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Living Routes has assembled an accomplished team to carry out its mission. Our Board and staff consist of experienced professionals who
bring years of experience in not-for-profit, social justice, environmental and alternative and university education arenas as well as a dedication
to service toward planetary healing. Our Advisory Board is listed at the bottom of this page. We also attract outstanding
Faculty who are profiled on the Faculty page.
Executive Director and Board Member, has studied and directed
community-based educational programs for over 20 years. Daniel wrote
his doctoral thesis on "Education within Contemporary Intentional
Communities", and has visited and corresponded with over 200
communities in the U.S. He spent a year developing educational
programs at the Findhorn Foundation and then four years working with
the Geocommons College Programs in India and France. In addition to
directing college-level semester programs, he has developed curricula
on sustainable community development, deep ecology, ecological
auditing, and systems thinking. Daniel has held the vision for Living
Routes for decades and has steadily built the experience and networks
of support necessary to assure its success. He brings immense
commitment, contagious enthusiasm, and a unique blend of broad vision
and grounded action to his role as Executive Director.
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Office Manager. Co-founder of the Sacred Earth Network (a highly-successful
deep ecological education and Russian environmental assistance not-for-profit),
Davis brings over ten years of not-for-profit technical and financial
management to Living Routes. As a graduate of the Audubon Expedition Institute,
he is intimately familiar with alternative college education and is passionate
about creating community living and learning environments. A skilled workshop
facilitator, he is committed to reawakening our heartfelt interconnection with
all living beings.
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Gregg Orifici, Director of Academic Relations at Living Routes,
holds a J.D. in International Law and has over 12 years experience
working in the fields of intercultural education and study abroad,
international relations, social justice, and sustainable development.
He is the author of numerous articles and key communications strategies
and has worked abroad as a researcher and journalist for the European
Commission and as an analyst in European integration and monetary
union. Gregg is proficient in several languages and feels passionately
that experienced-based education and an understanding of how other
cultures and communities live and thrive sustainably is vital for
learners of all ages and for the planet.
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Over the past fifteen years Alexander has worked as an environmental educator,
wilderness guide, group dynamics facilitator, youth counselor, public school
environmental, earth sciences and social studies teacher, curriculum/program
designer and expedition leader through India and Southeast Asia. He holds a
Master's Degree in Environmental Studies from Antioch New England Graduate
School and was a faculty member on Living Routes', Integral Sustainability at
Auroville program in Spring 2008. He is passionate about integral
sustainability education and creating and managing programs that allow
participants to explore their inner landscapes while using a systems lens to
better understand sustainability issues and develop the tools necessary to
become active and engaged community members and leaders on a local and global level.
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For the past 20 years, Nina has been a passionate leader in educational
programs focusing on holistic development and experiential learning modalities
in community building environments. Following an M.Ed. in Education
Administration from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, she held roles as
Program Manager for the Semester Intensive, a college-level semester program at
the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health; Director of Human Resources and the
Volunteer program at the Kripalu Center; Area Resident Life Director at Tufts
University; and an Organizational Development Consultant to local health and
educational organizations. Nina was born in South Africa of British parents,
has traveled extensively through Europe, and after finishing her Associates
Degree in Veterinary Technology, worked a year in Haiti managing the start-up
of a Veterinary clinic and the development of a farm from sugar cane to
vegetables and a fish pond.
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Moe holds a B.A. in Criminal Justice and Legal Studies from UMass-Amherst and
has over 16 years experience working in the fields of multi-cultural education
and higher education. During her varied career at UMass, she worked on
childcare committees, faculty boards and senate groups, and union contract
negotiations. In her spare time she hikes with her horses and dog.
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A published folk music composer and martial arts instructor for 7 years, Rob
began leading backpacking trips to theSouthwest in high school, attended the
Audubon Expedition Institute, and then went on to study Geology and Ecology in
college. This was followed by a masters degree in education and a
qualification to teach secondary Earth Science. He worked for a few years as a
geologist at an environmental engineering firm; and worked for quite a few
years as a carpenter, contractor, and woodworker, ultimately running his own
contracting business. An opportunity to try his hand at CAD draftsmanship led
him away from the job site and into the office where he worked as a draftsman
for a few years. This, in turn, led to a deep interest in computers,
programming, and system administration where he happily remains riveted to this
very day. He is ecstatic to be the father of two and the husband of one.
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An alumni of Living Routes' Permaculture program at the Sirius ecovillage,
Jenny received her B.A. in Linguistics and Psychology from UMass Amherst. She
is now working on her Masters in Education with a concentration in School
Counseling at UMass-Amherst. She has been substitute teaching at the Amherst
Montessori School and Regional Public Schools. In her spare time, she likes to
travel the country (mainly to see The Dead in concert) and hike and swim with
her yellow lab, Cadence.
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Financial Manager is Victoria's alias for whole system thinking and fiscal
communication for humans. Growing up in Chicago with an activist mom in the
60s led to art school, women's spiritual circles and intentional community in
the 80s. One of a group of founders of Earthdance, a charter elementary school
and a mother/ daughter group, Victoria brings loving attention to all things
bureaucratic. Also loves libraries (shared resources, what a radical idea) and
dancing! Organizational sustainability has been of lifelong interest to
Victoria and working at Living Routes blends the content of the workplace with
the administrative frame. Yum.
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