FCNL’s February Quaker Changemaker Event will feature a conversation about how Quaker principles guide our approach to advocating for peace in Israel and Palestine.
When FCNL’s General Secretary Bridget Moix and Hassan El-Tayyab, legislative director for Middle East policy, visited Israel and Palestine last month, they joined a long history of our Quaker community’s vigorous work for peace in the region.
Join us on Feb. 28 to hear about their recent trip to the region and its impact. Along with longtime FCNL community member Jonathan Evans, we will discuss how FCNL is using Quaker principles to advocate for a lasting peace in Israel and Palestine. They will also discuss our history of advocacy on peace and the importance of a ceasefire to stop the cycle of violence between Israel and Palestine.
Speakers
Bridget Moix
Bridget Moix is the general secretary of FCNL. She is a passionate Quaker peace advocate, activist, and mother. Bridget joined FCNL in January 2022. She brings with her 25 years of work on international peace and conflict issues, with a focus on U.S. foreign policy. Prior to joining FCNL, she served as the U.S. executive director of Peace Direct (2015-2021). Bridget also served as senior legislative secretary for FCNL’s foreign policy program (2002-2006; 2008-2012). She developed FCNL’s peaceful prevention of deadly conflict program and co-founded the Prevention and Protection Working Group (PPWG), a coalition of more than 250 human rights, religious, humanitarian, anti-genocide, and peace organizations.
Hassan El-Tayyab
Hassan El-Tayyab is an author, songwriter, and FCNL’s legislative director for Middle East policy and advocacy organizer. Hassan leads FCNL’s work to end U.S. military involvement in the Saudi-led war on Yemen, advocate for Palestinian human rights, and advance diplomacy with Iran. Hassan was honored by Arab America Foundation as an awardee of its 2022 “40 under 40” initiative, for his policy work on Capitol Hill. His passion for foreign affairs is rooted in his desire to make life safer for people in the Middle East, including his extended family in Jordan, Palestine, and Yemen.
Jonathan Evans
Jonathan Evans and his family moved to Jerusalem in the summer of 1992 with one child and left five years later with three children. While there, Jonathan served as the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Country Representative for Jerusalem, West Bank, and Gaza. The family attended Ramallah Friends Meeting, and Jonathan served on the Ramallah Friends School Board. Jonathan has since returned to the Middle East on short-term assignments with the American Friends Service Committee and the Friends Committee on National Legislation. Jonathan is a member of Westtown Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
Moderator: Lauren Brownlee
Lauren Brownlee is FCNL’s deputy general secretary and the leader of the organization’s Governance, Community and Culture team. In this role, she offers strategic support to FCNL’s young adult program, Quaker outreach, human resources, and Friends Place on Capitol Hill. She helps to steward FCNL’s shared anti-racism, anti-bias, justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion commitments. Lauren currently serves as a co-clerk of the Quaker Coalition for Uprooting Racism Steering Committee.