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Polly Howells is a member of the Rural America In These Times Board of Editors. Polly is a semi-retired psychotherapist who splits her time between Woodstock and Brooklyn, New York. She is a founding member of Woodstock NY Transition, a board member of Bioneers and Radical Joy for Hard Times, and a facilitator of the Pachamama Alliance’s “Awakening the Dreamer Changing the Dream” Symposium. She also co-leads a yearly 5-day residential workshop for women, “Reclaiming our Lives, Reclaiming our Earth,” incorporating the work of Jungian analyst Marion Woodman, with whom she trained. Her two great-grandfathers were Midwestern literary figures, Ohio-born novelist William Dean Howells (1837-1920) and Chicago Tribune editor-in-chief (1864-1874) Horace White (1834-1916).
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