Southwestern College Santa Fe, NM
PhD Program Faculty
Ann Filemyr, PhD
PhD Program Director
Dr. Filemyr, is the founder and Director of the PhD in Visionary Parctice and Regenerative Leadership. Prior to that she served the fourth President of Southwestern College (2018-2024) in February 2019. Her leadership at the…
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Marna Hauk, PhD
PhD Program Associate Director
Marna Hauk, PhD, directs programs and innovates learning and scholarship in regenerative futures, arts-based methods, climate justice, and leadership and imagination. For the past decade, she has directed the programs of the Institute for Earth…
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Barbara Bickel, PhD
PhD Core Faculty
Barbara Bickel is a Canadian/American artist, writer, researcher, and educator of Germanic ancestry currently living on Vancouver Island, on the traditional lands of the Snuneymuxw First Nation peoples in Nanaimo, BC, Canada where she is…
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Molly Bigknife Antonio, PhD
PhD Core Faculty
Molly Bigknife Antonio, PhD, is of Shawnee, Delaware, Cherokee, Irish, and English heritage. She is Executive Director of the nonprofit Pollen Circles, located in Window Rock, Arizona, and she serves as a Doctoral Program First…
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Rose Brusaferro, PhD
PhD Core Faculty
Rose Brusaferro, PhD, is an environmental educator and research scientist in the Baltimore-DC metro, specifically the ancestral lands of the Piscataway-Conoy Tribe. She is currently the Director of Nature Preschool at Woodend Nature Sanctuary in…
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Gregory Cajete, PhD
PhD Core Faculty
Gregory Cajete, PhD, is a Native American educator whose work is dedicated to honoring the foundations of Indigenous knowledge in education. Dr. Cajete is a Tewa Indian from Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico.
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Aimée deChambeau, PhD
PhD Core Faculty
Aimée deChambeau, PhD, is an educator and librarian with extensive experience in leading educational and library services and systems in higher education. Aimée is interested in lifelong learning as an important sustainability issue, focusing on…
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R. Michael Fisher, PhD
PhD Core Faculty
Dr. Fisher, Ph.D., is an independent scholar, artist, educator and fearologist and is founder and director of In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, The Fearology Center, and hosts the Fearlessness Movement ning as a social…
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Joseph F. Jordan, PhD
PhD Core Faculty
Joseph Jordan is Teaching Associate Professor in the African, African American and Diaspora Studies Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also served as Vice Provost for Academic and Community Engagement…
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Pramod Parajuli, PhD
PhD Core Faculty
Dr. Parajuli is a trans-disciplinary scholar/educator who is deeply seeking ways to heal and regenerate life, livelihoods, learning and leadership in this turbulent period of what he identifies as the “Combined Climate/Coronavirus Disruptions” (CCCs). Such…
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Robert Waterman, EdD
PhD Core Faculty
Dr. Waterman, EdD, LPCC is founder and President Emeritus of Southwestern College. He has a doctorate in Education and Counseling, a Master's in Sociology from New Mexico State University and a B.A. in Sociology from…
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Katie Brammer, PhD, LPC
PhD Mentor Faculty
Katie Brammer PhD, LPC (She, Her, Hers) holds an M.S. in Counselor Education from Missouri State University and PhD in Counselor Education from the University of New Mexico. She has a background as both a…
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Rochelle Calvert, PhD, CMT, SEP
PhD Mentor Faculty
Dr. Calvert is the Director of the Ecotherapy Certificate Program of Southwestern College. She has studied mindfulness for the past 18 years and has taught classes, courses, workshops, and retreats. Rochelle leads classes/courses/seminars in Six-week…
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Claudia Ford, PhD
PhD Mentor Faculty
Dr. Claudia J. Ford has had a career in international development and women’s health spanning four decades and all continents. Dr. Ford is professor of environmental studies at State University of New York, Potsdam. She…
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Christy Garrison-Harrison, PhD
PhD Mentor Faculty
Dr. Christy Garrison-Harrison is currently a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Garrison-Harrison is an Assistant Professor of History and Women, Gender,…
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Enid LaGesse, PhD
PhD Mentor Faculty
Dr. Enid J. LaGesse, PhD, brings more than 30 years of diversity, equity, and inclusion leadership experience to her current role as the co-chair of the Race and Social Justice Committee for the Episcopal Diocese…
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Marianela Medrano, PhD
PhD Mentor Faculty
Marianela Medrano, PhD, was born and raised in the Dominican Republic and has lived in Connecticut since 1990. A poet and a writer of nonfiction and fiction, she holds a PhD in Psychology. Her literary…
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Monica Mody, PhD
PhD Mentor Faculty
Monica Mody, PhD, MFA, is a transdisciplinary educator, poet, writer, and theorist at the intersections of earth-based wisdom, whole person philosophy, and embodied regenerative consciousness. She comes to her teaching and writing as a border-crossing…
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Devora Neumark, PhD
PhD Mentor Faculty
Dr. Devora Neumark, a queer second-generation Holocaust survivor born to refugees from Russia (Ukraine) and Poland, currently lives in Iqaluit, Nunavut, situated in the Eastern Canadian Arctic. With over 30-years of meditation practice, Devora is…
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Elizabeth Oriel, PhD
PhD Mentor Faculty
Elizabeth Oriel is a researcher, writer, artist, and integrative healer with diverse research themes and practices. She often takes a systems approach and explores relational patterns in language and in lifeways between humans, other animals,…
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Virginia Padilla Vigil, PhD
PhD Mentor Faculty
Virginia Padilla-Vigil joined SWC in 2020 after retiring from a 30-year career in education that spanned K-12, higher education, and state government. She spent her career as a transformational teacher and leader, advocating for…
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Carol Parker, PhD
PhD Mentor Faculty
During the last 35 years, Carol has worked as a Licensed Psychologist and psychotherapist for various agencies as well as in private practice. She has taught graduate level Counseling Psychology at several colleges and universities and…
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Janet Roseman-Halsband, PhD
PhD Mentor Faculty
Dr. Janet Roseman-Halsband, PhD, is Associate Professor in Integrative Medicine at the Dr. Kiran Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine in Ft. Lauderdale. She is also a registered dance therapist and expressive arts therapist. She is…
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Jessie Ryker-Crawford, PhD
PhD Mentor Faculty
Dr. Jessie Ryker-Crawford (White Earth Chippewa) is the Academic Dean of the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, where she also serves as Professor of Museum Studies and Director of the MFA…
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Rahima Schmall, PhD, RN
PhD Mentor Faculty
Rahima Susan Schmall, Ph.D., RN, is a clinical psychologist, registered nurse and a master teacher and healer in the Sufi tradition. For over 30 years, she has successfully blended psychology, spirituality and medical knowledge to…
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April Vogel, PhD
PhD Mentor Faculty
Dr. April Vogel is a licensed psychologist with 30 years of experience in teaching, counseling, research, and assessment. She received her B.A. in Psychology at Stanford University, her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University…
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Dawn Wink, PhD
PhD Mentor Faculty
Dr. Dawn Wink is an educator and writer whose work explores the tensions and beauty of language, culture, and place. Wink’s transdisciplinary professional journey includes many years in multilingual and international education, along with a…
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