People
Here are the people involved in the Nurse Manifest Project, what each one is doing related to the project, and some words of inspiration! We are shown in the chronological order we became involved. Click on our names to send personal e-mail messages. We welcome everyone who wants to be identified here to send us your information.
Sue Hagedorn
Sue is a co-founder of this project, and is also involved in the research
that we are conducting through this project. She is a filmmaker and
political activist, teaches at the University of Colorado School of
Nursing, and provides nursing care to high-risk care in the city of
Denver.
Peggy Chinn
Peggy is a co-founder of this project and takes a lead in the project's research
initiatives. She has taught nursing in several universities, and has been
an avid activist giving voice to feminist ideas in nursing.
From Peggy: "This project speaks to the most fundamental issues 
facing
nursing and health care. I believe that unless each of us holds a dream
close to our hearts and minds, we will only continue in a path that is
literally destroying our health, our integrity, and our future as nurses.
The dream of NurseManifest is a huge dream, with untold possibilities.
As we reach toward this dream, we open new paths, new doors, new windows,
and indeed, a new future.
Visit my home page."
Richard Cowling
Richard is co-founder of this project, was the lead scribe in writing our manifesto, and is involved in our research work. He teaches in and directs the PhD program in nursing at the University of North 
Carolina Greensboro. He is also the Editor of the Journal of Holistic Nursing. Richard developed and uses a praxis method called unitary appreciative inquiry in his work with women who were abused as children. He has been most amazed by these women who have found healing and power amidst the despair of their situations. From Richard: "I believe that the Nurse Manifest Project responds to the call within each of us to go beyond the limited and fragmented views and practices of nursing science and art that have been evolving slowly over the last several decades. I hope to participate personally and professionally in a very active way in the reclamation of our sovereignty as nurses...an act which may heal the despair of our past and current situations."
Adeline Falk-Rafael
Adeline teaches community health nursing at York University in Toronto, Canada.
She is an originator of the research methods that
we have developed for this
project, and has extensive experience using the processes of Peace and Power
in classrooms and other groups. She is a Past-President of the Registered
Nurses Association of Ontario. Her research focuses on public health nursing
in Ontario, and she has written extensively on political issues and nurses'
emancipatory potential.
Marlaine Smith
Marlaine teaches nursing at Florida Atlantic University and is involved in
our research projects. Her own research and practice focuses on wholistic
healing modalities and caring grounded in unitary-
transformative nursing science.
From Marlaine: "Hello...I'm grateful to join with all who want to participate
in creating a different kind of health and healing care experience for ourselves
and those we serve. I am attracted to this project because it calls us to
put our values into action; to imagine nursing and health care that reflect
our deepest values and to MANIFEST this in our world. Also, through this project
we are envisioning community as a diverse group of like-valued people who "virtually" come
together to manifest change. We can learn from each other as put our visions
into actions and share our experiences...and these seeds will spread across
the world and will take root and grow."
Elizabeth Berrey
Elizabeth teaches nursing in Ohio, and has been a long-time 
advocate building
support networks among nurses in Ohio. She completed an oral history of the
life of Rozella Schlotfeldt, exploring the support networks among nurses that
influence and shape the life and work of an eminent nurse leader.
Carey Clark
Carey teaches nursing in California, and became involved in this project when
she was exploring issues related to the nursing shortage. Her work on this
topic was published in the September 
2002 issue of Advances in Nursing Science.
From Carey: "Outside of my work experience in a wide variety of healthcare
settings, I have closely observed the nursing shortage crisis situation as
a clinical instructor in multiple small community hospitals as well as in
several large teaching institutions. As time passes I have become greatly
concerned with the evident gaps between education & practice and between
our caring-humanistic theories & education/practice. I believe that the
nurse manifest project offers us the opportunity to heal our profession and
return to the sacredness of our practice."
Jane Dickinson
Jane was involved in the 2003 research project as a group leader, and is working
on a synthesis of the groups' findings. Jane's practice and research focus
primarily on diabetes in people of all ages. She runs the Diabetes Education
Program in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
One of Jane's goals is to get the
message of the nursing experience across to the public.
From Jane: I discovered the Nurse Manifest research project at a time in my
professional life when I was feeling isolated and discouraged. The entire
Nurse Manifest project embodies my passion for the nursing profession now
and in the future: I am convinced that, by working together, nurses can improve
the way we work, the care we give, and the way we are received.
Olga Jarrin
Working on this project has challenged me to be pro-active in creating the
conditions necessary so that I can practice nursing as I wish. Part of this
was cultivating the mindset that I deserve to have 
a job in nursing that I
love, and still have the time and energy for other areas of my life. Surrounding
myself with supportive co-workers, in an institution that provides all the
resources I need to do my work came quickly as my attitude changed. Currently
I am working on a shared vision for nursing and have invited everyone who
is interested to visit my blog and join me in conversation around this possibility.
Where I will focus my future efforts is on creating these conditions on a
broader scale, through work in nursing theory and public health policy.
Kim Danner
Kim Danner works at Kaiser San Francisco, dealing with patient flow 
through clinical systems. She was actively involved with Cassandra in the 1980's.
From Kim: "Speak our ever-unfolding nursing truths with earnest conviction, love, and respect; choose to act in advocacy of ourselves and the people who are our patients.
"Holding a deep love of those magic "between" spaces of nurses and people who are patients, and teachers and students who learn and grow together...the desire to elicit and nurture visions and dreams of nurses and patients about what healing looks and feels like, for the healing houses still need to be created, as the visions and dreams become manifest.
"Never stop planting the fertile seeds, plowing the fecund fields, and spreading the manure around!"