Claudia serves on the Leadership Development Faculty for the Annie E. Casey Foundation and supports justice movements in a range of ways. She has 25 years of experience in nonprofit leadership, community organizing and movement-building. Claudia has worked with ** She founded and directed stone circles, an organization that worked to sustain activists and the work for justice through spiritual practice; the organization created The Stone House on 70 acres in North Carolina that welcomed 8,000 people for training, retreat and fellowship. Claudia is the author of The Spiritual Activist: Practices to Transform Your Life, Your Work and Your World (Penguin Compass 2002) and numerous articles. She has a master’s degree in Public Policy from Duke University and is a trained yoga teacher. She is passionate about helping people integrate an outcomes-focused approach with thoughtful process, racial justice and the sacred. Claudia lives on Ocracoke.
