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Diana Bracy Verhalen (TLC '04) works as the Program Manager for Kaiser Permanente's Labor Management Partnership in Northern California. She works on both day-to-day operations and consulting in the field using the principles of partnership. She is excited to bring appreciative inquiry and other process innovations to this work. As of June 2005, Diana married and is learning about how to partner well in every aspect of her life.
Maureen Kellen-Taylor (PHD, TLC, '99) - is VP for an innovative Arts and Aging organization, More Than Shelters For Seniors. Her organization is deeply informed by her experience as member of the first cohort in the TLC program. She received a Directors Award in 2005 from California Arts Council for many years of promoting the arts.
Shakti Butler (PhD) is a filmmaker whose dissertation was entitled "In the Company of Gods: Spiritual Praxis as a Heuristic Guide into Healing Racial Oppression Through Unconditional Love." She has just released a new film called “Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible”. Dr. Butler is also the producer and director of the groundbreaking documentaries, The Way Home and Light in the Shadows. Her website is www.world-trust.org.
Urusa Fahim is a diversity consultant
and adjunct faculty member at CIIS. Her
dissertation dealt with "Becoming a
Culturally Sensitive Person: An Exploration
into the Development of Cultural Sensitivity."
Pat Fox is an online educator whose
dissertation focused on "Exploring
a Sustainable Relationship with Information
in the Interconnected Universe."
Kathy Gower serves as an organizational
consultant. Her dissertation was entitled
"Incorporating a Hero's Journey: A
Modern Day Pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago
de Compostela."
Ginny Little, a literacy teacher
and teacher educator, has incorporated interactive
computer technology into the educational
process. She believes "on-line learning
can foster personal relationships among
students with different life experiences,
giving them a broader and more refined social
awareness, a way of respecting all voices."
Soomo Moon is an international manager
whose dissertation was on the "Intercultural
Transformative Learning Experience of Korean
Sojourners in the United States."
KimOanh Nguyen-Lam is an educator
whose dissertation, "Recruitment, Preparation,
and Retention of Teachers of Color: The
Southeast Asian American Teacher's Experience,"
recently won second place at the National
Association of Bilingual Education's national
dissertation competition.
Terri O'Fallon, Ph.D. '97, completed
the first, and to date, only joint dissertation
at the Institute with Greg Kramer, on 'insight
dialogue'; they developed an on-line meditation
practice combining Vipassana meditation
and Bohmian dialogue.
Linda Sartor, (PhD '97), is currently working in Sri Lanka with the Nonviolent Peaceforce (see http://nvpf.org/np/english/welcome.asp.html ). Linda has been teaching in the masters in education program at Dominican University in San Rafael. She is a dissertation adjunct at CIIS and a guide for wilderness trips – http://www.ritesofpassagevisionquest.org/
Anne Adams (PhD ’06) has spent the past year sharing her dissertation findings and insights at conferences throughout the USA and Canada. Her dissertation highlights a systemic, integral model of education and she has presented at The Institute of Noetic Sciences, The Sixth Annual Transformative Learning Conference, and the Fifth International Conference on Holistic Learning. Her workshops accentuate the spirit and its multiple pathways to explore its essence – the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual domains.
L'esa Guilian (PhD, ‘01) is the Director of Diversity and Human Resources at CIIS. Her dissertation was "Transformative Training: Transformative Learning Theory Applied to a Structured Training Program."
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