Veterans For Peace 2020 National Convention Workshop on Agent Orange

Namaya, MIA, MSN, D.Sci, is an internationally renowned poet, artist, who creates art and community building projects for peace. His expertise is creating community peace building art projects internationally. He is a veteran, served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Yemen, and is a lifelong peace activist. He has presented art and performance projects “Memoria. Hablar. Dignidad.” at human rights centers Villa Grimaldi in Santiago and other peace building projects around the globe. His art work has appeared in shows in San Miguel A llende and peace centers internationally. He was in Vietnam in 2020 for an art and writing residency called “Vietnam: Journey to Forgiveness”. During that residency he designed a project “Do Not Forget Me: A Journey to Forgiveness.”

Veterans For Peace 2020 National Convention Workshop on Agent Orange

Paul Cox was a US Marine in Vietnam during the US war. He is a lifetime member and Coordinator of Veterans For Peace’s Agent Orange Project. He is a member of the San Francisco, CA Chapter 69 and Hoa Binh, Vietnam Chapter 160.

Veterans For Peace 2020 National Convention Workshop on Agent Orange

Heather Bowser is on the Board of Directors of the Children Of Vietnam Veterans Health Alliance (COVVHA). Visit for more info covvha.net

Heather is the daughter of a deceased Vietnam Veteran who served in the United States Army in Vietnam from 1968-1969. Heather was born two months premature with multiple birth defects. … She is a founder of Children of Vietnam Veterans Health Alliance, an advocacy group for the offspring of Vietnam Veterans.

Veterans For Peace 2020 National Convention Workshop on Agent Orange

Chuck Searcy is a Vietnam War veteran and founding member of VFP Chapter 160 in Vietnam, and an International Advisor for Project RENEW in Quang Tri Province, working on making the province safe from wartime bombs and landmines. He is a past representative of Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, and is active in the NGO Disability Agent Orange Working Group in Viet Nam.

Searcy was awarded Vietnam’s National Friendship Medal, the highest medal presented to non-Vietnamese citizens by the state of Vietnam.

Veterans For Peace 2020 National Convention Workshop on Agent Orange

While on active duty during the Vietnam War, Lt. Susan Schnall dropped antiwar leaflets over five military installations and an aircraft carrier from a small plane flying over the San Francisco Bay Area. Afterward, she held a press conference, and lead a mass peace march while in uniform. She’s been resisting war ever since.