Shinnyo-en USA
www.shinnyoenusa.net
Na Lei Aloha Foundation
www.naleialoha.org
Lantern Floating Hawaii
www.lanternfloatinghawaii.com
Global Shinnyo-en Website
www.shinnyoen.org
Exhibition of the Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito web site
www.shinjoito.com
The Univers Foundation
www.univers.or.jp/index2.html
IMAGEINE PEACE CONFERENCE
Eric Kasum is founder of the IMAGINE Peace Conference at UC Berkeley and also The LIVE PEACE Institute, a think tank for Peace. He is a board member of BePeace.org and the Rasur Foundation and has served as a consultant for the International Center for Peace and Justice, the Culture of Peace Initiative, Pathways to Peace, The Shift Network, the Metta Center and other nonprofits. He is hard at work creating PeaceDog, a website that empowers young people to find their passion and change the world. Eric writes regularly for the Huffington Post and previously, as a journalist and speechwriter, he wrote for CBS News, The New York Times magazine group, The Los Angeles Times, and a think tank in Washington, D.C. Eric also wrote for the Bush White House and members of the Cabinet (1989-91), and for Edwin Meese, President Ronald Reagan’s White House Chief of Staff and former Attorney General. Eric was inspired to devote his life to becoming a Peacebuilder while he was helping on projects at the Shinnyo-en Foundation. He also is a graduate of The Shift Network’s “Peace Ambassador” certification training. Eric is currently writing two books: “IMAGINE – How to Create World Peace In Our Lifetime” and “The Blueprint: What the Great Movements that Changed History All Had In Common.” More…
SIX BILLION PATHS TO PEACE CLUB, LEON MEXICO
Toshiya is originally from Osaka, Japan. After he studied to become a cameraman he went to Montreal, Canada. There he met Ana Maria, from Mexico, both were studying English for a short time, what a coincidence! They were living in Japan for several years and they had one boy and one girl. Now they are living in Leon Guanajuato, Mexico. He is working for a Japanese company and she is a Spanish teacher for foreigners. Toshi is now so happy to film all the activities about Six Billion Paths to Peace. In Leon the Six Billion Paths to Peace group, basically are families with children between 4 to 17 and youth from 18 to 29 years old. They are very enthusiastic, and like to serve others, especially if they are with their family and friends. They organize and participate in activities that help the environment like “Ojo de Agua”. “Ojo de Agua” is a project they have organized to keep a local lake clean and free of litter. They are also a part of a government program to help to plant trees in different parts of their city. They volunteer at the Regional Hospital and share food and drinks with people who are patients there. They also organized an event in their church and to celebrate children’s day with a pantomime show. We still have many ideas and want to help and collaborate with love, service and heart, this is our PATH TO PEACE. More…
DIRECTOR OF SERVICE LEARNING, THE BLAKE SCHOOL
Nan Peterson is the Director of Service Learning at The Blake School and a Shinnyo Senior Fellow. Her path to peace is to model and encourage service locally and globally.
This summer she has organized a trip for her students to Kenya with a service and science focus. Eleven Blake Upper School students and four adults will be staying at the Light of Hope Children’s Center in Naivasha. More…
SAFE PASSAGE, CAMINO SEGURO GUATEMALA
Shannon Malone graduated from Hamline University earning a BA in Anthropology and Spanish. She has worked in the non-profit and youth services community. Most recently she worked as a Program Manager for Cesar E. Chavez Service Clubs in the Bay Area. Shannon is currently volunteering with Safe Passage, Camino Seguro in Guatemala. More…
SENIOR DIRECTOR OF FAITH ENGAGMENT, POINTS OF LIGHT INSTITUTE
Mark Farr is Senior Director of Faith Engagement at the Points of Light Institute, the organization founded and chaired by former President George H.W. Bush; and Co-Director for the Institute for Faith & Service which he also founded with national faith leader Erik Schwarz. Mark is also founder and former President of The Institute for Progressive Christianity, a growing Washington, DC think tank. He is an Episcopalian Priest and a psychotherapist. He holds degrees from the Durham University, Oxford Brookes University, and Cranmer Episcopal Seminary in the UK.
