Focus Session Speakers

	Charles Dunning Assistant Director, Wisconsin Water Science Center, USGS Knowing The Water Commons: A Scientific Foundation for Action Morning Focus Session Wichers Auditorium, Nykerk Hall - 10:30 am
Dr. Charles P. Dunning is an Assistant Director of the Wisconsin Water Science Center (U.S. Geological Survey) in Middleton, Wisconsin. The USGS is a science organization within the U.S. Department of the Interior whose scientists focus on the disciplines of water, biology, geology, and geography. USGS Water Science Centers collect data and conduct hydrologic investigations in each state, often in collaboration with state or other federal agencies. These data and investigations are used in studying trends in the health of hydrologic systems and for conducting research on critical and emerging issues. Dr. Dunning shares responsibility for the fiscal and science operations of the Wisconsin Water Science Center, and supervises teams of scientists focusing on groundwater, water quality and ecosystem health, and mercury in the environment. Dr. Dunning authored and co-authored his first professional journal articles while a senior at Hope College (Class of 1975); a testament to the strong emphasis on undergraduate research that continues today.
	Mary Fales Watershed Coordinator, Macatawa Watershed Project Local Waters: The Lake Macatawa Watershed Project Morning Focus Session Winants Auditorium, Graves Hall - 10:30 am
Mary joined the Macatawa Area Coordinating Council in July of 2008 as the Watershed Coordinator of the Macatawa Watershed Project. She works on behalf of MACC members, to coordinate numerous community partners and stakeholders in improving the quality of water throughout the watershed and Lake Macatawa itself.  Mary graduated from Michigan State University where she earned two B.S. degrees, one in environmental studies and the other in fisheries and wildlife management, and also from Grand Valley State University where she earned a Masters of Science degree in biology. Most recently she worked for the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and has previous experience as a staff scientist with an environmental consulting firm.
	Mark Husbands Leonard and Marjorie Maas Associate Professor of Reformed Theology, Hope College Water, Justice and Christ: Why Water is Thicker Than Blood! Afternoon Focus Session Cook Auditorium, DePree Art Center - 1:00 pm
Mark Husbands is the Leonard and Marjorie Maas Associate Professor of Reformed Theology at Hope College. (B.A. York University, 1987; M.Rel. Wycliffe College, University of Toronto; Ph.D. University of St. Michael’s College/Toronto, 2005). His research and scholarship focuses upon the ethics of Karl Barth, World Christianity and Theo-politics. He has edited seven books, Ancient Faith for the Church’s Future (2008), The Beauty of God: Theology and the Arts (2007), Women, Ministry and the Gospel: Exploring New Paradigms (2007), The Community of the Word: Toward and Evangelical Ecclesiology (2005), Justification: What’s at Stake in the Recent Debates (2004), Essays Catholic and Critical (2003), Theology and the End of Modernity: Essays in Conversation with Reginald Stackhouse (1996). His monograph on Karl Barth’s ethics of prayer is forthcoming from Westminster John Knox Press.
	Lynn LaPointe Sicangu Lakota Oyate - Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota The Sacredness of Water: A Native American Perspective Morning Focus Session Cook Auditorium, DePree Art Center - 10:30 am
Mr. LaPointe is an enrolled member of the Sicangu Lakota Oyate - Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota. He has worked in the fields of Service-Learning, Youth Leadership Development, and Experiential Education for 20 years. He currently serves as Youth Program Coordinator for the American Indian Family Center in St. Paul, Mni'se'ota. Mr. LaPointe utilizes traditional Lakota virtues and teachings in correlation with contemporary educational models to emphasize the importance of cultural identity, personal development, and youth leadership. He has continually sought to strengthen and promote the presence of indigenous educators and their respective teachings through his work as an educational consultant to urban and rural American Indian communities, non-profit organizations and educational institutions. In his current position, he is designing and implementing a multi-year experiential education program that will bring together urban American Indian families, traditional canoe builders and cultural teachers as part of an effort to reintroduce traditional teachings centered on the sacredness of water.
