Joe Cambray, PhD, is President-CEO of Pacifica Graduate Institute; he is Past-President of the International Association for Analytical Psychology; has served as the U.S. Editor for The Journal of Analytical Psychology and is on various editorial boards. He was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Psychoanalytic Studies; and former President of the C. G. Jung Institute of Boston.  Dr. Cambray is also a Jungian analyst now living in the Santa Barbara area of California. His numerous publications include the book based on his Fay Lectures: Synchronicity: Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universe, a recently edited volume, with Leslie Sawin, Research in Analytical Psychology:  Applications from Scientific, Historical, and (Cross)-Cultural Research and an earlier volume edited with Linda Carter, Analytical Psychology: Contemporary Perspectives in Jungian Psychology. He has published numerous papers in a range of journals and regularly lectures internationally.

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Bayo Akomolafe is the Chief Curator of The Emergence Network, a speaker, author, fugitive neo-materialist com-post-activist public intellectual and Yoruba poet. But when he takes himself less seriously, he is a father to Alethea and Kyah, and the grateful life-partner to Ej as well as the sworn washer of nightly archives of dishes. Bayo was born in 1983 into a Christian home, and to Yoruba parents in western Nigeria. Losing his diplomat father to a sudden heart complication, Bayo became a reclusive teenager, seeking to get to the “heart of the matter” as a response to his painful loss.

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Susan Rowland, PhD, is Chair of the Engaged Humanities and the Creative Life Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and teaches in the Depth Psychology Program with Specialization in Jungian and Archetypal Studies. She is author of a number of books on literary theory, gender and C.G. Jung including Jung as a Writer;Jung: A Feminist Revision; C.G. Jung in the Humanities; The Ecocritical Psyche: Literature, Evolutionary Complexity and Jung; and The Sleuth and the Goddess in Women’s Detective Fiction, and Remembering Dionysus: Revisioning Psychology and Literature in C.G. Jung and James Hillman. Her forthcoming book is, Jungian Arts-Based Research and the Nuclear Enchantment of New Mexico (July 2020).

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Ursula Wirtz, Ph.D., graduated from the C.G. Jung  Institute Zurich in 1982. She has a doctorate in literature and philosophy from the University of Munich. Besides maintaining a private practice in Zürich, she is a training analyst, supervisor and faculty member of ISAPZurich. Dr.Wirtz has numerous publications on trauma and spirituality. Her most recent book is : Trauma and Beyond. The Mystery of Transformation. Routledge.

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Elizabeth Nelson, PhD, has been a member of Pacifica’s core faculty since 2003. She specializes in scholarly writing, research process and strategy, methodology, and dissertation development and also teaches courses in dream, imagery, and cultural studies. Her own research interests include personal and cultural expressions of the shadow, gender, and power, with a particular devotion to dangerous women in text, film, and life. Elizabeth has bridged her professional experience in technology with her background in literature and expertise in depth psychology to teach courses on the profound impact of digital technology. Elizabeth is the author of two books, The Art of Inquiry: A Depth Psychological Perspective, coauthored with Joseph Coppin, which is now in its third edition (Spring Publications, 2017). Her second book is Psyche’s Knife: Archetypal Explorations of Love and Power (Chiron, 2012). Prior to her teaching career, Dr. Nelson worked with Silicon Valley startups for 18 years as a professional writer, editor, and marketing consultant.

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Evans Lansing Smith, PhD, is Chair and Core Faculty of the Mythological Studies Program at the Pacifica Graduate Institute, in Santa Barbara, CA. In the 1970s, he traveled with Joseph Campbell on tours of Northern France, Egypt, and Kenya. He has taught at colleges and institutes in Switzerland, Italy, France, Maryland, Texas, and California, and is the recipient of awards for distinguished teaching from Midwestern State University in Texas, and the Pacifica Graduate Institute in California. His Ph.D. is from The Claremont Graduate School, and he has an M.A. in Creative Writing from Antioch International (London and Dublin), and a B.A. from Williams College. He is the author of ten books (including a recent volume of poems) and numerous articles on comparative literature and mythology. He has given presentations for the C.G. Jung Institutes in Küsnacht and New York City, the Seattle Friends of Jung, the Modern Language Association, the American Association for the Study of Popular Culture, the Study of Myth Conference at Pacifica Graduate Institute, the Ojai Writer’s Conference, and the Casa dei Pesci at Circeo San Felice, in Italy. His edited volume of Joseph Campbell’s writings and lectures on the Grail Romances was published in 2015, and his edition of the Selected Correspondence of Joseph Campbell is forthcoming. www.coniunctioblog.com

Peter Rojcewicz, Ph.D., is currently Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA., where he also serves as Accreditation Liaison Officer. He served previously as Chief Academic Officer and Accreditation Liaison Officer at University of the West, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty at Antioch University Seattle, Dean of the School of Holistic Studies at John F. Kennedy University, as well as Professor and Chair of the Department of Liberal Arts at The Juilliard School, where he was Director of a National Endowment of the Arts Challenge Grant.

Samuel L. Kimbles is a psychologist, Jungian analyst, member and former president of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, and a clinical professor (VCF) in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He has a private practice in San Francisco and Santa Rosa, California, and works as a clinical consultant to organizations. In addition to lecturing and presenting widely, he has published several works on the cultural complex. Phantom Narratives: The Unseen Contributions of Culture to Psyche explores the themes of psyche in groups and society. This book Intergenerational Complexes in Analytical Psychology: The Suffering of Ghosts continues the processes of exploring the unconscious at the level of culture and groups.

Dennis Pottenger is a Jungian-oriented psychotherapist and award-winning literary journalist based in the USA. Rebecca Livingston Pottenger is a licensed psychotherapist, feminist scholar, and adjunct faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute, USA.