CIVIC LEADERS & EXPERTS
The following civic leaders and experts support Back from the Brink’s common sense policy solutions to prevent nuclear war:
Stephen M. Colecchi
Former Director, Office of International Justice and Peace
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
Frank Cownie
U.S. Head of Mayors for Peace, Des Moines, Iowa
Roy Craft
President, Groupspace Management, LLC
Former Executive Director, Martin Luther King, Jr. International Chapel, Morehouse College
Gregg Hall
Associate Professor, Patterson School of Diplomacy & Commerce
University of Kentucky
Vincent Intondi
Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Race, Justice, and Civic Engagement at Montgomery College
Author, African Americans Against the Bomb
Michael Klare
Senior Visiting Fellow, Arms Control Association
Professor Emeritus of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College
Bill McKibben
Co-founder and Senior Advisor at 350.org
William J. Perry
19th Secretary of Defense
Stewart C. Prager
Professor of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University
Alan Robock
Distinguished Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University
Buck Ryan
Director, Citizen Kentucky Project
Associate Professor of Journalism
School of Journalism & Media
University of Kentucky
Elaine Scarry
Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value, Harvard University
George Shultz (deceased)
60th U.S. Secretary of State
Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
Director, Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice
Co-Chair, Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
Brian Toon
Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science and Research Associate at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Publisher and Editorial Director, The Nation, and President, American Committee for US-Russia Accord (ACURA)
Frank N. von Hippel
Professor of Public and International Affairs emeritus Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University
Most Reverend John C. Wester
Archbishop of Santa Fe New Mexico
“Dr. King summed it up 54 years ago: “we no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice today stands between non-violence or non-existence”. Today, the threat of spiraling war and nuclear annihilation hangs heavy over the world and the call for non-violence could not be more urgent or necessary.”
Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
Director, Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice
Co-Chair, Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
“I wholeheartedly endorse the Back from the Brink campaign. The demands are reasonable and their adoption is the responsible thing to do.”
Gregg Hall
Associate Professor, Patterson School of Diplomacy & Commerce
University of Kentucky
