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Cheryl L. Genet, Ph. D. earned her bachelor’s in Psychology and her master’s and doctoral degree in Interdisciplinary Science and Theology. As director of the Orion Institute’s Science and Human Spirit project, she focuses her research on scientific paradigms, cosmological stories, interfaith relations, and understanding our emerging global community. She taught at Central Arizona College and more recently at California Polytechnic State University Osher Institute for Life-Long Learning. Currently she teaches Philosophy and World Religions at Cuesta College, and is the Managing Editor of the Collins Foundation Press (CFP). She co-chaired and co-edited three conferences and resulting books in the CFP/CEF Humanity Conference and Book Series: Evolution of Religion: Studies Theories, and Critiques, The Evolutionary Epic: Science's Story and Humanity's Response, and Science, Wisdom, and the Future: Humanity’s Quest for a Flourishing Earth (editing in process). Genet is currently directing the Flourishing Earth Project, a collaborative effort of the CFP and the Orion Institute to create a dialogue about what a flourishing Earth would actually be like. She is also the director of the Science and Humanities Program for the Collins Educational Foundation (CEF). |