Staff & Affiliates:

Leif Hallberg coordinated the YouthSpace Garden Project at Life Center for Youth and Adults this summer, with Jason Allen and Angelica Gallegos as assistants. Judith Fein teaches Literary Arts and Drama at the Santa Fe Detention Center. Alexandra Ramsey and Beth McLendon taught computer programming, Internet, and web page design at Warehouse 21. Jacob Louis and Brendan Pierpont we re our teen Web Designers. Our Web Page was originally designed by Edward L. LaBane and is currently administered by Beth McLendon. Photographs were produced by Chris Corrie Photography, and Logo by Peggy Pfeiffer of 'Bad Dog Design', both doing business in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
 

Alexandra Ramsey began the computer programming, Internet, and web page design for students in the YouthSpace Program at Warehouse 21 in Santa Fe, NM. Beth McLendon took over as instructor at Warehouse 21 in February of 2000. Beth worked as Web Designer at Panorama Point in Santa Fe for two years before leaving to teach and develop websites and experimental digital environments as co-principal of Freelance Farm. She holds an BA from Yale University and a Masters of Architecture from Princeton University. She has also taught Web Design at Long Island University in New York City and de Vargas Middle School in Santa Fe. Her websites have won numerous awards, including exhibition in ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Arts). At Warehouse 21, she helped students Jacob Louis and Brendan Pierpont develop the YouthSpace website.

Judith Fein taught creative writing and drama at the Santa Fe Youth Development Program (SF Youth Detention Center) as part of the YouthSpace Program from Fall 1998 to Fall 1999. Although she is no longer affiliated with YouthSpace, she continues to teach at the Detention Center. Judith is an award-winning writer of movies, television, books, plays, operas, magazine and newspaper articles. She is a frequent writer/reporter for Public Radio International's "The Savvy Traveler", and has taught acting and directing in Europe and America. She presents the work of her students on her website, www.livefromsantafe.com, under the title, "Kids Behind Bars".  

Leif Hallberg coordinated the YouthSpace Garden Project (Garden of Youth) at the Life Center for Youth and Adults during the summer of 1999. Leif will graduate from Prescott College in December 1999 with a BA in Counseling/Psychology. She has extensive experience working with at-risk youth; with developmentally disabled, behaviorally challenged, and emotionally disturbed adults; and has developed programs for drug and alcohol recovery, a Ropes Course, and sexual assault support groups. Her special interest is equine therapy.

Jason Allen has just completed his first semester at Southwestern College of Naturopathic Medicine in Tempe, AZ. Jason was Leif's assistant on the YouthSpace Garden Project, and directed construction of bridges, paths, ponds, and other critical facets of the garden.