Sessions

Return to Evergreen presents three days of engaging programming in the following formats:

• Seminars are discussion-based forums facilitated by faculty members and/or distinguished alumni – a taste of the authentic Evergreen experience.
• Fishbowl Seminars are audience-observed seminars by experts in a particular field.
• Panels are moderated Q&A sessions with distinguished alumni connected by a theme.
• Workshops are interactive classes in which participants take a hands-on approach with the material.

You’ll be able to choose from over 25 unique sessions across four different time slots. Dip into a seminar on sustainable food production, a panel on animation, a lecture about the future of education and much more. Just like the Evergreen catalogue, the possibilities are wide ranging and rich!

In the tables below, facilitator names are listed in bold.

• Session 1: Friday, May 18, 1:00 - 3:00 pm
• Session 2: Saturday, May 19, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
• Session 3: Saturday, May 19, 2:00 - 4:00 pm
• Session 4: Sunday, May 20, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm

Session 1: Friday, May 18, 1:00–3:00 pm

Fishbowl Seminar: It’s About How We Treat Each Other –Willi Unsoeld
Location: Lecture Hall 3
Rita Pougiales '72, Faculty Jeff Antonelis-Lapp, Faculty Jeff Casebolt, '85 Donna Griffin, '02, Small Business Owner Ken Shulman '79, Executive Director, Lambert House Krag Unsoeld '80, Juvenile Detention School Teacher, CHOICE High School
Panel: Audio Innovators: Greeners in the Music Business
Location: Lecture Hall 1
Peter Randlette '80, Head of Electronic Media Steve Fisk '82, Music Producer Paul Goldberg '91, Owner, Pure Audio Stuart Hallerman '86, Audio Producer, Avast! Recording Sean Horton '99, Founding Director & Curator, Decibel Festival, and Director of Music Services, PlayNetwork Heather Perkins '79, Sound Designer, Composer & Mad Scientist, WaterDog Studio & Land-O-Newts! Records Steve Peters '85, Sound Artist, Composer, Producer and Director, Nonsequitor/Wayward Music Series Terry Setter, Faculty
Panel: Eating Our Way to a Better Future
Location: Seminar II, Room D1105
Sarah Rocker, Advisor, Flaming Eggplant Café, The Evergreen State College Lindsey Bolger '91, Director of Coffee Sourcing and Relationships, Green Mountain Coffee Leslie Hatfield '04, Senior Editor, Ecocentric Blog, GRACE Foundation Martha Rosemeyer, Faculty Ben Scholtz '92, Owner, Mallard Ice Cream Lizzy Rieke '12, Flaming Eggplant Café, The Evergreen State College
Workshop: Return to Your Center: Hatha and Nidra Yoga Workshop
Location: College Recreation Center, Room 314
Cynthia Kennedy, Faculty Sarah Williams, Faculty
Workshop: Evergreen Makes a Difference: Community Service at Garden Raised Bounty (GRuB)
Location: Meet at Library Bus Loop at 12:45
Ellen Shortt-Sanchez '92, MPA '10, Director, Center for Community Based Learning and Action (CCBLA) at The Evergreen State College
Presentation: Breaking New Ground: The History of Evergreen's Longhouse
Location: Longhouse, Room 1007A
Laura Grabhorn, Assistant Director, Longhouse, The Evergreen State College Colleen Jollie '77, MPA '92
Seminar: Infecting Young Minds with Phage
Location: Lab I, Room 2033
Betty Kutter, Faculty Emerita Kyobi Skutt-Kakaria '12, Student Researcher, Evergreen Phage Biology Lab Patrick Paddison '96, Geneticist, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seminar: Leveraging Financial Resources for the Greater Good
Location: Seminar II, Room D2107	Advance Reading
Larry Geri, Faculty Rick Oldenburg '08, Principal, Oldenburg & Associates Nathaniel James '04, Social Sector Consultant, Adventures in New Giving
Seminar: The Future of Liberal Democracy
Location: Seminar II, Room D2109
Tom Rainey, Faculty Emeritus Ed Bergh, Teacher, Yelm High School Eli Jacobsen '12, Student

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Session 2: Saturday, May 19, 10:00 am–12:00 pm

