AMP Co-Founder and President (CEO), Board of Trustees, Executive Committee
Richard Boardman is a co-founder and CEO of the American Museum of Peace. He attended Antioch College and graduated with a major in Philosophy and minor in pre-medical science. Rick ran educational seminars at the (Joan Baez) Institute for the Study of Nonviolence in 1969. He was a conscientious objector and later a draft resister who spent 18 months in federal prison, pardoned by President Jimmy Carter in 1977. He spent 7 years as a National Program Coordinator and Co-Director of Clergy and Laity Concerned and worked for 20 years in the national office of the American Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia in various program and administrative roles. He is a lifelong peace activist from a family with three generations of activism in its lineage and is a member of a Sufi community in Philadelphia.
“Visionary leadership is the conscience-authored manifestation of individual and social vision by mature Americans, giving expression to the latest reformulation of the universal truths we all hold to be self-evident, however difficult they may be to achieve fully.”
“Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, and Paine all shared the belief that there is a natural convergence between virtue (or good behavior) and happiness. That is, when people do what conscience shows them is good and true, their action is more likely to lead to greater well-being for others as well as promoting their own feelings of happiness and fulfillment.”