Leah Green is Founder and Executive Director of the Compassionate Listening Project. She holds a masters degrees in Public Policy from the University of Washington, where she also completed her coursework for a Masters in Middle Eastern Studies. Leah is recognized as a leader in Jewish-Palestinian reconciliation. She has led 22 training delegations to Israel/Palestine, speaks and writes about Middle East peace-building, and has produced three documentaries about the conflict: Speaking of Peace, Children of Abraham, and Crossing the Lines: Palestinians and Israelis Speak With The Compassionate Listening Project. Leah has also led delegations to Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, and in 2002, she co-founded the Jewish-German Compassionate Listening Project. Leah has facilitated and taught Compassionate Listening in Israel and Palestine since 1999 and now teaches world-wide in public, private and academic settings. Her work has been profiled in several books, including Gary Zukav’s “Soul Stories”, Susan Skog’s “Peace In Our Lifetime,” “Soul of Success: A Woman’s Guide to Authentic Power” by Jennifer Hawthorne, and “Peace, Justice and Jews: Reclaiming Our Tradition.” Leah is a 2003 recipient of the Yoga Journal’s “Karma Yoga Award.”
Cathy Keene is TCLP’s Managing Director. She graduated from St. John’s College in 2006 with a B.A. in Philosophy and the History of Math and Science. The summer before her senior year of college, she traveled to Nepal and Tibet in order to study Buddhism and the Tibet / China conflict. Upon graduation, Cathy moved to New York to work as a business analyst for an information technology and management consulting company, where she acquired many valuable administrative and technology skills. She also worked as a copy editor and reporter for two magazines and a newspaper in Maryland and Pennsylvania. After studying Hebrew and Arabic for two years, Cathy joined the TCLP delegation to Israel and Palestine in 2008. She went on to complete the Advanced Training in the spring of 2009 before moving from New Jersey to Washington to work as the Managing Director of TCLP.
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