Phoebe Kilby is a development associate of EMU for the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. She is energized by her opportunity to support the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding through fundraising. She received a graduate certificate from CJP in 2004 and sees her work in the Devlopment Office at EMU as forwarding CJP’s important peacebuilding work around the world. Phoebe brings ...More
Coming to the Table, a program of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, seeks to heal the persistent wounds of racism related to the legacy of American slavery. The name of the organization harkens to Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I have a Dream” speech in which he states his dream that “the sons of former ...More
Coming to the Table (CTTT) is on the cusp of becoming a national movement. Thanks to an infusion of funding from the Kellogg Foundation and the Fetzer Institute, CTTT will expand over the next three years beyond its current occasional gathering of the descendants of slaveholders and enslaved people.
I was awed and humbled by my 2008 Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) session at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) where I met, studied, and reflected with students from 46 countries. I spent most of my week with a group of people who share a unique connection to historic slavery in the United States. Almost all of ...More
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