Since 1998, Jeff has co-coordinated Voices in the Wilderness, a campaign to end the economic sanctions against Iraq. He has spoken to community and student groups across the United States and has led seven delegations to Iraq, including a delegation of religious leaders in 2000 and a delegation of five congressional aides in 1999. Also in 1999, he helped organize and lead a peace walk from the Pentagon to the United Nations, petitioning for an end to sanctions, and toured Western Europe, bringing the anti-sanctions message to activists and government officials in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and France.

As a volunteer for the Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty, he helped organize several visits to death row where he met with prisoners and advocated for their rights.

In 2001, Jeff worked with teachers at Prologue High School in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood and Mundelein High School in Mundelein, IL to develop and teach a five-week high school class on the criminal justice system in the United States.

During Israel�s April, 2002 invasion of the West Bank, Jeff joined nonviolent activists coordinated by the International Solidarity Movement to visit cities under military closure and curfew. He and two companions were among the first internationals to witness the devastation in the Jenin Camp.

Jeff’s writings on Iraq, the Middle East, the death penalty, U.S. foreign policy, and food politics have been published in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Punk Planet, National Catholic Reporter, The International Socialist Review, The Indianapolis Star, and the Utne Reader.