Joanna bridges a career in technology with a commitment to social justice, especially those on the margins. Since 2007, she helped lead service and solidarity trips to Tijuana, Mexico. She ministers to the unhoused and teaches at the Institute for Leadership in Ministry. She is an advanced lay leader in the Diocese of San Jose and holds an MA in Pastoral Ministries from Santa Clara University.

Monica started volunteering as an education advocate working at an inner-city school in Chicago and later became a teacher in San Jose.  In 2005, she started an annual mission trip to Tijuana, Mexico to teach about poverty while helping others.  She supports Casa de Clara Catholic Worker House and runs a program to provide showers and services for the unhoused.  

Chris works in technology, sings, and serves as a peace ambassador.

Andre has served as Peace Ambassador liaison with the Gandhi Team since 2018. He is also a glider pilot.

George (Geo) worked alongside wife Monica in Tijuana Ministry and other efforts for many years, but has taken a much more active role since his retirement from HP/marketing. Does music and youth catechism at St Julie's. The rock concerts that he attended in Lincoln Park in the 60s were formative entry points into activism around the time of Vietnam.

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Kim explores the connection between justice and relationship through art, writing and community action. Her visual art, including drawings, painting, & printmaking, is often a form of meditation or contemplative prayer. Her writing includes articles, meditations, and prayers and often reflects on justice, connection, brokenness, and restoration. 

Wendy is an educator focused and lifelong martial artist who has taught deescalation and self-defense. She has served with the Gandhi team since 2017.

Stan is an activist working for peace, nonviolence, and social justice. After 6 years in a Catholic seminary, he enlisted in the Navy. That began his journey to nonviolence and a rejection of war. He served as a co-coordinator for Vietnam Veterans Against the War, later discovered Pax Christi, the Catholic peace and nonviolence movement, served on the Interfaith Council on Economics and Justice, and is a member of the Gandhi Team.

Biography 

• AB Physics, University of California, Berkeley 1965

• Peace Corps, Thailand 1965-69

• Married a Thai Catholic, chose to join her practice

• Received a death threat 1968, which eventually led him to Gandhi,

• And back to his father’s Mennonite roots

• Taught physics at Bishop O’Dowd HS, Oakland, CA 1971–2001

• Created and taught a course on war, peace and nonviolence 1972-2014

• Still trying to save the United States 

• Supporting the United Farm Workers 1970s

• Working against nuclear weapons since 1972

• Resisting war taxes since 1975

• Studied nonviolence under Michael Nagler at UC Berkeley 2001-02

• Began meditating September 11, 2001

• Spent summers with Christian Peacemaker Teams, Palestine 2002-09

• Teaches Gandhian nonviolence at the International Institute of Peace and Development Studies, Bangkok Thailand winters 2011-2019

• Active with the Metta Center for Nonviolence Education,

• And with Pax Christi Northern California

• Steering committee forming a small UCP team to break a siege in Western Sahara