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Course Track Instructors
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Selena Fox
Plenary Speaker, Pagan Leadership Roundtable
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Selena Fox is a psychotherapist, teacher, writer, photographer, ritual performance artist, and priestess. She is founder and co-executive director of Circle Sanctuary, an international Nature Spirituality resource center headquartered on a 200 acre Nature preserve in southwestern Wisconsin, USA.
Selena received her M.S. in Counseling from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She graduated cum laude with a B.S. in psychology from the College of William and Mary in Virginia in 1971. She received additional training in psychology at Rutgers University, Parkway Hospital, and various conferences and training programs. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, American Counseling Association, Association for Transpersonal Psychology, and American Academy of Religion. She is a spiritual counselor in private practice. She also is a staff psychotherapist at Wellspring, a mental health outpatient clinic in Madison, Wisconsin.
Selena has been a Wiccan priestess and Pagan artist since 1973. Selena's approach to spirituality emphasizes Nature communion and blends together ancient and contemporary European and American folkways, Wiccan traditions, multicultural shamanism, and transpersonal psychology. She is one of America's best known Pagan elders, networkers, and civil liberties activists. She is founder of Circle Network, Lady Liberty League, and the Pagan Academic Network. Over the years, Selena and her work have been covered by various regional, national, and global media, including Time Magazine, Wall Street Journal, CNN's Larry King Live, NBC's Today Show, and various radio networks (NPR, BBC, ABC, CBC). She has spoken at a variety of international and multicultural conferences.
Selena's writings and photographs have been published in a variety of periodicals, anthologies, and other publications. She is author of Goddess Communion Rituals and Meditations and When Goddess is God. She also has created several music and guided meditation tapes. She is founder of the quarterly journal, Circle Network News, and sourcebook, Circle Guide to Pagan Groups. She was a consultant for Time-Life Books' Mysteries of the Unknown series.
Selena has traveled widely in connection with her work. She has presented workshops and facilitated community ritual experiences in many types of settings, including colleges and universities, festivals, churches, conferences, and healing centers. She lives with her husband, Dr. Dennis Carpenter, and nine cats... at Circle Sanctuary Nature Preserve. Her avocational pursuits include archaeology, genealogy, herbology, and ornithology.
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Rev. Jerrie Hildebrand
Plenary Speaker
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Rev. Jerrie Hildebrand is the Managing Director of the Lady Liberty League based in Wisconsin and founded by Circle Sanctuary's High Priestess Selena Fox. Jerrie has been affiliated with various national Pagan organizations since 1986 serving on governing boards and in various official roles. Currently, she is a Circle Sanctuary minister, works with the Our Freedom Collaborative, serves on the CUUPS Nominating Committee, trains extensively with transformational models of thinking and communication. Jerrie was a presenter on a panel about religious freedom issues at the Parliament of World Religions in Barcelona, Spain in 2004 and participates with the Listening Project. In 2010, Jerrie presented a poster at the Conference for Global Transformation in San Francisco about all of life being magick. She has a promise that by 2025, all people will be inspired and empowered by the magic of their dreams and lives! Besides all of her work earth religious communities, Jerrie is a mother, artist, teacher and owner of an award winning graphic design, marketing & communications company. She can be reached at jerrie@circlesanctuary.org.
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Drema Baker
Plenary Speaker, Pagan Leadership Roundtable
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Co-Founder and Board Chairman of LISTEN Media, Inc. and Co-Founder, Publisher and Senior Editor of If ... Journal, Drema has practiced Wicca from the mid-1980s and was High Priestess of a private coven from 1991 through 2005. She was a founding organizer of the Mid-Atlantic Pagan Leadership Conference in 200 and the National Pagan Leadership Skills Conference in 2004, and worked as a member of that collaborative effort through 2005. Drema has organized events for over a decade. Currently, she holds membership in the Theophilus interfaith clergy group of Norfolk, Virginia, and serves on the organizing committee for the One Love Music and Arts Extravaganza, an interfaith peace event held annually in Virginia Beach. Drema offers training in Wicca, event organizing, small publication production, labyrinth construction and ceremony, and other subjects whenever called to do so. Drema’s spirituality is an ever-evolving experience. Since no specific label fits her practices and beliefs exactly, she calls herself a "Seeker." Drema and Bear, her best friend and husband of over 25 years, work and play together in Southeast Virginia.
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Dr. Jonathan White, Ph.D.
Vocational Pathways of Pagan Leadership
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Jonathan White (also known as Snowba'al) is a Third Degree Initiate of the Stone Circle Tradition of Wicca, and a member of the Four Quarters Interfaith Sanctuary of Earth Religion and the DC Radical Faeries. He was born and raised in Lynchburg, Virginia, and has made the Washington DC metro area his home since 1991. He holds a Ph.D. in American Literature and a master's in social work. A chronic self-reinventor, he has earned his bread doing an improbable assortment of odd jobs such as teaching American Literature to college students; working on labor union campaigns against energy and mining multinationals; hospital clinical social work with advanced cancer patients and their families; and most recently counseling evacuees in natural disasters. He labors a priestly vocation as a mentor, counselor, storyteller, and ceremonialist. He is an Enneagram Type 8, and even if it might not seem like it, he really does strive to be a healthy 8.
