Jori & Jiva Manske
Organizing for Effective Social Change
Both Jori and Jiva have participated in organizations that have facilitated major changes in the area of Human Rights, including survival and justice. Join us as we share our experiences of what has worked to shift governmental, corporate and personal choices toward supporting a cause. How can we influence major social change?
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Jori has been actively involved with several social change organizations that have contributed to the well-being of people around the world, including the grassroots organization that has been called the most powerful lobby in Washington. She has served CNVC as executive director, board member, and with her husband, Jim, as co-founders and leaders of the CNVC Global Community Circle (GCC). Other contributions include co-founding board member of the Network for NVC, founding board member and trainer with Comienzos.org jail program, and co-developer of NVC Alive in a regional hospital which then changed their mission statement to include NVC. Her trainings and service have taken her to many states in the USA, as well as to Europe, Central America, Asia, and Australia. Currently she is the lead Mediation Trainer with Compassionate Leadership, and serving through mediation, group facilitation, mentoring, and organizational development. And her greatest honor is to be family with her husband, Jim; son, Jiva; and daughter, Jaya.
Jiva introduced the concept of restorative justice to Brown University through his Honor’s Thesis. He has his masters in Peace Studies from the European Peace University in Austria and currently works in Washington, DC, with Amnesty International. He has created educational programs and trained in NVC and Peace Studies with Comienzos.org and Georgetown University. He has also trained in Costa Rica, Afghanistan, and Iran. He began his path of social change in Washington at the age of 10 on his first trip to Washington, DC when he spoke with Sen. Dominici in his office as part of a delegation advocating for funding micro-enterprise loans for poor people around the world.
You can also find Jori at RadicalCompassion.com
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