Joanna Macy PhD, one of Rowe’s most beloved teachers, is a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking and deep ecology. As the root teacher of the Work That Reconnects, Joanna has created a ground-breaking framework for personal and social change that brings a new way of seeing the world as our larger body. Her many books include World as Lover, World as Self; Widening Circles, A Memoir; Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in without Going Crazy; Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects and a book about her life and work entitled A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and the Work of Our Times (ed. Stephanie Kaza). Joanna received a BA from Wellesley College in 1950 and a PhD in Religion from Syracuse University in 1978.