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Lucie DuFresne holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies, and teaches in the Sociology and Classics & Religious Studies Departments at the University of Ottawa, where she focuses on the history of magic, witchfraft and occult traditions as well as shamanism and Aboriginal studies. In addition, she...

Trained in dance, theatre, costuming, anthropology and religious studies, Lucie has always been fascinated by ritual, drama and the enactment of meaningful action. She has also been bemused by the forms gender takes on in the service of society, and has explored oriental dance, women's erotica, neo-paganism, wicca and goddess worship.

Bobbie Grennier holds a B.A. in Speech Communications with Minors in English and History, plus a Clear Teaching Credential in the state of California. She is a certified Master Herbalist and Hypnotherapist. She works as an Internet Strategist.

In the 1990's she created a group called Church of the Goddess in Santa Cruz, California where she taught basic Wicca, though she herself followed the Dianic Tradition. She produced annual Yule Festivals and an intensive event called Faery Camp, which was the first of its kind. It was attended by Anodea Judith, Shekihinah Mountainwater and Alison Harlow.

Bobbie has studied Celtic Mythology and Herbalism with Kisma Stepanich, author of the Faery Wicca books and tarot. She was ordained as an Ollamh in the Faery Faith Tradition and became a member of Fellowship of Isis. In 2010, Bobbie was ordained as the Dianic Tradition's first Summoner, whose responsibilities are centered on producing large women-based events for the Women's Spirituality Forum.

Deborah J. Grenn, Ph.D. is founder and director of The Lilith Institute (1997) and Voice of the Spirit (1998), a San Francisco Bay Area women's spirituality/study circle and lecture series. She is co-director and core faculty in the Women's Spirituality MA Program at Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, California, and was founding kohenet/priestess of Mishkan Shekhinah (2007), a movable sanctuary honoring the Sacred Feminine in all spiritual traditions (whose activities have now been folded into her other work.)

Dianne E. Jennett, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Women's Spirituality M.A. program, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, and Research Faculty at California Institute of Integral Studies and Sonoma State University. She is one of four co-authors of the spiritually-based qualitative research method, Organic Inquiry, first published by Sage in Transpersonal Research Methods in the Social Sciences.

Dianne holds a Ph.D. in Integral Studies with a concentration in Women's Spirituality, and an M.A. in Transpersonal Psychology.

Dianne's research interests are women's rituals in South India, women's psycho-spiritual development, and qualitative research methods. Her passionate love for Kerala, India takes her there almost every year where she researches and participates in community rituals to the goddess Bhagavathi. Her research has been published in the U.S., Europe and India .

Nané's working background in Canadian lay midwifery has contributed to her research interests in birth-giving experiences and practices, and led her to explore the female/feminine imaginary and poetics of birth that can inform and transform larger social, cultural and spiritual knowledge and ways of being. A visual artist working in photography and mixed media textiles, performance and video, Nané uses mixed media artwork to create body parables across generative spheres of the maternal/birthing body, culture and nature. Currently, her arts-based dissertation research combines artistic practice with qualitative, narrative and documentary research approaches as she co-explores the educational gestare (from 'in the womb'/ 'to carry'), effects and impact of Women's Spirituality through study of the lived experiences of women who are student alumni or faculty within the accredited Women's Spirituality graduate degree program from which she graduated.

Rosmarinus Stehlik is a DIANIC WITCH with ECLECTIC, SOLITARY Roots~ A Multi-disciplinary ARTIST, Musician and Dancer of SOUND & VISION; with Magyar Romany & Siciliani Strega heritage. She hails from a strong Pagan background, defined by deep experience with Tarot, Oneiromancy, Healing work with herbs and stones, Ritual Practice and Creation, and continued Cosmick Studies with Astrology.

Viewing the entirety of Life as a Living Ceremony of Art, Rosmarinus Stehlik, better known as Lady Ro among her Lunar Kindred, is the visionary creatrix behind WYRDMAGICK.COM***TM.

Ghislaine Yergeau, B.A. (Lakehead University, 1982), B.Ed. (Lakehead University, 1983), M.A. (UQAM, 1988), is originally from Northern Québec. She lives part of the year in the Ottawa-Gatineau area to be close to her very large family, and the rest of the time in Costa Rica, which is where her heart has taken root.

Ghislaine "Eclecta" Yergeau is a true eclectic. For decades, her life has been fuelled by her intense interest and passion for learning, travel, world cultures and religions, human rights, the environment, languages, women's spirituality, and sisterhood. Her travels have taken her to many parts of the globe and she's fortunate and thankful to have family and friends on every continent. Her worklife is just as multi-faceted. Even while teaching and working as a consultant with various school boards and the Ministry of Education, Ghislaine keeps busy doing translations, simultaneous interpretation, writing, editing, and pastoral care. Most recently, she has translated Z. Budapest's Holy Book of Women's Mysteries into French.