Fishbowl Seminar: The State of the Environmental Movement in 2012
Location: Lecture Hall 1
Oscar Soule, Faculty Emeritus Ben Alexander '82, Co-owner, Sound Native Plants Mike Denoyer '75, President, Grand Canyon Expeditions Company Esther Lev '78, Executive Director, The Wetlands Conservancy Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner '91, Executive Director/CEO and Co-founder, MomsRising Ken Tabbutt, Faculty Dan Tishman '77, Chairman & CEO, Tishman Construction Corporation Ed Zuckerman '77, Senior Vice President for State Capacity Building, League of Conservation Voters
Panel: The New Earth: Emerging Paradigms in Forestry
Location: Lecture Hall 3
Dylan Fischer, Faculty Ian Hanna '93, Director of Business Development, Forest Stewardship Council US Kirk Hanson '95, Director of Northwest Certified Forestry, Northwest Natural Resource Group Dan Heagerty '73, Chief Strategic Officer, David Evans Enterprises, Inc.
Workshop: Marilyn Frasca’s Catch Up Journal Writing
Location: Seminar II Building, Room D1107
Marilyn Frasca, Faculty Emerita
Workshop: Sustainability in Prisons Project: Environmental Education on the Inside for the Outside
Location: Seminar II, Room D2105
Carl Elliott '09, MES '12, Conservation and Restoration Coordinator, Sustainability in Prisons Project Brittany Gallagher, MES '13, Graduate Research Fellow, Sustainability in Prisons Project
Seminar: Greener Entrepreneurs: The Role of the Creative Spark in Communities and Personal Lives
Location: Seminar II, Room D2107
Tom Anderson '73, Artist and Owner, Tom Anderson Studios Sandy Desner '78, President, DESKOBA, Inc. David Shaw, Faculty Jami Heinricher '91, Designer/Printer, The Sherwood Press Craig Ottavelli '97, Consultant, OrgSupport
Seminar: The Importance of Wild Places to the Human Condition
Location: Seminar II, Room D3107
Jeff Antonelis-Lapp, Faculty Doug Bertran, '83 Mark Rutherford '77, Owner, Wild River Guide Company Doug Scrima, '90
Seminar: Women in Global Uprisings: From the Arab Spring and the Chilean Winter to Occupy Olympia
Location: Seminar II, Room D2109
Savvina Chowdhury, Faculty Alice Nelson, Faculty Therese Saliba, Faculty
Seminar: The Next Revolution: A Convergence of Environmentalism and Economics
Location: Seminar II, Room D3109
Rob Cole, Faculty Rhys Roth '87, MES '90, Co-Founder and Director of Strategic Innovation, Climate Solutions Scott Elliott '83, CEO, MountainLogic Doug Luckerman '79, Co-Founder and General Counsel, CurrentChoice
Seminar: Stuck in the Middle With You: Aging Parents, Boomerang Children, and All I Want to Do is Retire
Location: Seminar II, Room D3105
George Freeman, Jr., Faculty Patricia Bliss-Nelson '80, President, CPA, CFA, Bliss Investment Group

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Session 3: Saturday, May 19, 2:00–4:00 pm

