Executive Director
Deborah Greene
Deborah has over 25 years in the field as a social entrepreneur, using storytelling as a bridge to deeper understanding and personal wellbeing. She is a writer, filmmaker, educator, program creator, and international speaker. Coining the theory of “3 Feet of Peace” during her travels, she is recognized as a leader in peace technology and has just completing her Masters in Global Diversity Governance at Coventry University's Center for Trust, Peace & Social Relations, researching the efficacy of the filmmaking, storytelling, and technology in the peacebuilding process. Her dissertation is on the affect racial identity and theory have on our ability to find person peace and our capacity to engage in cross-cultural dialogue. For the last five years Deborah has been a delegate at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, as well as being a guest speaker at each event. Most recently, she moderated a panel titled “She Speaks: The Power of a Woman’s Voice.” In 2022, she also created and facilitated a program for The Peace Studio’s Fellowship Program focusing on personal wellbeing for artists and journalists. Deborah is currently the Executive Director of TEDx in Woodstock, Vt, where she curated and directed the talks for a 14-speaker TEDx program. (www.TEDxHartlandHill.org)
Known as “The Peace Traveler”, Deborah first traveled to document our emotional temperature after 9/11, traveling up and down the West Coast, focused on teenagers, facilitating dialogue, and filming their views on the changing world. In 2016, Deborah traveled the country by car for five months, prior to the US Presidential Election asking people about their “state of peace”. In total, she traveled over 10000 miles, covering 40 states, forging conversations which resulted in an intimate display of human emotion, made up of over 800 separate interviews. The work weaves a tapestry of our inner life and documents how Americans felt as individuals, as a nation, and as a growing global whole.
Deborah will once again be on the road, virtually and literally, interviewing across the United States, reinterviewing participants from 2016 and working with student filmmakers to document our current State of Peace leading up to the 2024 Presidential Election.