Board of Directors

Judy has spent her life working in the areas of education, marketing and sales, personal growth, and transformative project management. Her career encompasses the fields of elementary education, retail and franchise management, and nonprofit administration.

Judy has played strategic roles in Hawken Country Day School, as Head of Preschool Program; the est Foundation, as Administrative Manager; Supercuts Corporation, as franchisee and marketing consultant; the Beyond War Foundation, establishing and expanding their San Francisco region; Primo’s Coffee Inc., as owner of 11 coffee retail locations; Kimmel and Company, as consultant to a variety of business and private clients.

She continues coaching in the private and public sectors and serving on a number of different nonprofit Boards. Judy is dedicated to activism and transformed relationships with family, community, and business.

Terry actively joined The Peace Alliance in 2005 as District Team Lead, and then Southern California State Coordinator, becoming a member of the Board in 2009. Her passion for peace stems from a desire commonly felt by many — to leave a better world for future generations. Growing up in activism, her parents were focused towards environmental and historical preservation goals, in addition to the arts. Terry views her activism for peace as all-encompassing, honoring those foundational areas and more, finding a place for that fundamental desire that is practical, concrete and productive.

Having enjoyed a few different careers, beginning as a performer touring with ANNIE, 42nd STREET and CATS, then co-owning a boutique relocation consulting firm in Chicago, she now works as a Program Manager and Agile Coach at Accenture in Technology Consulting. Working with her wonderful and creative husband, Paul Chepikian, Lupine Productions provides video production services for corporate, personal and entertainment purposes. Terry and Paul live in Encino, CA with their dog, Jenny.

Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed spiritual author and lecturer. Marianne has been a popular guest on television programs such as Oprah, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, Charlie Rose & Bill Maher. Seven of her twelve published books have been New York Times Best Sellers. Four of these have been #1. The mega best seller A Return to Love is considered a must-read of The New Spirituality. A paragraph from that book, beginning “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure…” is considered an anthem for a contemporary generation of seekers.

Marianne’s other books include The Law of Divine Compensation, The Age of Miracles, Everyday Grace, A Woman’s Worth, Illuminata, Healing the Soul of America, A Course in Weight Loss, The Gift of Change, A Year of Miracles, and her newest book, Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment, available now.

Marianne is a native of Houston, Texas. In 1989, she founded Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program that serves homebound people with AIDS in the Los Angeles area. To date, Project Angel Food has served over 10 million meals. She serves on the Board of Directors of the RESULTS organization, working to end the worst ravages of hunger and poverty throughout the world. She founded Sister Giant in 2010, which explores the intersection of spirituality and politics, creating politics of conscience. Sister Giant is dedicated to forging a deeper conversation about what is happening in America today – and what we can do to change it.

Marianne is a co-founder of The Peace Alliance and founded and launched the campaign to establish a U.S. Department of Peace. She is currently a democratic candidate for the office of President of the United States.

Lynn is an experienced executive, leader, educator and consultant who has worked in management, training, education and organizational development for 35 years. Her experience includes positions as Chief Executive Officer for Marilyn Burns Education Associates, an educational consulting and training firm; Manager of Franchise Development and Director of Compliance for ComputerLand Corporation; and Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of McCullough & Company/Orbit Computers, Inc. Since 1985, she has been President of her own firm, The Lannon Group.

She has facilitated large-scale systems and culture change initiatives organizations in Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia, England and Japan.

Lynn is adjunct business faculty for Keuka College International Programs in Vietnam and China. She’s traveled extensively in China, Viet Nam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Brazil and throughout Europe. Her second language is Portuguese.

She holds a B.S. degree from Keuka College and a MEd from Cambridge College, Institute of Open Education.

Lynn served as the vice chair of the board of directors of Raphael House, a San Francisco shelter for homeless families. She was a founding board member of The Professional and Businesswomen’s Conference in San Francisco. She is Trustee Emerita at Keuka College and Director Emerita at Raphael House.

Pete Addicott, retired President of Inter-Connect, a Human Relations Consulting group, provides networking avenues to groups and individuals. Most recently, he led a workshop on Mission, Goals and Leadership with the Board of an Alzheimer’s Facility. He humanitarian efforts led to connections for the delivery, set up and distribution of water desalinization units during the Haiti crisis.

