Tag: Community-building

A Cincinnati native, Shannon Hughes is a two-time graduate of Xavier University, earning her BA in English and her MA in Urban Sustainability and Resilience. Shannon joins the Ignite Peace team bringing 18 years of experience in education and advocacy work. From a high school classroom in the Marshall Islands, to the halls of Congress as the manager of the Education Program of Network, the Catholic Social Justice Lobby, and back to the Dorothy Day Center for Faith and Justice at her alma mater, Shannon has worked to deepen our understanding of and commitment to the pursuit of justice in our campus, local, and global communities.

Shannon’s first day will be later this month and Ignite Peace will be hosting a meet and greet on Wednesday, September 18th (details coming soon).

We invite you to join us at our 100th Hope Story Circle on November 11th, to come together to honor our shared humanity and all of the stories that have been gathered through this time. Following this celebration, we are going to suspend the Hope Story Circles, making way for other initiatives to emerge.

Our Hope Story Circles began in March of 2020, when we were first isolating due to the pandemic. What was initially planned to last a month or two, extended into more than three years of extraordinary moments, where stories were told that focused on our shared humanity. These Peace On podcasts have had thousands of downloads, as the stories continue to touch people who weren’t present at the time.

As we come together for this celebration, please come ready to share! What is the title of a story that you would like to hear, or that you would like to tell?

By coming together, we are inviting these stories into the world!

Please come and join us as we celebrate the stories that bring us together, as we enter a new phase of Peacebuilding!

We would be thrilled to have you join us, and bring friends! Find the zoom connect information at the Calendar on our website.