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Jerry Herman, Director,
Africa Peace TourJerry Herman has a long activist history, he worked in Savannah Georgia during the early 1960's with the Chatham County Voter registration drive. Later in Chicago, he organized with the CCCO/Southern Christian Leadership Conference (Martin King's northern campaign) effort to challenge the City of Chicago's closed housing market. In the 1980's he coordinated the Africa Program of the American Friends Service Committee. He was one of a handful of organizers that shaped U.S. antiapartheid work in the United States. In 1996, he visited Mauritania and met with antislavery leadership, and subsequently began organizing antislavery activity. He has taught at a number of colleges and universities in the United States.
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Bahiya Cabral-Johnson, Program Director
Bahiya Cabral-Johnson’s commitment to work for justice dates back to 1984 after the U.S. invasion of Greneda motivated her to get involved in the anti-intervention movement. Bahiya has opposed U.S. military intervention in Central America, worked for peace in the Middle East and actively participated in movements for peace and justice in the U.S. She is a co-founder of a community based organization in Philadelphia called New Afrikan Voices Alliance. This organization sponsored a youth leadership training institute which helped young activist learn skills and strategies to build just political, social, and economic relationships.
