Pat Clark This is Me

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1. 1. Journey of Hope

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   Published on: 6/20/2008   Last Visited: 6/20/2008

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   Pat is the executive director of Fellowship Of Reconciliation
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   Pat Clark is the Executive Director for the Fellowship of Reconciliation.Before coming to FOR, Pat was the National Criminal Justice Representative for eight years with the American Friends Service Committee.There she focused on such issues as the death penalty, prison control units, hate violence and restorative justice, juvenile justice, prison reform and alternatives to incarceration.She has served as a major spokesperson against the death penalty.
   
   Pat was the Executive Director of Death Penalty Focus of California (1990-1994), a statewide organization working to abolish the death penalty.From 1985-1990 Pat worked with the Southern Poverty Law Center, where she became the director of the Klanwatch Project.In that role, she and her staff monitored the activities of the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations and conducted research that was used in litigation against these organizations and for general education.She served as a major spokesperson for Klanwatch and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
   
   As a volunteer with Habitat for Humanity International from 1979-1982 in Zaire, Africa she directed and finished the construction 117 homes; directed the work of over 50 laborers and craftsmen.Initiated and oversaw the construction of a women's center for villagers; set up a cooperative store, developed an experimental garden; coordinated and/or instructed academic and vocational classes for non-English speakers.
   
   Pat serves on the boards of Southern Poverty Law Center, Murder Victim Families for Reconciliation and on the advisory board of and Habitat for Humanity International.She recently was selected a commissioner for the Greensboro, NC Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
   
   She has been a board member of the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana, the Pennsylvania Prison Society, Habitat for Humanity International and the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.
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2. 2. FOR- A Prayer for America

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   Published on: 7/14/2008   Last Visited: 7/14/2008

   A letter by FOR National Coordinator, Pat Clark

3. 3. www.mvfr.org

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   Published on: 1/26/2006   Last Visited: 3/20/2007

   Pat Clark, Chair, New YorkPat Clark is a consultant with the Center for Policy, Planning and Performance.She recently served as the executive director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the United States affiliate of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, an organization with programs that advocate for demilitarization an nuclear disarmament, racial and economic justice, and peaceful resolution of conflicts.
   
   A graduate of Smith College, she has worked as the National Criminal Justice Representative for the American Friends Service Committee (1994-2002), focusing on such issues as the death penalty, hate crimes, prison reform, alternatives to incarceration, juvenile justice and restorative justice.Before that she was director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's KlanWatch Project.
   
   In June of 2004, Pat Clark was one of seven commissioners appointed to the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
   
   Her current community involvement includes service on the boards of directors of the Southern Poverty Law Center and Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation and the Board of Advisors of Habitat for Humanity International, an organization with which she served nearly three years in Zaire, Africa.She has served on a number of other boards that include the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, Habitat for Humanity International and the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana . "The emotions that family members experience in losing loved ones to violent crime ran the gamut in my family.I had aunts and uncles who wanted to personally wreak havoc and vengeance on the perpetrators.But my grandmother's response to the anger and outrage of other family members was that no human being had a right to determine who should live or die.Pat Clark