Amy Antonucci, Chair has been involved in activism, agriculture, and the arts in Seacoast NH for 30 years. After receiving her B.A. in Women’s Studies at UNH Durham, she has worked on issues of environmental health, sustainable agriculture, human rights and peace.
Amy has been on the board of NHPA for several years, especially helping with their Events Committee, American Friends of Combatants for Peace partnerships and FCNL (Friends Committee on National Legislation) local lobbying efforts. Amy is co-owner of Living Land Permaculture Homestead in Barrington, NH, where she tends plants, animals, and insects. She helps organize the Seacoast Permaculture Group and the True Tales Live storytelling program in Portsmouth NH, teaches Sacred Circle Dance and Frame Drumming, and believes in the power of people and stories to transform the world.
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ie LaBombard, Secretary. Jonie was born, raised, and went to college in Hanover, NH. She is a former kindergarten teacher, stay-at-home-parent of four, volunteer EMT, and a 21-year Girl Scout leader and trainer.
Somewhere back in the 80’s she was the editor of the Nashua Peace Center newsletter, The Drinking Gourd. Jonie got into peace activism while attending Hanover Friends Meeting and is now a member of Concord Friends Meeting. She is also currently a library trustee and serves on the boards of several non-profits.
Kaylie Efstratiou, Treasurer, is currently serving as the Communications and Development Associate for Open Democracy, working to promote voting rights and electoral transparency. She received her Master’s in Political Science and Bachelor’s degree in Political Science & Communication with a minor in Social Justice Leadership from the University of New Hampshire. She first became involved with NH Peace Action by presenting a group project on a Gaza-based humanitarian aid organization during the organization’s biweekly Peace and Justice Conversations series. Prior to Open Democracy, Kaylie has worked with civic and campaign organizations including The Blue Lab, the Foundation for Civic Leadership, and the New Hampshire Democratic Party. Kaylie is hopeful that together, we can foster long-term international peace by fiercely promoting empathy and diplomacy as guiding principles in all our efforts. (Kaylie is also the Treasurer of NH Peace Action) Chris Hansen. Repelled by the insanity of the Vietnam War, and compelled to avoid taking a role in it, I 
avoided the draft with student and occupational deferments, and became active in peace demonstrations and the alternative “national service” of VISTA, part of the “War on Poverty”. Much of my working life involved community organizing and human services jobs in support of community mental health and services for the elderly and people with disabilities; then I spent my last paid years as a carpenter before retiring in 2010.
Over the years, while my wife and I raised our two now-grown children, I have been active with campaigns and organizations in solidarity with Central Americans whose challenges have often mirrored the years of the Vietnam war and the unjust involvement of the USA. My continuing dismay with the Gulf War, the Iraq War, the Afghanistan War, and US support and sponsorship of conflict elsewhere have kept me on my toes and frequently demonstrating in Keene’s Central Square. I have also been a volunteer with local efforts: repealing NH’s death penalty, Habitat for Humanity, Literacy Volunteers, town budget and recycling committees, Cub Scouts, and community theater groups.
Garrett Walker is a community organizer and educator. He has worked on issues regarding youth education with Granite State Organizing Project, money in politics with Open Democracy and community empowerment with the Party for Socialism & Liberation. Professionally, he will soon acquire a Masters of Secondary Education Degree from Southern New Hampshire University and an NH state certification to teach 6th to 12th grade Social Studies. He joined the Peace Action Board in early 2022 as a way of contributing to the movement for peace and diplomacy in NH and globally. In his free time, he enjoys reading Sci-Fi and taking care of houseplants.
Scott Dickman is a long-time advocate for peace and social justice, lived in Israel for sev
eral years during the 1970’s and returned with the Compassionate Listening Project in 2016 – and participated in a CLP Journey to Alabama in 2020. He also served on the Board of Building a Culture of Peace for several years and is currently a member of NH Friends of Combatants for Peace and J Street – organizations committed to reconciliation, extending compassion to The Other and bridging differences peacefully. He is currently semi-retired, enjoying family and the company of his new grandson, while fulfilling his passion for the outdoors by partnering with conservancies in the establishment of conservation easements.
Paul Krautmann was born in Higginsville (Lafayette County), Missouri until about age 12, when he moved to Jefferson City, Missouri. He attended the University of Missouri and graduated from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Dentistry in 1972 and obtained a Certificate in Pediatric Dentistry in 1979 from the Dental College of Georgia in Augusta, Georgia.
Paul was a Active Duty Dental Officer in the United States Army and United States Army Reserve. He served in Germany, Georgia, Paraguay, Guatemala, Kuwait, and Iraq, during his military career.
He and his wife Suzy have lived in Keene, where they raised their three children. since 1979. He practiced Pediatric Dentistry in Keene and Concord and a few other places from 1979 until 2013. Paul retired from dentistry in 2013 and retired from the United States Army in 2005 with the rank of Colonel, after nearly 5 years of active duty and 22 years of reserve duty.
Paul was on the Democratic Primary ballot in 2020 and 2022 running for United States Senator. His major issues were excess Pentagon spending/forever war, Universal Health Care access, Social Security funding, lobbying activities of retired military and Congressional personnel, and lack of leadership by NH incumbent Democratic Senators.
He is pleased to serve New Hampshire Peace Action and its members.
