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Chapters in Edited Collections:

Chapter with co-author Rosa Cobos, “Empowerment of the Fields: Betabeleras and the Western Nebraska Sugar Industry,” Gender and Rural Migration: Realities, Conflict and Change, Glenda Tibe Bonifacio, ed. “Routledge Research in Gender and Society (Book 38)” series. New York: Routledge (2014).

Chapter, "Betabeleros and the Western Nebraska Sugar Industry: An Early 20th Century History," Latin Migrations to the U.S. Heartland: Reshaping Communities, Redrawing Boundaries, Linda Allegro and Andrew Grant Wood, eds. “American Working Class” series. Chicago: University of Illinois Press (2013).

Encyclopedia Entries:

Anders wrote a variety of individual and organizational entries for BlackPast.org's online encyclopedia on African American and African Diaspora history. Covered topics include:

• science fiction author Samual R. Delany
• award-winning South African photographer Zanele Muholi
• Kansan farmer and entrepreneur Junius Groves (Kansas State Historical Society awarded an Edward N. Tihen Historical Research Grant to Anders and co-researcher Angela Doyle-Radicia in 2004-5 for their Groves work).
• the advocacy and support organization Gay Men of African Descent (GMAD)

Book Reviews (select):

Review, How We Are Changed by War: A Study of Letters and Diaries from Colonial Conflicts to Operation Iraqi Freedom, by Diane C. Gill, The International Journal on World Peace (December 2015).

Review, Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now, by Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze, The International Journal on World Peace (June 2014).

Review, The Mari Sandoz Letters on Native American Rights, by Kimberli A. Lee, editor, Nebraska History (Summer 2010).

Review, North for the Harvest: Mexican Workers, Growers, and the Sugar Beet Industry by Jim Norris. The International Journal of World Peace (March 2010).

Review, Surviving Iraq: Soldiers’ Stories, Elise Forbes Tripp, Peace & Change (July 2009).

Review, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, by David C. Korten, The International Journal on World Peace (December 2008).

Review, Grandmothers Counsel the World: Women Elders Offer Their Vision for Our Planet, by Carol Schafer, The International Journal on World Peace (March 2008).

Review, Women at The Hague:  The International Congress of Women and Its Results by Jane Addams, Emily G. Balch, and Alice Hamilton, Introduction by Harriet Hyman Alonso, The History Teacher (August 2004). 

Courses Taught:

• Exploring World Domination & World Peace, Lifespan Education & Adult Programs (LEAP), Jefferson Unitarian Church, Golden, CO, March-May 2015.
• Introduction to Grant Writing, in Anders' nonprofits and through WTW, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2010. 
• Nuts and Bolts of Nonprofit Management, Internship Programs through her nonprofit organizations working with undergraduate and graduate students from Iliff School of Theology, University of Colorado-Denver, Naropa University, Regis University, University of Denver, 1999-2010.
• Service Learning in a Multicultural Democracy, University of Denver undergraduate course, Spring and Fall 1996, Spring and Fall 1997.
• Multiple Voices of America: Religious Dimension, co-taught with Dr. Will Gravely, Colorado Women's College undergraduate course, 1996.
• Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP), certified lead facilitator in Colorado prisons and Denver community, New Foundations Nonviolence Center, 1996-2005.

Projects:

Betabelero (Mexican and Mexican-American Beet Field Workers) Oral History Project, Writing the World, LLC, capturing the stories of these former hand laborers in Western Nebraska/Eastern Wyoming, 2008-.

Wyoming State Historical Society awarded Anders a Lola Homsher Endowment grant in 2008 to conduct oral histories in Wyoming.

LGBTQ (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgendered Queer) Page, African American History online reference center, BlackPast.org, Project Coordinator, 2012-13.

Photo Permissions Project, BlackPast.org, Photo Permissions Coordinator, 2010-13.

Reconnection II, III, IV Public History Events, eastern Kansas, Votaw Colony Museum, Inc., Project Co-Director, 2006-11.

Public Speaking (select):

"Living Life to the Fullest," guest preacher, Columbine Unitarian Universalist Church, Littleton, CO, February 21, 2016

“Social Justice and Community Ministry,” coordinator and panel member, Nebraska Regional Assembly of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Scottsbluff, Nebraska, October 2012.

“The Western Nebraska Beet Fields across Space and Time through the Eyes of Art,” session coordinator, paper presentation, Annual Meeting of the Agricultural History Society, Manhattan, Kansas, June 2012.

“Mexican Beet Worker Women in Western Nebraska,” guest speaker, American Association of University Women (AAUW), Scottsbluff, Nebraska, September 2011.

"The Creation of Sugar Culture: Western Nebraskan Women as Example," paper presentation, National Coalition of Independent Scholars, Berkeley, California, October 2008.

“Alternatives to Incarceration,” guest lecturer, Dr. Celeste Rossmiller’s undergraduate Ethics course, Metropolitan State Community College, Denver, Colorado, September 2008. 

"Prison Ministry," Spirit of Christ Catholic Church, Denver, Colorado, panelist, February 2005.

“Peter Abrams and View from Coyaba:  the Interweaving of Fact and Fiction,” guest lecture for Dr. Vincent Harding’s doctoral-level course “The Struggle for Transformation in African and African-American Fiction,” University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology, February 1996.

“Visions and the Work:  Administering Faith-Based Justice and Peace Organizations,” panel member, Justice and Peace Studies Program Praxis Seminar, Iliff School of Theology, Denver, Colorado, February 1996 (Master’s level). 

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