Ann Lennon

Ann Lennon is the director of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Area Office of the Carolinas in Greensboro, N.C. She is a long-time racial justice, economic justice, and truth-in-recruitment organizer in the Southeast United States.

Young People Take Charge

 

"When I was in high school, recruiters seemed to be everywhere: at the school, calling at home, at the mall. I was raised by a single mom and had a twin sister looking at college, too, and I didn’t know what my options were to pay for college and to find work,” says Terri Johnson, a war resister who now works as a truth-in-recruitment advocate. “If I had known about other options, I might not have joined the military in the first place.”