Communities Authors Alex Daniell Alex Daniell, a personal financial advisor and small-scale residential builder, is a member of Walnut Street Coop in Eugene, Oregon and partner of Tree Bressen, a process and facilitation trainer in the communities movement. He is a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society as well as The Wordos, a fantasy and science fiction writers group. Amoja Three Rivers Amoja Three Rivers offers herstory presentations at festivals,
conferences, and colleges throughout the United States. With Blanche Jackson she founded
Market Wimmin, a cultural crafts and merchandising business, and the Accessible
African Hersotry Project. She is a co-founder of Maat Dompim Womyn of Color
Land Project. Arizona Nashoba Before joining Twin Oaks, Arizona worked as a software engineer. The fall of WorldCom/MCI soured her perspective on the modern corporate world and led her to work completely for herself while researching the problems with businesses in today’s world and our impacts on that world. Her findings left her searching for a better way of life. Arjuna da Silva Arjuna da Silva is a cofounder of Earthaven, currently the Airspinner (sort of like a Board Secretary) of its homeowners association, and president of its nonprofit educational project, Culture’s Edge. She’s been a sociologist most of her life, addressing issues of social justice and cultural change both academically and as an activist. She practices hypnotherapy and counseling within the community, facilitates meditation and qigong practices, teaches consensus decision-making and various group process techniques, and looks forward to the creation of a comprehensive self health care center at Earthaven within the next decade. Arjuna is also dedicated to the natural building movement, and is about to become the first resident of an earth-and-straw building called Leela, updates of which can be viewed from time to time at her website, thenaturalbuildingschool.com. Beatrice Briggs Beatrice Briggs is the founding director of the International Institute for Facilitation and Change (IIFAC), a Mexico-based consulting group that specializes in participatory processes. The author of the manual Introduction to Consensus and many articles about group dynamics, Beatrice travels around the world, giving workshops and providing facilitation services in both English and Spanish. Home is Ecovillage Huehuecoyotl, near Tepoztlán, Mexico, where she has lived since 1998. www.iifac.org. Brandy Gallagher Brandy Gallagher is one of the original founders and developers of O.U.R. Ecovillage and serves as the executive director of O.U.R. Community Association. Brandy’s passion for community building comes from four decades of living in communal or cooperative settings. Her most recently published work is the documentary, “Creating TOPIA: The Journey of Developing a School of Sustainable Community Building.” Bucket Von Harmony Bucket Von Harmony is a member of Twin Oaks Community in Louisa, Virginia. Twin Oaks Community has served as an example of cooperative living for 41 years. Bucket serves as Co-Secretary of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities and is on the Twin Oaks Membership Team. Bucket also gardens, home schools a six-year-old, cooks dinner for 100 people, and makes tofu. Carol Pimentel Carol Pimentel was Mistress of Caballeros House in San Luis Obispo, California for over 20 years. She now resides with a housemate in Asheville, North Carolina, where she has a relaxed private practice as a counselor and organizing consultant. She is also Facilitator of Community Life at the Jubilee! Community. Wherever she finds herself, building community is Carol’s form of activism and her art in the world. She loves to share her experience and offers consulting, problem solving, and coaching to others living in or contemplating shared housing. Caroline Estes Caroline Estes, cofounder of Alpha Farm community in Oregonand Alpha Institute, which teaches consensus and offers facilitation services, has been teaching and facilitating consensus for more than 40 years. Caroline has taught consensus to most intentional community-
based facilitators in North America, and works with Hewlett-Packard, University of Massachusetts, the US Green Party, the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America, and many other
organizations. Central Florida Cohousing Chris Foraker After spending almost two decades in the sprawling suburban sameness of an East Coast Jungle Gym, Chris Foraker escaped to the West where, fleeing the persistence of a quarter-life crisis, he found refuge in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. That's where he currently resides. In a school bus.
Chris Roth  Chris Roth is editor of Communities and a long-time communitarian with a predilection for growing organic vegetables. Craig Chalquist Craig Chalquist, Ph.D. is an author, educator, and core faculty member of the School of Holistic Studies at John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill, California. His books include Terrapsychology: Re-engaging the Soul of Place and Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind (visit ecotherapyheals.com). Darin Fenger Darin Fenger is a prize-winning journalist working as a newspaper reporter in southern Arizona. Dona Willoughby After a career in allopathic medicine, Dona Willoughby currently lives her passion of healing—both humans and this beautiful planet we live on—at La’akea. She assists in teaching permaculture, herbal medicine, beekeeping, and Nonviolent Communication. Her daughter Aniko and grandson Kai’ea also live at La’akea. Douglas Stevenson Douglas Stevenson and his high school sweetheart/wife, Deborah, became members of The Farm Community in 1973. Douglas has served on the community’s board of directors, membership committee, and is currently engaged as The Farm Manager, overseeing community development projects. He also represents The Farm as the spokesperson to the press and outside media. His company, Village Media, recently completed the editing of Volume Two of Geoph Kozeny’s “Visions of Utopia” video project, profiling 10 different intentional communities. Douglas and Deborah have shared a co-housing residence with lifelong friends since 1985. They enjoy spending time with their grandchildren, who (along with their daughter and her husband) also live on The Farm. See www.thefarmcommunity.com and www.thefarmblog.org. Elizabeth Barrette Elizabeth Barrette writes nonfiction, fiction, and poetry in the fields of alternative spirituality, speculative fiction, and gender studies. She serves as Dean of Studies for the Grey School of Wizardry (www.greyschool.info), where she teaches classes in leadership, friendship, and other communal skills. She supports the growth of community in diverse forms and is active in local organizations. Her favorite activities include gardening for wildlife and public speaking at Pagan events and science fiction conventions. Visit her blog at ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com.
