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Bio

Janet Wolf has worked as a poverty rights organizer, United Methodist pastor with

urban and rural congregations, college and seminary professor, community

mediator, and learner, teacher, animator with think tanks and circles inside prisons.

She continues to focus on public theology, transformative justice and nonviolent

direct action organizing to disrupt and dismantle the cradle to prison pipeline

through leadership by and partnership with those who are now or have been caged.

She is a member of the Coordinating Committee of the National Council of Elders

and on the Board of the James Lawson Institute for the Research and Study of

Nonviolent Movements. She is the author of Practicing Resurrection: The Gospel of Mark and Radical Discipleship. Janet and her husband, Bill Haley, have 5 sons

and 7 grandchildren.