each Other’ from Anabaptist World
Jacqueline N. Font-Guzmán, executive director of diversity, equity and inclusion, offers a first-person perspective of why she was drawn to Eastern Mennonite University in the September 2021 education-themed issue of ... read more about Anabaptist World: ‘Drawing on Jesuit and Anabaptist values, EMU’s first DEI director seeks to break down barriers’
Eastern Mennonite University welcomes several new faculty for the 2021-22 academic year. (This article features only full-time faculty). Tarek Maassarani JD, visiting professor of restorative justice, Center for Justice and ... read more about EMU welcomes new faculty for 2021-22 academic year
The Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University welcomes several new faculty and staff for the 2021-22 academic year. “CJP is blessed to have highly qualified faculty members ... read more about CJP welcomes new faculty and staff for 2021-22 academic year
Scroll down to view an 8/17/2021 interview with Dr. Font-Guzmán. Not a week after beginning in her new role as EMU’s first executive director of diversity, equity, and inclusion, Jacqueline ... read more about ‘Ready to do the hard work’: DEI director sees surge of support during first months in new role
Bshara Nassar, a 2104 alumnus of Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, has been named as an awardee of The Arab America Foundation’s “40 Under 40” Class of ... read more about Bshara Nassar MA ’14 among The Arab American Foundation’s ’40 Under 40′
Ronald S. Kraybill PhD presents contemporary alternatives for leaders of today who need to (and generally want to) move away from the traditional top-down approach of conflict resolution. He is a facilitator, consultant and trainer in conflict resolution based in Silver Spring, Maryland. Among other positions, he was professor of conflict transformation at EMU from 1996-2007 ... read more about Ron Kraybill: Things fall apart. How to respond? from Mediate