Patricia
S. Bade, known as “Keeper
of the Spirit” and “The Owl Woman”, is a storyteller
whose ancestors are Scotch/Irish and Penobscot (Native Americans
in what is now called northern Maine). Her presentations for adults
and children center on teachings about our connectedness to Mother
Earth and “all our relations”. Raised in rural Maine,
Pat has a passion for wildlife and the woods, drumming, singing
in native tongue, and working with children and animals. A retired
elementary school teacher of 25 years, she has received both the
Kennedy Library Award for Teaching, and The Massachusetts Audubon
Teacher of the Year Award. Pat holds a B.S. in Education and American
History from Salem State College, and after continuing her education
at Oklahoma State University she became an ordained minister in
1997 to the Congregational Bible Church/Native American Church.
The mother of two and grandmother of five, she now devotes much
of her time to rehabilitating injured hawks and owls in Hamilton
MA where she currently resides with her soulmate of 36 years.
Connie
Chow is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Simmons College
in Boston MA where she teaches microbiology and general biology.
As a member of the Honors program faculty, she uses a case-based
approach to put first-year biology courses in context, and
also teaches an interdisciplinary HIV/AIDS course. Dr. Chow
obtained
her Ph.D. through the Program in Virology in the Division of
Medical Sciences at Harvard University. She is currently pursuing
her postdoctoral
research at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is the
Co-Principal Investigator of a National Science Foundation
funded program
which targets middle school girls and boys in urban schools
and helps
break down barriers to entry into professions in science and
technology. Dr. Chow is engaged in promoting women’s
rights and human rights in both the USA and Afghanistan through
Amnesty International.
She is the co-founder of the Massachusetts CEDAW* Project (*the
UN’s Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
Against Women), a research and action collaborative that seeks
to bring international human rights standards into local contexts.
Karen Clickner served
as a primary advisor for the development of the “Everyone is Beautiful” CDs and Book. Trained
in the USA, Spain, and Australia, Karen is A Naturopath, as well
as licensed in Massage, Myofascial, Neuromuscular, Nutrition, Colon,
and Practical Herbal Therapies. She has taught throughout the USA
and Europe, and was “The Herbal Advisor” which aired
on BBC Radio in London and Geneva, discussing herbal options for
illness. Karen’s articles have been featured
in various publications including AMTA Journals. Her
latest projects
include her personalized
treatment approach known as Whole Body Therapy and
a book of philosophy and therapy for the body to be
published
in 2006. Karen is the
owner of Conscious Body Natural
Medicine, a holistic clinic in both Brookline MA and Holden MA.
Gwendolyn
Lee-Dukes received her Medical Degree from the University
of Kansas and has been Board Certified in both Adult as well
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for over 17 years. She is licensed
in Texas and Kansas and a member of the American Academy of Child
and Adolescent Psychiatry as well as the Harris County Medical
Society. Dr. Lee-Dukes has held a variety of clinical positions
including Staff Psychiatrist for the Daybreak Community Health
Center in Houston TX (where she provided psychiatric services
to the homeless and to children of drug addicted parents); Staff
Psychiatrist for Krause Children’s Residential Treatment
Center in Katy TX (providing care for youngsters ages 12-17 years;
and Medical Director for other managed care organizations in
Tampa FL and Houston TX. She is currently Medical Director of
the Houston office of APS Healthcare, INC where she oversees
the quality initiatives of their Texas-based clients. Her tasks
include spearheading a Best Clinical Practice initiative on the
treatment of Adolescents with serious mental health disorders
(depression), and handling second level retrospective reviews
for APS’s various service centers throughout the USA. In
addition, Dr. Lee-Dukes is a Staff Psychiatrist at the University
of Houston’s Student Health Center where she provides psychiatric
evaluations, therapy, and medication management for students.
She has held a variety of teaching positions and is currently
a Clincal Assistant Professor in Psychiatry for the University
of Texas’s Health Science Center at Houston as well as
the Medical Branch in Galveston TX.
Donnell La Roque Patterson is
the Program Director of the Roland Hayes School of Music,
a public performing
arts
(music) school
located in Boston’s Roxbury, Massachusetts. (Students from
the Roland Hayes School are featured as speakers, artists, writers,
and consultants in the “Everyone is Beautiful” CDs
and Book.) Mr. Patterson is a lecturer in music,
faculty of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University,
where he is also Director of
the Tufts University Third Day Gospel Choir. In addition,
he is the Director of Music and organist at the St.