Elke Cole Elke Cole lives in Victoria and designs, builds, and teaches “houses that love you back.” Her work both at home and internationally has been groundbreaking in introducing natural building to a wide audience and into the permit process in BC. Please visit www.elkecole.com to find out more. Fred Lanphear Fred Lanphear has lived in various forms of intentional community for over 35 years. He is a cofounder of Songaia Cohousing near Seattle, where he currently lives and where he was initiated as an Elder in 2006. Fred was a cofounder of NW Intentional Communities Association (NICA) and serves on its Board of Directors. He also served on the Fellowship of Intentional Communities (FIC) Board for two terms. Geoph Kozeny Geoph Kozeny has lived in various kinds of communities for 34 years, and has been on the road for 19 years visiting communities— asking about their visions and realities, taking photos, and in general exploring what makes them tick. Presently, he is editing part two of a video documentary on intentional communities, aspiring to convey the vision and passion that drives the movement, and tell stories about what works. (Summer 2007) Gudmundur Armann Petursson Hilary Giovale Hilary Giovale is a mother, writer, and bellydance instructor in Flagstaff, Arizona. She holds a Master’s degree in sustainability from Northern Arizona University. Jesika Feather Jesika Feather is a teacher, mother, and writer. Currently she is a member of the Heart and Spoon community in Eugene, Oregon. Jonathan Dawson Jonathan Dawson is President of Global Ecovillage Network (GEN), Executive Secretary of GEN-Europe, and author of Ecovillages: New Frontiers for Sustainability (Chelsea Green, 2006). He has worked in community economic development in Africa over the last 21 years as a project manager, researcher, and consultant. He lives at Findhorn Foundation in Scotland where he teaches courses on applied sustainability up to graduate level. Note: We preserve the spelling of our Commonwealth country authors. March 22-28, 2008 Positive Energy conference at Findhorn: www.findhorn.org/positiveenergy. Joshua Canter Joshua is an educator, facilitator, and consultant, whose mission is to support people interested in exploring and learning about the many facets of living in community. He is the co-founder of the True Nature Community and Education Center (truenaturecommunity.org) in Costa Rica and The CREER Service Organization (creerbelieve.org). Through his work he hopes to help people discover how they can create ways of holistic living filled with connection, support, and interdependence. When Joshua is not living in Costa Rica he resides in Asheville, North Carolina, where he is the coleader of the Asheville Communities Network (ashevillecommunitiesnetwork.com). Jules Pelican Jules Pelican has lived at Occidental Arts and Ecology Center since November 2004, and is married to OAEC resident James Pelican. She works for the BA Program at New College of California, whose degree program in Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Community focuses on many of the skills needed for successful community building. Julie Boerst Julie Boerst lives at White Hawk Ecovillage with her husband and two children. She enjoys baking, reading, and walking (www.whitehawk.org). Karl Steyaert Karl Steyaert is a facilitator, trainer, and consultant who enjoys cultivating life-serving systems for individuals and organizations. Formerly an educator and facilitator at the Findhorn community in Scotland, he has experience in formal consensus, Nonviolent Communication, and sociocratic decision-making methods. Karl is also the cofounder of Bodhi House, a living-learning community based in Oakland, California. Kelly Barth Freelance writer Kelly Barth and her partner and fellow Kawsmonaut, landscape painter Lisa Grossman, and their two cats live happily on little money in a very small house in Lawrence, Kansas. The two have been a part of the Kawsmos community since 2005—just in time for a year of studying the sun and the resultant “Lighten Up” energy-reduction project. All residents of Douglas County, Kansas, the Kawsmonauts meet monthly in each other’s homes for potlucks and interdisciplinary study and celebration of various aspects of their home bioregion, planet, galaxy, and universe. Kirsten Rohde Kirsten Rohde is a member of the Goodenough Community and the president of the sponsoring non-profit, The American Association for the Furtherance of Community. Her home is at Sahale, although she still works some of her time in Seattle. Her first experience with community living was as a student in Ann Arbor living in housing provided by the Inter Cooperative Council. Kirsten works as a research nurse in the fields of Alzheimer’s Disease and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Kristina Jansen Kristina Jansen grew up in the community she writes about here, and has dubbed “Orinda” for publication purposes. She left for a while to explore the wider world, and then returned as an adult to have her own children and live among close friends. She works in the community’s central office—managing projects, people, and activities, or doing whatever needs to be done. She gardens, raises kids, writes essays, travels the globe, and spends as much time as she can with her friends. Laird Schaub  Laird Schaub, a member of Sandhill Farm community in Missouri, has been doing consulting work on group process since 1987. A longtime activist in community networking, he has lived in community since 1974 and been involved with the Fellowship for Intentional Community (FIC) since 1986; he is currently its Executive Secretary. 