DJ Chandler

DJ Chandler is an active member of the Peace Alliance and co-lead of Truth Storytelling for the Peace Alliance as well as co-lead of the Communications Committee for the Peace Alliance National Department of Peacebuilding Committee. She also donates her time to the YouTube channels Peacebuilders Series and Truth & Peace Storytelling, both for the Peace Alliance in the interest of promoting peace and peacebuilding for the US and the world.

DJ earned her doctorate, master’s, and bachelor’s degrees at UCLA not far from where she grew up in Los Angeles zip code 90045. She has been a teacher in some form since 1983 and currently is the founding director of Sagehorse Umbrella, a registered 501c3.

DJ Chandler in Kosmos

A US Department of Peacebuilding?

Soon after the pandemic began in 2020, the authors separately found their way to a new community for each of them: the US Department of Peacebuilding Campaign and national grassroots advocacy community. As the pandemic raged, the authors engaged with a growing group of people across the country who were practicing the ways of the Beloved Community. For them, the experience was transformational.

Published in Volume 22 Issue 2

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The Village Way

Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World

For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?

Join us for a 9-month inquiry into this question, exploring how we participate together in a time that calls us back to community, resilience, and shared life,