Eileen Flanagan is an award-winning author, speaker, and leader of spiritually-grounded activism. She has confronted corporate CEOs, prayed in their lobbies, and been arrested alongside Indigenous water protectors, interfaith clergy, and fellow Quakers. With Earth Quaker Action Team, she has played key leadership roles in three climate campaigns, including pressuring PNC Bank to pause its financing of mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia. With Choose Democracy, she has helped tens of thousands of people learn peacekeeping skills and nonviolent strategies for change. The first in her Irish working-class family to go to college, she earned a BA from Duke and an MA from Yale.
Events with Eileen Flanagan
Reclaiming Connection in a Time of Crisis: An Author Talk with Eileen FlanaganMarch 22, 2026
Join us for an author talk with veteran Quaker organizer, Eileen Flanagan. In her latest book, Common Ground, Flanagan weaves together inspiring stories of grassroots organizing against the huge companies most responsible for climate change. As heat waves, wildfires, storms, and floods become ever more deadly and widespread, the book…
2026 Women's Movement Day: A Friend RaiserMarch 22, 2026
YOU’RE INVITED to join the Women of Cranaleith Spiritual Center for our 2026 Women’s Movement Day! A full day Friend Raiser celebrating women’s progress to date and visions yet to be. Come for one, some or all four movements of the day. (Spirit, World & Body Programs – No Charge;…