Advisory Board
Cecile Andrews, Ed.D
Community Educator, Seattle, WA
Cecile Andrews is the author of The Circle of Simplicity and Slow is Beautiful: New Visions of Community, Leisure, and Joie de Vivre. She has her doctorate in education from Stanford University and focuses on community education — peer led, self education in which participants define their own problems and use community to create solutions. She is a founding member of the Phinney EcoVillage, an urban project committed to building sustainability and community in neighborhoods. She is also an adjunct faculty member at Seattle University and on the national board for Take Back Your Time.
Her work has been featured in the PBS special “Escape from Affluenza” hosted by Wanda Urbanska and the TBS special “Consumed by Consumption” (featuring Cecile, Ed Begley, Jr., and Phyllis Diller), CBS News “Eye on America”, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Esquire, and various PBS and NPR programs.
She lives in Seattle, WA with her husband, Seattle Times technology writer Paul Andrews.