ACPJ Annual Membership Meeting & Potluck

January 29th 2011

Special Guest: Mark C. Johnson, Ph.D.

Executive Director F.O.R. (Fellowship of Reconciliation)

 

Biosketch of Mark C. Johnson

 

Mark C. Johnson, Ph.D., became the executive director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation/USA on March 1, 2007. A 1969 graduate of The College of Wooster in Ohio, and with a 1981 doctorate in sociology from Columbia University in the City of New York. Mark has spent most of his professional career in the YMCA and as a volunteer in environmental, arts, and peace and social justice organizations. His longest tenure was as the executive director of the Silver Bay Association, a YMCA conference and training center on Lake George in the Adirondacks.

 

Mark was president of the Lake George Land Conservancy for eight years and a trustee with the Adirondack Nature Conservancy and Adirondack Land Trust for nine years. He did his alternative service as a conscientious objector in Lebanon, living and teaching in Beirut for six years. From 2002-2006 he was active with the emergent Alliance for Middle East Peace and supported the development of leadership and training programs for young adults at the Jerusalem International YMCA as a member of the staff of the YMCA of the USA.

 

Currently Mark serves on the non-profit boards of Interfaith Peace Builders, Associated Solo Artists/Creative Leaps International, Schools That Can (a national alliance of public, private independent and parochial charter schools), and the International Student Exchange Program. He is also a member of the executive committee of the Leadership Forum at Silver Bay, the advisory board of Girls Learn International, and the advisory board of Whole Women Healing.