Ann FIlemyr, Ph.D. She brings fifteen years of experience in higher education and four years as a non-profit arts organization director to her new role. She  served as Department Chair for Cultural & Interdisciplinary Studies, Founder and Director of the Antioch College Summer Writing Intensive, and as Associate Dean and Interim Dean of Faculty at Antioch in Yellow Springs, Ohio. She is a leader in innovative curriculum design to reflect values-based educational initiatives. She belives the purpose of education is to provide a structure  for the acquistion of skills, attitudes, and knowledge for personal and social transformation. She served as a Teaching and Research Assistant for Great Lakes Indian Ethnoboatany and Philosophy in the Native American Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and attended the first World Parliament of Indigenous Peoples during the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. In 1994 she spent the summer at Zuni working with the Zuni Conservation Project on documentation and outreach. She is a poet and writer and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize in Literature for her poetry.She has been awarded writers' residencies at Hedgebrook, Mabel Dodge Luhan House, and by the Wurlitzer Foundation.

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