CENTRAL OREGON PEACE NETWORK SPEAKERS
-engaging the community in activities and discussions that promote peace through compassion, understanding and nonviolence.
Central Oregon Peace Network (COPN) is a regional peace education, advocacy and action group.
Rev. Dr. Lerry Chase
Lerry holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from Princeton Theological Seminary and has served pastorates in Pennsylvania and New York for thirty years before becoming the Development Officer for BorderLinks in Tucson, AZ. In nine years, he has seen BorderLinks grow from a small faith-based educational agency serving twenty-five delegations a year to a million-dollar-a-year agency serving constituencies in both the US and Mexico.
Dr Chase often speaks and conducts workshops for college, university, church and civic groups. Topics include border and cultural issues, migrant issues and border policy and global economics. Specifically, he can relate neo-conservative economics, NAFTA, migration, border policy and third-world indebtedness.