April Thompson
Alum 2000April Thompson is a writer, editor and small business consultant. For more than a decade, April has worked with a variety of clients, to include businesses, publications, nonprofits and individuals, covering a range of topics from travel to global, environmental and community issues.
Anna Sun
Alum 2000Anna Sun is a scholar, writer, and teacher. As a professor of religious studies, she conducts her research on Confucianism and contemporary Chinese religious experiences. Anna is also a writer of fiction and literary criticism. Her essays on both classical and contemporary Chinese literature have appeared in Paideuma, London Review of Books and The Kenyon Review.
Edward Skloot
Alum 2000Edward Skloot is Director of the Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society and Professor of the Practice at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University. He is a member of the advisory boards of the Bridgespan Group and the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, Stanford University. He was also the principal writer and editor of The Nonprofit Entrepreneur, published by the Foundation Center.
Delacey Skinner
Alum 2000Delacey Skinner has made a name for herself in both Southern literature and national politics. Her expertise lies in developing strategies for hard-to-win campaigns, messages for complex and challenging issues and creative content that moves target audiences through emotional engagement. Before entering politics, Skinner launched the Southern Literature Council of Charleston. She also taught English 101 and 102 at the College, where she received her master of arts in English in 1997.
Patricia Murphy
Alum 2000Patricia Murphy founded Superstition Review at Arizona State University, where she teaches creative writing and magazine production. She won the 2019 Press 53 Award for Poetry with her collection Bully Love, published as a Tom Lombardo Poetry Selection. Patricia’s writing has appeared in many literary journals, including The Iowa Review, Quarterly West and American Poetry Review, and has received awards from Gulf Coast and Bellevue Literary Review, among others.
Joanne Mulcahy
Alum 2000For nearly thirty years, Joanne Mulcahy has been based at the NW Writing Institute of Lewis and Clark College, where she also taught anthropology and gender studies. Joanne’s essays appear in varied anthologies and journals, including The Stories that Shape Us: Contemporary Women Write about the West, Resurrecting Grace: Remembering Catholic Childhoods, Women Writing Women: A Frontiers Reader and These United States.
Roger Mills
Alum 2000Roger Mills directed one of the first federally funded community mental-health programs, located in Eugene, Ore. Roger also served as adjunct faculty at the University of Oregon. His work was recognized on The Today Show and in the book, Modello: A Story of Hope for the Inner City & Beyond. He wrote several books, including Realizing Mental Health, and many articles.
Curt Meine
Alum 2000Curt Meine is a conservation biologist, environmental historian and writer. He serves as Senior Fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation in Baraboo, Wisconsin, and with the Chicago-based Center for Humans and Nature. He is also a Research Associate with the International Crane Foundation in Baraboo and Associate Adjunct Professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology.
Perri Knize
Alum 2000Perri Knize is an award-winning environmental policy reporter whose articles and essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Audubon, Sports Illustrated, Conde Nast Traveler, and Outside. She lives in Montana with her husband, Oliver, their mastiff, Ben, their cat, Sylvia and her piano, Marlene.
Pagan Kennedy
Alum 2000Pagan Kennedy tells stories about iconoclasts, humanitarian inventors and scientific visionaries. Her eleven books include The First Man-Made Man, a study of the transgender pioneer Michael Dillon. Kennedy's journalism has appeared in dozens of publications including The New York Times Magazine, where she wrote the "Who Made That?" column. She is now a contributing writer for the New York Times Opinion section; she is also co-producing a serial podcast for the Radiotopia network.
Elizabeth Herron
Alum 2000Elizabeth C. Herron writes poetry and articles on art and ecology and the importance of natural systems and biodiversity in the well-being of all life. She studied the origin of aesthetic behavior and received a PhD in Psychology from the University for Integrative Learning, a fleeting distance-learning program founded by graduates of the Harvard School of Education. She joined the Counseling Center at Sonoma State University and subsequently moved to a faculty position, teaching Creative Writing, Creativity and Contemplative Practice and Ecological Identity.
Topher Delaney
Alum 2000Topher Delaney received her B.A. in Landscape Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley after studying cultural anthropology and philosophy at Barnard College. Topher’s thirty-five year career as an environmental artist and builder has encompassed a wide breadth of projects which focus on the development of cultural narratives scribed into exterior land forms, reflecting the values of the personal and the communal. The sites range in scale from the intimate to the expansive, corporate rooftop gardens, sanctuary gardens for medical facilities, and public art installations.