The Weave Speakers Bureau

Americans have come together in tough times before and we can do it again. Our social fabric is unraveling. Distrust seems rampant. Americans are divided and unable to work together. We can heal, but change must start with us, and start where we live.

The Weave Speakers Bureau highlights people around the country who are healing divides in their communities from the ground up. They come from many walks of life and share their stories to inspire others to shift our culture and create belonging and connection across differences.

They have inspired faith, civic, and business groups to reach across social divides and weave community. They have inspired high school and college students to think not only of a career, but of building a connected life. They have inspired crowds at SXSW and the Aspen Ideas Festival to live in a more relational way as weavers. Browse their profiles. Read their stories. Then use the form to invite weavers to speak to your group, event, or community.

John Noltner on stage speaking at the Mark Leadership Conference.
John Noltner at Mark Leadership Conference, 2019. Photo courtesy of Rutgers University
A group of Weave speakers and their audience standing on a stage at Cuyahoga Community College.
Weave speakers at Ohio student event, 2022. Photo courtesy of Cuyahoga Community College.
Asiaha Butler holding a microphone and speaking in front of an audience at the Weave The People event in Washington DC.
Asiaha Butler at Weave The People event in DC, 2019. ©The Aspen Institute

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