Lyn continues to work for balance and equality through a range of organizations and commitments. ![]() Lyn’s final place of employment was in the Psychology and Education departments at UMD, where she taught and was a supervisor for student teachers placed in racially diverse schools in the Twin Cities. Lyn became committed to promoting diversity in the workplace she returned to graduate school and wrote her dissertation on women of color in U. ![]() In 1986, the family moved to Duluth, where John became the pastor of Peace United Church of Christ, and Lyn worked for Lutheran Social Service as a therapist and office manager. Then their family embarked on a back-to-the-earth experience for five years while living on thirteen acres in upstate New York, where they raised goats, chickens and pigs, and heated with wood. While living in Hartford CT, Lyn and John became involved in organizing around issues of discrimination in housing, employment and education. church in North Carolina, who opened her eyes to racism. Adolphus Cartier, the pastor of an A.M.E. Those oppositional dynamics were tested and transformed by the movements of the 1960s and 1970s: civil rights, women’s rights, peace and justice, the environment. She lived in the midst of white privilege, but at the same time she was educated to be aware of gender equality and social responsibility. Academics, critical thinking, and social justice permeated the environment. Yet, from pre-kindergarten through high school, Lyn was educated at Winchester-Thurston, an all-girls’ school that was grounded in this core principle: “Think also of the comfort and the rights of others.” (Miss Mitchell). She grew up in Pittsburgh, in the midst of a family and urban society that valued “hierarchy, WASP supremacy, material success, and capitalism.” Her father was the vice president of a small coal mining company. Lyn’s formative years were grounded in two polarities. Our attitudes of dominance, superiority, exploitation for personal gain undermine the possibility of a common good.” Lyn is seeking a code of ethics that honors balance for ALL beings-“two-legged, four-legged, winged, finned, and non-living.” She is committed to joining “efforts that disrupt the status quo, organize solidarity and build resistance to systems that oppress and exploit.” Balance is intrinsically embedded in Earth, yet humans have created imbalances everywhere. “I cannot tolerate intentional human-inflicted suffering-on the earth, on people, on all of creation.” She believes that equity, fairness, balance, and justice are interwoven throughout all creation. One topic that Lyn Clark Pegg cannot remain silent about is unfairness and inequity.
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