Janice Thompson
Alum 2006Janice has published over 100 books for the Christian market, crossing genre lines to write cozy mysteries, historicals, romances, nonfiction books, devotionals, children’s books and more. She particularly enjoys writing light-hearted, comedic tales because she enjoys making readers laugh.
Christopher Sindt
Alum 2006Sindt is the author of two collections of poetry, The Land of Give and Take, and most recently, The Bodies.
Sherry Simpson
Alum 2006Sherry's essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in such journals as Orion, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, Sierra, Superstition Review, AQR, Bellingham Review, and in numerous anthologies. She has been working on her bear book for a very long time and thinks she might take up writing haikus for awhile.
Ellen Russell
Alum 2006Ellen's current research investigates how economic discourses interpret economic necessity and possibility in ways that legitimate certain outcomes while rendering other conversations about the economy invisible.
Paul Mishler
Alum 2006As a historian Paul Mishler has written on both the history of radicalism in the United States, and on issues facing the labor movement historically and today. Among his publications are the book Raising Reds (Columbia U. Press, 1999) and articles such as “U.S. Trade Unions and the Crisis in Values” in the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy.
Stacy Malkan
Alum 2006Stacy is co-founder and co-director of U.S. Right to Know, a nonprofit investigative research group focused on the food industry. Prior to her work in environmental health, Stacy worked for eight years as a journalist and managing editor, and she published an investigative newspaper covering land use and environmental issues in Colorado. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband and son.
Petra Kuppers
Alum 2006Petra Kuppers is a disability culture activist, a community artist, and a Professor of English, Women's Studies, Theatre and Dance, and Art and Design.
Elin Kelsey
Alum 2006Elin Kelsey, PhD, is a leading spokesperson, scholar and educator in the area of hope and the environment. Elin’s work focuses on the reciprocal relationship between humans and the rest of nature, particularly in relation to the emotional implications of the narrative of environmental doom and gloom on children and adults.
Marjorie Kelly
Alum 2006Previously Kelly was a Fellow at the Tellus Institute, a 40-year old nonprofit research organization based in Boston, where she co-founded Corporation 20/20, a multi-stakeholder initiative to envision and advocate enterprise and financial designs that integrate social, environmental, and financial aims.
Linda Holland
Alum 2006Her work has appeared in Gourmet, The New York Times, and Hemispheres magazine. She writes, cooks, and gardens in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Amanda Hawn
Alum 2006Hawn has a long-dated interest in how people impact places and places impact people. She says, "Admittedly, I am a little compulsive about how places evolve, and it has manifested in a variety of ways." She has studied the subject, written about it and invested in it.
Marisa Handler
Alum 2006As a freelance journalist, Marisa has written on a wide range of social and environmental issues, including the joys and trials of change in Cuba, indigenous resistance to oil exploitation in the Amazon, Hindu-Muslim tensions in India, and the sprawling tentacles of consumer culture.