	Leland Little Dog Sicangu Lakota Oyate - Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota The Sacredness of Water: A Native American Perspective Morning Focus Session Cook Auditorium, DePree Art Center - 10:30 am
Mr. Little Dog was born and raised on the Sicangu homeland at Rosebud, South Dakota, with Lakota as his first language. His Lakota name is Tatanka Ho Was’te, or Good Voice Buffalo. He is from the clan of Wajaje from his maternal great-great-grandfather, Black Crow. He has two sons, Allen and Royal. Leland is a graduate of both St. Francis Indian School on the Rosebud Reservation and Sinte Gleska University, one of the first Tribal colleges in the U.S., where he has gone on to teach and develop Lakota Studies curricula. His extensive educational experience has taken him many places, from working with the late Vine DeLoria, Jr. on star knowledge, as an advisor with the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, and most recently to Ireland to experience the teachings of its indigenous people. Leland utilizes outdoor, adventure-based education and Experiential, Service-Learning concepts to complement pre-established indigenous teachings. He views the diversity of the ecosystem as the ideal learning environment for indigenous youth. His theory is that any indigenous belief and value system, when combined with outdoor and service-based experience, can become one of the most effective ways in which to grow physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
	Robert McDonald President, AquaClara Foundation Cheap, Clean Water: Generating It Locally Afternoon Focus Session Winants Auditorium, Graves Hall - 1:00 pm
Robert McDonald, having worked for 25 years in many global locations with the Dow Chemical Company, followed by work in his own company as a business man and engineer, recognized that clean, decent water is a luxury for many people in many countries.  He concluded that the cost of water purification for people in need could be substantially reduced if given improved knowledge about some old water purification technologies, and that a family-sized water remediation device could be developed -- one that generates clean disinfected water from highly polluted water. Further, this device could be inexpensive, utilize known technology, include no moving parts, require no electrical power, and be made of local materials. By transferring that knowledge to local business people and craftspeople, water purifiers having improved performance could be manufactured locally. Starting with this premise, the Aqua Clara program has been developed; today the knowledge is being transferred and applied on an on-going basis.  As of this symposium 3300 water purifiers are operating in 15 countries.  However, this is not the end of the story, but rather the end of the beginning of this program.   Given the magnitude of the need for clean water, the next steps indeed begin to deal with the true globalization of the concepts developed.
	Graham Peaslee Professor of Chemistry, Geological & Environmental Studies (GES) Department Chair, Hope College Local Waters: The Lake Macatawa Watershed Project with Mary Fales, Director, Macatawa Area Coordinating Council Morning Focus Session Winants Auditorium, Graves Hall - 10:30 am
Dr. Peaslee was trained as a nuclear chemist and continues to do research and teach at Hope College, where he has been employed since 1993. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Physical Society and Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society. He maintains a large and active research group with facilities in both Schaap Science Center and VanderWerf Hall. He lives vicariously through the successes of dozens of his former undergraduate research students and enjoys hearing from them all. He serves on various campus, local and national committees that serve the goals of undergraduate education, research and science in general. His wife Cathy Mader works in the Physics Department and they have two wonderful children: Daniel and Aaron.
	Alan Steinman Director, Annis Water Resources Institute, GVSU Critical Issues of Water in Michigan: Focusing on Sustainable Water Quantity and Quality Afternoon Focus Session Wichers Auditorium, Nykerk Hall - 1:00 pm
Alan Steinman has been Director of Grand Valley State University’s Annis Water Resources Institute, located in Muskegon, Michigan, since 2001.  (Postdoctoral Research Fellowship—Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Ph.D. Botany/Aquatic Ecology, Oregon State University; M.S. Botany, University of Rhode Island; B.S. University of Vermont). Previously, he was Director of the Lake Okeechobee Restoration Program at the South Florida Water Management District in West Palm Beach, FL.  Steinman has published over 100 scientific articles and book chapters, is Associate Editor of two scientific journals, has been awarded over $40 million in grants for scientific and engineering projects, has testified before Congress, and has been invited to speak throughout the world. Currently, Dr. Steinman is a member of U.S. EPA’s Science Advisory Board—Report on the Environment Committee, the International Joint Commission’s Public Interest Advisory Group and Ecosystem Technical Work Group for the Upper Great Lakes Study, the Technical Advisory Committee for Healing our Waters, and serves on Advisory Panels for Minnesota Sea Grant, CMU’s Beaver Island BioStation, and the University of Notre Dame’s GLOBES program.  He also served on the State of Michigan’s Groundwater Conservation Advisory Council and Phosphorus Advisory Committee.  Steinman’s research interests include nutrient cycling in aquatic ecosystems, sustainability of water resources, restoration ecology, and algal ecology.  Current research projects include economic valuation of ecosystem services, ecological impacts of stormwater and nonpoint source pollution, and the use of created wetlands to mitigate nonpoint source pollution.  Steinman’s community service includes serving on the Board of Directors of Goodwill Industries of West Michigan and Muskegon Rotary, and previously on the Board of the Land Conservancy of West Michigan.  He is married to Annoesjka, has a son who is a junior at the University of Rhode Island, and is a member of Congregation B’Nai Israel.
