{"id":45129,"date":"2020-03-05T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=45129"},"modified":"2020-03-10T14:31:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T18:31:33","slug":"peacebuilder-podcast-nora-lynne-with-janelle-myers-benner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2020\/peacebuilder-podcast-nora-lynne-with-janelle-myers-benner\/","title":{"rendered":"Peacebuilder Podcast: &#8216;Nora Lynne&#8217; with Janelle Myers-Benner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The fourth episode of the Peacebuilder podcast features the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding\u2019s (CJP) academic program coordinator, <strong>Janelle Myers-Benner, <\/strong>who has worked at CJP in various capacities for 20 years. Myers-Benner speaks of her formative experiences volunteering in Bolivia; the many programmatic shifts she\u2019s helped usher through CJP; and memories of her second daughter, Nora, who died in 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"buzzsprout-player-2892688\"><\/div>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/726384\/2892688-nora-lynne.js?container_id=buzzsprout-player-2892688&amp;player=small\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>The podcast is just one of the ways the center is celebrating its 25-year anniversary. Hosted by CJP executive assistant and anniversary celebration committee chair <strong>Patience Kamau MA \u201817<\/strong>, the 10-episode series features faculty and staff members reflecting on the history of CJP and their own peacebuilding work. A new episode drops every other week on the <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/podcast\/\">Peacebuilder website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tAs young adults, Myers-Benner and her husband, Jason, spent a year working at an orphanage in Bolivia. They returned to Harrisonburg \u201cstruggling with big, big questions, and [CJP] was a place where questions were welcome, and not only welcomed but engaged,\u201d she says. Myers-Benner then got her first job with what was then called the Conflict Transformation Program in 1999 as a work study student.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>I cannot reflect on my 20 years at CJP without Nora coming prominently to mind,\u201d Myers-Benner says. Nora, the Myers-Benners\u2019 second daughter, was born in October 2007 with a rare genetic condition. Myers-Benner worked from home and hospital throughout Nora\u2019s life and returned to the CJP office when Nora was about four or five months old, baby in tow.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She remembers the community rallying around her family during this time. In one story Myers-Benner recounts that Linda Swanson, a student at the time, \u201calmost filled the CJP freezer with these big trays! I think she fed our family for a couple weeks \u2026 that was this abundance of generosity and this outpouring of love.\u201d A CJP alumna, Ann McBroom, took Nora for long walks while Myers-Benner helped the program transition to EMU\u2019s new database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMany of the people who come through our doors are just unforgettable people \u2026 the roots feel very deep, and the connections feel very deep,\u201d Myers-Benner says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her hopes for CJP going forward are also focused on the people. In another 25 years, Myers-Benner says she hopes the school will further \u201ccenter the leadership of indigenous people and people of color.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe need leaders who are creative, who can dream, who can hope, who can envision something different than what we currently have, who\u2019ve shown the ability to rise above immense challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth episode of the Peacebuilder podcast features the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding\u2019s (CJP) academic program coordinator, Janelle Myers-Benner, who has worked at CJP in various capacities for 20 <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2020\/peacebuilder-podcast-nora-lynne-with-janelle-myers-benner\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Peacebuilder Podcast: &#8216;Nora Lynne&#8217; with Janelle Myers-Benner<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":45132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,12503,17436,17562,5642,14145],"tags":[8290,17737],"feature":[17424],"class_list":["post-45129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-cjp","category-center-for-justice-and-peacebuilding","category-digest","category-faculty-and-staff","category-peacebuilding-and-development","tag-janelle-myers-benner","tag-patience-kamau","feature-featured-graduate"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Peacebuilder Podcast: &#039;Nora Lynne&#039; with Janelle Myers-Benner - EMU News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2020\/peacebuilder-podcast-nora-lynne-with-janelle-myers-benner\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Peacebuilder Podcast: &#039;Nora Lynne&#039; with Janelle Myers-Benner - EMU News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The fourth episode of the Peacebuilder podcast features the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding\u2019s (CJP) academic program coordinator, Janelle Myers-Benner, who has worked at CJP in various capacities for 20\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2020\/peacebuilder-podcast-nora-lynne-with-janelle-myers-benner\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"EMU News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EasternMennonite\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-03-05T13:27:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-03-10T18:31:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/03\/Janelle-CJP-25-Podcast-news-feature9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"667\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Randi B. 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