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GWS PRODUCTION CREW

Peter Kowalke
Natalie Lloyd
Scott Kowalke
J. Sommers

Peter Kowalke
Producer, Editor, Videographer

GWS was produced, written and directed by Peter Kowalke. Peter is a contributing editor for Home Education Magazine (Peter writes the Grown Homeschooler column for Home Education Magazine). Peter has written for Growing Without Schooling and Unschooling Ourselves, speaks regularly at homeschooling conferences and, in 1997, was the subject of a feature article in the New York Times Sunday Magazine.

Peter has a strong background as a writer/producer, having founded Nation Magazine, Nation’s annual conference, and the Spiral Chambers poetry syndicate. Peter also served as editor of Hampshire College’s weekly newspaper, The Forward. In 1999 and 2000, he directed the video portion of the Mentor High School graduation ceremonies (broadcast live to roughly 7,000 attendees and sold via mail-order). In 2001, Peter spent his summer interning at Cleveland Magazine.

Peter is currently pursuing a degree in journalism at Ohio University’s Scripps School of Journalism. After college, Peter plans to become a magazine editor.

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Natalie Lloyd
Videographer and sound Engineer

Natalie, a long-standing unschooler, worked on the project as chief camera operator for the East Coast leg of the production. Natalie is currently pursuing a career in acting. Her husband, network administrator Steve Baughman, was kind enough to let us borrow Natalie less than a month after their honeymoon. Natalie and Steve live in Columbus, Ohio.

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Jenny Sommers
Assistant Editor

Jenny, a homeschooling teen with an interest in video and photography, assisted Peter in the editing of the documentary. Jenny lives in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.

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Scott Kowalke
Technical Advisor

Technical advisor to the production was Scott Kowalke, a retired teacher of TV production at Mentor High School with over twenty years of video experience.

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I must admit, I found the working world to be easy to enter into as a former homeschooler. And I think this is the case for a lot of us. Work, applying things to real life— we’re doing this all the time when we’re homeschooling.
-Seth Smith