Biography

Hali Hammer is an award winning singer-songwriter who has sung and played for peace and political causes for over three decades. She worked on the Heritage Tree Initiative, and was a primary organizer for Citizens to Save Minnewaska in upstate New York, which is now Minnewaska Lake State Park instead of a Marriott property. Aside from writing and performing her own music, she is a member of Freedom Song Network and plays bass with the Jump-In band, which plays folk-rock oldies. She was the coordinator of the 2003 Berkeley Free Folk Festival and edits the Oakland/East Bay NOW newsletter. Her musical partner, Randy Berge, also writes his own music. She is a mother and grandmother, and works in the Berkeley Public Schools as a Special Education Teacher. Hali was a member of the chorus that sang onstage behind Nelson Mandela at the Oakland Coliseum. Her feet are tired from too many years of marching against war.

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