Drew Dellinger (current Ph.D. student) is Associate Professor and Director of the program in Social Ecology at John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill, California. Drew is also a spoken word poet and activist. He is founder of Poets for Global Justice, and author of the collection of poems, love letter to the milky way. In the early 1990s Drew became a student of ecological thinker Thomas Berry, and it was the inspiring cosmological vision of Berry that set Drew on the path that eventually led him to PCC. Drew's study of cosmology, spirituality, and religion has deeply influenced his poetry, which has appeared in YES! magazine, EarthLight, The New York Times magazine, and Turning Wheel, as well as the books Sacred America, Igniting a Revolution, Global Uprising, Shopping for Faith, and What Does God Look Like In an Expanding Universe? Drew has presented and performed at conferences, colleges, protests, and events across the country, speaking on justice, cosmology, ecology, and democracy. His work is featured in the film, "Voices of Dissent," and the book, Children of the Movement. In 1997 he received Common Boundary magazine's national Green Dove Award. Drew has taught at Prescott College, Naropa University-Oakland, and Esalen Institute. He is currently writing his dissertation on Martin Luther King Jr. and the intersections of cosmology, ecology and justice.

Website: drewdellinger.org

David Nicol (M.A., 2002, current Ph.D. student) For many years David has sought to integrate his personal spiritual journey to wholeness with a passionate desire to play a role in the collective global transformation that so many leaders recognize as the great possibility and challenge of our times. What has emerged as a focus is the concept and practice of "subtle activism" - how we may exert a subtle (but perhaps crucial) positive influence on the collective psyche through acting together on subtle planes of consciousness, such as collective meditation, prayer, or ritual work. David is focusing his PhD research on this concept and is also the Director of the Gaiafield Project, a 'practical' subtle activism project which aims to link spiritual peacemakers around the world through internet communication and networking tools for regular, large-scale global meditation and prayer events. In his past life, he worked as an environmental lawyer in Australia, his native land. California has been his home base since 2000.

Kerri Welch (M.A., 2003, current Ph.D. student) Early on, Kerri set about pondering the "unknown," which she delineated into the categories of: space, the mind, and God. Undergraduate majors in Philosophy/Religion and Physics at Austin College eventually led her to PCC. Finding a graduate program that brought together consciousness and cosmology was a miracle in and of itself. PCC's commitment to re-enchanting humanity's relationship with itself through the natural world was one of the bonus prizes. Enchantment is absolutely essential for supporting any tender soul who endeavors to undertake the Great Work at this stage in our world. And the miracles just kept coming. In her time at PCC she has been continually astounded by "mind-blowing ideas, phenomenal people, and profound invitation to deep personal process. The richness of this community is unparalleled, and her love and gratitude for it, immeasurable". After finishing her MA and PhD coursework at PCC she finally followed a call to return home to Austin 's creeks and canyons, crackling Grackles, air so sweet that exhaling seems extraneous, and to her family. From there, she is working on her dissertation, which seeks to unfold the deep interpenetrations of time, timelessness, consciousness, and cosmology through a fractal model of time. She's working toward sustainable community, pursuing teaching and publishing, and also often serves as crew for her sister's natural building projects (claysandstraw.com) or at her Mom's nearby ranch. PCC provided a living container for integrating our hard to swallow current reality and transforming it into the fecund richness from which new life can spring.

Kathy Anne Woodruff (M.A., 2004, current Ph.D. student) Before entering the PCC Master's program in 2002, Kathy Anne worked for the Resource Renewal Institute, an environmental non-profit in San Francisco that educates leaders from business, government, and non-profits about comprehensive and cooperative solutions to environmental problems. She was inspired by that experience to bridge the gap she saw between political activism and personal transformation. With its focus on the evolution of intellectual, psychological, and spiritual structures of consciousness, PCC held out the promise for such a bridge. Now in the Ph.D. program, Kathy Anne has used her time in PCC as an opportunity not only for intellectual development, but also for personal and spiritual growth. Her academic inquiry has provided her with a rich ground for exploring the limits and possibilities of what it means to be human at this time on planet Earth. Kathy Anne's particular area of focus is the articulation of sexual difference in feminist philosophy and depth psychology. She is interested in the development of women-centered integral frameworks that will serve the understanding and liberation of feminine styles of consciousness and the empowerment of women's community and public culture.

Sean Esbjörn-Hargens (Ph.D., 2005) is Co-director and a founding member of the Integral Ecology Center of Integral University and has been doing research in environmental philosophy and sustainable development for over a decade. In addition, Sean wears a number of other Integral hats at Integral Institute. He is a lead seminar trainer for Nature as Transformative Path, which presents an integral approach to nature mysticism through a variety of integrally designed personal practices. He is Vice Provost and Dean of Academic Affairs of Integral University and is spearheading the course development for IU's forthcoming certificate and M.A. programs. He is Executive Editor of the newly established (Spring 05) academic electronic journal, AQAL: Journal of Integral Theory and Practice. Sean is also an Assistant Professor in the Integral Studies Department and Program Director of Integral Psychology at John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill, California. At JFKU Sean teaches courses in consciousness, culture, and ecology. Sean's articles have appeared in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, Journal of Bhutan Studies, World Futures, and AQAL: Journal of Integral Theory and Practice. He is also one of the editors (along with his wife) of Ken Wilber's recent book Simple Feeling of Being. He is currently collaborating on a book with Michael Zimmerman – Integral Ecology: Consciousness, Culture, Nature.

