About
In an earlier incarnation, Bruce Mulkey was an arrogant pickup-truck-driving, beer-swilling, self-centered cynic who built log houses for a living. Having miraculously survived that era, he now is a politically progressive, spiritually aware, bike-riding, cat-loving organizer/writer living contentedly with his wife, Shonnie Lavender, in Asheville, North Carolina, an inclusive and eclectic little city in the southern Appalachian Mountains.
Bruce’s viewpoints, essays and articles have appeared in the Asheville Citizen-Times, where he served as an editorial columnist from 2000 through 2004, YES! Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, the Boston Globe, Common Dreams News Center, as well as numerous other print and online publications. Bruce and Shonnie co-authored I Do! I Do! The Marriage Vow Workbook, which was published in July 2006. He has also published two collections of his commentaries–Peaceful Patriots: Taking a stand for peace in an era of endless war and Walking Our Talk: Taking radical responsibility for our lives and our world.
For the three months immediately prior to the November 4, 2008 election, Bruce served as a field organizer for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. In this challenging role he enrolled, trained and empowered several hundred volunteers in two rural southern Ohio counties to organize phone banks, door-to-door canvassing and other activities in support of Obama’s candidacy. These volunteers surpassed every get-out-the-vote goal set by the campaign, and in both counties Obama exceeded the percentage of the vote received by John Kerry in 2004, helping to secure Ohio’s 20 electoral votes. See photos from the campaign trail by clicking here.
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