JANET SAILOR

ASPE founder and president Janet Sailor has been interested in the paranormal since childhood, when she learned to NOT ask questions or postulate about anything which might pit creative thinking or science against religion. She discovered Isaac Asimov, H.G. Wells and Clifford Simak when she was about eight years old, much to the dismay of her family and the nun who taught her Catechism class. In high school, Sailor learned that the "colors" she had always seen around living things were called auras and that nobody else she knew saw them. By the time she was in college, she had devoured everything she could find about and by Edgar Cayce, Nostradamas and other psychic "prophets" and moved into studies of eastern religions, reincarnation, extrasensory perception, astral travel, dream analysis, astrology and UFOs.

Although raising a family and running her businesses occupied most of her time during the next few decades, Sailor continued her research into the paranormal and looked forward to a time in her life when she could expand her involvement and contribute her knowledge to the public.

Now in her mid-sixties (a truly remarkable decade of life, she insists!), Sailor is a career marketing professional who owns and operates Access Media, an All Things Graphic design, publishing and printing company, and Access Images, which publishes her photographic and art images in limited and open edition archival art prints, as well as on greeting cards, calendars, t-shirts, mouse pads and other specialty items. Though not yet ready to ditch her "day job," she is fully committed to her own interest in paranormal research and to offering an opportunity for others to share her enthusiasm through ASPE.

DONNA HOLMAN

Donna Holman  admits to a life-long fascination with the paranormal, and believes it is “important to be aware of everything that’s possible.” She has been an active participant in ASPE events; and played an important and invaluable role organizing volunteers during the ASPE 2009 Paranormal Symposium. She looks forward to working with the ASPE board, guest speakers and practitioners, and the public.

Holman divides her time between Angel Fire, NM and Miami, FL. In Angel Fire, she manages the Cove Arts Center and The Grande Condominiums.

DAVE TRAVIS, BS

Dave Travis has been creating award winning web sites for over 13 years; he began when he was in graduate school working on a PhD in Pharmacology. He worked in research labs, starting at the bottom and working his way up for over 14 years. Travis has published scientific papers in numerous scholarly Journals.

Travis served as the in-house developer for a Denver Internet service provider about four years, after which he joined Heinrich Marketing, a mid-sized advertising agency employing about 60 people in Denver, CO. At Heinrich, Travis was the Senior Web Developer on staff.

In September 2003, Travis moved to Taos, New Mexico and joined the Taos News as their System Administrator/Webmaster. He completely redesigned the Taos News Web site from the ground up, and won a People's Choice, Best of Taos Award in 2004 for the best web site in Taos County. In addition to that award, the New Mexico Newspaper Association selected The Taos News web site as the Best Newspaper Web Site in New Mexico in 2004, beating out both the Santa Fe and the Albuquerque dailies.

Travis has been the sole developer of over 300 Web sites and has made significant contributions to a number of other sites in the last 13 years. He has worked on major sites such as Macys.com, and QwestDex.com, and has created many smaller sites as well.

He now resides with his wife Belita in Ranchos De Taos, New Mexico, and owns Taos Interactive, a web development studio in Taos, NM.

TERESA DOVALPAGE, PhD

Teresa Dovalpage was born in Havana and presently lives in Taos, New Mexico. She is the author of five novels, three in Spanish and two in English, and a collection of short stories in Spanish. Muerte de un murciano en La Habana (Death of a Murcian in Havana, Anagrama, 2006) was a runner-up for the Herralde Award in Spain. El difunto Fidel (The late Fidel, Ediciones Iduna, 2010) won the Rincon de la Victoria Award in Spain in 2009 and will also be published by Editorial Renacimiento in Spain in 2011. Posesas de La Habana (Haunted ladies of Havana, PurePlay Press, 2004) was her first novel in Spanish. Her collection of short stories ¡Por culpa de Candela! was published by Floricanto Press in 2008. Her English-language novels are A Girl like Che Guevara (Soho Press, 2004) and Habanera, a Portrait of a Cuban Family (Floricanto Press, 2010.)

As a playwright she has written La hija de La Llorona (The Wailing Woman’s Daughter) and Hasta que el mortgage nos separe (Until the mortgage do us part). Both have been staged in Chicago by Aguijon Theater and in small theaters in Miami. Her articles, reviews and short stories have appeared in Rosebud, Latino Today, Afro-Hispanic Review, Baquiana, La Peregrina, Letras Femeninas, El Nuevo Herald and other publications. She currently works as a freelancer for The Taos News and the bilingual paper Mas New Mexico.

She has a Ph.D. in Latin American literature and teaches Spanish, English and creative writing.

Her website is http://www.dovalpage.com/

Her blog in Spanish, that complements her narrative workshop, is http://dovalpage.wordpress.com/

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Her blog in English, where some of her articles are posted, is http://teredovalpage.wordpress.com/

IN MEMORIAM

Founding ASPE board member John Sanders died Friday, January 8, 2010.

After ending a 50-year legal/governmental career, Moreno Valley in northern New Mexico became a retirement home for Sanders. His interest in the paranormal was piqued when he began researching the Moreno Valley, from the first recorded events by Spanish Conquistadors 400 years ago, and he uncovered a long list of unexplained happenings.

Interest in these historical occurrences led to an association with Alliance Studying Paranormal Experiences, Incorporated, where Sanders served as a Founding Director and Board Secretary.

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