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Elizabeth is a nationally recognized interdisciplinary artist, author and lecturer on visual thinking, creativity and archetypes in media. She received her Ph.D. in the Mythological Studies Program at Pacifica and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington. Her artwork is widely exhibited and is held in numerous public and private collections. It has also appeared on the covers of several international myth and depth psychology journals and books, including all eight issues of Mythosphere.


Dr. Jesica Siham Fernández is a transdisciplinary scholar, blurring disciplinary boundaries between social, community and liberation psychology, Critical Race & Ethnics Studies, especifical Latinx Studies, and Youth Studies. She is the author of the forthcoming book, "Growing Up Latinx: Coming of Age in a Time of Contested Citizenship" (New York University Press, 2022).


Shoshana Fershtman, JD, PhD, is a Jungian analyst and psychologist in Sonoma County, California, and the author of The Mystical Exodus in Jungian Perspective: Transforming Trauma and the Wellsprings of Renewal. Shoshana is a member analyst and teaches at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. She served as core faculty in graduate psychology programs at both Sonoma State University and Meridian University. She has lectured widely on Jewish myth and mysticism, transgenerational trauma, and the Sacred Feminine. She also worked as an attorney advocate for environmental, social and racial justice and indigenous rights.


David Fetterman, Ph.D., is an evaluator who founded empowerment evaluation. Author of Empowerment Evaluation: Knowledge and Tools for Self-assessment, Evaluation Capacity Building, and Accountability; and Ethnography: Step by Step.


Dr. Natasha Filippides is a Clinical Psychologist, Life Coach, Guest Speaker, Educator, and Equine Assisted Mental Health Professional. She is an alumni of Pacifica Graduate Institute and approaches her work from the office to the arena through a depth psychological lens. Dr. Natasha is the founder of Depth Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (DEAP) and currently provides consultation and training for clinicians in the field. As a community activist and advocate she actively volunteers her time and expertise in support of numerous causes and is involved with several non-profit organizations.


Carolyn is a writer, performer and cultural geographer. As a professor in Geography at the University of Kentucky, she is deeply interested in issues related to identity, difference, creativity, and resilience. In particular, she explores how issues of difference impacts participation in decision-making processes designed to address environmental issues. More broadly she likes to trouble our theoretical and methodological edges that shape knowledge production and determine whose knowledge counts.


Matthew is a licensed psychologist with a private practice in Sherman Oaks, California. His depth psychological practice incorporates Jungian analytic, psychoanalytic, existential, and mindfulness-based approaches. Both his dissertation (The Evocative Moment: A Study in Depth Psychological Poetics) and Master's thesis (Eclipse: Illuminating the Tragic Shadow of the Puer Aeternus) were part of a journey, and a calling, to make a home for theory, phenomenology, and poetry in depth psychological inquiry. At heart, his research embraces subtle, often elusive, experiences, and the via poetica that may give them voice and form.


Stephen serves as Director of Faculty Development at Trident University International. Dr. Fitzgerald has published books on decision- making and organizational models (Capstone Publishing, UK), numerous book chapters, journal articles, and conference proceedings, and co-edited a special issue of the AI Practitioner.


Sukey has been on the faculty of Pacifica since 2000 and is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who practices Jungian-based psychotherapy in her private practice in Santa Barbara. She brings her creative background in film and writing to her current work as an educator at Pacifica.


Chantal Noa Forbes, PhD, is a transdisciplinary scholar, storyteller, and educator at the intersection of ecology, spirituality, and culture. Her work explores the environmental significance of Indigenous and decolonial perspectives on multispecies ontology, more-than-human personhood, and cultural sovereignty. Chantal graduated with a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Religion from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), where she applied decolonial approaches to the narrative-based analysis of environmental engagement – focused on the ontological ambiguity of human-animal relationships in hunter-gatherer cosmology in Southern Africa.


Cynthia Fredericksen received her Master’s in Counseling Psychology degree from Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2012. She is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Santa Barbara California where she has a private practice. Cynthia is certified as an Ecotherapist and also certified in CBT-I to treat insomnia. Cynthia is adjunct faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute teaching in the Counseling Psychology department.