Summary Katie Huerter is the Middle East Peace Building Associate for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). She currently directs and facilitates AFSC's Middle East Peace Education Project, providing information forums and building support for a just foreign policy toward Israel-Palestine throughout the U.S. Midwest Region, as well as, directs several national projects, campaigns, and events as part of AFSC's Israel- Palestine Joint Program. Katie also serves on Interfaith Peace Builders (IFPB) Board of Directors working to continue to foster AFSC's relationship with IFPB, as well as, actively working to enhance both IFPB and AFSC's collaborative efforts advocating for a just peace in Israel-Palestine. Katie's first visit to Israel and Palestine was during the Arab Spring in July 2011 as part of a delegation co- sponsored by AFSC and Interfaith Peace Builders (IFPB). She has since both organized and participated in delegations to the Middle East, including in May 2014, when she visited AFSC's offices and programs in Gaza and the West Bank, and recently in May 2016, where she co-led a delegation to Palestine cosponsored by Interfaith Peace Builders (IFPB) and the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) focused specifically on Detention, Incarceration and Political Prisoners in Israel and Palestine. As an undergraduate, Katie founded the University of Nebraska at Omaha's Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) Chapter, and currently is a member of SJP's National Organizing Committee and serves locally on Nebraskans for Peace Palestinian Task Force's Board. Katie continues to work locally and nationally as a vocal advocate and community organizer for equal rights, justice, and freedom in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.
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