Community Studies Center

Candace Walworth, Peace Studies Department Chair
BA, University of Illinois
MA, Vermont College of Norwich University
PhD, Union Institute and University

Candace Walworth is an educator with twenty-seven years of teaching experience in a variety of settings and disciplines. She has taught at an alternative high school, toured with a professional theater company and offered a wide range of writing and literature courses in community colleges, prisons and universities. Since 1991, she has been a member of the core faculty at Naropa. Her teaching and research interests include spiritual models of social action, the socially engaged imagination and the practice of dialogue in conflict transformation. She received the President’s Award for Outstanding faculty in 1993 and 1999 and the Student Union of Naropa (SUN) Faculty of the Year award in 2005 and 2008. She recently completed ber doctorate in Interdisciplinary Studies with a concentration in Peace Studies.