Donn Mitchell
Alum 2000Donn Mitchell is the editor and publisher of The Anglican Examiner. He created the Integrity Institute for Pastoral Development, which offered continuing education workshops on pastoral counseling and homosexuality to more than 500 clergy, nurses, and social workers throughout the U.S. Donn also worked for the Mission Funding Unit of the national headquarters of the Presbyterian Church and later developed a gay rights project for the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility at the National Council of Churches. He is currently Professor of Religion and Ethics at Berkeley College in New York and edits academic and trade books on a freelance basis.
Kathleen McAfee
Alum 2000Kathleen McAfee is Professor of International Relations at San Francisco State University. She received a doctorate in Geography at the University of California, Berkeley after a career in international development, including 10 years as Policy Analyst for Oxfam. She has been a consultant to United Nations agencies and maintains ties with research centers, and NGOs and activist social movements in different world regions.
Guy Lebeda
Alum 2000Guy Lebeda is a writer, poet and journalist who has published essays and articles about art, the environment and outdoor topics. His work has appeared in publications such as Tallahassee Magazine, Capital City, The Running Journal, the University of Wyoming’s Alumnews Magazine, the Laramie Daily Boomerang, Valley Horse Journal, Crossroads Anthology, Salt Lake City Magazine, In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal and Land That We Love.
David Helvarg
Alum 2000David Helvarg is Executive Director of Blue Frontier and the author of six books: Blue Frontier, The War Against the Greens, 50 Ways to Save the Ocean, Rescue Warriors, Saved by the Sea and The Golden Shore. He is organizer of ‘Blue Vision’ Summits for ocean activists, Peter Benchley Ocean Awards (with Wendy Benchley) and chaired the first global March for the Ocean in 2018.
Jessica Govea Thorbourne
Alum 2000Jessica Govea Thorbourne was a labor activist, United Farm Worker union leader and educator. She is best known for her lifelong efforts to achieve justice, equality, education, and economic opportunity for Latino laborers. Jessica was the national director of organizing at the United Farm Workers Union, working very closely with Cesar Chavez. She went on to become a labor educator at Rutgers University and Cornell University.
Grace Gershuny
Alum 2000Grace Gershuny is widely known as an author, educator and organic consultant. In addition to her position on the staff of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Organic Program, she has worked for many years as an educator, organizer, and market gardener. Still raising her own vegetables and chickens, Grace currently teaches in the Green Mountain College online Masters in Sustainable Food Systems program and serves on the board of the Institute for Social Ecology.
K. Lauren de Boer
Alum 2000K. Lauren de Boer is an essayist, poet and composer living in the Shasta Bioregion of the North American continent. He is currently visiting professor in the Integrative Learning Program in Eco-Cosmology at the Institute for Educational Studies at Endicott College. For nearly ten years he was Executive Editor of EarthLight Magazine. He has published essays and poetry in a number of magazines and anthologies, Parabola Magazine, the Ecozoic Reader, Yes! Magazine and several more.
Jane D'Arista
Alum 2000Jane D’Arista writes and lectures on economics and finance and is a Research Associate at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She served as a staff economist for the Banking and Commerce Committees of the U.S. House of Representatives, as a principal analyst in the international division of the Congressional Budget Office and has lectured in graduate programs at Boston University School of Law, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the University of Utah and the New School University.
Peter Asmus
Alum 2000Peter Asmus is a research director leading Guidehouse Insights’ Microgrids solution and supporting the Microgrids Tracker and Virtual Power Plants solutions. Prior to joining Guidehouse Insights, Peter was president of Pathfinder Communications, serving clients such as the California Independent System Operator, GE and the California Energy Commission. Peter has over 28 years of experience in energy and environmental markets as an analyst, writer, book author and consultant. He is the author of four books covering key energy market issues.
Howard Winant
Alum 2000Howard Winant is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is also affiliated with the Black Studies, Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies departments. He founded and directed the University of California Center for New Racial Studies. Howards's research and writing focuses on racial theory and social theory, and the comparative historical sociology, political sociology and cultural sociology of race, both in the US and globally.
Nicola Waldron
Alum 2000Nicola Waldron writes poetry and essays from a small sunroom in South Carolina, which she shares with the occasional anole (manuscripts make good lizard habitat), her yoga paraphernalia and two charming, creative teens. Nicola’s work is widely published, most recently in Creative Nonfiction and The New York Times. A graduate of Cambridge University and the Bennington Writing Seminars, she currently teaches writing at the University of South Carolina. She is the recipient of the United Kingdom’s Bridport Poetry Prize.
Amy Trachtenberg
Alum 2000Amy Trachtenberg is an artist who currently resides and works in San Francisco, California. Amy’s works are included in collections at the Achenbach Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts San Francisco, California, the San José Museum of Art, San Jose, California and the Haitian Embassy in Paris. Her commissioned works and theater collaborations have been shown and installed at Pixar, Emeryville, California, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and in and on numerous public buildings.