K. Lauren de Boer, MA, Core Faculty
K. Lauren de Boer was editor and executive director of EarthLight Magazine for ten years (1995-2005), a publication that explored the intersection of ecology, cosmology, consciousness, and spirituality. His essays, articles, and interviews have appeared in numerous anthologies and publications. Lauren is a founding board member of the Epic of Evolution Society, a group of scientists, theologians, and artists whose purpose is to explore the meaning and implication of the sacred Universe Story for our time. He serves on the editorial advisory board for the Center for Ecozoic Studies in North Carolina, is a board member for the Institute for Sacred Cinema, and is an editorial advisor to YES! Magazine. He recently taught a graduate level course in Sustainable Communities at Naropa University in Oakland.
Lauren received his MA in Culture, Spirituality, and Geo-justice at Holy Names College in Oakland, California. He received his BA in English, minor in Cultural Anthropology, at the University of Iowa, where he was also a member of the Iowa Writers Workshop.
In addition to his interests in cosmology, Lauren is a poet, essayist, pianist, and amateur naturalist who explores, through improvisation in writing and music, the presence of the evolving Earth community and cosmos in our everyday lives. He is currently at work on a book Invisible Earth: the Practice of Spiritual Ecology in Everyday Life . K.Lauren de Boer, MA
MA, Culture, Spirituality, & Geo-Justice
Philip Snow Gang, PHdD., cofounder of TIES
Professor Gang is also a cofounder of the Global Alliance for Transforming
Education. He created the ecological game, Our Planet, Our Home, and he appears
in the anthology, Towards a New World View: Conversations at the Leading
Edge.
After a ten year career in engineering and business, Professor Gang became a grade school teacher. Some thirty years later, his areas of interest include transformative processes, eco-cosmological thinking, and collaborative learning communities.
In the early 90's he helped create the Global Alliance for Transforming Education (GATE). It's seminal document, "Education 2000: A Holistic Perspective", draws forth practical and philosophical principles that led to the establishment of this graduate program in integrative learning. In addition, he was on the faculty of California Institute of Integral Studies as a professor-mentor to students doing doctoral studies in the School of Transformative Learning. This was the first collaborative on-line distance learning program.
Philip Snow Gang Ph.D.
founder of T.I.E.S.
Academic Dean for the Master of Education (M.Ed.) program and the author of Rethinking
Education and Conscious Education: The Bridge To Freedom.
Marsha Snow Morgan, MA, cofounder of TIES
Marsha has worked as a teacher, school director, educator of teachers, consultant, and workshop leader. These initiatives have taken her throughout Europe, South America, North America and the Pacific Rim. In New Zealand she is on the Organic Cities Trust at Christchurch and a principal to the Kids Edible Garden Project -- a program to place permaculture gardens in government schools.
The main focus of her work is perceiving systemic patterns in the design and creation of learning communities. Her graduate thesis was titled: "An Ecogenesis for Education: A Context for Learning."
Phil and Marsha are also the creators of EarthTies, a virtual web-conferencing network promoting The Great Work.
Marsha Snow Morgan, MA
Cofounder of TIES and Founder of Ripple Education Community in Christchurch,
New Zealand
Valerie A. Brown, Ph.D., Adjunct Faculty
Emeritus Professor Brown completed her Master of Education at TIES in 2002. She is currently Director of the Local Sustainability Project, School of Resources, Environment and Society, Australian National University. This project undertakes research into whole-of-community solutions to local and global sustainability issues.
She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1999 for national and international leadership in public and environmental health, and advocacy for sustainable development. Valerie is interested in the unbounded possibilities of on-line dialogue between people from all countries on linked local and global issues.
Valerie A. Brown AO, BSc DipAdultEd PhD
Emeritus Professor, University of Western Sydney
Director, Local Sustainability Project,
School of Resources, Environment and Society
Australian National University
