Dancing With History: A Life for Peace & Justice

Please join Swarthmore College and Swarthmore Friends Meeting as they welcome back former Lang Professor George Lakey and help launch his latest book, a memoir: Dancing With History: A Life for Peace and Justice.
Share widely. Bring a friend. George is a scholar, writer, activist, trainer, and formerly a Lang Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies at Swarthmore College, where he founded the Global Nonviolent Action Database. He has taught at Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore Colleges. Since the age of 19, he has been a tireless leader in peace, justice, and civil rights movements, studying and engaging in nonviolent campaigns for social change. A prominent Quaker, Lakey founded Training for Change here in Philadelphia, and his work, detailed in his memoir, can be traced across the anti-War movement, LGBTQ rights, Movement for a New Society, Men Against Patriarchy, Jobs with Peace (a labor coalition), climate justice movements, and more.