Board of Directors

Michael Rasmussen is a former CCW client. He was a Marine KC-130J pilot before facing a crisis of conscience, which CCW helped navigate. After being honorably discharged as a CO, Michael went on to get his J.D. degree, cum laude, from Fordham Law School. Michael works...

“My days as an anti-war activist began in 1969 while a college student. It was a little more complicated to become a CO in those days.”

Washington, D.C. native Ethan Foote is a musician, composer, and former CCW intern and GI Rights Hotline counselor.

Originally from the east coast, Maria came to CCW from the high desert of north-central New Mexico where she worked for disarmament and accountability of the two nuclear weapons laboratories in that state.

Chris’ lifelong anti-war activism has included five years on the staff of the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO) in San Francisco.

Jarrod Grammel is an Air Force veteran and conscientious objector living in a suburb of Washington, D.C. While in the military, he worked as chief editor of the base website and newspaper and shortly as the studio photographer. In March 2015, he was granted a...

Nolan L. Fontaine was born in Chester, PA and is an Army conscientious objector (CO); his shift in conscience came after being deployed to Louisiana for both Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita in 2005. Nolan holds a bachelor's degree from Penn State University and a...

Ellen Barfield is active with Veterans For Peace, War Resisters League, National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance, School of the Americas Watch, the Plowshares movement, and others. She has been a nonviolent activist for nearly 30 years, after leaving the US Army...

A Christian pacifist/conscientious objector during his sophomore year of high school in upstate New York, Dan Cole registered as a CO under 1AO status in 1972. Dan later became active in FOR and Amnesty International while attending graduate school and living in...

George is an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of North Carolina and a retired U.S. Navy Captain (Chaplain Corps). Among his activities while on active duty were teaching the philosophy of religion at the Naval Academy, ethics at the Naval Postgraduate School,...