Joan M. Cichon is a doctoral student in Women’s Spirituality at the California Institute of Integral Studies with a special interest in archaeomythology and the Goddess civilization of Bronze Age Crete.
Anne Key is adjunct faculty in Women’s Studies and Religious Studies at the College of Southern Nevada. She is a graduate of the Women’s Spirituality Program of California Institute of Integral Studies where her investigations centered on Mesoamerica. Co-founder of Goddess Institute Publishing, Dr. Key was Priestess of the Temple of Goddess Spirituality Dedicated to Sekhmet, located in Nevada, from 2004-2007; her memoir is in-process. She is co-editor of The Heart of the Sun: An Anthology in Exaltation of Sekhmetto be published in 2010. Anne resides in Hood River, Oregon with her husband, his four cats and her snake.
Patricia Monaghan is associate professor of interdisiplinary studies at DePaul University in Chicago. She is the author of four books of poetry and more than a dozen nonfiction books including The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog: The Landscape of Celtic Myth and Legend and The Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines. Her current work emphasizes ecofeminist spirituality.
Renee Rabb is an ordained priestess in the Re-formed Congregation of the Goddess and a faculty member of the Women’s Thealogical Institute (WTI). Her areas of interest include the history of magic. Her most recent intensive class for the WTI was on Cosmology and Belief.
Sid Reger is an artist and independent scholar with a research interest in the Ice Age and Neolithic art and design. She holds an Ed. D. from Indiana University, and is on the faculty of the Women’s Thealogical Institute, where she teaches courses on goddess mythology and symbolism. She lives and works in western Pennsylvania, with one cat and a temple dog in training.
Denise St. Arnault is an associate professor in nursing and anthropology at Michigan State University. Her research interests include the impact of culture on the experience of distress and support seeking, particularly in Japanese and Native American societies. She is also interested in goddesses of Greece, Anatolia, and East Asia.
Dawn Work-MaKinne is a doctoral student at The Union Institute in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences with a concentration in Women’s Studies in Religion. She is currently working on her dissertation, entitled, Deity in Sisterhood: The Collective Female Sacred in Germanic Europe. She is a 2002 graduate of the Women’s Thealogical Institute.