Paul AME Church in
Cambridge MA, is the music accompanist for the Cambridge
Community Chorus, and a performer in the professional
gospel ensemble Patterson
Chorale. From 1982-2002, Mr. Patterson was an elementary
and high school music educator in the Cambridge MA
Public Schools, where
he also served as Acting Assistant Director of Music.
Mr. Patterson earned his music degrees from the New
England Conservatory (piano)
and the University of South Florida (choral conducting),
with postgraduate work in music education and administration
at Florida State University.
He received a second masters degree in Technology
in Education from Harvard University and is currently
pursuing a doctorate at
Lesley University in Educational Studies.
Cynthia
Price-Glynn grew up in Wichita Kansas. She has a BA from Pomona
College (visual arts), BM from
University of Kansas (harp performance), and an MM from New England
Conservatory (harp performance). For many years she was a freelance
musician in Boston playing in all the major orchestras and musical
theaters, and for touring Broadway shows and dance companies.
She has been Principal and Solo Harpist with Boston Ballet since
1976,
and since 1986 on the faculty of The Boston Conservatory, teaching
harp, chamber music, pedagogy, and career skills. Her recordings
include the award-winning “Lullabies” and “Musical
Backgrounds”, two CDs with the highly acclaimed Latin American
ensemble ANDANZAS, and three CDs with the Boston Ballet Orchestra.
Beginning in the late 1980s, Cynthia researched, wrote, directed,
and produced audio-programs which have been supported by The
American Truths Foundation, Inc. since 2002. Her collaborators
for the albums
on history and human rights include the New England Native American
Institute and the United Nations Association of Greater Boston
(see www.americantruths.com). As Founding Director of the GentleMUSES
(www.gentlemuses.org), she coordinates a consortium of harpists
who play therapeutic music at Massachusetts General Hospital in
Boston, in partnership with The Boston Conservatory. Cynthia collaborated
with the Roland Hayes School of Music (a Boston public high school)
for the “Everyone is Beautiful” CDs and Book that complement
her KindredCOLORS Exhibit (www.kindredcolors.org).
™This
EisB logo is a shortened version of our declaration that Everyone
is Beautiful
Patricia
S. Bade, known as “Keeper
of the Spirit” and “The Owl Woman”, is a storyteller
whose ancestors are Scotch/Irish and Penobscot (Native Americans
in what is now called northern Maine). Her presentations for adults
and children center on teachings about our connectedness to Mother
Earth and “all our relations”. Raised in rural Maine,
Pat has a passion for wildlife and the woods, drumming, singing
in native tongue, and working with children and animals. A retired
elementary school teacher of 25 years, she has received both the
Kennedy Library Award for Teaching, and The Massachusetts Audubon
Teacher of the Year Award. Pat holds a B.S. in Education and American
History from Salem State College, and after continuing her education
at Oklahoma State University she became an ordained minister in
1997 to the Congregational Bible Church/Native American Church.
The mother of two and grandmother of five, she now devotes much
of her time to rehabilitating injured hawks and owls in Hamilton
MA where she currently resides with her soulmate of 36 years.
Connie
Chow is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Simmons College
in Boston MA where she teaches microbiology and general biology.
As a member of the Honors program faculty, she uses a case-based
approach to put first-year biology courses in context, and
also teaches an interdisciplinary HIV/AIDS course. Dr. Chow
obtained
her Ph.D. through the Program in Virology in the Division of
Medical Sciences at Harvard University. She is currently pursuing
her postdoctoral
research at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is the
Co-Principal Investigator of a National Science Foundation
funded program
which targets middle school girls and boys in urban schools
and helps
break down barriers to entry into professions in science and
technology. Dr. Chow is engaged in promoting women’s
rights and human rights in both the USA and Afghanistan through
Amnesty International.
She is the co-founder of the Massachusetts CEDAW* Project (*the
UN’s Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
Against Women), a research and action collaborative that seeks
to bring international human rights standards into local contexts. 
