"A Conversation with Parker Palmer"
Wednesday, April 27
Parker J. Palmer is a writer, teacher, and activist who works independently on issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality, and social change. His work spans a wide range of institutions: colleges and universities, public schools, community organizations, church and retreat centers, corporations, and foundations. In 1998, The Leadership Project, a national survey of 11,000 administrators and faculty, named Dr. Palmer as one of the thirty "most influential senior leaders" in higher education and one of the ten key "agenda-setters" of the past decade.
Dr. Palmer received a B.A. in philosophy and sociology cum laude from Carleton College (MN), where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and awarded a Danforth Graduate Fellowship. After a year at Union Theological Seminary (NY), he studied sociology at the University of California at Berkeley, receiving a Ph.D. with honors. He has taught at Berea College (KY), Georgetown University (DC), Beloit College (WI), Pacific School of Religion (CA), George Washington University (DC), and the Union Institute Graduate School.
His publications include ten poems, over one hundred essays, and six widely used books, one of the best known of which is The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998).
