Vocation Visitors--Higher Calling Conversations
Vocation Visitors connect current students with alumni, church leaders, and other professionals who have identifiable expertise, give special thought to vocation and service, and show undergraduates the life and work of practitioners who model vocational living in their respective fields.
Vocation Visitors act as guest lecturers, mentor students in class and small group conversations, speak in Daily Chapel, and meet with interested faculty. The Vocation Program has hosted nearly 100 visitors since 2002. This program is now under the auspices of the Center for Ethics and Public Life directed by professor of political science John Moeller.
Visitors for 2010-2011 included:
Drew Curtis
Proprietor and editor-in-chief of Fark.com.
Bethel Erickson
Bethel Erickson is a self-proclaimed agrarian social worker for the Heart of Texas Urban Gardening Coalition.
Carrie Newcomer
Vocalist Carrie Newcomer is one of the definitive voices of the Heartland. An elegant folksinger with a country/bluegrass edge, Ms. Newcomer is known for honest, authentic songwriting that illuminates life with startling depth, humor and clarity.
Michal Rahfaldt
Michal Rahfaldt is the director of programs for the Children's Radio Foundation in Cape Town, South Africa.
Patrick Cabello Hansel
Patrick Cabello Hansel, pastor and poet, serves as co-pastor, with his wife, Luisa Cabello Hansel, at St Paul's Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, MN.
Janne Flisrand
Janne Flisrand '94 is project manager and research consultant for Flisrand Consultants of Minneapolis, which focuses on affordable housing, community development, transit, urban design, and related policies.Past Visitors 2002-10