Lifetime Achievement Award

Joyce Hall

Joyce was introduced to Peace and Social Justice in the mid 1980s, when she had an opportunity to travel with a Citizen Diplomacy group for three weeks to the U.S.S.R. to meet the enemy. She claims that it was a watershed event in her life. Soon after that, she became involved in Central American issues and our country’s involvement in atrocities going on at the time, and traveled to the School of the Americas at Ft. Benning twice to ‘cross the line’ with thousands of others to protest our involvement.

Joyce was a member of the steering committee of the International Women’s Peace Conference in 1988, which took place in Dallas. She then became involved with the Dallas Peace Center, serving on the board and a variety of committees, learning from peacemakers along the way and helped to bring attention to the plight of Palestinians in the occupied territories, and to the absolute necessity to eliminate nuclear weapons.

For several years, she served on the board of the Greater Dallas Community of Churches, where she helped to write a study guide for congregations on the death penalty, and helped to educate on that issue around the state.

She helped establish a Dallas chapter of Pax Christi (the Catholic Peace Movement) 30 years ago, was the first Texas Regional Director for two years, and continues to work with that group, serving locally, statewide, and on national committees.

Joyce firmly believes in citizen diplomacy and is strongly opposed to war of any kind. Her more recent passion is media accountability, the corruption of the corporate-owned media, and the plight of journalists who put themselves on the line in one way or another to bring us the facts.

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