{"id":47340,"date":"2023-09-14T12:36:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T19:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=47340"},"modified":"2025-09-23T10:52:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:52:17","slug":"shepherd-siegel","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/speaker\/shepherd-siegel\/","title":{"rendered":"Shepherd Siegel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-ogsc=\"\"><strong data-ogsc=\"\"><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(90, 89, 88)\">Shepherd Siegel<\/span><\/strong><span data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0(he\/him) is an author and activist. He started off as a professional rock and jazz musician before becoming a teacher for incarcerated youth and students with disabilities. He earned his doctorate at University of California, Berkeley, with studies in anthropology and special education. His recent books,\u00a0<\/span><em data-ogsc=\"\"><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(90, 89, 88)\">Disruptive Play<\/span><\/em><span data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(90, 89, 88)\" data-ogsb=\"rgb(249, 238, 226)\">and\u00a0<\/span><em data-ogsc=\"\"><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(90, 89, 88)\">Tricking Power into Performing Acts of Love (<\/span><\/em><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(90, 89, 88)\" data-ogsb=\"rgb(249, 238, 226)\">a Bronze Winner for an INDIES Book of the Year Award\u00a0and Silver winner of a CIPA Evvy)<\/span><em data-ogsc=\"\"><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(90, 89, 88)\">,<\/span><\/em><span data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(90, 89, 88)\" data-ogsb=\"rgb(249, 238, 226)\">explore the Trickster in politics and culture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Siegel lives in Seattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","speaker_topic":[964],"class_list":["post-47340","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","hentry","speaker_topic-philosophy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Shepherd Siegel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/speaker\/shepherd-siegel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Trickster: How this Ancient Archetype Helps Us to Imagine a Better World - Shepherd Siegel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Shepherd Siegel\u00a0(he\/him) is an author and activist. 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