Stephen Miles Lewis – Founder, President and Board Member
Miles served as facilitator for Austin’s UFO Experiencer Support Group for nearly ten years and has spoken to local and national radio / TV / print media. In 1995 he spoke at the national Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness conference on the subject of UFOs as a transformative paradigm. His interests in both the physical and folkloric research of parapsychology and ufology have led to his collecting and archiving of over 3000 books on these and other topics relevant to consciousness research and the founding of the Anomaly Archives, lending library of the Scientific Anomaly Institute.
John Anderson – Board Member
John grew up in South Dakota and became a passionate sky watcher at an early age. He purchased his first telescope with money earned doing odd jobs when in elementary school and built another telescope in junior high. John has a bachelor’s degree in English and Philosophy from the University of South Dakota at Vermillion.
John moved to Austin in 1978 and eventually went to work for the Texas State Library and Archives Commission where he was employed in a variety of positions including Photographic Specialist, Prints and Photographs Archivist, and finally as the Archives Preservation Officer. He retired from the Texas State Archives in 2015 after nearly 37 years of service.
John is a contributing author to two books on the history of photography, and has written and presented extensively on various aspects of photography and archival preservation. He is an active member of the Society of American Archivists.
Mark Jackson – Board Member
Nyssa Hughes – Board Member
Nyssa Hughes has a passion for travel and adventure. To date she has lived in 6 countries around the world and has visited over 50. One of her goals is to visit 100 countries.
She is an archival researcher and writer, with a strong interest in anomalous subjects and adventure biography. She has given presentations at the Anomaly Archives about the adventurer Frank Buck, and written and co-produced a documentary on William Seabrook and his connection to Zombies in popular culture.
She has long been a supporter of the Anomaly Archives, and has done many behind the scenes activities with nearly all aspects of the organization; like helping at outreach events, crew work with the Anomaly Archives’ Streamathon, and donating time, tech help, and technology to further the goals of the Archive.
Nyssa spent ten glorious years working in various libraries and archives, before switching to technological product development. Using these skills, she worked with the Institute for Neuroscience and Consciousness Studies team that won the René Warcollier Prize for Remote Viewing in 2012.
As an award winning artist, she has displayed her inventions at several Maker Faires and once was a runner-up in a Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer Can art contest.
Advisory Panel Committee Members
Ed Conroy – Advisor & Former Board Member
James L. King – Former Board Member & Advisor
Jim received a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Houston in 1972, and has completed 15 graduate level hours in psychology and education. He has fifteen years of experience data processing and computer programming, and has owned his own consulting business. He has also been involved in community voluntees activities, including past and present service on the Boards of Directors of other non-profit organizations. He also works with New Life Institute.
Jeremy Wells – Advisor
Jeremy currently works as a freelance writer, editor, and training specialist in the video game industry and served as a researcher and field investigator with the Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy (now NAWAC – North American Wood Ape Conservancy).
Christopher Jahnke – Archival Technology Advisor
Past Board Members & Advisors
Mike DeGroff – Past Board Member
Austin MUFON – Former State Section Director for Travis and Williamson Counties. Mike is a trained MUFON Field Investigator. Mike was instrumental in the founding of the Anomaly Archives and it’s continued growth.
Ray Hawkins, Ph.D., ABPP (Clinical Psychology) – Past Board Member
In 1982, Ray joined the Austin Regional Clinic as a staff psychologist, where he continued his clinical research on addictive behaviors and began new research on the relationship between Jungian personality types, addictive behaviors, chaos theory, and other behavioral health issues, including chronic pain. He is now a core faculty member in the clinical psychology Ph.D. program at Fielding Graduate University, and is clinical psychologist at New Life Institute, where he also serves as training clinic director.
Ray is also on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin, Psychology Department, as a lecturer and clinical supervisor, and since 1998 he has been an adjunct professor in the Master of Arts Program in Pastoral Ministry at the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest.
Ray’s current clinical research interests are in individual differences in personality, consciousness, and spirituality.
Bob McGarey – Past Board Member
Robert McGarey is the founder and Executive Director of The Human Potential Center. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Humanistic Psychology. He has been a featured speaker at numerous local and national conferences, and over the years has presented over 500 workshops. He has extensive experience and training in a variety of psychological techniques that promote physical, emotional, and spiritual wellness.
Craig York – Past Board Member
Don Switlick – Past Board Member / Board Member Emeritus
Founder of Austin IONS, the local community group of the Institute Of Noetic Sciences. Don was also active among such local consciousness groups as INACS (as their Director of Education facilitating INACS’ Consciousness Connections series), the Jung Society of Austin, Omega at The Crossings, and with New Life Institute.
Mark Muecke – Past Board Member
Mark has a master’s degrees in public policy and journalism from the University of Texas. He has previously worked as a journalist and covered the 80th Texas legislature for the El Paso Times in 2007.
Mark Sebesta – Past Advisor
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