Center Staff and Board of Directors

Director

Jana Mohr Lone (jana@philosophyforchildren.org)

Jana Mohr Lone is the director and founder of the Northwest Center for Philosophy for Children, and an affiliate faculty at the University of Washington Department of Philosophy. Since 1995 she has facilitated philosophy classes in pre-college classrooms from preschool to college, as well as teaching college students and others about ways to bring philosophy into K-12 classrooms. She is a frequent writer and speaker about pre-college philosophy, and the author of the blog Wondering Aloud: Philosophy With Young People. She is the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Questions: Philosophy for Young People and remains on the journal's editorial board, and she is the chair of the American Philosophical Association Committee on Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy. Jana is also involved with several Pacific Northwest organizations that provide services and advocacy for young people.

Education Director

David Shapiro (david@philosophyforchildren.org)

David Shapiro is a philosopher, educator, and writer whose personal and professional interests revolve around questions of meaning and morality in life and work. Education Director of the Northwest Center for Philosophy for Children, he is also a tenured faculty member in Philosophy at Cascadia Community College and the author or co-author of five books, including most recently, Something to Live For: Finding Your Way in the Second Half of Life (Berrett-Koehler, 2008).

Program Director

Sara Goering (sara@philosophyforchildren.org)

Sara Goering teaches philosophy and bioethics at the University of Washington, Seattle, Department of Philosophy, where she is also a member of the Program on Values in Society. During her graduate studies, she did a philosophy for children training at Montclair's Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children (IAPC), and then co-founded a summer philosophy camp for high school students and a philosophy outreach program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. At California State University Long Beach, she helped to create the Center for the Advancement of Philosophy in Schools (CAPS), which trains college students and partners them with local teachers to lead philosophy discussions with young thinkers from 4th grade through high school. The Long Beach program also ran a summer philosophy institute for "at-risk" Long Beach high school students.

Board of Directors

Elizabeth B. Lyell (President)
Philosophy Teacher
Highline Community College
Dr. Paul T. Menzel
Provost / Professor of Philosophy
Pacific Lutheran University

Sutapa Basu
Director, Women's Center
University of Washington
Dr. Ronald M. Moore
Associate Professor of Philosophy
University of Washington

Vicky Hutchings
Teacher
Whitman Middle School, Seattle
Dr. Ann Margaret Sharp
Professor of Education
Associate Director, IAPC
Montclair State University

Dr. Matthew Lipman
Professor of Philosophy
Director, IAPC
Montclair State University
Christine A. Stickler
Director, The Pipeline Project
University of Washington

Elizabeth B. Lyell (President) Philosophy Teacher Highline Community College		Dr. Paul T. Menzel Provost / Professor of Philosophy Pacific Lutheran University

Sutapa Basu Director, Women's Center University of Washington		Dr. Ronald M. Moore Associate Professor of Philosophy University of Washington

Vicky Hutchings Teacher Whitman Middle School, Seattle		Dr. Ann Margaret Sharp Professor of Education Associate Director, IAPC Montclair State University

Dr. Matthew Lipman Professor of Philosophy Director, IAPC Montclair State University		Christine A. Stickler Director, The Pipeline Project University of Washington