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Tamia Buckhingham
Finance and Non-Profit Accounting
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Tamia Buckingham, M.B.A. is a seasoned financial professional with a track record in leveraging market challenges into organizational opportunities. With over 25 years professional experience in companies ranging from Fortune 500 corporations to small and mid-sized not-for-profits, Tamia is skilled at providing strategic leadership to boards of directors, audit & finance committees, and senior management. She is the Founder and Principal of a business consultancy, Buckingham Business Services, specializing in accounting, risk and grants management, financial and technology services for small businesses and non-profit organizations, providing non-profit clients with contracted CFO services focusing on GAAP/Fund accounting, fiscal planning and management, and government regulatory compliance.
With deep roots in the Unitarian Universalist and CUUPS communities, Tamia currently maintains a solitary spiritual practice. She shares her Central North Carolina home with her husband, son, two cats, and a pet business partner.
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Diane Edgecomb, J.D.
Pagan Family Advocacy
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Diane M. Edgecomb is a 1990 graduate of the University of Maine School of Law (focus on tax law and environmental studies), and a 1987 graduate of Bates College (the first co-educational college in New England). Her practice is primarily Family Law, specifically advocating for children both as a Guardian ad Litem and as a parent's attorney in family and child protection matters. She currently serves on the Board of Southern Maine Parenting Awareness, and served as Treasurer for the Guardian Ad Litem Institute. She lives in Saco, Maine, with her shamanic healer Kindred the Maltese, three cats, and three housemates.
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Cynthia Jane Collins, M.Div., M.S.
Pagan Family Advocacy
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Cynthia Jane Collins holds a Masters of Divinity, Cum Laude, from Christian Theological Seminary and a Masters degree in Counseling, Phi Kappa Phi, from Evansville University. She is a Clinical Member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. She serves on the Boards of Interfaith Maine, Maine Pagan Clergy Association, Habitat for Humanity's Interfaith Build, and Earthtides Pagan Network. Cynthia is the author of Building a Magical Relationship with Jane Raeburn, and The Recovery Spiral: 12 Steps for Pagans, both published by Citadel/Kensington Press. She is a founding elder of Silver Cauldron covenstead.
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Peggy Thompson
Pagans on Campus: Empowering our Future Leaders
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Peggy Thompson graduated from Cleveland State University in May of 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Criminology. While at CSU, she helped to found Cleveland State Pagans, Cleveland’s only on-campus Pagan community. As the president of Cleveland State Pagans, Peggy led the group to conduct numerous activities designed to educate the 16,000 students about Paganism and to overcome many stereotypes. After the tragedy of Katrina, Peggy created "Change-it for Katrina", a spare change drive that raised $1300 in five days. Cleveland State Pagans also participated in the annual "Homeless Stand Down". A Cleveland State University tradition is "Do-Gooder Day", a day of service where student organizations spend a day volunteering in the community; Cleveland State Pagans was one of the founding groups. Each year, the Department of Student Life has competitions for all the student organizations on the university’s campus. These competitions are for groups that are the most active and give the most time in volunteer service; under Peggy’s leadership, Cleveland State Pagans was routinely found in the top 6 student organizations. Due to the skills developed with Cleveland State Pagans as well as the notoriety of becoming "Peggy from the Pagans," her participation at Cleveland State began to grow. Peggy sat for one year on the university Judicial Board, was elected to the Student Government as a Senator, was elected Speaker of the Senate by her Student Government peers, and was elected by the student body to serve as the Vice-President of Student Government. Peggy is currently attending Kent State University pursuing a Master’s Degree in Education; Higher Education Student Support Personnel.
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Eric Eldritch
Pagan Leadership Roundtable
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Eric Eldritch has over twenty years experience as a community
organizer specializing in group identity formation, sociolinguistics,
cross-cultural relations, and interfaith events. His is a Radical
Faerie, an Interfaith Minister and holds a third degree initiation in
Stone Circle Wicca. As a ritualist, Eldritch is known for co-creating
and leading imaginative and meaningful large group events and
ceremonies. Eric is an accomplished facilitator, helping groups
navigate through difficult issues and uncover creative solutions. Eric
works at the Library of Congress as an EEO Specialist concentrating in
disability and LGBT relations. His priestly vocation is that of the
Sacred Fool, an instigator, energizer and provacateur, who brings
life, depth and energy to group ceremony and personal practice. In
service to the community he created Eldritch Ventures to help
individuals and groups produce events that organize, energize and
inspire.
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