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The individuals mentioned on this page influenced my work and thinking in art, life, and career. They are teachers, mentors, supporters, and friends.

David Foster

Professor and Department Head, University of Oregon, School of Architecture and Allied Arts. Educational/Career Advisor.

Kenneth O’Connell

Professor, University of Oregon, Art Department. Advisor.

Lazslo Moholy Nagy

Artist, Professor, Founder, The New Bauhaus, The Institute of Design, Chicago.

Katherine McCoy

Professor, IIT Institute of Design, Chicago. Head of the Design Department, Cranbrook Academy of Art. On air presenter, “The Meaning of Small Things,” Digital Journey, Public Television Series.

Robert Kostka

Artist, Professor, University of Oregon, School of Architecture and Allied Arts. Advisor.

Juliette Anthony

Philanthropist, Environmental supporter, Research Librarian, Harvard, Grantor, The Rose Foundation, Supporter “Who Are My People?” film by Robert Lundahl. Advisor, Collaborator.

Beatrice Charles and

Adeline Smith

Native American Leaders/Elders, Linguists. Subjects, Storytellers, “Unconquering the Last Frontier.”

Frank Waters

Author. Mystic, Ethnologist. Recipient, New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. Referral from Bob Kostka.

Linda Marie Wiechman

Renowned Native Artist and Cultural Teacher. Collaborator, Producing Partner, “Song on the Water.”

Carol Van Strum

Environmental Activist, Author, Producing Partner, Student Film, “The Burden of Proof.”

Bonnie Hill

Nurse, Teacher, Activist. Subject, Student Film, “The Burden of Proof.”

Joan Halifax

Anthropologist, Roshi, Author, Teacher, Personal Inspiration.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Architect, Inventor, Visionary. Author, Teacher, Personal Inspiration. Colleague of David Foster.

Alfredo Acosta Figueroa

Cultural Monitor, Activist, Author. Subject of Film, “Who Are My Peoplle?”, Various Shorts.

Matthew Leivas, Sr.

Tribal Leader, Environmentalist. Colleague, Subject, CreativeFRONTLINE Episodes. Book: Paiute Lands; Demo cracy in the Early Americas.

Clifford Humphrey

Recycler, Founder Ecology Action. Subject, CreativeFRONTLINE Episode/Book: “A True Source of Wonderment.”

Hai Ning Luan

Buddhist Monk, Former Nanjing TV host, Producer Calligrapher. Mandarin Translator.

Walter Munk

Oceanographer, Geoscientist. Subject, “I Met Dr. Munk.”

Michael E. Boyd

Physicist, Anthropologist. Subject of Film, “PayDirt.”

Lowell John Bean

Anthropologist. Subject of Film, “Who Are My People?”,

Dorece Sam

Tribal Member, Activist. Subject of Film, “Resistance and Redemption,” CreativeFRONTLINE Episodes. Book: “Resistance and Redemption: Indigenous Environmentalism in the Age of Extraction.”

Marie Harrison

Community Organizer, Activist. Subject of Film, “PayDirt.”

Thomas Banyacya

Visionary, Historian, Spiritual Teacher Messenger. Colleague of Joan Halifax, Alfredo Acosta Figueroa.

Kenji Ekuan

Industrial Designer, Buddhist Monk. Subject, “The Meaning of Small Things,” Digital Journey, Public Television Series.

Tim King

Investigative Journalist. Colleague, Producing Partner, Subject, :PayDirt.”

Louis Sahagún

Former Los Angeles Times Staff Writer, Pulitzer Prize Recipient. Advisor CreativeFRONTLINE.

Ilarion (Larry) Merculieff

Founder, Global Center for Indigenous Leadership and Lifeways. Advisor, Subject, CreativeFRONTLINE. Subject, “Climate Change is Here: The Movie,”

Shelly Vendiola

Peacemaker Community Alliance & Peacemaking Project. Advisor, Subject, CreativeFRONTLINE.

Yael Zeligman Merculieff

Partner, Global Center for Indigenous Leadership and Lifeways, Founder, Wombs for Peace. Advisor, CreativeFRONTLINE.

Denis Hayes

Environmental Advocate, Coordinator for the First Earth Day. Advisor,CreativeFRONTLINE.

Stephen Qacung Blanchett

Culture Bearer, Musician, Subject, CreativeFRONTLINE.

Lisa Maywood

Stained Glass Artist. Subject, “Sacred Glass” Film.

Shelley Harjo

Fort McDermill Pai-Sho Tribe Council Member, Subject, CreativeFRONTLINE.

Dr. Willie Ratliff

ContracTor, Publisher, Journalist, San Francisco Bay View. Subject, PayDirt.

E. F. Schumacher

Statistician, Economist. Defined decentralised industrialization, Buddhist Economics. Personal Inspiration. “Digital Journey: Stories From a Networked Planet.”

Dr. Ben Potter

Archaeollogical Anthropologist,.Subject, CreativeFRONTLINE Episode. Book: “Gathering Fire: Peopling the Americas.”

Boyd Jack aka John Boyd

Principal Storyteller, “Song On The Water.” Writer, Associate Producer, “Who Are My People?”