Jesse Gillis. I’m appalled by what our government is enabling in Palestine. Disillusioned is what best captured my sentiment of official US foreign and domestic policy, knowingly understanding the official narrative is what is sold to the American public to dress up the war machine. 13 years in the Air National Guard, and for it I worked a job in which I didn’t carry a firearm, received decent pay, had great benefits & schooling, focused on the quality of my ‘personal’ life, and kept my head down. This is what it means to comfort oneself and ignore the immense injustice this system perpetuates at home and abroad. It’s convenient and self-justifying.
In 2024, I said no more. No more indifference. No more ignorance. I found Veterans For Peace, Peace Action, and ‘About Face: Veterans Against the War’. I began to learn how this violence is perpetuated. I have moved from disillusionment to actively dissenting because the war machine cares not for what you think about it, but what you may do about it. My behavior has strained relationships with family and friends. It’s painful, but not as painful as the moral injury many of us suffer for being part of this. We are all dehumanized in its system. I wish to resee my brothers and sisters again at home and aboard. I will bear witness and fight for peace. May my efforts empower others to take action and begin to rebuild a more just world.
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Janet Simmon, Co-chair. Janet’s initiation into activism was with a college group called Stop Atomic Bombs. 
Another early experience, teaching and creating adaptations for people with disabilities, has always been woven into her professional and volunteer activities. Janet worked with DC group Partners for Peace, led church studies for peace, taught classes on Palestine/Israel and participated in her first major peace rally in DC in 1988.
When she moved to NH she joined Gunstock Adaptive Sports. Eager to better understand other cultures, she worked with Bhutanese refugees, chaired the Laconia Multicultural Festival, and traveled to Pine Ridge, Palestine/Israel, Bangladesh, Jordan and Kenya.
Currently Janet is a member of the NH UCC Peace with Justice Advocates. She has been a member of NHPA and PEN since she moved to Laconia ten years ago.
Doug Bogen has been an environmental organizer and advocate (and NHPA member) for over 35 years. He is currently Director of Seacoast Anti-Pollution League, a 55-year-old safe energy organization based in Portsmouth. In addition to his work with SAPL, he is a founding member of Seacoast Peace Response (affiliated with NHPA) and the Portsmouth-Severodvinsk Connection. From 1991 to 2009, Doug worked with Clean Water Action’s New Hampshire program, serving as State Program Director for most of that time. His work included legislative and electoral campaigns for clean up of the state’s old fossil-fueled power plants, combating climate disruption, protecting drinking water and coastal water quality, and addressing toxic contamination—particularly mercury and military waste. Doug also served from 1995 to 2023 as Community Co-Chair of the Restoration Advisory Board for the superfund mitigation of toxic waste sites at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. He also served on the steering committee of 350NH in its early years. He holds a master’s in science and environmental education from Cornell University and a bachelor’s in biology from Colorado College.
Amy Antonucci has been involved in activism, agriculture, and the arts in Seacoast NH for 30 years. After receiving her B.A. in Women’s Studies at UNH Durham, she has worked on issues of environmental health, sustainable agriculture, human rights and peace. (Amy also serves on the NH Peace Action Education Fund Board, as Chair)
organization during the organization’s biweekly Peace and Justice Conversations series. Prior to Open Democracy, Kaylie has worked with civic and campaign organizations including The Blue Lab, the Foundation for Civic Leadership, and the New Hampshire Democratic Party. Kaylie is hopeful that together, we can foster long-term international peace by fiercely promoting empathy and diplomacy as guiding principles in all our efforts. (Kaylie is also Treasurer of NH Peace Action Education Fund)John Fussell. Until retiring in 2023, John worked as a labor lawyer for unions for 28 years. Before law school, he was a member of UAW Local 1251 and later an organizer and Vice President of 1199, New England Healthcare Employees Union.
In 1978, John co-founded the Connecticut Anti-Apartheid Committee (CAAC), which passed state divestment legislation in 1982 to support South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle.
From 2011 to 2021, John volunteered with the Tree of Life Educational Fund, bringing Palestinians to the U.S. and organizing travel to Palestine to educate Americans about the U.S. role in supporting Israeli apartheid.
In 2021, he joined Watan, Inc., the fiscal sponsor of WeWillReturn.org. In 2024, he traveled to Cairo with WWR to provide prosthetics to Palestinian refugees from Gaza. He has published several opinion pieces on Palestine in the Connecticut Mirror.
John is the secretary of the Palestine House of Freedom Board in Washington, D.C. He and Mina moved to New Hampshire in 2025. He participates in NHPA’s weekly vigils in Dover.
Ann Podlipny. I was a former teacher and social worker until I home schooled my daughters and became more involved in social justice and environmental causes. Today, I continue to follow this ‘current’, working for non profits that protect water, especially the Clean River Project and the Indigenous NH Collaborative Collective (INHCC). Also important are the urban pocket pollinator gardens we plant in Manchester to promote biodiversity and public health in low income neighborhoods through NH Audubon. I’m a member of GSOP, Kent St. Coalition and the NH Network, working on reducing harmful plastics in our environment, especially in communities burdened by industrial pollution and toxic landfills.
Rémi Jacques. Rémi is a rising junior at Georgetown University studying Government and History. He has a strong interest in intersectional justice and serving his local New Hampshire community. By working with New Hampshire Peace Action this summer, Rémi is pursuing these interests and gaining experience in grassroots advocacy along the way. He is driven to always seek nonviolent resolutions to the conflicts, big and small, through constructive dialogue. In his free time, he loves to read fantasy literature, cook new recipes, and play strategy games with his friends.
Rémi was the NH Peace Action Education Fund intern from June-August, 2026.