Our Team
Please click photos for staff bios.

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Senior Staff

Nancy Burger
Co-founder & Senior Editor

#WheresYourSanctuary: Music is my sanctuary because it gives me the freedom to express whatever emotions I’m sitting with at the moment and color them in a way that best serves me. I can speak truth while feeding my soul and celebrating my passion. Music fills in my blanks. (See Nancy's post on February 11, 2017 for more).

Myrna Beth Haskell
Co-founder & Managing Editor

#WheresYourSanctuary: Dance does it for me. Dance feeds my entire being - body, mind and soul. For me, dance is an escape. It's wild abandon and stress relief. (See Myrna's post on February 11, 2017 for more.)

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Marketing and Design

Lisa Roman
Marketing Advisor

#WheresYourSanctuary: For me, sanctuary is an escape from the day to day, a place to surround yourself with "white noise" away from the stress of the day: pups, paddle, sports, connecting with family and friends, adventure, old movies, books.

Rachel Morrison 
Masthead Photographer

#WheresYourSanctuary: Photography is my sanctuary.  I see the camera as a tool to communicate and encourage, to examine the world in my search for answers.  It’s an expression and joy.

Emily Wadsworth
Digital Ad Sales Rep

#WheresYourSanctuary: My sanctuary is exercise - hands down - and strength training is my "go to." There's something about exertion and movement that forces me to be in the moment; and that makes such a difference, even if it's only for an hour. I find that when I miss a few days I tend to be a little...scattered. More recently, I have gotten into climbing, and I must say that it may be my new sanctuary soon because I absolutely love it.

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Regular Contributors

Emily Dodi
Contributor

#WheresYourSanctuary: Joy, peace, strength and fulfillment? That's a tall order. They are often elusive, rarely seen together, and sometimes impossible to find. But the best chance I have of basking in their glow is while I'm walking down a tree-lined path. It can be anywhere: my favorite spot in Ojai, a city street, a newly discovered forest trail. The only constant is trees. Misty, gray weather is a plus. My dog, Dara, as my companion goes without saying. Time slows. The world gets quiet. My heart calms. My mind lifts. Any burden is lightened.  I can trust in the beauty of the world again.  

Carol Lippert Gray
Contributor

#WheresYourSanctuary: I find sanctuary when I’m baking, particularly for my family. I think combining all the disparate elements and creating something new and delicious is absolute alchemy. The process itself is meditative. And having people, especially my grandchildren, enjoy the result is, as they say, priceless. 

Pearson Marx
Contributor

#WheresYourSanctuary: For me, sanctuary is what I call “a sacred day.” A day I spend alone in my house in Connecticut, a day when I have no appointments - not so much as a facial scheduled - no errands to run, no pressing obligations, just a thrilling veldt of solitude stretching out before me...a day to spend reading and writing and walking and doing yoga and hanging with my rescued pitbull, Cleo.

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Advisory Board

Our advisory board consists of dedicated professionals in various industries – women we have great respect and admiration for. These accomplished individuals suggest creative content, search for talent and contacts in their fields and assist us with promotion.

Mary Leonard
Poet & Educator

#WheresYourSanctuary: Ironically, I find my peace and fire in the same place: writing.  Every morning I get up early and either revise or start a new poem. I am writing Ekphrastic poetry right now - poems inspired by art - and love this because I am a visual thinker. 

Maureen Hogan Lutz
Author & Founder of Necessities Bag™