QLSP Third Year Conference Speakers
February 22-24 at Guilford College

"Quaker Responses
to Gender and Sexuality"

With the distinguished Quaker guest speakers:

John Calvi is a Certified Massage Therapist specializing in trauma and a Quaker Healer with a spiritual gift for releasing pain. A Released Friend, John is recognized by his meeting for his work of 20 years with sexual abuse survivors, people with AIDS, and tortured refugees. Married under the care of his meeting in 1989, John and his husband Marshall Brewer worked for passage of the Vermont Civil Unions Law for same sex couples.

Petra Doan is an Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Florida State University. Her primary research area includes Third World Development Planning with an emphasis on regional development and empowerment planning. Since her gender transition she has broadened these interests to include the evolution of queer neighborhoods and the inclusion of trans people. She is a member of Tallahassee Monthly Meeting and serves on the Oversight Committee. In addition she is a founding member of PANTRA, the Panhandle Transgender Alliance, a Board member of the Family Tree, Tallahassee's LGBT Community Center, and a member of the Ministry and Counsel Committee for FLGC, a nationwide Queer Quaker organization which meets twice a year. In addition she is a member of the National Board of the American Friends Service Committee and clerk of the Program Committee for the Regional Executive Committee for AFSC's South East Regional Office.

Mary Garman was raised in the Chicago area, and studied at Kalamazoo College, the Earlham School of Religion, and the joint program in religious studies at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary and Northwestern University. Her gifts in ministry were recorded by Western Yearly Meeting in 1980, and she has served as a pastor in Friends Meetings in Indianapolis and Richmond. She is a member of Clear Creek Meeting, which is part of Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting. She is Associate Professor of Religion at Earlham College, where she teaches in the Religion Department and in a number of interdisciplinary programs. At the Earlham School of Religion she teaches USA Church History and Feminist Theology. She is one of the co-editors of Hidden in Plain Sight; Quaker Women's Writings 1650-1700, published in 1996 by Pendle Hill Press. Her current research includes explorations of the role friendship plays in spiritual development, especially in the lives of Quaker women.

Trayce N. Peterson holds a B.A. from Earlham College and a Masters of Ministry from the Earlham School of Religion. As Friends United Meeting's first Quaker volunteer to Belize, Central America, she taught in a girls high school and helped develop a literacy program with the Sister of Charity in Belize City. She has provided leadership for various youth programs in the U.S. including Pendle Hill's Summer Youth Programs. She served as the presiding clerk of the Chicago Fellowship of Friends Meeting. Trayce now works at Earlham College as the Interim Director of Campus Ministries and Quaker Relations.

Also including an interactive panel of Guilford students, staff and faculty and local friends David Beckett, Willie Frye, and Mary Louise Smith.