Rev. Selena Fox (she/her)
Selena Fox is Senior Minister of Circle Sanctuary and among the founders of Pagan Spirit Gathering. Selena is a teacher, ritualist, writer, chant-crafter, podcaster, chaplaincy administrator, interfaith networker, life passages guide, and spiritual psychotherapist. Selena has a MS in counseling and does consultations, readings, and counseling by zoom and telephone with clients of many paths and places. Selena hosts a monthly podcast, Circle of Nature, and presents workshops and rituals via in person and virtual gatherings across the USA and internationally. She is author of Goddess Communion and other works, and also shares some of her rituals, meditations, chants, photos, and other creations through social media.  Selena is a Pagan civil rights and religious freedom activist and is Executive Director of Lady Liberty League. Selena is an environmentalist and founder of Circle Sanctuary Nature Preserve and its Circle Cemetery, a national Pagan burying ground and one of the first Green cemeteries in North America. Selena has been active in interfaith and social justice endeavors since the 1960s and serves on the national Faith Advisory Council of Americans United for Separation of Church and on the Board of Wisconsin Faith Voices of Justice. Selena is founder of the Circle Craft tradition which blends together ancient and contemporary Pagan folkways, multicultural Animism, HedgeWitchery, and Nature Spirituality.

Chip Brown (he/him)
Chip is a retired attorney and historian. He has served and continues to serve Circle Sanctuary as legal advisor on church and cemetery matters, having assisted with establishing the formal county and state registered and regulated Circle Sanctuary Green Cemetery in 2010. Chip has been an administrator and special issues director for the PSG for 25 years. He has been affiliated with Circle Cemetery sunce 1982. Chip practices his spiritual path within the Circle Nature Religion umbrella. Chip's spiritual beliefs and practices include not only elements of his ancestral Delaware Indian religion, but also religious elements of his Celtic, Nordic and Roman Pagan ancestors. Chip incorporates modern and ancient techniques for transformation and healing work in his practice. He lives off-grid in NW New Mexico, within the traditional lands of the Navajo, Puebloan and Apache peoples with his wife, where they are building a home and farm, producing food for their local community, and working with the Navajo Nation to implement food sovereignty programs and principles into the Navajo Nation Code

Rev. Eldritch (he/him)
Rev. Eldritch is a minister with Circle Sanctuary and lives near Washington, DC. Eldritch is also a Radical Faerie, a Priestx of Stone Circle Wicca and coordinator of the LGBTQ Interfaith group "Center Faith.” Eldritch has 30 years of experience in event planning, public relations, and community organizing in LGBTQ and Pagan communities. In his professional life he holds a masters degree that includes teaching the dynamics of group identity, sociolinguistics, and cross-cultural relations. He retired from program management work in the federal government after three decades at the Temple of Minerva (The Library of Congress). Eldritch writes music, liturgy and rituals that inspire community cohesion. 

Rev. Jake (they/them)
Rev. Jake holds an MDiv in Urban Ministry and has provided spiritual care and leadership for over 30 years. Their work also includes developing vanguard harm reduction services for people experiencing homelessness and/or involved in sex trading, managing a residential treatment unit, chaplaincy in a psychiatric hospital, providing training on a wide array of cultural competency and evidence-based practice topics, and direct public action on a wide range of justice issues. They are an earnest student of Nonviolent Communication, a Certified Naturalist, and an avid devotee of vegan nutritional and homeopathic / naturopathic healing. They founded and co-coordinate the Social Justice Center, the Magenta Luncheon, and several other programs at PSG, and serve on the MTP Coordinating team.

Rev. Minerva (she/her)
Reverend Minerva (she/her) is the Admissions Coordinator, Practicum Coordinator, and Portfolio Coordinator for Circle Sanctuary’s Ministry Training Program (MTP). She was ordained in 2019 after completing the MTP herself. She teaches, occasionally, and serves as a mentor when called upon to do so. She is dedicated to the continual improvement of the program and to the success of MTP Students. Minerva is also the Assistant Director Circle’s Lady Liberty League. LLL is a group of volunteers who assist Pagans in handling situations when their constitutional right to practice their faith has been violated. Minerva has been working with LLL for nine years.
In addition to the above, Rev. Minerva serves the Circle community in other ways. She has coordinated events at Circle. She was an area (gate) coordinator at the Pagan Spirit Gathering for 12 years. She was a volunteer team lead for cemetery work at Circle’s green cemetery. Rev. Minerva participates in interfaith work offering a Pagan voice to others at faith-based events.
Minerva has a strong sense of social responsibility. In addition to being dedicated to the Circle community, she is involved in public service to her city. She served in her city council for five years and now serves as mayor of the municipality. Rev. Minerva retired from Federal service in 2012 and from her private law practice years before that. She has earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Political Science; a Master’s of Global Leadership and Organizational Development; and a Juris Doctor. Spiritually, Minerva identifies as a Threshold Witch who practices in the liminal times and spaces of life. 

