| JOHN SHEPARD
In my element: New Year's Day, Mississippi River
Lock & Dam #1.
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Assistant Professor |
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CGEE Assistant Director |
(651) 523-2855
jshepard@hamline.edu
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Introduction
CGEE provides me with a great outlet for my long-standing
love of wild places--especially free-flowing rivers. It also engages
my enthusiasm for creating and participating in learning experiences
that help us discover important connections with the world around
us. I tend to see the realms of nature and culture from an anthropological
perspective--an inherently multidisciplinary point of view.
At CGEE I create experiential learning programs and educational
media products. My work is grounded in a commitment to celebrate
the many mysteries of nature and culture and to nurture their stewardship.
Primary Responsibilities at CGEE
- Executive Producer of the Rivers
of Life Internet-based learning program
- Producer of Waters to
the Sea, a CD ROM on the human ecology of the Upper Mississippi
watershed
- CGEE web master
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| I
was born upon thy bank, river
My blood flowest in thy
stream.
And thou meanderest forever
at the bottom of my dream
Henry David Thoreau
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Professional Experience
- Owner, Cascade Communications, Inc. educational media production
company, 1985-present
- Authored four books and more than 70 magazine, journal, and
newspaper articles on natural and cultural history topics
- Wrote and produced dozens of educational videos and broadcast
programs for public and cable television
- Wrote and hosted two radio programs
- Program Director, National Youth Leadership Council, 1984-85
- Director of St. Paul YMCA's Camp Northland and North Woods Resource
Center programs and Program Director at YMCA Camp Widjiwagan,
1978-84
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Education
- MA in anthropology, Indiana University, 1978
- BA in social science, University of the Pacific, 1976
Awards and Affiliations
- Winner of the national 1998 Aegis Award of Excellence for Buying Time
video
- Winner of the national 1993 Apple Computer Change the World
Award
- Vice Chair, Rivers Council of Minnesota, 1997-present
- President, St. Anthony Park School Association, 1995-97
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