She is married to Roger Catlin and is the mother of Alex, Lillie, and Nora. During that time, Diane became the first Executive Director of the Connecticut AIDS Residence Coalition.ĭiane graduated from the University of Nebraska with a B.S in Education. Diane relocated to Connecticut in 1986 where she directed the state Network to Abolish the Death Penalty and worked for the Office of Urban Affairs of the Archdiocese of Hartford, launching a twenty-year career lobbying the state legislature. Diane began her career as a high school English teacher and started working for peace in 1983 as the executive director of the Omaha Nuclear Freeze Campaign.
A lifelong advocate for peace and social justice, Diane is a fierce proponent for citizen engagement that advances policies and practices to create a better society for all.īefore coming to FCNL in 2011, Diane was Executive Director of Partnership for Strong Communities, a Connecticut-based non-profit organization providing leadership, advocacy, and policy development on solutions to homelessness, affordable housing and community development. Diane leads FCNL’s staff to effectively educate and lobby for the policies and legislative priorities established by FCNL’s General Committee. FCNL is a nonpartisan organization that seeks to live our values of integrity, simplicity, and peace as we build relationships across political divides to move policies forward.ĭiane Randall is the Executive Secretary (Quaker lingo for Director) of the Friends Committee on National Legislation.
Founded in 1943 by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), FCNL fields an expert team of lobbyists on Capitol Hill and works with a grassroots network of tens of thousands of people across the country to advance policies and priorities established by our governing General Committee. The Friends Committee on National Legislation lobbies Congress and the administration to advance peace, justice, opportunity, and environmental stewardship. Chris received a call today from Susan Penn of the Memphis Friends Meeting (Quakers) inviting us to join them for this event at First Congregational Church (Memphis, TN).Ībout Friends Committee on National Legislation
Japan Convergence for Peace program with simultaneous interpretation in English and Japanese. ~ Come IGNITE and ACTIVATE this moment with us! ~ The spirit of interfaith harmony and goodwill which radiated from the United Nations during the World Peace Flag Ceremony on this day still continues to resonate in our hearts and throughout the world. Join us in an online gathering to witness a Call for Interfaith Harmony from the heart of the United Nations General Assembly Hall in a historic event which took place in 2013 sponsored by May Peace Prevail On Earth International, The Committee of Religious NGOs and UNESCO. ~ Celebrate Interfaith Harmony Week with us ~ Interfaith Harmony and a Culture of Peace. Since then, Interfaith groups and other groups of goodwill the world over have gathered during this auspicious week to promote global Just under a month later, the UN General Assembly unanimously passed the resolution to recognize the World Interfaith Harmony Week annually during the first week of February. The World Interfaith Harmony Week was first proposed on September 23,2010 by H.M.
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