Project Peace was honored to host Kareem Weaver, nationally recognized education advocate and co-founder of FULCRUM, for our Fall 2025 Speaker Series. Kareem, featured in the award-winning documentary The Right to Read, unpacked the urgent challenges facing K–12 education in the East Bay and across the nation.

Kathleen brings over 20 years of experience in research and socially responsible investing as Global Chief Investment Officer at AXA Rosenberg to her analysis of children in the East Bay.

In partnership with Walnut Creek Presbyterian Church, Project Peace is co-hosting Andy Crouch to speak to the loneliness and anxiety that mark this moment.

About This Event, No matter how rich or poor you were at the start of the pandemic, we all found ourselves scampering for toilet paper.

It is time for Christians to be okay with talking about uncomfortable topics like politics.

What's the difference between unaccompanied minors, refugees, and asylum seekers? Why do so many of them come to the East Bay? How do I get a handle on this daunting issue from a local perspective, and what can I do?

Mitali Perkins Has written twelve books for young readers, all of which explore crossing different kinds of borders.

Mark Charles is the son of an American woman (of Dutch heritage) and a Navajo man. He speaks with insight into the complexities of American history regarding race, culture, and faith in order to help forge a path of healing and conciliation for the nation.

Dr. Michael Barram has taught biblical studies in the Department of Theology & Religious Studies at Saint Mary’s College of California (Moraga) since 2001.

Michael Kim-Eubanks works for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship as a regional coordinator for Black Campus Ministries.

Reverend Sandhya Jha will teach on what housing displacement is, why it is important to our communities, and what we can do about it.

Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil is an Associate Professor of Reconciliation Studies in the School of Theology at Seattle Pacific University, where she also directs the Reconciliation Studies Minor program.

Professor Richard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and senior fellow of the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at the University of California (Berkeley) School of Law.

The Project Peace Speaker Series is pleased to partner with local agencies and faith based groups, to discuss how the ideas of race and faith intersect in the East Bay.

Paul Rice is the President & CEO of Fair Trade USA. Since launching the Fair Trade Certified label in 1998,

Ending Slavery, former president Bill Clinton told the plenary of the Clinton Global Initiative: "It tells you that it is a problem we can solve and here's how to do it."

Joel Salatin, a third-generation alternative farmer in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley,