Mohamed Defaa
Mohamed Defaa is certified by the International Center for Educational and Cultural Consulting in Lyon, France.
Joseph Gainza
In addition to teaching grade school in Brooklyn and Vermont, Joseph has been a community organizer/outreach worker for an anti-poverty agency, served as advocacy director for the rights of people with disabilities, and a program director and instructor of adults at Woodbury College.
Bill Mares
Bill Mares has been a reporter-photographer, state legislator and high school teacher. He is author or co-author of 17 books on a range of topics.
Philip Crossman
Philip Crossman has spent most of his life teaching the humanities to high school and college students. His interest in Middle Eastern history was sparked by several years he spent working in Jerusalem.
Jack Mayer
Jack Mayer, a Vermont writer and pediatrician, is the author of numerous short stories, poems, essays, and two award-winning books.
William Edelglass
William Edelglass is Director of Studies at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies and Associate Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at Emerson College.
Tim Weed
Tim is an award-winning novelist and lecturer who teaches at GrubStreet in Boston and Western Connecticut State University.
Rob Mermin
Rob trained in Paris in 1969 with mentor Marcel Marceau, and founded Vermont’s award-winning youth circus company Circus Smirkus.
Rowly Brucken
Rowly is a professor of history at Norwich University specializing in international human rights law and Cold War foreign policy.
Rick Winston
Rick has taught film history at Burlington College, Community College of Vermont, Goddard College, and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