Karen Clickner served
as a primary advisor for the development of the “Everyone is Beautiful” CDs and Book. Trained
in the USA, Spain, and Australia, Karen is A Naturopath, as well
as licensed in Massage, Myofascial, Neuromuscular, Nutrition, Colon,
and Practical Herbal Therapies. She has taught throughout the USA
and Europe, and was “The Herbal Advisor” which aired
on BBC Radio in London and Geneva, discussing herbal options for
illness. Karen’s articles have been featured
in various publications including AMTA Journals. Her
latest projects
include her personalized
treatment approach known as Whole Body Therapy and
a book of philosophy and therapy for the body to be
published
in 2006. Karen is the
owner of Conscious Body Natural
Medicine, a holistic clinic in both Brookline MA and Holden MA.
Gwendolyn
Lee-Dukes received her Medical Degree from the University
of Kansas and has been Board Certified in both Adult as well
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for over 17 years. She is licensed
in Texas and Kansas and a member of the American Academy of Child
and Adolescent Psychiatry as well as the Harris County Medical
Society. Dr. Lee-Dukes has held a variety of clinical positions
including Staff Psychiatrist for the Daybreak Community Health
Center in Houston TX (where she provided psychiatric services
to the homeless and to children of drug addicted parents); Staff
Psychiatrist for Krause Children’s Residential Treatment
Center in Katy TX (providing care for youngsters ages 12-17 years;
and Medical Director for other managed care organizations in
Tampa FL and Houston TX. She is currently Medical Director of
the Houston office of APS Healthcare, INC where she oversees
the quality initiatives of their Texas-based clients. Her tasks
include spearheading a Best Clinical Practice initiative on the
treatment of Adolescents with serious mental health disorders
(depression), and handling second level retrospective reviews
for APS’s various service centers throughout the USA. In
addition, Dr. Lee-Dukes is a Staff Psychiatrist at the University
of Houston’s Student Health Center where she provides psychiatric
evaluations, therapy, and medication management for students.
She has held a variety of teaching positions and is currently
a Clincal Assistant Professor in Psychiatry for the University
of Texas’s Health Science Center at Houston as well as
the Medical Branch in Galveston TX.
Donnell La Roque Patterson is
the Program Director of the Roland Hayes School of Music,
a public performing
arts
(music) school
located in Boston’s Roxbury, Massachusetts. (Students from
the Roland Hayes School are featured as speakers, artists, writers,
and consultants in the “Everyone is Beautiful” CDs
and Book.) Mr. Patterson is a lecturer in music,
faculty of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University,
where he is also Director of
the Tufts University Third Day Gospel Choir. In addition,
he is the Director of Music and organist at the St.
Paul AME Church in
Cambridge MA, is the music accompanist for the Cambridge
Community Chorus, and a performer in the professional
gospel ensemble Patterson
Chorale. From 1982-2002, Mr. Patterson was an elementary
and high school music educator in the Cambridge MA
Public Schools, where
he also served as Acting Assistant Director of Music.
Mr. Patterson earned his music degrees from the New
England Conservatory (piano)
and the University of South Florida (choral conducting),
with postgraduate work in music education and administration
at Florida State University.
He received a second masters degree in Technology
in Education from Harvard University and is currently
pursuing a doctorate at
Lesley University in Educational Studies.
Cynthia
Price-Glynn grew up in Wichita Kansas. She has a BA from Pomona
College (visual arts), BM from
University of Kansas (harp performance), and an MM from New England
Conservatory (harp performance). For many years she was a freelance
musician in Boston playing in all the major orchestras and musical
theaters, and for touring Broadway shows and dance companies.
She has been Principal and Solo Harpist with Boston Ballet since
1976,
and since 1986 on the faculty of The Boston Conservatory, teaching
harp, chamber music, pedagogy, and career skills. Her recordings
include the award-winning “Lullabies” and “Musical
Backgrounds”, two CDs with the highly acclaimed Latin American
ensemble ANDANZAS, and three CDs with the Boston Ballet Orchestra.
Beginning in the late 1980s, Cynthia researched, wrote, directed,
and produced audio-programs which have been supported by The
American Truths Foundation, Inc. since 2002. Her collaborators
for the albums
on history and human rights include the New England Native American
Institute and the United Nations Association of Greater Boston
(see www.americantruths.com). As Founding Director of the GentleMUSES
(
™This
EisB logo is a shortened version of our declaration that Everyone
is Beautiful