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Board of Directors
 Bolton Anthony, who founded Second Journey
in 1999, has worked as a teacher of English and creative writing to
undergraduates, a public librarian, a university administrator, and a
social change activist. In the 1998, he was privileged to lead a
year-long community effort to solemnly commemorate the Wilmington (NC)
coup and racial violence of 1898. He is interested in public discourse
and the restoration of civil society and is passionate about the
emergence of a new paradigm of aging that will energize the generation
approaching retirement.
 Lisa Anthony,
who has a
Master’s degree in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing, maintained a
private psychotherapy practice for nearly 25 years and, during the same
period, served as the psychiatric nursing educator at University of
North Carolina Hospitals. In June of 2005, she married Bolton Anthony,
beginning a new chapter in her own “second half of life.” She has
facilitated groups and workshops in various settings for most of her
professional career and, in May 2007, co-facilitated Second Journey’s
first Women’s Circle on “Women in the Second Half of Life: Spirituality
and Community.” She currently counsels homeless men weekly on a
volunteer basis.
 Alex Mawhinney has spent most of the past 25 or so years developing and managing conventional “retirement communities,” including independent, assisted living, dementia care, skilled nursing, and continuing care retirement communities. A few years ago, Alex realized that a retirement community, no matter how beautiful or well managed, is still an institution. There had to be a better way for elders to live together. Working with Dr. Bill Thomas and others in the “new paradigm elder community” movement, Alex focused his full attention on developing “elder neighborhoods” in “human scale” — including cluster cottages, atrium houses, and the Green House (replacement for nursing and assisted living facilities). He is currently working with projects in the southeast. His undergraduate degree is from Wheaton College, with graduate studies at Michigan State University in Health Care Administration. He is licensed as a nursing home administrator and is a fellow of the American College of Health Care Administrators.
 Geraldine (Dene)
Peterson is
the moving spirit behind ElderSpirit, a mixed-income elder cohousing
community designed to foster mutual support and later-life spirituality
located in Abingdon, VA. Her tenacious efforts in creating this
country's first elder cohousing community were recognized with a Purpose
Prize in 2006. Dene has been the administrator of non-profit
organizations throughout her professional career and is a former member
of the Glenmary Sisters. Go to ElderSpirit Community.
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Emeritus Board Members
 John G. Sullivan, a native of Newport, Rhode Island, holds
two earned doctorates and has a triple focus for his work. First, he was for 36 years a much-loved philosophy teacher at Elon University in North Carolina and was named Elon's first Distinguished University Professor in 2002. He is currently Powell Professor of Philosophy Emeritus. Second, for over 20 years, he has also been associated with the Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. There, he co-founded and teaches in the Institute’s master's degree program for adult learners — a program dedicated to recovering the arts of living and dying by learning from nature and the timeless wisdom traditions. Out of this work came John's second book:
Living Large: Transformative Work at the Intersection of Ethics and Spirituality (2004). Third, John has been working with Second Journey, especially on issues of spirituality in later life. Visit the Philosopher's Corner to read John Sullivan's quarterly essays from Itineraries. John's abiding interest is “that place where philosophy, psychology and spirituality—East, West and beyond — intersect and mutually enhance one another.”
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Advisory Council
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 John
Cronin served in
a variety of leadership positions in community hospitals and academic
medical centers until his recent retirement from the position of CEO at
Northern Berkshire Healthcare (MA). He has extensive experience in
facilitating community and leadership groups through the use of
Appreciative Inquiry (AI) and is a facilitator affiliated with
the Center for Courage and Renewal. He and his wife Jonelle recently moved to
Creekside Commons Cohousing Community on Vancouver Island in British
Columbia.
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 Jan Hively
was named a Purpose Prize Fellow by Civic Ventures in 2006 for her work
as a social entrepreneur. In 2001, while a Senior Fellow at the
University of Minnesota, she founded the Vital Aging Network (VAN), a
statewide network that promotes self-determination, community
participation, and personal enrichment for and with older adults through
education and advocacy. Jan came to her current focus on lifework from
past careers in community outreach, planning, and administration for a
half-dozen public and non-profit organizations. Jan lives in
Minneapolis, MN.
