Agnes Baker Pilgrim

The oldest living female member of the Rogue River Indians, Takelma Band, originally from Southern Oregon, Agnes was chosen by her tribe as a “Living Legend. Agnes is an ambassador for our Mother Earth. She is a spiritual elder of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz and granddaughter of Chief George Harney, the first elected chief of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz. She is a world-renowned spiritual leader, elder mentor to the Native American Student Union of Southern Oregon University, and keeper of the Sacred Salmon Ceremony. For more information and to support her work, please visit: http://www.agnesbakerpilgrim.org

Angie Thusius

Angelika Thusius, born in Bremen, Germany, received her B.A. (San Fransisco State University) in forgein languages and Arts; She is certified by t he Iyengar Yoga Institute in Paris. Thirty years of researching posture led to the creation of the KENTRO Body Balance Method. Practicing the soulful KENTRO movements while we garden or sweep results in a supple, strong body and joyful expression. In 2006, Angie founded Grandmother and Friends In Green, to thank and protect Ashland’s Watershed.

Recently at the Grandmothers and Friends in Green's 4th honoring of Ashland Creek in Lithia Park, six local spiritual leaders gave thanks for our clean drinking water and said prayers for securing the present, undisturbed health of our watershed for future generations.

Asha Deliverence

Asha has 7 children all born at home, 2 grandchildren, and a tribal mother to many. She has served as a midwife, taught midwifery, and yoga, teaches the art of Sungazing. She helped found the UCSC Organic Farm project and founded Village Alfalfa Sprout company. She is currently the founder and CEO of Pacific Domes.

Catherine J. Larkin

Catherine J. Larkin, M.A., has 24 years experience as a teacher, healer and counselor. She is certified in Self Attunement, which facilitates healing at the individual soul level, as well as a facilitator of the Hellinger Family Constellations. Catherine is a gifted public speaker and synthesizes from many sources.

Born in Iowa in 1952, Catherine's life long commitment to serving humanity has taken various forms. She has benefited from numerous teachings. Catherine’s vision involves calling forth the goodness of the human heart to be caretakers of the earth.

Deborah Frances

Deborah Frances has practiced as a naturopathic physician in Grants Pass, Oregon. She lectures at herbal medicine conferences across the country and teaches workshops on a wide variety of topics, including Botanical Medicine, Animal Communication, Ceremony and Healing, Dreamwork, Mythology and Shamanic Journeying. Her approach to healing is shaped in part by the teachings of her Lakota (Native American) heritage. Her Lakota name is Beautiful Little Dancing Crow.

DiAnna Bear

A health crisis at the age of four sent me down the path of professional Healer. Three years of medical school did not satisfy my vision; I became a gardener. In 1976 I discovered Hatha Yoga as a lifelong passion. Currently, I am living my dream as a yoga instructor, owner of an in-home care agency, and, with my visioning partner, as a steward of a sustainable farm.

Dianne Safford

Dianne Safford is retired from the Navy. She was a contracting officer and her husband, now deceased, was a Navy lawyer. She was able to travel extensively with the Navy, including duty in the Middle East. Dianne moved from Southern California, where she was an environmental and energy activist, to Corvallis in 2006. In addition to being an active member of the Corvallis Gaggle of the Raging Grannies, she is a member of Veterans for Peace, Alternatives to War, and Friends of the Middle East. She is also an Alternate Delegate to the 5th Congressional District, and is a member of the League of Women Voters. In addition to being very concerned about the bellicose nature of our country, she continues to be very concerned about environmental and energy issues.

Gail Wolcott

Gail Wolcott got her start in political action years ago as president of a League of Women Voters chapter in California. After 15 years as a small business owner in New Mexico, Gail and her husband, John, moved to Corvallis in 1994. She retired from the Financial Aid Department at Oregon State University in 2000. She is the mother of three and grandmother of two. Gail is currently serving as 1st Vice Chair of the Benton County Democrats and says its almost as much fun as being an active member of the Corvallis Gaggle of the Raging Grannies. Currently she’s a fan of Keith Oberman, Barak Obama and our poor, tattered Constitution.

