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Joanna Shenk

Currently Joanna lives in the vibrant neighborhood of south central Elkhart, Indiana, where she is a part of a cohousing community, the Prairie Wolf Collective. She also helped to start Rise Up Farms, a permaculture farming initiative that seeks to connect people in Elkhart with locally grown food. Since 2010, she has been a cohost and coproducer of The Iconocast, a twice-monthly podcast hosted at JesusRadicals.com. Joanna also works with Mennonite Church USA's national staff as associate for interchurch relations and communication. In this role she is a writer, editor, and link between the denomination and other Christians who are interested in community and discipleship stemming from the Anabaptist tradition.