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Dancing Rabbit's Board helps provide guidance to the group on crucial issues, as well as volunteers on various projects, such as research, publicity, networking, etc. Here's a little bit of information about the current board members.

Jacob Corvidae
Jacob is a former member of Dancing Rabbit and Skyhouse and has served on the board since 1997. He currently oversees Dancing Rabbit's land management efforts from afar. A native of Michigan (and graduate of Kalamazoo College), he is committed to midwestern environmental issues. He lives in Detroit, where he is working to develop an urban ecovillage as part of the Adamah project. His partner, Timothy Jean, is also a former DR member, although their daughter, Indigo, has sadly missed out on that distinction so far.

While Jacob lived at Dancing Rabbit he also wrote (sporadically) a series of public journal entries called The Sedentary Travelogues. He also wrote a column called Eco To Go for our March Hare newsletter about taking the ecovillage lifestyle to the city .

David Courard-Hauri
David has been involved in the development of DR ever since the early "concept" days, when "involvement" constituted lying on a hill with Cecil and wondering if they'd be cold. He will be remembered by history (fondly or not) as the guy who first drew the little bunny-under-the-moon logo. Life choices took him in a different direction, and he now teaches Envrionmental Science and Policy at Drake University in Des Moines (work web page). He is married to free-lance technical editor Frederique (also an early conceptualizer in DR), and they have two children: Kayleigh and Julianna (home web page). After his Doctorate in Physical Chemistry, David headed back to school for a Masters in Public Affairs in an attempt to connect his science and policy interests. David's current research is generally in the areas of climate dynamics and economic descision-making systems. Other than his family, he is most proud of his prolific cherry trees and has high hopes for his recently planted currant/elderberry hedge.

Alyson Ewald
Alyson Ewald is one of Dancing Rabbit's newest board members. A current member of DR and Skyhouse, she comes to us from many years of living and working with nonprofit organizations in Eastern Europe. After receiving a BA in English from Bates College, she moved to Russia in 1991 to teach English and study Russian. Over the following nine years she lived and worked with groups in Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, and Croatia, organizing educational exchanges, creating activist training programs, blockading nuclear power plant construction sites, playing percussion while wearing a jester costume and walking on stilts, and working to form a land-based sustainable international activist community. She returned to the US at the end of 1999. In Missouri she spends her time building Skyhouse, helping to raise money for the FIC and DR, swimming in the pond, making sure the jam gets made, and taking out the garbage. She continues consulting for a former employer, the Sacred Earth Network, which means she gets to return to Russia once in a while to help out her environmental activist friends and to ride those great big long-distance trains.

Jess Mund
Jess (aka Sol) is a former member of Dancing Rabbit and Skyhouse. She has served on the board since early 2004. Jess graduated in 1998 from Bowdoin College in Maine with a B.A. in Environmental Studies and Philosophy. She spent 5 very transformative years in Rutledge, Missouri (1999 - 2004) half of which she spent at DR and half of which she spent at nearby Sandhill Farm. Jess prides herself on having intimate knowledge of the often rustic (but charming!) living conditions at DR, where she had the opportunity to reside in her tent, the trailer, the timber-frame, the outdoor kitchen, her tipi and Kalen's casa. As the mother of Skyler (3), she is excited about seeing DR make the transition to having children a part of the community.

Currently Jess is living in Columbia, MO where she is doing her best to spread the word about Dancing Rabbit to the local progressive community. Starting in June 2005 Jess will be pursuing a Master's in Oriental Medicine (Chinese acupuncture & herbology) in Asheville, NC. She aspires to live in a *finished* strawbale home and have a clinical practice in an ecovillage someday!


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