Karen Winget

Karen Winget has been an editor in college textbook and academic publishing from the time she graduated from college to her current work as a freelance indexer. She met her husband on a civil rights bus trip to South Carolina in 1966, and they have been active in civil rights issues as well as peace, environment, health care, and gay rights issues ever since. They moved from West Virginia to Oregon three years ago and enjoy the Corvallis culture of activism. Karen sees herself as a “doer” rather than a “joiner,” and she sings for her grandchildren.

Leah Bolger

Leah Bolger retired as a Commander from the U.S. Navy after 20 years of active duty in July 2000. She and her husband were instrumental in the passage of “Troops Home” resolutions by the Corvallis City Council, and the Benton County Board of Commissioners. She is the founder and President of Veterans for Peace, Chapter 132, and is also active with Corvallis Alternatives to War.

She is a board member of the League of Women Voters Corvallis, and is active in the Democratic Party as a member of the Benton County Central Committee, Chair of the Legislative Accountability Committee, and as a delegate to the 5th Congressional District Committee. In September 2006, Leah was arrested twice in Washington D.C.—once as part of a “Declaration of Peace” group protest, and the second time for disrupting Congress by shouting opposition to the Military Commissions Act from the gallery of the House of Representatives.

Leslie Lanes

The passion fueling Leslie’s life is ‘awakening of consciousness’. Mediating, facilitating and coaching in the practice of deep listening is all to this end. Learning about the energy field created by circle work has led to her participation with the Millionth Circle Initiative’s International Board. She is on the Board of Bread for the Journey, Ashland and most currently has fostered the development of The Rose Circle, training women to be circle mentors for the young girls in our community...

Louise Owens

Louise Owens has been a teacher all her life—first at elementary level in Oregon and near Alaska’s Arctic Circle, and then overseas teaching adult professionals. She taught five years in Japan and another ten years in Indonesia, teaching higher-level English to university students/faculty, bankers and researchers. In Indonesia she worked for an adjunct of the British embassy, where she taught senior diplomats who had rotated back home between postings abroad. It was in this gracious setting that the world watched the events of 9/11 unfold. Louise returned to the US just after its invasion of Iraq, when we no longer enjoyed the world’s good will and living abroad became too dangerous. Louise recently moved to Oregon to teach a year at the UO/Eugene and now, be near grandchildren. She is an active Democrat and has started an ongoing political “movie night” twice a month.

Maxine "Max" Martinie

Evolving from an active, athletic girl into a globetrotting activist for nonviolence, I'm currently advocating in the educational system for my grandson. With nonviolence as an emphasis I've grown through my experience working on the original Dunn House board, on the crew of the Pacific Peacemaker on a voyage through Micronesia and in multicultural communities in Hawaii. I've been blessed to put my personal fervor for promoting a healing bridge between mental health and spirituality into work with high-risk families, teens and substance abuse as a marriage and family therapist. I remain a playful spirit-searching student of life while aspiring to be the change I wish to see in the world and to be conscious of the beauty within each and every one of us.

Meg Thomas

I’ve lived a creative life in my 85 years. Three children, seven grandchildren, and 3 great grandchildren in 50 years of marriage and 15 years divorced. I’ve been a volunteer (10 years at Planned Parenthood). Teacher of physical and health ed in California schools and at my own pool, traveler and student of the world, church worker and youth leader, hiker, masseuse and friend. I’ve worked for many causes, lived in concern for our government and always support liberal causes. I danced with a senior hula group for years and my husband and I taught folk dancing in our young days. Life has been wonderful and still is.

Suzia Aufderheide

Suzia was born part butterfly part rose quartz, she was groomed to be a queen and/or race car driver. She married occasionaly and raised as a single parent; 5 noble sons and one extraordinary daughter. Poverty, art and poetry convinced her of a need for access to communications media to give voice to the voiceless, artists, and the disenpowered. Suzia helped to develop RVTV and KSKQ. She presently works with Yuk No-Thing developing language that builds bridges to deepen communication between peoples regarding common ground issues.

Valerie White

Valerie White is not the youngest Corvallis Raging Granny, nor the oldest. She still has a high school student at home. She has worked as a naturalist, educator and child care provider. She joined the Corvallis Gaggle in September 2006. Valerie is active in the First United Methodist Church as member of both the Active for Peace and Justice and the Natural Step Ministries. She stands at the Corvallis peace vigil as often as she can on the weekly Faith night, and is the coordinator of the Linn-Benton Department of Peace group, a citizens' lobby effort for a National Cabinet level Department of Peace.