The Fierce Nonviolence Pilgrimage is a joint project of Dandelion House, The Hearth, and the Austin Story Project.
Fumi Tosu (he/him)
Fumi Tosu is the founder of Dandelion House Catholic Worker community in Portland, OR. He is a second-generation hibakusha (atomic weapon survivor), and long-time nonviolent activist. As a storyteller, community-builder, and peace-maker, he strives to contribute to a world where all beings belong and thrive.
Te Martin (they/them)
Te Martin is a song-keeper and ritual artist. They were born on Ramaytush Ohlone land in san francisco and have been shaped by Ocean, Redwoods, circus arts, and theater games. They facilitate oral tradition singing classes and workshops that focus on song as a tool for collective liberation, somatic regulation, and ancestral connection. Te served as co-organizer of Thrive Street Choir in the san francisco bay area for six years, is a student of the Irish bodhrán drum, released their first professional music video and EP of original songs, “Water & Bones”, in 2021, and launched “Murmuration: A Sebastopol Community Choir” in the spring of 2024.
Mark Yaconelli (he/him)
Clara McGill (she/her)
Clara McGilly is an Organizer and Kingian Nonviolence Trainer from Oakland CA. Growing up, Clara was shaped by the activist tradition of Oakland and her political, pacifist family, forming her passion for racial and economic justice and workers’ rights. She is trained as a Restorative Justice Facilitator and a Kingian Nonviolence Facilitator (KNV), and worked with On Earth Peace as a KNV Organizing Intern to organize introductory trainings and strengthen the KNV philosophy among Church of the Brethren members. Clara spent 2024 working as a Field Organizer and Regional Mobilization Manager for the Wisconsin Democratic Party, training and empowering volunteers in rural Wisconsin to mobilize voters in the 2024 election. Clara graduated from Pitzer College with a degree in Linguistics and Math, where she worked in the Writing Center and in audio and lighting for live music and theater. She also studied in Nepal, living with a host family and learning to speak Nepali. Clara is especially interested in issues of prison justice and dismantling the prison industrial complex.
Norimitsu Tosu (he/him)
Norimitsu was born in April 1942 in Hiroshima, Japan. On the morning of August 6, 1945, he was at his home in the Hakushima neighborhood of Hiroshima, a mere 1.3 kilometers from the epicenter of the atomic bomb. He lost two siblings that day, though he and his twin brother, along with their parents, miraculously survived. He holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Yale University, and now, in retirement, is pursuing a second Ph.D., this time in German. He is a retired professor, mentor to many, and beloved husband and father. Norimitsu lives in Tokyo, Japan. You can read more about his life in a recent interview here.
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