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Theresa Purcell
President
Theresa graduated from the University of Minnesota in 2007 upon completing a thesis entitled “Green Burial and Western Attitudes Towards Death: The Quest for Immortality.” She is involved with many aspects of death and dying advocacy, primarily including home death care, green funerals, and natural burial. Theresa works closely with the Minnesota Threshold Network and is a co-founder of The Natural Burial Project. In her spare time, Theresa is a beekeeper and runs a local cinema group hosting regular film screenings in the Twin Cities.
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Nicole Sprandel
Vice President
Nicole is a co-founder of The Natural Burial Project in Minnesota. She holds an Environmental Design degree from the University of Minnesota’s Landscape Architecture department. Nicole is interested in many aspects of sustainable living, including natural burial, ecosystem restoration, and organic agriculture, which she studied in Iceland and Germany. Her major writing about conservation cemeteries is a feasibility study entitled “Earth to Earth, Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Formaldehyde.” Along with serving on FCP’s Board of Directors, she also serves as Vice President for FCP’s Minnesota Chapter. Nicole takes advantage of Minnesota’s short summers by kayaking, jogging, and camping; she spends the other eight months on the slopes.
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Derek Farder
Board Member
Derek is a a former student at the University of Minnesota, holding a degree English, art, and design, focusing on environmental design and sustainability. Derek is interested in the environmental impacts of natural burial and conservation cemetaries and the process of adapting new ideas into the mainstream. Apart from working with FCP, Derek works for a Minnesota-based web design company and spends his freetime outdoors enjoying many activities, cooking, board games, and of course gaming in general.
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Karen Jaeger
Board Member
Karen Jaeger joined the FCP Board in 2010 and is learning how to compile the FCP newsletter. Karen joined FCP soon after its inception. She now wants to be more active, helping with the transition as former Board members leave to be more involved with the Farley Center and as we grow both our Minnesota and Wisconsin chapters.
Karen is a long time resident of Madison, WI and for the last 20 years has had a private practice in physical therapy, specializing in craniosacral therapy and lymph drainage. These are manual therapy techniques that use whole body fluid flow patterns to integrate physical, mental and emotional health. When she heard about the natural burial movement combined with land preservation, she was immediately struck by the whole system implications for expanding healthy ecosystems and at the same time bringing families back to nature when loved ones die. Just as we each have self-correcting mechanisms to maintain and reclaim health, there are self-correcting processes for our earth into which we can blend.
She looks forward to working with the FCP Board to keep this movement alive and healthy.
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Kevin Corrado
Board Member
Kevin has been an active member of FCP since 2007, before joining the Board in 2009. One of FCP’s favorite presenters because of his warm humor and positive energy, he also is a frequent contributor to Natural Legacy News. Kevin draws upon his professional experience as a medical social worker, where he often works with patients and families dealing with end of life issues. He also brings diverse board experience including: the WI Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the Regent Neighborhood Association, and Quaker Housing. He is committed to the goal of nurturing the birth of multiple conservation/green cemeteries throughout the Midwest for his generation, his sons' generation, and beyond. As the late Quaker and soil scientist Francis Hole used to say, "We are all ‘TNS’—temporarily not soil." Kevin would love to eventually be soil in Wisconsin's first conservation cemetery.
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