It’s official. Campaign conversations have gone international. Sara Goepfert and Olivia Murillo, who joined conversations in San Diego, while interning at Survivors of Torture, initiated conversations–or plan to–in their home countries of Switzerland and Mexico.

Sara reports that five conversations were held as part of a Quaker group she belongs to in Bern. “The exchange in the group was very stimulating,” she wrote, “and the feedback from the group was that they are interested in holding more conversations.” Sara hopes to initiate additional conversations within her church community and start a series at the University of Social Work she attends.

Olivia said the conversations she participated in while in San Diego “changed my life” and now she is committed to starting them in her hometown of Tijuana. She sees the conversations as an opportunity to begin to change feelings of hate and fear, rampant in a city that has the highest violence rate in all of Mexico. She writes that she “needs to start somewhere” and hopes the conversations will provide that starting point.

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