News
January 17th, 2025
Bay Area Braver Angels on CBS
CBS report with Bay Area Braver Angels members Leslie Lopato and Paul Norris on their efforts in our community.
Watch the report here.
January 25th, 2025. Braver Angels and Braver Network members share tables at the Rotary Peace Conference in Rohnert Park.
National Braver Angels News and Media
Braver Angels in the Epoch Times
Braver Angels—Helping to Build a Bridge Over Troubled and Divided Waters
It takes a brave person to go out of his or her comfort zone and cross the great divide and try to talk to those on the other side of the political spectrum.
7/26/2024Updated:8/7/2024
Commentary
Is there a place where Republicans and Democrats can come together to talk and find common ground?
I wasn’t sure until I was invited to attend an interesting meeting on the evening of July 11, 2024, at the Heartwood Church in Rohnert Park, California. It was a meeting of the Sonoma County chapter of a national group called “Braver Angels.”
The national organization was started in South Lebanon, Ohio, on Dec. 9, 2016, shortly after the presidential election that caused such a great divide and polarization in our nation, when Donald Trump unexpectedly won over Hilary Clinton.
Braver Angels’ purpose was to provide a safe place where Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, of various shades of red and blue, could all come together, meet and get to know each other, discuss their differences in an even-tempered, polite, respectful way, and, hopefully, discover that there are many more things that they share in common than things that divide them.
Sonoma Braver Angels Alliance featured in The Press Democrat
April 3, 2023
Great news coverage in The Press Democrat for our Sonoma alliance about a recent workshop they held and their work on depolarizing Sonoma.
Braver Angels SF Bay Area in the News - California Local Article
March 7, 2023
Congratulations to our Sonoma Braver Angels alliance for great local news coverage on their successful programming!
Braver Angels SF Bay Area in the News - California Local Article
May 14, 2021
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Launch: The Depolarizing of America by San Francisco Braver Angel Kirk Schneider PhD
“The Depolarizing of America derived partly from my work with Braver Angels and the many articulate, dedicated people--both red and blue--that I've witnessed and befriended over almost a 3-year period. I have come to deeply value my ongoing engagement with our alliance group as well as workshops I'm able to attend and facilitate, and I hope this book fairly reflects that stance. I also hope that the book serves as a stimulus for us at Braver Angels to consider diversifying our work some with complementary approaches, particularly one-on-one, that both dovetail with and may expand our quest to depolarize America.” - Kirk Schneider
Publication date on or around June 15, 2020.
SF Braver Angels in San Francisco Magazine
San Francisco Braver Angels feature in San Francisco Magazine November 2018.
The Atlantic - News Feature
December, 2019
A feature article in the The Atlantic magazine featuring the San Francisco Braver Angel (formerly Better Angels) Alliance members at a recent workshop.
New York Times - News Feature
From November 3, 2019
