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Inside DEI: Peace Week

Published on: Feb 15, 2022 Written by Friends Academy

Director of Diversity, Equity, + Inclusion Camille S. Edwards shares about our recent Peace Week celebration, which is a time for our community to practice peace together. Through guest speakers like Holocaust Survivor Meir Usherovitz, student-run lunch & learns, service projects, and programming such as Born Dancing, which pairs able-bodied and disabled bodies together in dance, students and adults learn new ways of thinking, expressing, and turning peace from a noun – into a verb.

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