(As of May 20, 2025) The NNOMY Steering Committee can be contacted in group at nnomysc@nnomy.org
Staff | Office Email | Speakers Bureau
Pat Alviso - Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) - National Coordinator, Long Beach, California
Rick Jahnkow - Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft (COMD) | Rick Jahnkow on Counter-recruitment (Article Archive) - San Diego, California
Siri Margerin - Before Enlisting - San Francisco, California
Michael Merryman-Lotze - AFSC's Just Peace Global Policy Director, Washington D.C. | Gaza Unlocked Posts - (advisory member)
Oren Robinson - Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities (Project YANO) - San Diego, California
Joanne Sheehan - War Resisters League/New England Regional Office - Norwich, Connecticut - (advisory member)
Emeritus Steering Committee Members
The organizations attributed to these individuals refer to their associations during their time serving on the NNOMY steering committee.)
Stephanie Atkinson - Courage to Resist - Oakland, California
Tori Bateman- American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Office of Public Policy and Advocacy, Washington D.C.
Rachel Bruhnke - Codepink - San Pedro, California
Oskar Castro - AFSC/Quaker Volunteer Service - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Kate Connell - Truth in Recruitment - Santa Barbara, California
Pat Elder - WILPF Military Poisons Project | Student Privacy Org | Book: Military Recruiting in the United States | Article Archive | - Montgomery County, Maryland
Libby Frank - Northwest Suburban Peace & Education Project - Arlington Heights, Illinois
Darlene Gramigna - American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Office - Chicago, Illinois
Miranda Groux - The Resistance Center - Northampton, Massachusetts
Barbara Harris - Granny Peace Brigade - New York City, New York
Arlene Inouye - Coalition Against Militarism in Our Schools (CAMS) - Los Angeles, California
Seth Kershner - History Department / University of Massachusetts Amherst - Amherst , Connecticut
John Lindsay-Poland - American Friends Service Committee San Francisco Wage Peace Program , U.S. West Region - San Francisco, California
Sebastian Munoz-McDonald - Feminists Against the DraftFeminists Against the Draft - Dartmouth College - New Hampshire
Stephen McNeil - American Friends Service Committee Bay Area Peacebuilding ProgramAmerican Friends Service Committee Bay Area Peacebuilding Program, U.S. West Region - San Francisco, California
Jesus Palafox - American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Midwest Region - Chicago, Illinois
Bill Scheurer - On Earth Peace - New Windsor, Maryland
Louis Raprager - Veterans for Peace - Digital Counter-recruiter - National
Maria Santelli - Center on Conscience and War - Washington DC
Sonia Santiago Hernández - Madres Contra La Guerra - Canóvanas, Puerto Rico
Sam Smith - I Will Not Kill - Fellowship of Reconciliation - Chicago, Illinois
Chris Venn - San Pedro Neighbors for Peace and Justice - Los Angeles, California
Amy Wagner - Youth Activists - Youth Allies Network - New York City, New York
Staffing | menu
Ariana Hernández - Peaceful Career Alternatives communications staff person - ahernandez@nnomy.org
Rick Jahnkow - NNOMY Administrative staff volunteer | Rick Jahnkow on Counter-recruitment (Article Archive) - rjahnkow@nnomy.org
Gary Ghirardi - NNOMY Communications staff volunteer - gdghirardi@nnomy.org
Fabiola Cardozo - Peaceful Career Alternatives communications staff person - fcardozo@nnomy.org
Natasha Souza - NNOMY Communications staff volunteer - natasha@nnomy.org - (advisory member)
Libby Frank - TECMITS Project Coordinator- lfrank@nnomy.org
Emeritus Staff | menu
Selene Rivas - NNOMY Communications staff person | Researching Pop Culture and Militarism | Peace Pill Videos |
Diana Tagliafico - NNOMY research Intern
Tuktuki Bhattacharya - Peaceful Career Alternatives Intern
Anita Carraher - Winning the Peace intern
Office | menu
Speakers Bureau | menu
Rick Jahnkow -
Past Program Coordinator for the Project on Youth & Non-military Opportunities,
contributor to Draft NOtices, a publication of the Committee Opposed to Militarism & the Draft,
Currently a NNOMY steering committee member and an administrative staff volunteer & organizer.
rjahnkow@nnomy.org - +1.760.753.7518
David Morales -
Helped form the Education Not Arms Coalition as a high school junior.
As a graduate student he attended the Stanford University Teacher Education Program,
taught high school Spanish, now in a doctoral program in education at Stanford University.
dmorales066@gmail.com +1.619.453.6663
Libby Frank -
Was a co-founder of Northwest Suburban Peace & Education Project (archived) ; a counter recruitment
organization based in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Since 2004 NWSUBPEP has been
tabling at all six high schools in District 214. She also was a volunteer for many years with the
Truth in Recruitment project of the Chicago chapter of the American Friends Service Committee.
She is also volunteer staff of the National Network Opposing Militarization of Youth (NNOMY)for the
Taskforce to End Compulsory Military Training in Schools (TECMITS) Project
lfrank@nnomy.org - +1.773.206.4945
Gary Ghirardi -
Had co-developed an international website called antimili-youth.net (archived) with the War Resisters' International
in London in support of the Youth International Study Conference, in Darmstadt, Germany called
Countering the Militarisation of Youth in 2014. He has supported online advocacy for the
Project on Youth & Non-military Opportunities (Project YANO), and the Committee Opposed to Militarism & the Draft (COMD). He is a volunteer communications staff person for the National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY), and a board partner of the Peace Resource Center of San Diego at the Peace Campus where he maintains an office for NNOMY. gdghirardi@nnomy.org - +1.619.798.8335
Jesus Palafox -
Social Change Advocate, Social Worker, past steering committee member of NNOMY and past
operations manager of the Midwest office of the American Friends Service Committee (archived), Chicago.
JPalafox@gmail.com - +1.773.962.1807
We Are Not Your Soldiers is a national program which brings anti-war veterans into high school and college classes to share their experiences with the students and engage with them in dialogue about the dangers of the U.S. military both to them and to people around the world. Current presenters available to speak either in person or via remote technology: John Burns (Army), Ross Caputi (Marines, Iraq), Joy Damiani (Army, Iraq), Rosa del Duca (Army National Guard), Will Griffin (Army, Iraq and Afghanistan), Chris "Henri" Henrikson (Army, Iraq), Miles Megaciph (Marines, 90s), Lyle Rubin (Marines, Aghanistan), Brian Teucke (Army, Afghanistan), Shaniyat Turani-Chowdhury (Marines, Afghanistan), Joe Urgo (Air Force, Vietnam), Miguel Gabriel Vazquez (Army, Vietnam). Talk to Stephanie Rugoff at +1.347.581.2677
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