Milagros De Guzman
Alum 2008Milagros De Guzman is a freelance writer and editor. She has almost two decades
of experience as a community activist and recently started a writing workshop
for Filipino seniors at the Canon Kip Senior Center in San Francisco.
Ariane Conrad
Alum 2008Conrad helps leaders from diverse backgrounds share their expertise in ways both accessible and appropriately inspiring. She accompanies individuals through the process of defining, composing, and publishing books.
Robert Collier
Alum 2008Robert Collier is a research and policy specialist in the Labor Center’s Green Economy Program, where he conducts research and outreach on workforce issues in the clean energy economy.
Ray Boshara
Alum 2008Ray Boshara is Senior Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, where he also directs the Center for Household Financial Stability. The Center conducts research on family balance sheets and how they matter for strengthening families and the economy.
David Bacon
Alum 2005, Alum 2008Bacon covers issues of labor, immigration and international politics. He travels frequently to Mexico, the Philippines, Europe and Iraq.
Irene Zabytko
Alum 2008Irene Zabytko is the author of the novel The Sky Unwashed (Algonquin), and the short story collection When Luba Leaves Home (Algonquin).
Margaret Wrinkle
Alum 2008Born and raised in Birmingham Alabama, Margaret Wrinkle is a writer, filmmaker, educator and visual artist. Her debut novel, Wash, published by Grove Atlantic, reexamines American slavery in ways that challenge contemporary assumptions about race, power, history and healing.
Nina Wise
Alum 2008As an artist and teacher who specializes in innovation, Nina has coached numerous individuals and teams in creativity, the cultivation of presence, stress reduction, communication and leadership.
Alison Swan
Alum 2008Alison Swan is a co-winner of the Michigan Environmental Council’s Petoskey Prize for Grassroots Environmental Leadership; creator and editor of Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes; and advisory board member of the Saugatuck Dunes Coastal Alliance. Her poetry and prose have appeared in many publications.
Marina Sitrin
Alum 2008Marina Sitrin is a San Francisco-based writer, teacher and activist. She is the editor of Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina, an oral history of the autonomous social movements in Argentina. She is currently working on a book entitled Insurgent Democracies: Latin America’s New Powers.
Jonathan Schechter
Alum 2008Jonathan Schechter is the founder and executive director of the Charture
Institute, a Jackson, WY-based think tank focusing on issues of growth and
change in communities located in beautiful natural settings.
Deborah Richie
Alum 2008Deborah Richie Oberbillig (Marina Richie) writes about the natural world from her home in Bend, Oregon.