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Individuals often enter the Women's Spirituality
program in order to pursue a teaching, research,
or writing career. Others wish to diversify or
enhance their existing careers in such fields
as the media, psychotherapy, the ministry (lay
or clerical), social action, public policy, hospice
work, or women's health and health advocacy. Most
students desire the personal and empowerment that
comes from the feminist affirmation of women's
growing spiritual awareness and deepening intelligence
and wisdom. Women's Spirituality students come
from a variety of academic and professional backgrounds.
Alumni include:
Peggy Grove, Ph.D., 1998, researches,
writes, and lectures on symbolism, particularly
the Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages. Her dissertation
is titled "An Iconographic and Mythological
Convergence: Gender Motifs in Northern Australian
Aboriginal Rock Art."
Valgerdur Bjarnadottir, M.A., 1996, is
from Iceland, where she was instrumental in forming
the Women's Alliance, an Icelandic political party.
She is currently the director of a women's center
for continuing education, and recently ran for
mayor in Iceland on the Green Party ticket.
Marilyn Davis, M.A., 1999, is a Franciscan
Sister of Mary, a Rosen Method body worker, and
a longtime board member of the Sisters of Mary
Health Systems, which provides health care in
hospitals throughout the Midwest.
Miri Hunter Haruach, Ph.D., 1999, is artistic
director for the Israeli dance/performance company
Pnei HaMidbar (Faces of the Desert) and
teaches theater at the College of Marin and Santa
Rosa Junior College. Dr. Haruach has co-founded
a school and resource center with Meheret Filkre-Selassie
to assist people in reconnecting with the indigenous
cultures and religions of South Arabia and East
Africa.
Meg Jordan, M.A., 1996, is a national
broadcast and print journalist; a former health
commentator for FOX and CNN; author of five books
on health and fitness; founder and editor of American
Fitness Magazine; and president of the video
company Jumpin' Productions. Her latest book,
The Fitness Instinct: The Revolutionary New
Approach to Healthy Exercise That Is Fun, Natural,
and No-Sweat, grew out of her master's thesis,
"Worth the Effort: Self-empowerment as the
Missing Link in Women's Health and Fitness."
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