Virginia Kerns
Alum 2005, Alum 2007It's not unusual to see Virginia performing around the Panhandle as part of "The Leading Ladies," a women's barbershop chorus in Guymon, or "The Beer City Ladies," a regional theater group associated with the No Man's Land Historical Museum.
Colleen Kaleda
Alum 2007Colleen Kaleda is a Portland, Oregon based freelance journalist. Her writing explores the connection between nature and culture.
Liese Greensfelder
Alum 2007Liese Greensfelder is a freelance writer who focuses on medicine, biology and agriculture. She has previously worked as a farm advisor for University of California Cooperative Extension and as a science writer for UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley.
Lee Goodman
Alum 2007A short story Lee Goodman wrote for the Iowa Review received a nomination for the Pushcart Prize in fiction, and he's had work in Orion Magazine.
Bill Finnegan
Alum 2007William Finnegan has been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1984 and a staff writer since 1987. He has been reporting from Africa, Central America, South America, Europe, the Balkans, Mexico, and Australia, as well as from the United State.
Lyle Estill
Alum 2007Lyle Estill is the president and co-founder of Piedmont Biofuels, a community-scale biodiesel project in Pittsboro, North Carolina.
Michael Dorsey
Alum 2007Dr. Michael K. Dorsey is a recognized expert on global energy, environment, finance and sustainability matters. In 1997, in Glasgow, Scotland, Dorsey was bestowed Rotary International’s highest honor, The Paul Harris Medal for Distinguished Service to Humanity.
Beverly Bell
Alum 2007Beverly Bell is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and the founder of Other Worlds and more than a dozen international organizations. She has worked for more than three decades as an organizer, advocate, and writer in collaboration with social movements in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and the U.S.
Kathleen Tarr
Alum 2007Kathleen Witkowska Tarr is the author of We Are All Poets Here (VP&D House, 2018), part-memoir, part-biography, involving the famous spiritual writer and thinker, the Trappist monk Thomas Merton.
Michael Stoll
Alum 2007Michael Stoll is a journalist, media critic and journalism educator. He is executive director of the San Francisco Public Press, a nonprofit, public-interest news project for the San Francisco Bay Area that aims to do for web and print what public broadcasting has done for radio and television.
William Shutkin
Alum 2007Shutkin is a sustainable developer based in Boulder, Colorado, focused on green, mixed-use, mixed-income projects in Boulder and other select U.S. cities.
Michael Schut
Alum 2007Mike Schut's retreat and workshop leadership, speaking, and writing seeks to connect faith, spirituality, simplicity, sustainability, and eco-justice.