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  • Shoshana Abrams

    Person - Former Staff | July 19, 2021
    Shoshana Abrams served as FCNL’s Advocacy Teams Manager. In that role she was responsible for deepening and expanding our Advocacy Teams program, a network of hundreds of Quakers and friends lobbying to build congressional champions for peace and justice.

  • Sarah Freeman-Woolpert

    Person - Former Staff | May 6, 2024
    As FCNL’s deputy director of Strategic Advocacy, Sarah Freeman-Woolpert was responsible for deepening and expanding our Advocacy Teams program, a network of hundreds of Quakers and friends lobbying to build congressional champions for peace and justice.

  • Israel/Palestine: Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions

    Background | January 29, 2018
    FCNL’s mandate is to lobby Congress and the administration. We work specifically on federal policy to advance the world we seek. We do not take a position on BDS and its associated consumer and shareholder advocacy campaigns.

  • Joe Volk

    Person - Former Staff | June 14, 2023
    Joe Volk is an FCNL Executive Secretary Emeritus, having served in that role from 1990 to 2011. Currently, he serves on the General Committee of FCNL, the Corporation Committee of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the Corporation Committee of Haverford College, and is a trustee of the board of Wilmington College (OH).

  • Peaceful Student Protests Demand Peaceful Responses

    Statement | May 1, 2024
    We urge government and university leaders to permit peaceful protests on campuses, protect freedom of speech, oppose all forms of violence against people exercising their fundamental rights, and work to achieve a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. 

  • On Becoming: The Evolution of FCNL

    Background | December 26, 2021
    Our story is written every day by our actions as we choose hope and work for justice. We are all becoming as we let our lives speak.

  • Faith, Elections, and our Democracy

    Background | September 16, 2020
    Active and informed citizen participation in the political and electoral process is essential to the proper functioning of government. - The World We Seek: FCNL Statement of Legislative Policy

  • Support the Message that Torture is Wrong. Always.

    Update | May 16, 2018
    Today, the Senate Intelligence Committee voted to move forward with the nomination of Gina Haspel for director of the CIA. As you may know, Gina Haspel has a record of overseeing torture by the CIA and destroying evidence related to the program.

  • Watching the Final Days

    Update | November 20, 2016
    When a Congress emerges from an election period and it faces the final few days of a session, it is called a “lame duck” Congress. But Congress is anything but lame during these seasons. Typically, members compress a lot of activity — not all of it good — into the final days.

  • Remembering Guatemala's Genocide

    Update | October 7, 2016
    Panabaj is a tiny village in Guatemala with one big distinction: The military can never enter.