Mago Academy (alias Goddess Hedge School) is a non-profit organization that promotes biophilic-knowledge, connection, and peace to the world community of women and men.
Founder/Executive Director
Dr. Helen Hye-Sook Hwang
Helen Hwang is a scholar, teacher, and activist for Goddess Feminism and World Peace. Hwang earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. degree in Women’s Studies in Religion (Claremont Graduate University, CA) and currently completing her second M.A. degree in East Asian Studies at UCLA. She has reconstructed Magoism, a pan-East Asian gynocentric cultural matrix that venerates Mago, the Great Goddess of East Asia. Hwang advocates Magoism as a historical framework in which women of the world can realize alliances across differences. Previously, she was a member of Maryknoll Sisters in Korea, New York, and the Philippines. Encountering Mary Daly’s Radical Feminism, she pursued her graduate studies. Hwang has published many articles in English and Korean and gives lectures, while teaching religions and feminisms at the university level in the U.S.
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Research and Project Advisers
Wennifer A. Lin, Ph.D. (USA/Taiwan)
Glenys Livingston, Ph.D. (Australia)
Luciana Percovich (Italy)
Marla J. Selvidge, Ph.D. (USA)
Karen Jo Torjesen, Ph.D. (USA)
Lydia Ruyle (USA)
Trista Hendren (USA)
Leslene della Madre (USA)
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Editors and Editorial Advisers for Return to Mago (Webzine) and Magowikidary (Online Library)
Rosemary Mattingley (Editor-in-Chief)
Dr. Helen Hwang
Donna Snyder
Mary Saracino
Jillian Parker
Anne Wilkerson Allen
Dr. Wennifer A. Lin
Anna McBain
Dr. Glenys Livingstone
Dr. Mary Ann Ghaffurian
Hearth Moon Rising
Lydia Ruyle
Leslene della Madre
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Partners (TBA)
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Mago Academy Korea
Myung-Joo Kim, Ph.D.
Yongnim Kim
Hae-Kyung Ahn
Dong-Hun Shin, Ph.D.
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Currently Mago Academy is directing the following programs:
Online Class: Gaia and Mago, Rekindling Old Gynocentric Unity
2013 Mago Pilgrim Tour to Korea
E-publication to be announced (Co-editors and Advisers include Helen Hwang, Rosemary Mattingley, Donna Snyder, Mary Saracino, Wennifer A. Lin, Jillian Parker, Anna McBain, Anne Wilkerson Allen, Mary Ann Ghaffurian, Glenys Livingstone, Lydia Ruyle, Hearth Moon Rising, Harriet Ann Ellenberger, Leslene della Madre, and Carol P. Christ).
Please support us in a way you can. We like to invite you as our sponsor or partner. Contact: Dr. Helen Hwang (magoacademy@gmail.com).