Since 1997, we have interviewed an extraordinary array of women of men who have dedicated many years of their lives for compassionate social change. Eight of the interviews have been edited and are available for purchase with study guides. Click here for an order form. We are working to edit the remaining conversations so that they can be used in a variety of settings for leadership training, social justice education, spiritual renewal and the exploration of connections between spirituality, healing and social transformation.

Here is a brief description of all the individuals who have been interviewed for the Veterans of Hope Project since 1997 as well as links to organizations connected to their lives and work.

Our Veterans are organized by last name:

A partial list of Veterans Interviewed for the Veterans of Hope Video Archive
(1997-2004)

• Victoria Jackson Gray Adams (SNCC activist and Methodist lay minister)
• Ndugu T’Ofori Atta (minister and leader of Pan-African Christian movement)
• John Biggers (painter)
• Grace Lee Boggs (community organizer and philosopher)
• Anne Braden (community organizer and anti-racism activist)
• Elizabeth Catlett (Sculptor and print-maker)
• Dorothy Cotton (SCLC activist and citizenship education specialist)
• Ruth Denny (CORE activist)
• Vine Deloria (legal scholar and Indian rights activist)
• Katherine Dunham (Dancer and human rights activist)
• Julia Esquivel (Guatemalan poet and human rights activist)
• James Farmer (CORE activist)
• Tom Feelings (painter and illustrator)
• James Forman (SNCC activist)
• Rodolfo (Corky) and Geraldine Gonzales and family (Chicano rights movement leader)
• Lorraine Granado (environmental justice activist)
• Prathia Hall (SNCC activist)
• Robert Hill (scholar of Marcus Garvey and UNIA movement)
• Susannah Heschel (Jewish feminist theologian and scholar of Abraham J. Heschel)
• Vincent Gordon Harding (freedom movement historian)
• J. Archie Hargraves (community organizer and minister)
• Dolores Huerta (co-founder of United Farm Workers)
• Marion Jackson (Albany Movement leader)
• Nelson Johnson (community organizer and minister)
• Carol King (Albany Movement leader)
• Edwin King (minister and freedom movement activist)
• James M. Lawson (non-violence trainer, minister and community activist)
• Charles Long (historian of religion)
• Maria Guajardo Lucero (psychologist and children's rights activist)
• Alice Lynd (activist lawyer)
• Staughton Lynd (activist lawyer and historian)
• Charles (Chuck) McDew (SNCC activist)
• Robert Moses (SNCC activist and founder of The Algebra Project)
• Es’kia Mphahlele (South African novelist)
• Warith Deen Muhammad (imam and leader of Muslim Mosque Inc.)
• Rachel Noel (educator and school integration activist)
• Valnizia Pereira Oliveira (Candomblé priestess and community organizer)
• Valdina Oliveira Pinto (Candomblé priestess and environmental activist)
• Fay Bellamy Powell (photographer and community activist)
• Bernice Johnson Reagon (SNCC activist and founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock)
• Bishop Dom Samuel Ruiz (former Bishop of Chiapas, Mexico)
• Ruby Sales (civil rights and women’s rights activist)
• Sonia Sanchez (poet and activist)
• Zalman Schachter Shalomi (leader of Jewish Spiritual Renewal movement)
• Charles Sherrod, Jr. (SNCC activist, leader of Albany Movement)
• Fred Shuttlesworth (civil rights movement activist and minister)
• Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons (SNCC activist and scholar of women in Islam)
• Michael Simmons (director of AFSC European programs)
• Achaan Sulak Sivaraksa (Thai Buddhist human rights activist)
• Tran Van Dinh (Vietnamese resistance movement leader and historian)
• Nuong Van Dinh Tran (Vietnamese resistance movement leader and painter)
• C.T. Vivian (civil rights movement activist and minister)
• Wyatt Tee Walker (SCLC activist and minister)
• Wellington Webb (Former mayor of Denver, Colorado)
• Andrew Young (SCLC activist and former Ambassador to the United Nations)

Veterans who were recorded in group interviews or as part of panel presentations are not listed here.