Serena Elize Bear Flores (M.A., 2005) first sought out the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program as a way of deepening the intellectual understanding of her metaphysical musings. She returned to CIIS in the fall of 2006 for the Sound, Voice, and Music Healing Certification program, while concurrently receiving certification as a Depth Hypnosis Practitioner through the Foundation of the Sacred Stream in Oakland. By trade Serena Bear is a massage therapist, hypnotherapist, and Reiki Master/Teacher specializing in a variety of bodywork and energy work modalities. She is currently studying to become an Interfaith minister working with the spiritual, emotional, and energetic needs of sentient beings caught in the cycle of pain and suffering, and will begin a Clinical Pastoral Education residency program in the fall of 2008 intending, as Sogyal Rinpoche wrote, "to inspire a quiet revolution in the whole way we look at death and the care of the dying, and the whole way we look at life and the care of the living."

Kevin KoChen (M.A., 2004) focused on historical trends of conscious evolution, rites of passage, and complex systems during his studies in PCC. He is also a graduate of the Regenerative Design Institute, a year-long intensive permaculture training, where he studied under the guidance of Penny Livingston to develop strategies to reduce consumption while retaining an enjoyable standard of living. Kevin is a member of Critical Mass Prodcutions and was a co-producer of the film entitled which investigates the evolution of consciousness and the spontaneous reemergence of rites of passage. Their next work includes interviewing leaders from around the world at the Global Climate Change Conference in Bali in order to find a common ground whereby the global community can make progress in managing the world's resources by local and global stewardship. Kevin is a core member of the Symbiosis Gathering production team, an art, music, and conscious lifestyle event as well as Eco-Gatherings, an International Resource for Eco-Logical Event Production. Kevin is also a co-founder of the Center for Transformation Ecology, a 501(c)3 focused on transforming the world as we transform ourselves.

Michelle Hobart (M.A., 2006) lives in San Ramon, California and works as a holistic bodywork practitioner. She recently founded a health and wellness center focused on bodywork, acupuncture, and other modalities of alternative and complementary medicine. Through her time in PCC, Michelle was able to access transformative potential through a rigorous academic experience combined with the support of community to bring her to a place of empowered action. Today, she utilizes her clear vision of service in the work of spreading messages of the new paradigm to the shifting consciousness of Bay Area suburbs. PCC allowed Michelle to deepen the spiritual/somatic experience of bodywork into a truly integral lifework rooted in esoteric wisdom and cosmological insights.)

Darcy Riddell (M.A., 2002) is the Program Director for the Hollyhock Leadership Institute, where she has been an associate since 1998 and on staff since 2002. Darcy develops and leads programs on leadership, strategy development, and capacity-building for environmental and social change organizations. Her current vocational passions include applying Integral Theory to social change and sustainability, and synthesizing insights from progressive philanthropy, civil society, business, politics, and community-led change efforts. Through her work for social change, Darcy has observed that most analysis and action privileges economic, political, and ecological systems change, while largely ignoring the transformation of people, consciousness, and culture. She believes that these domains are not separate, and that we urgently need more encompassing and complex frameworks to understand change at an evolutionary scale. While a student in PCC, Darcy studied patterns of ecological and cultural evolution, with a particular focus on links between spirituality, ecology, transformative learning, and social change. While in the Bay Area, Darcy worked as a facilitator for Spirit-in-Action, which has pioneered a 'grassroots think-tank' model to help people make connections between spirit and social change. Darcy is a founding member of DRISHTI: Centre for Integral Action, which was created in 2003 with a vision for change that blends current approaches to environmental and social issues with practices of contemplative action.

Rusty Shores (M.A., 2006) lives in Sebastopol, California with his wife, Julia, and son, Dagan. After graduating from PCC, he spent a year working as the administrative coordinator for the Green MBA program (now at the Dominican University in San Rafael ). Rusty was also the Site Management Coordinator for the 2nd annual Sustainable Enterprise Conference held in Sonoma County. Currently, he works at the Institute of Noetic Sciences as a Member Services Specialist. IONS was founded in 1973 by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell and is located on a beautiful 200-acre campus just south of Petaluma, California. It is a nonprofit research, education, and membership organization whose mission is to explore the frontiers of consciousness to advance individual, social, and global transformation. The Institute explores phenomena that do not necessarily fit conventional scientific models, while maintaining a commitment to scientific rigor. The primary program areas include integral health and healing, extended human capacities, and emerging worldviews. IONS publishes a quarterly magazine, Shift, offers workshops at the 120-person retreat center, hosts a multi-day conference every two years, and features an online audio/video archive of numerous leading consciousness scientists and spiritual leaders.

Elizabeth Thompson (M.A., 1999) has been a pioneer in the New York and San Francisco art and culture scenes for over 15 years. Her work has centered on the creation, dissemination and synthesis of leading edge ideas, people, and networks of communities across disciplinary boundaries and media platforms including the worlds of information technology, sustainability, global change activism, digital media, art, architecture and design. Prior to founding PlaNetwork in 1998, Elizabeth survived a prolonged immersive experience in conceptual art as Director of the internationally acclaimed John Gibson Gallery in New York (1986-1993), and as a founding member of the Obie Award-winning experimental theater company: Cucaracha Warehouse Theatre, where she worked as both a performing artist and creator/producer of their renowned Summer Cabaret Performance Art series (1987-1995). Elizabeth currently serves as Executive Director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute, having recently re-located BFI's central operations hub to New York. She sits on the Advisory boards of several art & culture organizations including, Guggenheim Public at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy; Camino De Paz, New York; Link Tank, San Francisco; the Venture Collective, San Francisco and Fourth Door Review a U.K. based ecology and culture journal. Elizabeth writes and lectures about the intersection of art/ecology/digital culture & planetary citizenship.