The Experienced Corps of Seminar Moderators Includes:
Sheena Paterson Berwick is a principal of Berwick Communications Inc., a corporate communication and leadership consulting practice. An award-winning journalist, Berwick has held senior publishing and editing management positions in magazines and newspapers in Canada and the U.S. She founded and was director of the Toronto Star’s Training and Staff Development Program. In her fifties, Berwick received a B.A. degree from UC Santa Barbara with highest honors and Distinction in English.
Keith Berwick is Executive Director of the Henry Crown Fellowship Program, an advanced leadership development program for high-achieving young business executives. He earned his Ph.D. degree in U.S. history at the University of Chicago, and has taught at UCLA, USC, and the Claremont Graduate School. Berwick is a four-time Emmy Award winning television broadcaster.
Grace Gabe, M.D. is a psychiatrist and former faculty member at Georgetown University and George Washington University Medical Schools. She is co-author of Step Wars: Making Peace in Adult Stepfamilies (St. Martins Press, 2004), and a dedicated violinist.
Ronald Gottesman taught American Literature at the University of Southern California from 1975 until 2001 when he retired to devote himself to spreading the news about Australian Aboriginal Art through the development of aboriginality.com—virtual gallery featuring paintings, prints and carvings. Author and editor of scores of books and articles, he has served as consultant to many publishers, foundations, civic groups, entertainment companies, and government agencies including the Walt Disney Company, the National Council on Aging, and National Public Radio.
Joan K. Peters is the author of When Mother’s Work: Loving Our Children Without Sacrificing Our Selves (Addison Wesley, 1997) and Not Your Mother’s Life: Changing the Rules of Work, Love, and Family (Perseus, 2001). She is a professor of English at California State University at Channel Islands.
Geraldine Van Doren holds a Ph.D. in English literature from The University of Chicago and has taught English and humanities at the University of Illinois and the University of Connecticut. For ten years a senior fellow at Mortimer Adler’s Institute for Philosophical Research, she was also an Aspen Institute moderator where she developed and moderated the initial version of the Good Life seminar.
Charles Van Doren has advanced degrees in both mathematics and English Literature. As vice president/editorial of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., he produced many references books, some alone or in collaboration with Mortimer Adler. Author of a dozen books, including The Idea of Progress, The Joy of Reading, and A History of Knowledge, he has moderated seminars for more than fifty years, twenty-four at The Aspen Institute.