660-883-5545. Laird authors a blog which can be read at communityandconsensus.blogspot.com. Lynn Farquhar Lynn Farquhar has resided at the Lama Foundation since summer 2004. A former urbanite and a late-blooming gardener, she’s eager to swap tips on farming. Ma'ikwe Schaub Ludwig Ma’ikwe Schaub Ludwig lives at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in northeastern Missouri, just down the road from Sandhill Farm where her husband, Laird, resides. She teaches workshops on starting communities, consensus-inspired facilitation, and various ecovillage-related topics. She is the author of Passion as Big as a Planet: Evolving Eco-activism in America. Ma’ikwe is currently involved in something more mundane than starting a new group: building a strawbale house. Maril Crabtree Maril Crabtree, a poet and essayist, grew up in the South, but adopted the Midwest as her homeland in the early ’60s and has lived in Kansas City (on both sides of the Kansas-Missouri state line) ever since. She has lived in intentional community nearly 25 years and looks forward to sharing a household again. You can reach her via her website, www.marilcrabtree.com. Mark Mazziotti Mark Mazziotti teaches natural building with varying degrees of success. He recently returned from South Africa where he is helping build an ecovillage that serves children affected by AIDS. He is planning to homestead this year at Red Earth Farms community in Rutledge, Missouri. Melanie Rios Melanie Rios is long-time resident at Maitreya Ecovillage in Eugene, Oregon. Members of the Eugene Permaculture Guild listserv Michael G. Smith Michael G. Smith lives at Emerald Earth Sanctuary in Northern California, where he is working to build connection into every aspect of his life. When not building, teaching, gardening, writing, or attending meetings, he enjoys gathering wild mushrooms and eating acorns. See www.emeraldearth.org for upcoming workshops. Michael Rios Michael Rios co-organized NFNC Summer Camp East (2004-2008) and NFNC Summer Camp West (2004) and co-founded Chrysalis Community in Arlington, Virginia (www.chrysalis-va.org). Mollie Curry Mollie Curry lived in a community of around 60 people in North Carolina for eleven years where she gained heaps of skills in natural building, cooking, and communicating. Currently she and her husband teach, design, and build "naturally" as MudStrawLove. Nick Licata Nick Licata is a Seattle City Council Member currently serving his third four-year term, which he won in a city-wide election with over 77 percent of the vote. He lived in the PRAG House collective for 25 years and was president for eight years of the Evergreen Land Trust, which owns five urban and rural properties, each administered by a resident collective.
While on the Seattle City Council, he has chaired committees dealing with parks, arts, police, fire, civil rights, and neighborhoods. He has also served as the vice-chair of the budget committee. Upon taking office in 1998, Nick instituted a poetry program for the Council, called Words' Worth, whereby curators select poets to read before each of Nick's official Council committee meetings. Nick has also started the Poet Populist program, the first poetry program in the US that invites citizens to elect their City's poet. Pati Diehl Pati Diehl has been active in NFNC since its beginning in 1995, and served as co-organizer of NFNC Summer Camp West (2000-2004). Sarah Taub Sarah Taub co-organized NFNC Summer Camp East (2004-2008) and co-founded Chrysalis Community. For more information on Network for a New Culture, visit www.nfnc.org. Skye Rios (with Melanie Rios) Skye Rios is a chemistry major at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. Melanie Rios, in addition to being mom to Skye and his two siblings, is a permaculture designer and teacher in Eugene, Oregon. Tim Miller Tim Miller teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas and is a historian of American intentional communities. Among his books are The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-Century America and The 60s Communes: Hippies and Beyond, both published by Syracuse University Press. Tree Bressen  Tree Bressen is a group process consultant based in Eugene, Oregon, who works with intentional communities and other organizations on how to have meetings that are lively, productive, and connecting. Her website, www.treegroup.info, offers extensive free resources on consensus, facilitation, and more. (Tree uses a lower-case “i” in her articles as an expression of egalitarian values.)
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