Rev. River Higginbotham (he/him)
Rev. River connects and brings passionate concern for pagan community into the world in many ways. He is passionate about ritual, particularly embodied and ecstatic forms – using voice, chant, movement. River helped start and sustain the St. Louis Pagan Picnic, he is the co-author, along with Joyce Higginbotham, of several books on Paganism. As a Circle Minister since 2018 he is a leader of the CS Ministry Training Program and has been part of the CS delegation to Parliament of the World’s religions since 2009.

Becky Malke (she/her)
Becky is from Madison, Wisconsin and has been a lifespan religious educator for nearly 20 years. Her philosophy is that parents and guardians are the primary religious educators for their children. She has been Wiccan for 27 years and is currently in Circle Sanctuary's Ministry Training Program.

Christopher Spurling
Christopher is a Pagan, a Public Health Educator, and mindfulness teacher living in San Diego, CA. Hi spirituality centers around working with the elements and other natural forces. He holds a MS in Health Education and Promotion and he manages the Mind Body Resiliency Program at a major medical center in San Diego. Christopher is a big nerd and loves to go down internet rabbit-holes, and he also enjoys reading at coffee shops and in natural environments. Christopher is a student in the Ministry Training Program at Circle Sanctuary.

Dennis D. Carpenter, Ph.D. (he/him)
Dennis is Professor Emeritus of Psychology, author, photographer, environmentalist, meditation teacher, and Circle Sanctuary Minister. He assists with the administration of Circle Sanctuary, its community, publications, land, and cemetery. His current interests and activities include Ecopsychology, Nature Spirituality, Yoga, Pilates, Cardio Interval Training, Nature Mindfulness, and Meditation.  He presents workshops in person and online about the health and wellness benefits of experiences in Nature and the potential of such experiences to strengthen ecological awareness and activism.

Steve Curtin
Steve was born in 1960 and grew up in Madison, Wisconsin and on a farm in Blue Mounds a few miles from the Circle Sanctuary grounds. His father Philip Curtin was a professor of African History and taught at UW for twenty years, and because of this Steven spent a year in South Africa when he was two years old, a year in Senegal when he was five and a year in Paris and London when he was nine. When he was seventeen he spent a summer in India with the Experiment and International Living, bought a Sitar, and had an experience at the Ellora-Ajanta Buddhist caves that led to a lifelong Zen Buddhist practice.  He started playing trumpet in middle school, switching to guitar then bass in high school, and continues to play bass and many other stringed instruments to this day.  He has been playing djembe and later doudhran and other percussion instruments since the early 2000s.  Since 2020 he has been studying and playing the East African Mbira, and has recently restarted learning the Didgeridoo.  In high school he also became fascinated with electronic music and synthesizers and built his first synthesizer in his junior and senior years, and has continued to build and modify electronic instruments.   His first Pagan experiences were growing up on the farm, and he first discovered he was a Pagan when he saw a talk by the late Margot Adler, found Pagan groups to work with when he moved to Michigan, and has observed every Sabbat since attending a Yule ritual at a UU church in Farmington MI in 2003. He has worked with several CUUPS groups and for the past several years has been working with Trillium Reclaiming, the Detroit area Reclaiming group and the tradition started by Starhawk.

Jasmine
Hi, I’m Jasmine. I grew up in a tiny town called Wooldridge (less than 100) in Central Missouri near the Missouri River.  I currently live in St. Louis. I attended an old-fashioned (one room at the foot of the hill from my house) Baptist church until I was a teen, then I stopped.I stumbled into Starhawk’s work via feminism in the late 80s and found my path. I practice eclectic witchcraft - I’m a heretic kitchen witch. Professionally,  I work in the user experience world and use a lot of the same techniques (with different names) in my daily life. I was called to be a part of the Circle MTP because I want to find ways to heal my community and my world using creativity, collaboration, connection, music and movement.  I want to formalize some of my training.  I also crave community deep in my bones and look forward to deepening those connections.

