Adventures in Learning

Zenobia Barlow is a nationally known pioneer in creating models of schooling for sustainability. Co-founder and executive director of the Center for Ecoliteracy (CEL), she has designed strategies for applying ecological and indigenous understanding in K-12 education, including “Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability,” “Rethinking School Lunch,” and the “Food Systems Project.” She is a contributor to the Center for Ecoliteracy’s new book, Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability (Fall 2009, Watershed Media/UC Press). She also co-edited Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World (2005) and co-authored Ecoliteracy: Mapping the Terrain (2000). Prior to joining the CEL, Barlow was editor of an international publishing company, a university program director, and executive director of The Elmwood Institute, an ecological think tank. She travels widely as a documentary photographer.

Gail is a Kalamazoo College professor, and a scholar with wide-reaching interests, including women’s studies and Victorian culture. She received her Bachelor’s in English at Northwestern in 1972, and then went on to get her Master’s and doctorate in English at University of Virginia in 1974 and 1977, respectively. She took a professor job at Kalamazoo College within a month of finishing her doctorate, and has been teaching there ever since. She teaches a range of classes at Kalamazoo, including Victorian literature, Creative Nonfiction, and women’s studies courses. She has published two books of essays, Calling: Essays on Teaching in the Mother Tongue (1992) and Season of the Witch: Border Lines, Marginal Notes (1995), as well as poetry and various academic articles.

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