Bea Dewing
Bea Dewing’s impressive resume shows more than a life’s work: her professional background includes work as a community organizer working on housing, a data analyst and software developer, a café owner, a cable TV producer, and various forms of civil service. In addition, Dewing worked for both the U.S. Department of Defense and the Department of Labor. Dewing holds degrees in computer science and government and politics.
From housing activism and advocacy to local peace group coordinating and environmental activism to organizing a support group for abused women, Bea Dewing’s resume as a peace and human rights activist is too long to list.
In 2003, In Palestine, Bea Dewing accompanied Palestinian farmers, medical workers, school and community groups in non-violent resistance to Israeli occupation. Her most recent trip to Palestine was immediately cut short as she crossed the Israeli border: suspected of being a human rights activist, Israeli authorities detained, jailed, then deported Dewing. Bea then relocated to Frostburg, MD to open the Palestine Café; she joins the Wheels of Justice tour both as road manager and speaker.