TERRI DELAHANTY
Terri, Many Feathers, Cree and Ojibwa participates in regular practice of Native Ceremonies, meditation, and women's ceremonies. She has received the rights from elders to pour sweat lodge for the past 20 years and she has been a Sundancer for 11 years. Terri feels that her spirit journey is bringing knowledge to the community about returning to the Sacred Feminine and Sacred Masculine.
She participates in a Women's Council Group and Dream Inquest Group that meets monthly. She often facilitates workshops on spiritual practice.
Terri also sits on the Board of Trustees at Institute of American Indian Studies in Washington Depot, Ct. and on the steering committee for creating a Commission on American Indians affairs in CT. She is a founding member of the Board for Women In The Spirit (WitS) and part of the planning committee for the Wisdom Keepers Conference in Kansas.
Terri facilitates workshops on 'Meeting Death" and is an ordained minister.
Terri believes that following her Native Traditions brings richness of Spirit into all aspects of her life.
DAHR JAMAIL
Dahr Jamail, the author of,The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption (The New Press, 2019), The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan (Haymarket Books, 2009), and Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches From an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq (Haymarket Books, 2007). Dahr Jamail is also, a Truthout staff reporter and has written numerous articles on climate disruption.
H. PATRICIA HYNES
H. Patricia Hynes is a retired Professor of Environmental Health from Boston University School of Public Health and current Chair of the Board of the Traprock Center for Peace and Justice. She has written and edited 7 books, among them The Recurring Silent Spring. She writes and speaks on issues of war and militarism with an emphasis on women, environment, and public health.
MARK DUNLEA
Mark Dunlea is chair of the Green Education and Legal Fund, where he coordinates the Campaign for 100% Renewables Now in NYS. He has been a member of the steering committee of 350 NYC and the People's Climate Movement NY. He was the Executive Director of the Hunger Action Network for NYS for nearly three decades and served as the Head Organizer in several states for ACORN. An attorney, he is author of Madame President: The Unauthorized Biography of the First Green Party President. He lives in a passive solar home he and his wife built at Common Farms thirty years ago, an intentional community in Poestenkill NY.
ERIC MARCZAK
Well known area woodworker, student of native flute and musician, Eric
Marczak also has a longtime interest in Native American culture and has embraced teachings regarding caring for the earth. He collects arrowheads and artifacts and teaches what he knows at area schools with his wife of nineteen years, Dawn, who is of Mohawk descent.
In a buckskin bag, he keeps wooden and bone flutes, some of which he has made. On his wooden flutes he has carved fetishes and held them in place with leather strips.
In addition, he is interested in native plants and the ecology of the Capital Region.
Part of his personal vision was formed while he served as a hospital corpsman during the Vietnam War. Marczak was assigned to a burn unit. What he saw there has remained with him. “I looked at the big picture and my priorities changed,” he said. “I began to appreciate what I had,” he said.
Later, he worked for New York state’s Health Department, going after polluters of the Mohawk River. “I felt like I was making a difference,” he said, adding that he had long had a love of the natural world and remembered being outraged as a child that the river’s edge was slimy and the fish dying.
“We are the stewards of the land. We are meant to take care of it,” he said.
When he retired in 2002, he went on a vision quest to determine what direction he would take during the next phase of his life. The result has been highly creative.
MEGHAN MAROHN
Meghan Marohn is an artist, environmentalist, and educator. She’s the founder of a community art project, the Troy Poem Project, and has been a high school English teacher and an adjunct professor of education at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Recently, she’s been working with the students of the ALP School 12 in Troy, Troy Prep, Lansingburgh Middle School and Shaker High to create youth segments for WOOC. Her favorite moments of teaching, radio, and the poem project have been those in which people young and old share the vulnerable parts of themselves and are received in kindness, joy, and connection. She’s now working to build shared storytelling communities as a board member and education consultant for A Little Creative Class, Inc., a nonprofit that seeks to strengthen youth in the most economically and socially vulnerable parts of New York State.
Trained as a Climate Reality Leader in Denver in March of 2017, Meghan has also presented on the climate crisis at various religious and academic institutions in New York and New Jersey. Through the Climate Reality Project and Uptown Summer at The Sanctuary for Independent Media, she has worked with young people to develop their creative expression of environmental changes in the Anthropocene. She heads the Green Sanctuary Committee of the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Albany, and since this past winter, she has joined up with activists worldwide to support the mission of Extinction Rebellion, a movement of nonviolent direct action addressing the imminence of anthropogenic climate change.
Her personal work includes poetry and stories focused on the internal lives of everyday people, particularly women, as they navigate power structures in late capitalism and search for portals to spiritual freedom.
SHERI BAUER
Vocalist, pianist, and educator, Sheri Bauer, began her academic studies as a student of the piano at the Hartt School of Music and Brooklyn Conservatory. She joined the village music scene originally as a pianist, performing and recording the works of modern American composers. Her university piano mentors were John Cobb and Doris Hays.
