Mark Stradley

Mark Stradley, a school counselor in the Buffalo Public Schools—and a blacksmith who uses his craft to do something remarkable: to transform guns into garden tools.He is a part of the Raw Tools Network.  A group inspired by the work of Shane Claiborne and Michael Martin, co-authors of Beating Guns, their work reshapes not only metal, but the imagination of what peace can look like in our communities .