	Alison Swan Great Lakes Author and Environmental Activist No Complacency: Imagination, Story-sharing and Calls to Action Morning Focus Session Maas Conference Room - 10:30 am
Alison Swan is an award-winning Great Lakes author and environmental activist. Her book, Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes, is a 2007 Michigan Notable Book (Library of Michigan). Most recently, her advocacy creative writing has appeared in The Saugatuck Dunes; Michigan: Our Land, Our Water, Our Heritage; and Triquarterly. In 2002, she won the Petoskey Prize for Grassroots Environmental Leadership (Michigan Environmental Council) for her ongoing efforts to protect the Saugatuck Dunes, a freshwater landscape. Alison will also be presenting at a Departmental Session, sponsored by the English Department at 2:15 pm in Lubbers Hall, Room 120.

Departmental Session Speakers

	Jeff Brown Assistant Professor of Engineering, Hope College Collaborating for Clean Water: Hope Students and Engineers Without Borders in Nkuv, Cameroon VanderWerf Hall Room 104 - 2:15 pm
Jeff Brown is Assistant Professor of Engineering at Hope College.  He earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Central Florida (1996 and 1998) and his Ph.D. from the University of Florida (2005).  Jeff’s research interests include the performance and durability of reinforced concrete structures.  Jeff is a faculty advisor to Hope College’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB), which is an organization that partners with disadvantaged communities to improve quality of life through implementation of environmentally equitable and economically sustainable engineering projects.
	Margaret Cogswell Artist River Fugues DePree Art Center & Gallery
Margaret Cogswell is an internationally known artist and 2009 Guggenheim Award recipient. She uses space, sound, video, and sculpture to explore the interaction between the great rivers of North America and post-industrial American culture. Ms. Cogswell will be installing a composite of these Fugues, original for our space, at the DePree Gallery.  The exhibition will be open throughout the symposium. DE PREE ART CENTER AND GALLERY Hope College/Holland, Michigan Gallery Hours: Monday–Saturday 10 – 5pm Sunday 1– 5pm For more information, call 616-395-7500 www.margaretcogswell.net
	Gay Porter DeNileon Publications Manager, American Water Works Association The Value of Tap Water: The facts, the myths, and other consumer concerns Winants Auditorium, Graves Hall - 2:15 pm
Gay Porter De Nileon is the editor of and primary researcher for Plain Talk about Drinking Water, fifth edition, which will be published by American Water Works Association this fall. Employed by AWWA in various editorial capacities since 1993, Gay became involved with water security issues in the late 1990s, and her article, The Who, What, Why and How of Counterterrorism Issues, published in the Journal AWWA in May 2001, became a much-cited piece in the aftermath of 9/11. She has taught seminars developed by Sandia National Laboratory on risk assessment for water utilities and has lectured on workforce issues in the utility industry. A childhood resident of Holland, Michigan, she has also worked on newspapers and magazines and in public relations. She holds a bachelor of science degree in journalism from University of Colorado–Boulder and will receive a master’s degree in public administration from UC–Denver this fall. She has received numerous writing and editing awards, including one for her work on Water Adventures Around the World, An Activity Book, published by AWWA.
	Jack Holmes Professor of Political Science, Hope College The American West: Whiskey is for Drinking, and Water is For Fighting Over Wichers Auditorium, Nykerk Hall - 2:15 pm
Dr. Holmes has taught at Hope since 1969, except for two years when he served as the District Assistant to a U.S. Congressman. Before coming to Hope, Dr. Holmes served as a captain/research assistant in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Military Operations in Washington, D.C. Dr. Holmes has incorporated his interests in American foreign policy and international relations to create his Mood/Interest Theory of American Foreign Policy, which was published in 1985 by the University Press of Kentucky.  Dr. Holmes, Dr. Michael Englehardt, Dr. Bob Elder, Dr. David Ryden, and Dr. James Zoetewey authored the third edition of American Government: Essentials & Perspectives, a national government textbook for McGraw-Hill. He is currently working on Ambivalent America: Cyclical Interactions with Trends, a follow-up to the original Mood/Interest Theory. Dr. Holmes grew up in Colorado and spends the summer months on his mountain ranch, researching, writing, backpacking, fishing, and teaching a course on wilderness politics. He also does political consulting and is very involved with the Michigan Republican party as a member of its Policy Committee. Dr. Holmes has served as faculty advisor to Model United Nations and the Hope Republicans.