Fishbowl Seminar: Global Markets: Love Them or Hate Them, They Will Affect Your Life
Location: Lecture Hall 3
Tom Rainey, Faculty Emeritus Joe Dear '76, Chief Investment Officer, California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) Eli Jacobsen '12, Student Chuck Nisbet, Faculty Emeritus Brett Redfearn '87, Head of Market Structure, JP Morgan Securities Gerson Sher, Executive Vice President, United States Industry Coalition
Fishbowl Seminar: Engaging the Challenges of Public Education
Location: Lecture Hall 1
Terry Ford, Faculty Isis Albert '98, MiT '01, Dual Language Instructional Coach, Evergreen Elementary School, Shelton Wayne Au '94, MiT '96, Assistant Professor, University of Washington – Bothell Rich Coker '08, Teacher, Clover Park High School Lorri DeFoor '09, Teacher, Oakville Middle and High School Laura Handy-Nimick '03, MiT '05, Teacher, Spanaway Junior High School David Hunter '09, MiT '11, Teacher, Bellevue Big Picture School Darice Johnson '94, MiT '96, Assistant Principal, Cascade Middle School Lee Lambert '87, President, Shoreline Community College Ervanna Little Eagle '02, MiT '04, Teacher, Marysville School District Autumn Sheldon '00, MiT '05, Teacher, Pioneer Elementary School John Stocks '81, Executive Director, National Education Association
Workshop: Jazz Ensemble Discussion and Jam Session
Location: Seminar II, Room C1105
Cary Black, Bassist Grace Huerta, Faculty Joe Tougas '84, Faculty Charlie Silver '75, Owner, Marina Sailing Newport Beach Charlie Teske, Faculty Emeritus
Workshop: The Entrepreneurial Life or “What I Can Tell You Now that I Wish I’d Known Then”
Location: Seminar II, Room D1107
Scott Morgan, MPA '09, Director of Sustainability, The Evergreen State College Abigail Blue '12, Sustainable Entrepreneurship Intern and Evergreen Student Will Bennett '06, MPA '10 Terry Billedeaux '73, Vice President, Cascade Coil Defense Systems Bob McIntosh '85, Faculty Craig Ottavelli '97, Consultant, OrgSupport Cathy Rivers '77, President, Big Horse Dreams, Inc Tom Wolf '83, President, T. Wolf Photography, Inc. & mtg Capital, LLC
Seminar: How Far Have We Come in 40 Years? Women, Men, Work and Family
Location: Seminar II, Room D3105	Advance Reading:by Coontz and Rowe-Finkbeiner
Stephanie Coontz, Faculty Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner '91, Executive Director/CEO and Co-founder, MomsRising
Seminar: Civil Liberties Under Fire
Location: Seminar II, Room D3109	Advance Reading
Steve Niva, Faculty Barbara Laners, Faculty Jack Van Valkenburgh '77, Attorney/Owner, Van Valkenburgh Law, PLLC Rob Apgood '76, Constitutional Law and Intellectual Property Attorney, CarpeLaw PLLC Scott Kauffman '80, Staff Attorney, California Appellate Project
Seminar: The History of the 99% in the Long Twentieth Century
Location: Seminar II, Room D3107
Matthew Jacobson '81, Professor of American Studies and History, Yale University Dan Leahy, Retired Faculty
Seminar: Altered States Greener Style: Consciousness, Dreams and Spirituality
Location: Seminar II, Room D2107
Heesoon Jun, Faculty Mimi Pettibone '89, Dream Interpretation & Education, www.TheDreamDetective.com  Adam Sher '02, Program Manager, Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center

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Session 4: Sunday, May 20, 10:30 am–12:30 pm

Fishbowl Seminar: Truth Amid the Madness: Telling the Stories that Matter in a Media Crazed World
Location: Lecture Hall 1
Peter Bacho, Faculty Thomas Buell '81, Public Affairs Specialist & Lead Partner, Verso Partners: Communications Erin Donovan '93, Documentary Filmmaker, A Million Movies A Minute Jamala Henderson '98, Producer, KUOW Jaime Méndez '95, News Anchor, Univision Seattle Sandy Smolan '75, Producer/Director, Luminous Content Laurel Spellman Smith '97, Documentary Filmmaker, Co-Producer & Director, Oil & Water
Panel: The Renaissance of American Agriculture
Location: Lecture Hall 3
David Muehleisen, Faculty Melissa Barker '00, Organic Farm Instructional Technician, The Evergreen State College, Owner/Operator Lincoln Creek Ranch Steve (Bear) Bishop, Owner, Alpen Fire Cider Brian Boland '11, Serendipity Farms Chris Llewellyn '04, Owner Serendipity Farms Annie Salafky '91, Helsing Junctions Farms
Workshop: Exploring Evergreen's 1000 Acre Wood
Location: Meet at Clock Tower
Steve Herman, Faculty Emeritus
Seminar: Global Health: Compassion, Access and Caring for Our Citizens
Location: Seminar II, Room D2107	Advance Reading
Nancy Anderson, Faculty Cheryl Simrell King, Faculty Eric Stein, Faculty
Seminar: James Joyce and the Irish Otherworld
Location: Seminar II, Room D2109	Advance Reading
Sean Williams, Faculty
Seminar: Blending Academic and Movement-based Experiences at Evergreen
Location: Seminar II, Room D3109
John Purtteman '85, Head Men's Soccer Coach, The Evergreen State College Julian Genette '08, Admissions Counselor, The Evergreen State College Cynthia Kennedy, Faculty Antonio McClinon '08, Assistant Men's Basketball Coach, Saint Martin's University Kabby Mitchell, Faculty

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