Mark lives in Washington, DC, with his wife Laura, daughters Sadie and Sienna, and their cat, Gigi. More…
Kyleigh Khun Six Billion Paths to Peace Ambassador
FOUNDER, PENNIES FOR PEACE
Kyleigh Khun graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in Peace and Conflict Studies. As an undergrad she worked as a teaching assistant for Jerry Sanders a Professor at UC Berkeley in the Peace and Conflict Studies Department. She founded Pennies for Peace — Making Change Work, a student-to-student humanitarian program inspiring students to organize their schools’ student body to collect pennies and spare change for converting minefields into safe schools and playgrounds in war-torn countries. She also worked with Roots of Peace to transform a tent school housing 60 students to a five-room schoolhouse in the village of Mir Bocha Kot, Afghanistan which was later named the Kyleigh Kuhn Roots of Peace School by the Afghanistan Ministry of Education. Kyleigh is also a 6 Billion Paths to Peace Ambassador. More…
STUDENT STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Stephanie was a summer Shinnyo Fellow from Stanford University summer 2009 and will be entering her junior year in the fall. Stephanie is involved in various activities dealing with issues such as homelessness, education, and Japanese language and culture. One of Stephanie’s many pastimes includes playing the violin. More…
DEFENSE ADVOCACY SERVICES
Born in Peru, David moved to New York at age 17, after finishing high school. He went on to attend John Jay College of Criminal Justice where he majored in criminal justice and minored in English, becoming a Thurgood Marshall Scholar in the process. Since graduating with honors in 1997, David has worked as a court advocate and mitigation expert and currently with Defense Advocacy Services (DAS), a small criminal-justice agency founded in 1997, which he joined as a partner in 1999. His work has been to advocate, orally and in writing, for indigent and private clients in state and federal cases to receive reduced or alternative-to-incarceration sentences based on their unique personal histories and special characteristics. When David is not working he enjoys time with friends, art, writing, politics, soccer and mixed martial arts. His medium to long term goals are to publish his English translation of Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo’s poetry; to complete and realize a couple of screenplay projects he started based on my work and adventures with friends; and to enter the field of policy advocacy in the areas of criminal-justice, immigration and possibly education. As a practicing Buddhist, David is inspired by the Shinnyo-en Foundation’s Six Billion Paths to Peace initiative and has been trying to spread its message of self-realization and harmonious, altruistic action to friends and colleagues. More…
DEACON, DIOCESE OF SAN JOSE
Steve, an ordained Catholic Deacon, has been teaching religious studies for the past 34 years. Currently he is a teacher at Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose, CA. During his summer breaks Steve is a part of the Six Billion Paths to Peace Project by facilitating interfaith immersion trips involving teens and adults from the Catholic Diocese of San Jose with teens and adults from the Shinnyo-en Buddhist Order. Steve serves as member of the Board of Directors of the Interfaith Council on Economics and Justice, and is a Global Fellow with Catholic Relief Services. More…
CONSULTANT, YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
Kim has worked in the field of community mobilization, youth development, drug and violence prevention and interpersonal dynamics since the late ’80′s. She has served on numerous non-profit boards and as Director for California Youth to Youth. Her experience has led her to become full time consultant for a wide range of organizations and individuals in need of group facilitation, curriculum and project development, motivational training and team building. She currently resides in Ashland, Oregon and spends much of her time either traveling or with family. More…
STUDENT, EASTVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL
My name is Raina. I am twelve years old, an eighth grade student at Eastview Middle School in White Plains, New York. I was born in the United States, but my family is from Kerela, India. I hold many ties to my culture and travel to India often. More…
Shinnyo-en Foundation is proud to share the great news that Nan Peterson of The Blake School in Minneapolis, MN and Steve Herrera, Deacon of San Jose Diocese and religious studies teacher at Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose, CA Read more...
