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Executive Director: Aaron Voldman

Aaron Voldman - Executive DirectorResponsibilities:  strategic planning, organizational development, fundraising and donor relations, coalition and relationship building, liaison to the Global Alliance, general oversight.

Aaron hails from South Burlington, Vermont. He organized locally for a Department of Peace during high school and is now a graduate of Brandeis University (2009) where is majored in Politics, with a minor in Peace, Conflict and Coexistence Studies.  He has worked with Student Peace Alliance since co-founding the organization with Julia Simon-Mishel in March 2006.  He also currently serves on the Board of The Peace Alliance, the partner organization to SPA that empowers civic activism for a culture of peace.  Aaron is passionate about positive social change and transformation and is inspired by the organizers and peacebuilders of all ages whom he has met through his work with the Department of Peace campaign.  In his spare time Aaron enjoys eating hummus, salsa dancing, and the great outdoors.


National Technology Coordinator: Shands Pemberton

National Technology Coodinator: Shands PembertonResponsibilities: duties include keeping information up-to-date on the SPA website, e-mailing SPA news to the grassroots network, and exploring new technologies to help spread the message and the work of our organization.

Shands currently works as an independent web designer in Fort Worth, TX. Additionally, Shands serves as the web manager for Unity Church of Fort Worth, the South Central Unity Churches Association, and Rasur Foundation International.

In his personal life, Shands loves to paint, play didgeridoo, and serves as a prayer chaplain and high school youth sponsor at Unity Church of Fort Worth.
 

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