Partnership
Board and Advisors
Joan M. Brown, President
Joan Brown is a Franciscan sister who works in Ecology Ministry through
the Partnership. She is the co-founder of the sustainable strawbale community
Tierra Madre. Kansas farm roots, living and working with the economically
poor, the inspiration of St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi, Thomas Berry,
and Master’s Degree in Cosmology, Religion and Philosophy from the
California Institute of Integral Studies form her thought and work.
Wally Ford is the former Director of the New Mexico Conference of Churches
and a long-term New Mexico resident. He currently works in Alternatives
(a Conflict Resolution Partnership) and is the co-director of RedWing
Institute. The founder of Stewards of Creation Adult Leadership Training
Program, he holds degrees in theology, English and counseling from institutions
including Illiff School of Theology, Brite Divinity School, and Texas
Christian University.
Charles E.
Little, Board Member
Charles Little is a writer on American land, landscape, and the environment.
Among his recent books are Discover America (Smithsonian), Sacred Lands of Indian America (Abrams), The Encyclopedia
of Environmental Studies (Facts on File), and The Dying of
the Trees (Viking-Penguin). Formerly head of natural resources
policy research at the Library of Congress (Congressional Research Service)
and president of The American Land Forum, a Washington, D.C., think-tank,
he now lives in Placitas, New Mexico, and is an adjunct faculty member
of the UNM Geography Department.
Pat Simmons, Board Member
Pat Simmons is a longtime human services non-profit program
administrator who was the former Co-Director of the Center for Action
and Contemplation. She is a freelance grantwriter, cojourner with the
Rochester Franciscan community, and a grandmother with deep interest
in Earth issues.
Marlene
Perrotte, Treasurer
Marlene Perrotte, a Sister
of Mercy, has spent numerous years working with indigenous people in Peru
and with new immigrants on the border of Mexico and New Mexico. Currently
she teaches at-risk youth and adults at TVI and honors “Pacha Mama”
by engagement in peace, justice and environmental concerns.
Anne Avellone is Director of the Office
of Social Justice, Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe. Currently working
on Masters in Social Work, she holds a Master in Divinity from Loyola
University in Chicago. She is a Stewards of Creation Adult Leadership
graduate and a Companion of Green Mountain Monastery in Greensboro, Vermont,
an Ecozoic monastery.
Anita Amstutz is a pastor of Albuquerque Mennonite
Church and also works with the Center for Action and Contemplation.
She seeks to bring a vision for ecological sustainability into all arenas
of her life, vocation and play.
Chuck O'Herron-Alex is gardener and gardening educator
with the Center for Action and Contemplation. He is also president of
Veggie Grower Gardens of NM, a business that makes and sells micro-intensive
gardens that allow people to grow some of their own food all year long.
Donna Detweiler, a member of Albuquerque Mennonite
Church and graduate of the first Stewards of Creation training program
in New Mexico, brings her consciousness and love of the earth to her
work as a property manager for low-income housing. She is a Coordinating Council member of the Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice.
M.J. Zimmerman teaches literature and history of
thought with an emphasis on ecological postmodernism and cosmological
thinking at the community college, Albuquerque TVI. She holds a Ph.D.
in Philosophy, Religion and Cosmology from the California Institute
of Integral Studies, San Francisco, California.
Alice Campion is Franciscan sister who is a potter,
composer and musician through Kokopelli Services in Albuquerque, New
Mexico.
Leland Bowen is in the Earth Care Fellowship of Las
Placitas Presbyterian Church. He is an electrical engineer with a long-standing
interest in alternative energy and other environmental issues.
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