Our Facilitators
Janice Barbee
janicegwb("at" sign)yahoo.com
Janice is the director and founder of Healing Roots, and has the honor of being named an Elder in our European American community. She designs and conducts workshops for organizations who want to better understand culture and respectfully and productively engage with people of different cultures. She is also an adjunct
instructor at the University of Minnesota, teaching on culture and
health.
Sara Axtell
axtel002@umn.edu
Sara is an Elder in the Healing Roots
learning community. She loves teaching and learning with others, and feels fortunate to be able to do so in
a variety of settings--at the University of Minnesota, in the community, and in
correctional facilities. She focuses on reconnecting with ancestral
culture as part of a process of dismantling whiteness and developing a healthy
sense of cultural identity.
Craig Hassel
chassel@umn.edu
Craig is a Healing Roots Elder and Ph.D. Associate Professor and Extension Nutritionist, Graduate Faculty, Center for Spirituality and Healing, University of Minnesota. His work focuses on creating spaces in which academic knowledge is understood as an expression and product of its culture of origin. From there, the health and nutrition science can bridge respectfully with knowledge from other cultures in generative and creative ways.