Honorary Co-chairs and Host Committee Announced for 9/9 Event
This is a partial list and will be updated weekly. We are honored to include these supporters of Reverend Lawson here.
Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace
2nd Annual George F. Regas Courageous Peacemaker Award – Honoring Rev. James Lawson
Founding Chair -- The Reverend Dr. George Regas, The Regas Institute
Honorary Co-Chairs
Salam Al-Marayati, Muslim Public Affairs Council
Aris Anagnos, The Peace Center
Hussam Ayloush, Council on American Islamic Relations-So CA
The Rev. Ed Bacon, All Saints Church, Pasadena
Arlene Holt Baker, Executive Vice President, AFL-CIO
Congresswoman Karen Bass
Rabbi Leonard I. Beerman, Founding Rabbi, Leo Baeck Temple
Harry Belafonte
Bishop J. Jon Bruno, Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles
The Rev. Louis Chase, Hamilton United Methodist Church
Congresswoman Judy Chu
The Rev. Norman Copeland, Presiding Elder, The AME Church
Dorothy Cotton, Former Education Chair, SCLC
Maria Elena Durazo, LA County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO
Marian Wright Edelman, Children’s Defense Fund
Mike Farrell, Actor
Sharon Gelman, Arts for a New South Africa
Professor Ralph D. Fertig & Suzy Marks, Community Activist
Gil Garcetti, Photographer; former LA County District Attorney
Danny Goldberg, Goldve Entertainment
Bonnie Boswell Hamilton, Bluegate, LLC
Dr. Maher Hathout, Muslim Public Affairs Council
Dr. Rosa Hill
Dolores Huerta, Dolores Huerta Foundation
Rabbi Steven Jacobs
Bishop Charles Jordan, Retired, United Methodist Church
Rabbi Jonathan Klein, Clergy and Laity United for Economic
Justice - LA
Norman Lear
The Rev. Eric P. Lee, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Congresswoman Barbara Lee
Congressman John Lewis
William Lucy, Retired, American Federation of State, County and
Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
Dr. Julianne Malveaux
Doug Mirell, Past President, Progressive Jewish Alliance
The Rev. Cecil “Chip” Murray, Cecil Murray Center for Community
Engagement, USC
Angela Oh, Advisory Board, President’s Initiative on Race
Ron Olson, Attorney and Jane Olson Human Rights Activist
Paula Peinovich, President, National Labor College
Mark Ridley-Thomas, Los Angeles County Supervisor
Ramona Ripston, Former Executive Director, ACLU-SC
Stephen Rohde, Chair, ICUJP and Wendy Herzog, Attorney
Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard
The Rt. Reverend Alexei Smith, Ecumenical and Interreligious
Affairs, Catholic Archdiocese of LA
The Rev. Kelvin Sauls, Holman United Methodist Church
The Rev. William D. Smart, Southern Christian Leadership
Conference
Mr. John Sweeney, Attorney
Bishop Mary Ann Swenson, United Methodist Church
Shakeel Syed, Islamic Shura Council of Southern California
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, City of Los Angeles
Congresswoman Maxine Waters
Kent and Jai Wong, UCLA Labor Center
KPFK 90.7 FM is a Media Sponsor
Host Committee
Richard Alarcon, Los Angeles City Councilmember
Cynthia Anderson-Barker and Tim Barker, Attorneys
Edward Asner, Actor
Larry Aubry, Black Community Clergy and Labor Alliance
Haim Beliak, Jews on First
Medea Benjamin, CODE PINK/Global Exchange
Teresa and Blase Bonpane, Office of the Americas
Father Greg Boyle, Homeboy Industries
Joe Buscaino, Los Angeles City Councilmember
Susan Clark and Alex Karras
Mark Clay and Kevin Keele
Dr. John B. Cobb, Jr. Center for Process Theology, Claremont School of
Theology
Marty Coleman
The Rev. James Conn, Retired, United Methodist Church
The Rev. Dr. Arthur Cribbs, Clergy and Laity United for Economic
Justice - CA
John Dear
Larry Dilg, Educator and Mimi Kennedy, Actor
Father Richard Estrada, Our Lady Queen of Angels Church
The Rev. David Farley, Echo Park United Methodist Church
The Rev. Dr. John Forney, Board of Directors, ICUJP
Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles City Councilmember
Rabbi Laura Geller
Leslie Gersicoff, Jewish Labor Committee
Judith Glass, Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice
Jackie Goldberg and Sharon Stricker
Eric Greene, Regional Director, Bend the Arc
Wendy Gruel, Los Angeles City Controller
The Rev. Dr. Gwynne Guibord, The Guibord Center
Father Mike Gutierrez, St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, Board of Directors, ICUJP
Tom Hayden, The Peace Exchange
Dennis Hernandez, Attorney and Lori Orum
Paul Koretz, Los Angeles City Councilmember
Paul Krekorian, Los Angeles City Councilmember
Sister Pat Krommer CSJ, Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondolet
The Rev. Peter Laarman, Progressive Christians Uniting
Tom LaBonge, Los Angeles City Councilmember
Lydia Lopez, Board of Directors, ICUJP
John Mack
Milia Islam Majeed, South Coast Interfaith Council
Anthony Manousos, Board of Directors, ICUJP
Rabbi Jeffrey Marks
Eisha Mason, American Friends Service Committee
The Rev. Janet McKeithen, Methodist Federation for Social Action
Prof. David Meyers, Bend the Arc, A Jewish Partnership for Justice
The Rev. Sandra Olewine, Santee United Methodist Church
Bernard C. Parks, Los Angeles City Councilmember
Father Chris Ponnet, St. Camillus Center, Pax Christi, USA
Dr. Joseph Prabhu, So CA Committee for a Parliament of the World’s
Religions
Margaret Prescod, Host of Sojourner Truth, KPFK-FM
Dick Price and Sharon Kyle, LA Progressive
Bill Rosendahl, Los Angeles City Councilmember
The Rev. Alexia Salvatierra, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Martin Sheen, Actor
Stanley and Betty Sheinbaum
Daniel Sokatch, New Israel Fund
Varun Soni, Dean of Religious Life, USC
Dr. Glen Stassen, Professor, Fuller Seminary
Herb J. Wesson, Jr., President, Los Angeles City Council
The Rev. Frank Wulf, United University Church
