Location: Twin Lakes of Montgomery, 9840 Montgomery Road, Montgomery, Ohio, 45242
Date: January 16, 2025
Time: 5:45 p.m.
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Beverly Horstman joined Braver Angels in 2018 as a member and became trained as a moderator. In 2019, Beverly accepted the Ohio State Coordinator with the national organization. This role provides her with the ability to combine her personal commitment and her educational degree with 40 years of business experience. She has organized over 40 Braver Angels workshops and events as well as assisted as a co-moderator. As State Coordinator, Beverly actively supports the four local Braver Angels Alliances working in Ohio. Ohio holds a special place in the formation of Braver Angels as a national organization.
Kelly Zimmerman joined Braver Angels as a member and accepted the role of Community Organizer as part of a grant to focus on the Greater Cincinnati area in 2021. Since then, the scope has expanded to include all of Ohio, focusing on building relationships and partnerships with local organizations that support bringing Americans together for civil discourse to bridge divides. Before joining Braver Angels, Kelly spent 17 years in product management in the market research industry.
Brandon Black is a native of Cincinnati and the chief illustration officer of Drawnversation–a facilitation business specializing in real-time visual notation for group discussions, processes, and presentations. He thrives on assisting people as they engage in storytelling, goal-setting, innovation, and strategic planning. While he enjoys employing his talents for corporations and non-profits, he especially has a heart for serving individuals and families,s seeking to cast vision and cement legacies. You can follow Brandon on Instagram @drawnversation or email him at drawnversation@gmail.com.
Braver Angels is a bipartisan, primarily volunteer organization working to unify our divided nation. By bringing conservative, liberal, and independent Americans together into grassroots working alliances, we build ways to talk to one another, participate together in public life, and influence the direction of our nation. We help Americans understand each other beyond stereotypes and work to reduce the discord through workshops, debates, and local engagement.
Our Mission
We bring Americans together to bridge the partisan divide and strengthen our democratic republic.
Our Philosophy
- As individuals, we try to understand the other side’s point of view, even if we
- In our communities, we engage those we disagree with, looking for common ground and ways to work together.
- In politics, we support principles that bring us together rather than divide
Braver Angel Way to Guide Our Communications:
- We state our views freely and fully, without fear.
- We treat people who disagree with us with honesty, dignity, and respect.
- We welcome opportunities to engage with those with whom we
- We believe all of us have blind spots and none of us are not worth talking
- We seek to disagree accurately, avoiding exaggeration and
- We look for common ground where it exists, and if possible, find ways to work together.
- We believe that, in disagreements, both sides share and learn.
- In Braver Angels, neither side is teaching the other or giving feedback on how to think or say things differently.