Staff and Board
When the forms of an old culture are dying, the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure.
Rudolf Bahro
Springhouse staff are committed.
They are adults who are willing to find their strength in insecurity, and they love the world more strongly and creatively from that vulnerable place. Each day, they are willing to join together and move toward an audacious vision of creating a culture that takes care of Life.
Meet our Dedicated Staff





H first started volunteering at Springhouse in 2015 while they were still in college, and they have been involved in various capacities ever since. Currently, they mentor teens; facilitate courses on Love, racial inequity, America’s hidden history, and a critique of American culture; teach yoga; and curate and oversee Springhouse’s digital media. If you happen to catch H outside of Springhouse, they may be experimenting with film photography, studying Sanskrit as part of their master’s degree in yoga studies, or helping co-organize events for the local queer community.



Ian has a deep appreciation for the natural world and humanity’s place within it, and he uses his art as an access point through which to delve deeper into our environment and himself. He loves farming, homesteading, traveling, and teaching. Ian believes that art in education can be as expansive as the learners who participate in it as well as in the potential for art to teach us depth within ourselves and the world around us. Ian loves old things that carry the marks of hundreds of hands, student watercolors of dragons, and the satisfaction of a well-built stair.

Meet our Board of Trustees

While also active in leadership positions in many community organizations such as United Way, chambers of commerce, economic development organizations, and Junior Achievement Chuck has focused on education with 10 years as chair of Foundations in Learning, 27 years on the Coe College Board of Trustees (3 as Chair), 26 years on the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business Board of Advisors, several years on the board of the Belin-Blank Center at the University of Iowa, and three years as the Chair of the Board of Advisors for the University of Iowa College of Education.