Wynne Rath (She/Her/They/Them)
Wynne  grew up gathering herbs in the wild, wandering in the woods, brewing potions, and exploring the Craft.  Nature captured her soul long before she knew the words to describe  her spirituality. She currently lives in Frisco, Texas on the traditional  territory of the Wichita.
Wynne currently practices a hereditary tradition of Scots cunning craft, initiatory Wicca, and village witchery, and runs eclectic sabbats and other  rituals for her community. Wynne enjoys building connections, creating  community, crafting rituals, and working in liminal spaces. Wynne enjoys art, music, vegan food, and crafting rituals. She loves  being a mother, spending time with her dogs, crafting, and magic. She  has a strong interest in ecology, human rights, and serving her  community. She sees her calling to Ministry as the weaving of these  interests to build a brighter future.

Amy Dove
Amy is a High Priestess, Teacher and Ordained Minister within the Temple of Witchcraft, and is an active energy worker and practitioner for the larger community of Columbia, MO. Amy Dove works as a certified Sound Healer, Reflexologist and Reiki Master Teacher and is currently studying massage. 
Within the broader community, Amy Dove organizes, facilitates and co-facilitates a variety of, mostly women’s activities and gatherings geared toward her Great Work, the connection between head and heart and between humans and the broader community of the Green World.  
Amy Dove is very excited to embark on this Circle Sanctuary Ministerial Training Program so she can add her energy to Social Justice and Ecology platforms along with learning better tools to grow community and priestess within it.

Temper
Hello, my name is Temper (Robert Nelson).  I am originally from Trenton, NJ and currently live in Amelia Virgina outside of Richmond.  I was raised in the Christian Traditions through Catholic Schooling and Baptized Baptist in my early teens.  I currently practice a form of eclectic Kemetism with the inclusion of some elements from Norse Paganism and Faerie/Dragon magickal practices and have done so four about 18 years.  This is my second years being a part of the Circle Sanctuary MTP program working towards becoming a Circle Sanctuary Minister and eventually an Army Chaplain.  While Military Chaplaincy is my long-term goal here in the Circle Sanctuary MTP to gain a better understanding of professional ministerial practices focused on providing for the spiritual needs of Pagans both in and outside of the military.  I have worked with Circle Sanctuary for several years as a Distinctive Religious Group Leader (DRGL) in the military and have benefitted from their support over the years in bring Pagan education and support to my fellow Soldiers.  As my roles as a DRGL have increased it has become important for me to better myself and my ability to support those who come to more or aid and Guidance.  I look forward to furthering my education with Circle Sanctuary, becoming a minister, and continuing to support the Pagan community.

Leaf
Leaf lives on the shore of Lake Superior, is a minister in training with Circle Sanctuary, and has a bachelor's degree in Native American Studies and Outdoor Education from Northland College. Leaf's outlook is informed by their years as an outdoor educator in New Hampshire, seeking ways to communicate complex concepts to people of various ages, as well as spending the last couple of decades reading about and practicing various spiritual and magical things, playing and teaching folk music, and guiding nature hikes in the Northwoods. They look forward to learning and growing in many ways through Circle's Ministry Training Program.

Teresa Barry
Teresa, born in Madison, WI, never lost her love of the dairy state even after 20 years of being sent around the world by the US Air Force.  She spent 14 years as an airborne technician and 6 years as a religious affairs airman in such places as Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico, Qatar and Germany to name a few.  Growing up in a Christian environment without any religious education lead her to feel she was missing something that everyone else seemed to know.  So she joined a local Bible study during high school and then after she left home researched world religions.  Teresa found the more perspectives she gleaned, the closer she came to her truth.  Her first spiritual epiphany happened when she met her first “real live witch” who introduced her to the existence of modern Paganism which opened her to a whole world of new possibilities.  Her second spiritual epiphany happened when she went to the Black Forest in Germany for the first time and experienced an overwhelming feeling of “coming home.” Later she learned from a relative that her ancestors were from that location.  Her maturing perspective and the knowledge gained through her psychology undergrad propelled her to excel when she was finally allowed to change her specialty to religious affairs airman.  Her best and most loved parts of that job were crisis counseling, teaching resilience workshops and providing for the religious and spiritual needs of every airman under her charge.   After retiring from the military, she settled with her adopted sister, husband and two kids in Albany, WI.  Currently she is a stay home mom studying ministry through Circle Sanctuary.