Parker J. Palmer is founder and senior partner of the Center for Courage & Renewal. A writer, speaker and activist, he serves as senior advisor to the Fetzer Institute and previously served as senior associate of the American Association of Higher Education. His seven books include A Hidden Wholeness, Let Your Life Speak, The Courage to Teach, The Active Life, To Know as We Are Known, The Company of Strangers and The Promise of Paradox. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley, along with ten honorary doctorates, two Distinguished Achievement Awards from the National Educational Press Association, an Award of Excellence from the Associated Church Press, and major grants from the Danforth, Lilly, and Fetzer foundations.
Michael Lerner is president and co-founder of Commonweal, a health and environmental research institute located near Bolinas, California, in the Point Reyes National Seashore. He has worked with foundations focused on biodiversity and environmental health. A former Yale faculty member, he is author of Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer as well as the working paper, The Age of Extinctions and the Emerging Environmental Health Movement. In 1983, he received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship for contributions to public health.
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