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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
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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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