Mr. Addicott has spent 25 years with Federal Express in management positions in Training and Development. He established the Management Training and Career Development programs for FedEx, wrote the initial Team Building manuals for staff development for the company, headed integrated training for Flying Tigers and managed Training for the Southeast area of the United States, Latin and South America. As a Special Projects Executive for FedEx, he managed the Steering Committee on the local United Way Board, supported FedEx’s efforts with the Memphis PGA tour and reviewed integration training material for the Kinko’s/FedEx merger.

In the last six years, he has served on the Community Foundation Board, United Way of Memphis agency review and Regional Special Olympics Track and Field, and the University of Maine Farmington board. His volunteer interests are in Intergenerational Communication through Storytelling, Organizing and Conducting Storytelling Festivals in Maine and Tennessee, Financial Stabilization Systems through Community Building, church activities, singing with a semi professional coral, a little golf (very little) and spending time with his grandchildren.

He holds an M. Ed. from Springfield College in Springfield, MA.

Matthew has worked with The Peace Alliance since its founding in 2004 in various roles as it’s grown, including: Managing Director, Executive Director and now Executive Vice President and Director of Programs and Communications. Prior to The Peace Alliance, Matthew worked as Managing Director of the Global Renaissance Alliance and on various campaigns to help create a more just and sustainable world. He is a Huffington Post blogger and the author of the book “Living Out Loud! Young Adults, Finding our Purpose, Shaping a Better World.”

He has a B.A. in psychology from Sonoma State University in California, focusing on Ecopsychology. He also has an M.A. in Humanities and Leadership with a focus on Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Community from New College of California.

Larry Doyle presently resides in the Columbia, Maryland. He attended Louisville, Ky. Public Schools, where he graduated with honors from Louisville Central High School in 1968. Upon winning a National Merit Scholarship, he attended Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland where he received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology and Urban Affairs. Later he moved to Toledo, Ohio where he attended the University of Toledo and received a Doctor of Jurisprudence in 1980. He practiced law in Toledo for many years and later realized that Education Reform was his true passion. He is presently pursuing a PhD in Education and Sociology, with a minor in Peace Education with an emphasis on structural and cultural peace. In 2013 he was inducted into the Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society. He is a recognized writer and his academic papers have been ranked as high as the top 2% in the world. He retired from teaching American Government and Sociology at the Baltimore City Community College. 

Steven Smith is a peace building professional with over 30 years experience, starting as a Peace Corps volunteer in Basankusu, Equateur Province, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo). He has been a peace building adviser on the Great Lakes of Africa for the United Nations, served in peace keeping missions and UN Missions in Rwanda, Sudan (Darfur), Haiti, Chad, and DR Congo. He is a skilled negotiator and led a Track II effort during the war in DR Congo as well as advising on other conflicts. Mr. Smith is an expert on countering violent extremism and has led or participated in multiple evaluations of CVE efforts world-wide for the US State Department with a special focus on the African Sahel. One area of special interest is support for women in conflicts and recovery programming in rural areas. He created UAID’s Women in Transition initiative following the Rwandan genocide that assisted 4 million people become economically self-sufficient and became a standard of gender sensitive programming. A recent area of focus is re-greening areas impacted by climate change and deforestation. Mr. Smith has a broad range of experience in the private sector in energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies and business development. Steven Smith is a published author and currently has a book project underway about his work in Rwandan refugee camps and post-genocide Rwanda. He is fluent in French and speaks Lingala.

Emily has been serving on the Board of Directors since 2010. She has been “officially” active in the peacebuilding world when she stepped into the role of Office Manager of the California Headquarters for the Dennis Kucinich for President 2004 campaign. Emily grew up in a family that has worked in the peace building community for at least 3 generations and feels it is in her nature to live and work for greater peace, individually and collectively.

Emily has a B.A. in Psychology from UC Berkeley and has a private practice as a Certified Life Coach based in Northern California. As a coach, Emily works to help people cultivate greater inner peace, to live more authentically and powerfully in their own lives and become aware of the impact they are having, both positive and negative, on themselves and others. “If everyone in the world were committed to the goal of having a positive impact, we would have peace. I believe peace comes from practicing compassion and kindness, for myself and others.”