Eileen Flanagan

Eileen Flanagan is an award-winning author, speaker, and leader of spiritually-grounded activism. With Earth Quaker Action Team, she has played key leadership roles in three climate campaigns, including pressuring one of the largest banks in the U.S. to pause financing mountaintop removal coal mining. Through her work with Choose Democracy, she has helped tens of thousands of people learn peacekeeping skills and nonviolent strategies for change. The first in her Irish working-class family to go to college, she earned a BA from Duke and an MA from Yale.