Adjunct Faculty, Center for Creative Change

 
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Cecile Andrews, Ed.D., Stanford University; adjunct faculty, Center for Creative Change. Andrews is the author of Slow is Beautiful: New Visions of Community, Leisure, and Joie de Vivre (New Society Publishers, 2006) and The Circle of Simplicity: Return to the Good Life (Harper Collins, 1997). A former community college administrator, she is a founder of Phinney EcoVillage (www.phinneyecovillage.net). She was a visiting scholar at Stanford University from 2001-03.

Marcia Tate Arunga, M.A., Pacific Oaks College; adjunct faculty, Center for Creative Change. Arunga has extensive experience teaching adult learners in intercultural communications using applied human development concepts. As a practitioner, she consults and trains individuals in the workplace in race and social justice initiatives and community-building strategies. She is co-founder of Cultural Reconnection Missions and has led numerous delegations from the United States to East Africa where cultural immersion in development projects with Kenyan leaders has led to transformative civic leadership and professional growth.

Steve Cato, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University; adjunct faculty, Center for Creative Change. Cato is an organizational consultant who uses appreciative inquiry as a cornerstone of his diverse practice and focuses on co-creating wholeness in people and organizations. He designed and founded a graduate program in organization development and has his own consulting practice, now in its 35th year.

Wairimu Kiambuthi, Ed.D., Columbia University; adjunct faculty, Center for Creative Change. Kiambuthi's work, which focuses on international development and instructional technology and media, is framed through her experiences of being raised in Eastern Africa. Her film, Africans and African Americans, is a candid examination of the tensions between first-generation African immigrants and African Americans in modern America and includes discussions on topics such as slavery, reparations, identity and class divisions.

Karyn Lazarus, Ph.D., Antioch University Seattle; adjunct faculty, Center for Creative Change. Lazarus has extensive experience in organizational development, human resources, management of change and training for both profit and nonprofit organizations. Her focus has been on creating networks of collaboration through conversation that create intersections of objectives with individuals, groups and organizations.

Sam Magill, B.A., M.B.A, University of California; adjunct faculty, Center for Creative Change. Magill has worked in organizational development for more than 25 years. His expertise includes organization redesign, leadership and team education. He is president of S. Magill Consulting, Inc. and works primarily with governmental, health care, religious and educational organizations.

Morgan McCartor, B.S., University of California; M.A., Antioch University Seattle; adjunct faculty, Center for Creative Change. McCartor has 24 years of experience applying systemic thinking to product performance and organizational effectiveness for profit and nonprofit organizations. She has taught systems thinking at Antioch University Seattle and the University of Idaho and has published in the European Journal on Engineering Education. She currently works as a consultant in the implementation of complex projects.

Heather Nordell, B.A., Scripps College; M.S., Antioch University Seattle; adjunct faculty, Center for Creative Change. Nordell is founder and principal of the marketing consulting company, Swift Impressions, which specializes in values-based, green marketing. She also has written for local and national publications and is a regular contributor to Evergreen Monthly.

Pat Vivian, M.A., Antioch University; adjunct faculty, Center for Creative Change. For the past 23 years, Vivian has consulted with hundreds of nonprofit organizations in the Pacific Northwest. Using a systems approach, Vivian works with clients on issues of cultural assessment, organization-wide change, governance, strategic planning, leadership development, and conflict management. More recently she has been facilitating multi-organizational strategies for systems change in the area of sexual assault services.

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