To further a passion for American song, Sheri later took advanced studies in voice, folk music research, and Kodaly music at the Hartt School of Music, the Westminster Choir College, Shenandoah University, and with composer and arranger, Alice Parker. Sheri has studied both jazz and classical voice with Anne Turner, Jay Clayton, and Jeannette LoVetri via "Somatic Voicework™ The LoVetri Method" workshops. She has accompanied and sung with Albany’s premiere choral group, Albany Pro Musica and has taught singing, music history, chorus, and led community sings in numerous and varied educational settings.
Currently she is working with activist, John Amidon to amplify the voices of peace.
TERRI ROBEN
Terri Roben is a veteran singer/songwriter from the New York Capital District. She has performed in restaurants, bars, festivals, farmer's markets, cafes, rallies, picket lines, environmental fairs, demonstrations, libraries, schools, weddings, parties and select benefits. She plays guitar, banjo, ukelele, and mountain dulcimer. She has produced three recordings, "Terri and Maria", with Maria Caccavo; "Riverwalk & Other Songs" a cd of original children's music; and "The Path We Make", a cd of mostly original songs, featuring accompaniment by The Ramblin Jug Stompers, Sten Isachsen and Gail Smallwood. She has taught and performed in various schools and family programs and developed after-school and library programs for elementary school-age children. She also plays in a trio, "Dangerous On Decaf", performing jug band, rockabilly, folk, blues, pop and Latin music. Roben/Kosek Jazz & Blues is her latest preoccupation and she is thrilled to play with fab guitarist Mary Ann Kosek!
TARIK SHAH
Shah began learning to play double bass at age twelve and went on to study with Slam Stewart.[2] In 1985, Shah toured across Europe with Betty Carter and worked with Ahmad Jamal, Abbey Lincoln, Ron Burton and Art Taylor after his return. Shah later played with the Duke Ellington Orchestraalongside Red Rodney, Roland Hanna, Harold Vick and Dr. Lonnie Smith.[3] He also performed regularly at clubs like St. Nick's Pubin Manhattan and worked with Vanessa Rubin(Pastiche, 1993) and the World Saxophone Quartet (Breath of Life, 1992).
Shah's other passion is martial arts and he has attained the level of Master in karate.
MELISSA TUCKEY
Melissa Tuckey is poet, editor, teacher, writer and cultural activist. She's author of two poetry collections, Tenuous Chapel and Rope as Witness. She most recently edited Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, a ground-breaking book of poetry that looks at connections between social justice and the environment from diverse cultural perspectives. The book pushes back at western colonizing notions of wilderness as a place outside of human habitation and lifts up an environmental justice perspective of nature as place where we "live, work, play and pray."
Tuckey is co-founder of Split This Rock, a national literary organization that supports social justice poetry with workshops, readings, and a bi-annual conference in Washington, DC, and also is Emeritus Fellow at the Black Earth Institute, an artistic community dedicated to “the interconnectedness of all living beings and this earth we share.”
Melissa Tuckey lives in Ithaca, NY where she grows and enormous garden, teaches poetry workshops, and serves as Tompkins County Poet Laureate.
To read more about her work, visit her website at: melissatuckey.net
KAREN MALPEDE
Karen Malpede is an ecofeminist playwright/director of 19 plays, and co-founder of Theater Three Collaborative. Karen worked with victims and survivors of 9/11, co-created the public ritual “Iraq: Naming the Dead” in the graveyard of the historic St Marks Church on the Bowery, wrote the docudrama “Iraq: Speaking of War”, and the plays “Prophecy” about the costs of wars to veterans and civilians and “Another Life” about the US torture program.
Her newest play, a cli-fi futurist fable for the climate crisis is Other Than We, will premiere at La Mama, Nov. 21-Dec. 1, 2019. She is author of Plays in Time: The Beekeeper's Daughter, Prophecy, Another Life, Extreme Whether, editor of Acts of War: Iraq & Afghanistan in Seven Plays. Her plays and essays are published in The Kenyon Review, Dark Matter: Women Witnessing, Torture Magazine, Howlround, and elsewhere. McKnight National Playwrights Fellow. "One of America's most prominent political playwrights," Marvin Carson.
GEORGE BARTENIEFF
George Bartenieff's career in the theater spans 72 years, on Broadway, off, off-off, and in seminal productions with The Living Theater ("The Brig"), Bread & Puppet Theater, Mabou Mines, the Public Theater. He was co-founder of Theater for the New City. He also produced for three years, 1992-'94, a national Eco-Festival of new plays, communal rituals and theater works. He is co-founder of Theater Three Collaborative, where he has collaborated and starred in 11 original productions, including the one-person, I Will Bear Witness. Winner of 4 Obie Awards for Acting and Producing, Drama Desk for Acting. "A national treasure." Elinor Fuchs.