Our Welcoming Congregation Committee welcomes guest speaker Dr.
Sandra Faiman-Silva; who shared this thought with us: “An anthropological lens of inquiry
has been instrumental in helping me as a teacher, scholar and activist to deconstruct some of the most
pressing issues of our time and act to foster social change. What I believe are my most important
contributions include a course I taught on War, Peace, and Culture; and my books on the Oklahoma
Choctaw Nation and Provincetown, MA. I will share my work to show how and what we can learn from the
‘puzzle of life’ to be effective agents of both consciousness raising and activism.” Her work offers lessons
on how we can become agents of social change to address pressing antagonisms and conflicts toda