Jennifer Bing-Canar is interim national coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)’s Israel-Palestine Peacebuilding Program. Jennifer's involvement in Middle East issues began in 1982 when she lived and traveled in Israel and Palestine and researched the Israeli peace movement. Jennifer later returned to work at the Ramallah Friends Schools in the West Bank where she taught middle school and high school boys for three years. While living in the West Bank she also worked as a senior researcher for the U.S. and Swedish Save the Children organizations on a three-volume status report on Palestinian children and the intifada (uprising in 1987). Jennifer has organized hundreds of speaking tours, conferences, workshops, advocacy campaigns, and educational programs about the Middle East in her tenure with AFSC. She serves as resource to organizations and individuals beginning their Middle East and/or anti-war activism in the Chicago area, and is a steering committee member of the Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine. Jennifer has directed and produced two video documentaries about the Chicago Arab community that have aired on PBS and cable stations around the United States: Benaat Chicago: Growing Up Arab and Female in Chicago (1996) and Collecting Stories From Exile: Chicago Palestinians Remember 1948 (1999). Jennifer has also volunteered with community groups focused on education and the arts.