1. Inspiration Community
9721 Sherwood Farm Road
Owings Mills, Md 21117
www.inspirationcommunity.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, September 16, 2016
CONTACT:
Jessica Dibb, Director, Inspiration Community
410-709-3629
jessica@inspirationcommunity.org
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, Author to Discuss
Political Future that Transcends Partisanship and Hate
BALTIMORE, MD.—Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Suzan Shown
Harjo will join Stephen Dinan, author of Sacred America, Sacred World, at a
special event to explore new pathways for transformative politics and governance.
TIME: 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
DATE: Saturday, September 17, 2016
LOCATION: Inspiration Community, 9721 SherwoodFarmRd., Owings
Mills, MD
According to leaders of the fast-growing transpartisan movement, it’s not too late
to jump-start our country’s forward progress despite the polarizing, angry rhetoric
driving the U.S. presidential election politics. Shown Harjo and Dinan will discuss
these hopeful trends at an openevent, seven weeks before the U.S. presidential
election.
Suzan Shown Harjo is a poet, writer, lecturer, curator, and policy advocate, and
President of Morning Star Institute. She has helped Native Peoples recover more
than one million acres of land and numerous sacred places. She has developed key
federal Indian law since 1975, including the most important national policy
advances in the modern era.
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2. Stephen Dinan is the CEO of The Shift Network, a transformative education
company that partners with the top teachers, experts, and healers, across many
diverse fields, to offer powerful experiences that support growth and
transformation — and the evolution of the collective.
In his recently released book, Sacred America, Sacred World (with Foreward by
Marianne Williamson) Dinan argues that Americans can transcend the heightening
racial and class divisions by holding to a vision that honors the ideals of bothleft
and right, leaving behind their excesses, and embracing our country’s political and
spiritual evolution.
James O'Dea, former D.C. Director of Amnesty International, considers Dinan’s
book“a compelling blueprint…A visionary work of the highest order.”
Acclaimed singer, songwriter and musician Kristin Hoffman, who has performed
at the Sundance Film Festival, will perform a closing song.
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