Future Primitive

Antwi Akom founded the Wangari Maathai Center for Economic, Educational and Environmental Design in 2010, an organization that harnesses the expertise and imagination of leading academics, community leaders, and decision-makers to address policy and planning issues like energy, education, waste, water, advanced manufacturing, and design. The WMC’s most recent project is “Greening the Educational Industrial Complex” which is pioneering “Green STEM” curricular pathways that combine art and social media with science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) to create college and career pathways in environmental and clean energy fields for low-income and vulnerable youth. In 2009, Dr. Akom co-founded the Environmental Sustainability Planning Network (ESPN), a national learning network that drafts local and regional climate action plans to reduce carbon emissions, secure land tenure, improve economic opportunities, build infrastructure, and improve environmental health. The culmination of this work will be a Climate Justice Youth Bill of Rights to be unveiled on Earth day 2012.

Dr. Akom is a 2010 recipient of a RIMI Investigator Award supported by the National Center on Minority and Health Disparities. Dr. Akom earned a BA from the University of California Berkeley, an MA from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in Sociology.

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Wewer Keohane Ph.D. is an internationally represented and collected artist with works in permanent  collections of several museums.Wewer has been leading dream workshops for over twenty five years .

She has also lectured internationally, including being the keynote speaker for the International Association for the Study of Dreams on the topic of art inspired from dreams. She is the author of “Artful Dreaming: A Primer for Finding Inspiration from Your Dreams” and “Nightscapes: A Journal of Personal Dream Symbols”, and recently, “A Story for Isabel: sure to be your pup’s favourite bedtime tale”.

“I have dedicated my life to being authentic and to helping others find and be their authentic selves”.

http://www.wewerart.com/

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John Burt is the Founding Board Chair of Cambodian Living Arts (CLA). An independent theatrical producer for 25 years, Mr. Burt was most recently the Executive producer of the new CLA commission, Where Elephants Weep, the first Cambodian American opera.

Phloeum Prim is the first Director of Cambodian Living Arts, founded by Arn Chorn-Pond. He is a Cambodian entrepreneur and business leader who has worked with CLA for many years as a Board member and executive consultant on strategic planning.

whereelephantsweep.net

cambodianlivingarts.org

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Jorge Conesa-Sevilla is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Northland College, Ashland Wisconsin. In addition to writing Ecological Outcome Psychological Theory and Ecopsychology as Ultimate Force Psychology: A Biosemiotic Approach to Nature Estrangement and Nature Alienation, he has published many articles in the areas of semiotics, ecopsychological biosemiotics, and environmental philosophy. In 1989 he received a B.A. (triple-special major–Whole Human) combining psychobiology, Eastern religion and biology from Humboldt State University in California. He received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in experimental psychology from The University of Toledo, Ohio. He is a co-founder of the European Ecopsychology Society.

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Ruth Gendler is an artist, writer, and teacher committed to the transformational potential of the arts. Her experience with the rhythms of creativity is evidenced by a diverse background in art, writing, publishing, teaching, and lecturing. She is the author of The Book of Qualities and Notes on the Need for Beauty and the editor of Changing Light: The Eternal Cycle of Night and Day. The Book of Qualities, now in its 40th printing, has been adapted as a two act theater piece and translated into German, Japanese, and Chinese, as well as being widely excerpted in literary, psychological and educational publications.

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Mary Lou Cook lives New Mexico and has contributed immensely as a major creative force and model of citizen activism. She has received numerous international, national and community honors and awards as a distinguished leader. One such honor was being named “Santa Fe Living Treasure”. She is a teacher, counselor, lecturer and minister who performs non-traditional weddings.

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Marilyn is a Jungian-oriented spiritual counselor, an ordained minister and a ceremonialist. Jerry is an artist, author, lecturer and teacher. See their web site Hands of Alchemy.

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Joanna Harcourt-Smith interviews Max Dashu -Independent scholar, artist and founder of the Suppressed Histories Archives. She has done extensive interdisciplinary research on the European witch hunts and folk traditions about witches.

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