Judy Harrow
personal information:
birth: March 3, 1945 -- Bronx, New York
education:
Bronx High School of Science,
1962
Western College for Women, B.A. 1966
major: American Government
La Jolla Program in Group Facilitation,
1977
City College of New York,
Graduate School of Education, M.S.
1979
major: Counseling (with honors)
present affiliation: High Priestess,
Proteus Coven
biographical sketch:
I began to study Witchcraft in 1976, and was
initiated as a Priestess in September of 1977.
Founded Inwood Study Group in June, 1980. After
I received Third Degree (Gardnerian) in
November, 1980, this group became Proteus Coven.
Proteus affiliated with Covenant of the Goddess
in August, 1981. I was convening First Officer
of Northeast Local Council of CoG in 1983,
National First Officer of CoG in 1984, and
Co-chair of CoG Grand Council in 1985. I have
held various other positions on the CoG National
and Local Boards of Directors, most recently
National Public Information Officer from
1993-1995.
I was the first member of CoG to be
legally registered as clergy in New York City
in 1985, after a five year effort requiring
the assistance of the New York Civil Liberties
Union.
I am Chair Emerita of the Pastoral Care and
Counseling Department at Cherry
Hill Seminary. I founded the Pagan
Pastoral Counseling Network in 1982, and
served as the first editor of the Network's
publication. I co-created a workshop series on
Basic Counseling Skills for Coven
Leaders, which has successfully run many
times. This grew into a series of intensive
workshops for Pagan elders on a range of
topics. I also founded the New York Area Coven
Leaders' Peer Support Group. I served as
Program Coordinator for the first Mid-Atlantic
Pan Pagan Conference and Festival and for
several other Pagan gatherings.
For two years, I produced "Reconnections," a
weekly feature on the activities of religious
progressives of all faiths, for WBAI radio in
New York.
I contributed two essays to Modern Rites of
Passage (Book 2 in the "Witchcraft
Today" anthology series.), and one to the
anthology Magical
Religion and Modern Witchcraft,
published in 1996 by SUNY Press. One of these
essays has since been reprinted in The Paganism
Reader (Routledge, 2004). I
have also written for AHP Perspective
(the Newsletter of the Association for
Humanistic Psychology), Counseling and
Values (the Journal of the
Association for Spiritual, Ethical and
Religious Values in Counseling), Gnosis,
and such small Pagan publications as Dayshift,
Harvest, and the CoG Newsletter.
I was a regular contributor to PanGaia,
where my column “Mind and Magic” was
introduced in their Summer, 2004 issue. That
column was later moved to NewWitch.
My first book, Wicca Covens, was published
in 1999. My second book, Spiritual
Mentoring, was published in 2002. I
also edited (and contributed to) the
anthology Devoted to You: Honoring Deity in
Wiccan Practice, which was published
in 2003, and coordinated the 50th Anniversary
reissue of Witchcraft
Today by Gerald Gardner, published in
2004.
I am a member of the Association for
Humanistic Psychology and of the American
Counseling Association. Within ACA, I belong
to three special interest subgroups: the
Association for Spiritual, Ethical and
Religious Values in Counseling (ASERVIC), the
Association for Specialists in Group Work
(ASGW), and the International Association of
Marriage and Family Counselors (IAMFC). I am
a former President of New
Jersey
ASERVIC, and have served on the Book
Review Board of the Family Journal, a
publication of IAMFC.
I have been part of the National
Advisory Board of the Consultation
on Multifaith Education. I was also a
member of the steering committee of the
Interfaith Council of Greater New York. I
managed the Council's email list and acted as
their liaison with the United Religions
Initiative. I served as the Council's Program
Coordinator in the year 1996-1997.
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