Wheels of Justice

Full-time peace and justice activist Ellen Barfield is a Board member of national Veterans for Peace and national War Resisters League, serves on the Legislative Working Group of School of the Americas Watch, and is a member of the national Disarmament Committee of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. She also heads the local chapter of Veterans for Peace in her home of Baltimore, MD, and works with several other Baltimore peace and social justice organizations, as well as her church, First Unitarian Church of Baltimore. She has traveled as a peace delegate to Iraq 4 times beginning in 1991, most recently in December, 2002 and January, 2003 with the Voices in the Wilderness Iraq Peace Team, and to Palestine 5 times, first in 1991, last in 2006 to attend the first pubic event of Combatants for Peace, the Palestinian and Israeli former fighters who have renounced violence. In her earlier life, Ellen served in the US Army from 1977 to 1981, being stationed in Kitzingen, Germany, Ft Hood, TX, PyongTaek, South Korea, and Ft Riley, KS. She earned a degree in Animal Science from West Texas State University, and briefly attended veterinary school at Texas A&M University.