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 Claudia
Horwitz, the author of The
Spiritual Activist: Practices to Transform Your Life, is the
founding director of stone circles, a nonprofit organization that helps
individuals and organizations integrate spiritual and reflective
practice into the work of social justice. Based in Durham, North
Carolina, stone circles has worked with thousands of people across the
country through training, organizational development, and interfaith
gatherings.
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 Author and reviewer Barbara
Kammerlohr lives in the San Francisco Bay area where she works at
becoming an elder instead of just a “senior citizen.” Barbara currently
heads a nonprofit program that trains volunteers and provides
counseling, information, and advocacy about Medicare and other insurance
designed to supplement Medicare. She also designed and teaches a class
about conscious aging and living a meaningful life during those extra
years that research into longevity has given us.
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 Septuagenarian Fred
Lanphear —
co-founder of Songaia Cohousing Community in Bothell, WA, where he has
lived for over a decade
—
is actively involved in the intentional communities movement both
locally (co-founding the Northwest Intentional Communities Assn.) and
nationally (as a board member of the Fellowship for Intentional
Communities). A passionate advocate for Earth, Fred is a self-described
“social activist involved in networking and promoting intentional
communities, ecological concerns, integral health and consciousness.”
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 Jim Leach
is a professional engineer with more than 30 years of experience in the
design, construction, and development of energy-efficient housing, both
for custom-designed homes and planned neighborhoods. His Boulder-based
company, Wonderland Hill Development is the nation’s largest cohousing
developer with 15 communities in Arizona, California, Colorado and
Washington, He has won numerous awards for energy-efficient construction
and innovation in community design, and he is developing Colorado’s
first elder cohousing neighborhood, Silver Sage Village.
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 Martin Lehfeldt
is the President of the Southeastern Council of Foundations. His career
has included service as a newspaper reporter, foundation program
officer, college development officer and president of his own consulting
firm. He is a board member of the Georgia Humanities Council and
co-author of The Sacred Call, a biography of Donald L. Hollowell,
one of the South's premier civil rights attorneys of the 1950s and 60s.
Martin lives in Atlanta.
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 Harry R. Moody
is currently Director of Academic Affairs for AARP. He is the author of
over 100 scholarly articles and book chapters, as well as a number of
books. His most recent book, The Five Stages of the Soul
(published in 1997 by Doubleday Anchor Books), has been translated into
seven languages worldwide. He is known nationally for his work
in older adult education and recently stepped down as Chairman of the
Board of Elderhostel. He has also been active in the field of biomedical
ethics and holds an appointment as an Adjunct Associate of the Hastings
Center. Rick lives outside Washington, DC.
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 Rabbi
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi is an
internationally recognized loving teacher who draws from many
disciplines and cultures. He has been at the forefront of ecumenical
discussions, enjoying a close friendship with the Dalai Lama, Archbishop
Emeritus Desmond Tutu and many other leading sages of our time and is
the founder of Jewish Renewal which lays out the foundations for 21st
Century Judaism. He has been instrumental in inspiring the convergence
of ecology, spirituality and religion and recently has put special
emphasis on Spiritual Eldering, or “Sage-ing” as he calls it in his
seminal book From Age-ing to Sage-ing.
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 William
H. Thomas,
MD,
is an
international authority on geriatric medicine and eldercare and a
professor of aging studies at the Erickson School at the University of
Maryland, Baltimore County. Thomas also serves as president of The
Center for Growing and Becoming, Inc., a not-for-profit organization
dedicated to promoting and developing constructive, holistic approaches
to aging and the care of our elders. He is the founder of The Eden
Alternative, a global non-profit organization that is committed to
improving the care received by people who live in institutions
everywhere, and the author of What Are Old People For?
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