"Vanessa
Julye's ministry invites Friends to uproot racism in a spirit of love."
-- Helen Garay Toppins, clerk, New York Yearly Meeting Black Concerns
Committee
Vanessa Julye is Coordinator for the Friends General Conference Committee for Ministry on Racism. She leads workshops and speaks on issues regarding racism, focusing on its eradication and the healing of racism's wounds. She is a member of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, which supports her concern to travel in the ministry addressing Racism in the Religious Society of Friends.
Vanessa Julye spoke on Friday evening, February 22 at Berkeley Friends Church and facilitated a workshop on Saturday, February 23 at Berkeley Monthly Meeting.
----- Julye is the author of the pamphlet "The Seed Cracked Open:
Growing Beyond Racism" (Quaker Press of FGC, 2006);
----- She and Donna McDaniel have been working for 7 years on a book,
"Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship: Quakers, African-Americans
and the Myth of Racial Justice" to be published this year.
----- The website for her ministry is : http://www.quaker.org/vanessajulye/index.html
Vanessa lives in South Philadelphia with her husband, Barry Scott. They have three adult children, two daughters and a son, Ellen, Maggie and Kai who all live in Philadelphia. She enjoys quilting, needlepoint, cross stitch and photography.