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Tom Guyn

I am interested in the environment and health. I am a practicing Internist (Internal Medicine) and love philosophy. I was educated in California, then went to medical school in Rome, Italy. My practice has taken my family and I from California to Saudi Arabia, Germany, now Minneapolis, Minnesota.
I am curious about the relationship and moral responsibilities that
governments have toward the environment and especially as it influences our health.
I enjoy reading, pottery, and running. I have a British wife and 2 children.

Beth Carruthers

For more than twenty years, I’ve been involved in both the arts and environmental concerns as an interdisciplinary artist and writer. A graduate of the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design in Vancouver, I also studied at the University of British Columbia, a small school of art in the south of France and worked with Interactive Technologies and New Media at Simon Fraser University, Canada. My experience as a visiting lecturer and artist includes presentations on community and EcoARTS practice. I’ve worked with science based, environmental, and social issues groups and for 6 years was a Founding and Creative Director of SongBird, a hybrid project connecting the arts, communities and ecology in urban centres. My work explores how we humans navigate our relationship with the more than human world. It is profoundly concerned with lived meanings of dwelling and home, particularly in the context of colonial histories – which have everything to do with nature/culture relations. I’m curious about the intimacies of a shared biology, of the shared sensible – intimacies so obvious as to be unfamiliar. Having discovered the MAVE in 2000 while attending Between Nature, I immediately recognised that it was remarkably suited to my work and interests. I am very delighted to be “here” and afterward plan to complete a PhD with a view to teach. I live in a log house on a smallish island off the west coast of Canada with one partner and various non-humans.

Hannah Fenton

Elisabeth Kolovou

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Aurora Trujillo Peraire

Kirsty Miles

Cait Weston

My key interest in environmental philosophy is in the crossover between environmental and social justice, and I am taking MAVE with a view to work in this field. I am also interested in the way in which hands-on relationships with the natural world relate to human wellbeing. In September 2003 I moved down from the North to live in London, where I currently work with disabled students in further education. I am taking MAVE part-time so will graduate in 2005.

Daniel Shaw
Currently based in the countryside just outside Geneva, I have also lived in Bermuda, the UK, Italy and Japan. I studied Philosophy at Durham, with smatterings of music and Italian. During my third year abroad I had two seperate internships at the WWF HQ in Gland, Switzerland, which was, I think, the decisive catalyst for the interests which led me finally to the MAVE. My final year of my undergraduate degree was spent focusing on some environmental ethics and the earlier works of Heidegger. I work at the WHO headquarters and spend most of the rest of my time playing and writing music. I'm delighted to be a part of the MAVE at Lancaster and am looking forward to learning a whole lot more about this area!

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Elena Aleman

Dan Firth

David Mollah

Catalina Cincotta

I am Romanian, but I have been living in the US for the past 5 years. I am married with a US Navy Officer, and I have 3 step children. We also have two gorgeous cats, which are part of our family. Since last month I am finally a permanent resident in the USA, which I had waited for, for almost 4 years. Therefore these past years were not all easy for me, but I am happy with what they thought me. I have a MSc in Environmental Sciences and Policy from Central European University/The University of Manchester, UK. That was a great experience which made me very fond of the UK education system, even though it happened in Budapest, Hungary. I came to the US as a PhD student, but that did not work well for me ( I finished the first year); I was not as much interested in the degree as I was interested in the type of knowledge that I was offered. I discovered environmental philosophy while I was writing my MSc thesis (The Value of Protected Areas in Romanian Society), and I was fascinated by it. My other favourite subject is ecology. I would love to be a college professor someday, teaching somewhere between ecology, environmental conservation and environmental philosophy. However, for the past 3 years I could not work (did not have a working permit in the USA), so I feel a little intimidated by not having any ‘intellectual past’ in this country. I have worked in Romania, with several environmental NGOs (volunteer), and I have taught in high school. The other job I have been dreaming about is to work for WWF. I hope now, that I finally have a normal status and I can work, to reach one of the two. I pretty much fought and reached my dreams so far… ! I had been wishing to be a MAVE student for 4 years, and I am very happy to finally be here. A couple of not such formal things: I like to travel and experience, I love all sorts of music; I am happy that I saw YES, Rush and Van Morrison last year.

Sky McCain

My career was spent as a computer hardware and software course developer and instructor in the U.S. In the last 20 years I've been exploring the issues around the nature of being and our relationship with the Earth as a living being. My experience building a mud brick house and caring for 30 acres in the mountains of Northern Victoria, Australia has helped me to bond with the land. In the last 3 1/2 years in England I have been active in the promotion of nutritious, chemical-free, local food and in resisting the contamination of our food with GMOs. Thanks to the AwayMave program, I am taking the first step in the fulfilment of a lifetime ambition to hold a Doctorate in Philosophy.

Jeff Walton

I am 32, married just over a year, a first-year pastor at Belltower Reformed Church in Ellsworth, Michigan. I have a B.A. in Communication with a philosophy minor, and a Master of Divinity from Western Theological Seminary, with an emphasis in Christian Ethics. I enjoy fishing and soccer (football), and I have three dogs (2 beagles and one bassett-spanial mix). I hike, mountain climb, and canoe and kayak regularly, and hope to open a coffee shop on the side. My goals from the MAVE coursework include but are not limited to the creation of a new ethic for environmental stewardship for the Reformed Church, and eventually the production of a book designed to teach this ethic.

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