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18 April 2008

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Supporting Quakers across the Middle East and Europe - preview

Oliver Robertson meets Marisa Johnson, the new EMES executive secretary

Coming to speak to the Friend between hearing a presentation by an Ecumenical Accompanier in the Middle East and discussing website updates, Marisa Johnson is a whirlwind of Quakerly activity
  • Having taken over in January as (deep breath) executive secretary of the Friends World Committee for Consultation's (FWCC) Europe and Middle East Section (EMES), she is busy getting to grips with her new job
  • The title sounds grand, but Marisa downplays her role: 'I suppose another way of looking at that is to be coordinator of the activities of the organisation, and the organisation itself is essentially a network'

  • Oliver Robertson

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