	Teresa Heinz Housel Assistant Professor of Communication, Hope College A Feminist Analysis of How Companies Market Natural Cleaning Products: Greenwashing the Clorox Greenworks Product Line Martha Miller Center, Rotunda - 2:15 pm
Teresa Heinz Housel is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Hope College, where she teaches journalism and cultural theory. Her research in the areas of homelessness, the politics of housing, media and globalization, and language, power, and class have appeared in Critical Studies in Media Communication, Information, Communication & Society, and Journal of Critical Inquiry.
	Steven Iannacone Associate Professor of Dance, Artistic Director of dANCEpROjECt, Hope College Water: Imagery for Dance Dow Center, 2nd Floor Studio 207- 2:15 pm
Steven Iannacone, Artistic Director of dANCEpROjECt (formally known as Aerial Dance Theater), is an active dancer, choreographer, solo performing artist and dance/movement teacher. Early in his career he performed and toured internationally with Nikolais Dance Theatre (N.Y.C.) and Phyllis Lamhut Dance Company (N.Y.C.). He also worked for Murray Louis, Louis Falco, George Faison, Talley Beaty and Vinette Carol. A versatile dancer, he “…danced beautifully” (New York Times), “…was superb…” (Show Business ), “…is a consummate artist…” (Le Devoir), was “…spellbinding…” (Montreal Star) and “…was a tour de force of mind as master of muscle” (Nuvo). A popular teacher, he was a guest teacher at the International Summer Stage in Brugge, Belgium for 20 years and has had faculty appointments at the Ballet Akademien (Goteborg, Sweden), the Vlaamse Dansacademie (Brugge, Belgium), the Catholic University L.N. (Brussles, Belgium) and the Escuela de la Ballet Folklorico (Mexico City, Mexico). He is presently an Associate Professor in the Dance Department of Hope College in Holland, Michigan and travels extensively to teach and set his works.
	Sara Ebenreck Leeland Ph.D., Philosophy An Ecofeminist Reflects on Water Martha Miller Center, Rotunda - 2:15 pm, Wednesday Water Ethics in an Era of Climate Change: An Ecofeminist Perspective Maas Conference Room - 4:00 pm, Thursday
Sara Leeland earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Fordham University, her M.A. from Catholic University of America, Washington DC, and her B.A. from Aquinas College.  She is an author, editor and professor, with special interest in environmental philosophy, intersections of social justice and environmental perspectives (eco-justice), spirituality, philosophy and ethics, and women’s issues related to environmental issues (ecofeminism).  She has served as Adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy at Aquinas College and Assistant and Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and is currently the editor of WEST Energy News, a publication focused on renewable energy development in Holland, Michigan.  Ms. Leeland is co-founder of the Lakeshore Women for Peace and serves as editorial advisor to the Holland Sentinel, writing columns several times each year.

Students Participating in Sessions

	Ashley Austin Hope College Senior Plastic Water Bottles & The Environment Martha Miller Center, Rotunda - 2:15 pm, Wednesday
Ashley is a senior from Grand Haven, Michigan, majoring in Business Management with a Spanish minor.  She enjoys being outdoors and participating in outdoor activities.  Ashley is an avid recycler and enjoys taking care of our planet.
	Tessa Talsma Hope College Senior Plastic Water Bottles & The Environment Martha Miller Center, Rotunda - 2:15 pm, Wednesday
Tessa Talsma is in her senior year here at Hope, pursuing a communication major with a sociology minor. She is graduating this December and hopes to go into Public Relations/Event planning. Tessa has had some experience traveling around the world, and has seen the negative effects that pollution and waste have had on our environment. She hopes to try to raise awareness and help people find ways to reduce their harm. She would like for people to see how easy it is to help and make this world become a cleaner, healthier environment!