Master of Arts Program

Colloquium Keynote Speaker February 2002: Dr. Ellen Cole

In honor of the tenth anniversary of the Master of Arts Program’s charter class, we are pleased to present Dr. Ellen Cole, psychologist, sex therapist, award-winning author and editor, and founding director of the Master of Arts Program at Prescott College. Ellen is currently Professor of Psychology and Director of the Master of Science in Counseling Psychology program at Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage.

Her varied career as a psychologist has focused on human sexuality and women's mental health and included an 18-month stint as a call-in radio psychologist. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and currently serves on APA's Committee on Women in Psychology and co-chairs an APA task force on Media and Women. For twelve years she edited the journal Women & Therapy and the Haworth Press book program, "Innovations in Feminist Studies." Her own writings have addressed topics such as lesbians at menopause, sex therapy, refugee women, wilderness therapy, and professional ethics. Her most recent books are Celebrating the Lives of Jewish Women: Patterns in a Feminist Sampler (1997) and Jewish Mothers Tell Their Stories: Acts of Love and Courage (2000). She was just awarded a sabbatical leave to begin in January 2003 and plans to travel to Israel to work with the Jerusalem Link, a peace organization of Palestinian and Israeli women. Ellen loves Alaska and the out-of-doors. For her 60th birthday, last March, she went on a 200 mile dog mushing trip through the Alaska wilderness.

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