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Susan Moon

Advisory Committee, Alum 2013
Susan Moon is a writer, editor, and lay teacher in the Soto Zen…

Mark Hertsgaard

Advisory Committee, Alum 2008
Mark Hertsgaard has published six books that have been translated…

Jerry Mander

Advisory Committee, Alum 2008
Jerold Irwin "Jerry" Mander was an American activist and author,…

Bill McKibben

Advisory Committee
Bill McKibben is an author and environmentalist who in 2014 was…

Ellen Friedman

Advisory Committee
Ellen Friedman is executive director of The Compton Foundation,…

Jaune Evans

Advisory Committee, Alum 2017, Fellow 2017
Jaune Evans is a poet, photographer and the Executive Director…

Robert Reich

Advisory Committee
In addition to serving on the Advisory Board for Mesa Refuge,…

Francisco Aragon

Alum 2015
Poet, translator, essayist, editor, and San Francisco native…

Christina Ammon

Alum 2010
Christina Ammon is a freelance writer perpetually on-the-road.…

Chris Colin

Alum 2008, Alum 2010, Alum 2021
Chris Colin has written about problematic billionaires, blind visual artists, solitary confinement, river access wars, Japan's rent-a-friend industry, Obama's Irish roots, the evolving sphere of long-term worry, endangered noodles, chimp filmmakers, insurgent Barbadian road tennis, a gay chorus’s tour of the Deep South and more for the NewYorker.com, the New York Times Magazine, Pop-Up Magazine, Saveur, the Atavist, Outside, Wired, Smithsonian and Mother Jones.

Kate Levinson

Advisory Committee, Alum 2010, Alum 2012, Alum 2016, Fellow 2016
In addition to serving on the Mesa Refuge Advisory Committee,…

Michael Pollan

Advisory Committee, Alum 2005, Alum 2007
For the past twenty-five years, Michael Pollan has been writing…