by QVS | Apr 12, 2024 | Equity, National, News, Resources
Photo: Lit tea candles on a Keffiyeh that creates a shrine. Quaker Voluntary Service (QVS) is founded upon the values of peace and community-building. We believe there is a Divine Light in every person. Because of our values and beliefs, it has been...
by QVS | Dec 22, 2022 | News, Resources, Uncategorized
This winter QVS Executive Director Hilary Burgin shares with us her reflections on translating across generations. While my business card might say my job title is “Executive Director” I find myself often in the role of a translator. Many Fellows...
by Claire Hannapel | May 26, 2021 | Equity, National, Resources
This is part of a series of blog posts from Zenaida Peterson, QVS Director of Equity and Empowerment, in which they talk more explicitly about QVS’ equity work. In Essays on the Quaker Vision of Gospel Order, Lloyd Lee Wilson’s talks about the importance of...
by Claire Hannapel | Feb 5, 2021 | National, News, Resources
The following post was co-written by Mike Huber and Hilary Burgin. While each Fellow’s experience is uniquely their own, QVS staff have learned to anticipate some general patterns in the course of a QVS Year. One pattern that we have been thinking about recently is...
by Liz Nicholson | Jun 3, 2020 | Equity, News, Resources
In this moment, we are seeing protests and action rise in multitudes in this country, and around the world, demanding justice for Black Lives, and calling attention to the systemic oppression of Black people. QVS fundamentally understands racial justice work to be...
by Liz Nicholson | May 30, 2020 | Equity, National, News, Resources
As we continue to see police and citizen violence on Black and brown bodies, most recently with the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, we ask what is our work- what is my work? This violence and white supremacy is not new, it is a tale as old...
