Meet the Calling the Circle Foundation Board
Roq Gareau: I'm honored to serve on the CTCF board and look forward to sharing the profound gifts that working in circle has to offer the world. In my work at a federal enforcement agency, I notice what a powerful tool the circle is for breaking up entrenched top down structures and offering a beautiful, stable and effective form for rich, generative conversations to occur. I have hosted circles here in my community, in the Navajo community in New Mexico and Arizona (through the Berkana Institute) and in my work with government. I live on Bowen Island with my wife and two children.
Firehawk Hulin: I was called to be on the CTCF board by the dream of creating a visual record of those who have carried Circle in many different contexts as a gift for future generations of Circle Carriers. My own tradition comes from the EHAMA lineage, which is one of the threads of Earth Wisdom from the indigenous peoples of the Americas. The first time I sat in circle at the ceremonial fire with my teachers, WindEagle and RainbowHawk, I knew that I had found my path for the rest of my days. My passion is to bring the voice of our Mother, the Earth to all the tables of human endeavor. May the work of this board help to bring this about.
Sarah MacDougall, Ed.D., president of Calling the Circle Board, has been a board member for ten years. Circle is Sarah's passion. Since sitting in her first circle in 1993, she has practiced circle process in her professional and personal life. A former high school science teacher, Sarah earned a doctorate in educational leadership and change in 2005. Her dissertation is an ethnographic study of PeerSpirit circle as transformative process. There is a pressing need for humans to listen to one another, collaboratively create solutions, and take action to assure a more equitable and just world. Circle provides a way to do this.
Bonnie Marsh grew up in Fort Madison, Iowa and completed her undergraduate studies at Marycrest College in Davenport, Iowa. Her career spanned some forty-five years as she progressed from nurse to college nursing instructor, hospital Education Director to Hospital Administrator, and health system Executive Director of Quality to Corporate Senior Vice President, Strategic Development, of one of Minnesota's largest healthcare systems. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing, Master of Science degree in Medical-Surgical Nursing and Anthropology (University of Minnesota), and a Master of Health Services Administration degree (University of Minnesota).
Dan Walker currently acts as Secretary and Treasurer of Calling the Circle Foundation. He is a finance lawyer living on Whidbey Island who has served on various boards in his prior home of Connecticut, where his charitable work focused on legal aid, youth work, and transition of released prisoners to civil society. Dan was an infantry lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps before beginning his legal career over 30 years ago. He is married to Wendy Dion, a nationally respected yoga teacher and owner of the Yoga Lodge in Greenbank, Washington.