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Mark Stephens (August 10, 1958- ), is a writer and yoga teacher in Santa Cruz, California and founder of Yoga Inside Foundation. His earliest paternal American ancestor, Alexander Stephens (1727-1814), fought as a captain under Prince Charles Edward at the Battle of Culloden in 1746 before emigrating to America and founding the Penn Colony at the junction of the Susquehana and Juniata Rivers. His paternal great-great grandfather, George Washington Stephens (1799-1892), founded Moline Plow Company, at the time the second largest steel plow company in the world, and oversaw an industrial enterprise that later developed the Stephens Motor Car Company. His maternal grandfather, Roy Potter (18??-19??), a West Coast labor organizer with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), worked in the timber, rail and shipping industries of California.
Born in Santa Cruz, California to George Arthur Stephens (1923-1990) and Royal Sarah Potter (1923-1969), Stephens attended grade school at San Lorenzo Valley Elementary School. After the death of his mother, Stephens was separated from his brother, Michael Bayne Stephens (1955- ), of Miranda, California and his sister, Melinda Stephens Bukey (1956- ) of Sacramento, California and Ashland, Oregon. From the age of 11 Stephens was a ward of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, shuffling between juvenile detention facilities, foster homes and the streets until gaining legal emancipation on his 17th birthday.
At age 16, Stephens passed the California High School Proficiency Examination and, with the assistance of Los Angeles County Probation Department, gained provisional admission at Antelope Valley Community College (AVCC) through the Educational Opportunity Program & Services (EOP&S) program. Deeply disturbed by perceived social injustices, Stephens gravitated toward politics, first by volunteering in a local ACLU-led community organizing campaign aimed at law enforcement misconduct in the "Sun Village" neighborhood of Palmdale, California. In his second year at AVCC, Stephens tutored other students in Astronomy, Biology, English Literature, History, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology while passionately studying Eastern and classical Western philosophy. His interest in Eastern philosophy first brought Stephens to the study and practice of yoga in 1978. He also ran successfully for Student Body President along with a slate of progressive candidates committed to challenging the administrative status quos. His student government instituted tutoring servies, a child care program, environmental reycling and played a leading role in statewide political lobbying on behalf of socio-economically disadvantaged students. Stephens was the first student member of the Antelope Valley Community College District Board of Trustees.
Stephens departed the Antelope Valley in 1979 to pursue studies in Politics and Environmental Studies at the University of California campus in his native Santa Cruz (UCSC). During his first term of study at UCSC, Stephens met and chose as his adviser Michael E. Rotkin, a lecturer and coordinator of field studies in Community Studies, an inter-disciplinary program focused on preparing students for careers in social change. Along with Rotkin and others, Stephens worked as a leader and activist at the local and national levels of the New American Movement (NAM), a socialist-feminist organization. With Stephens as a Steering Committee member, the Santa Cruz NAM chapter led community organizing projects and broader political campaigns around issues of health care, environmental preservation, women's rights, housing and U.S. imperialism, and elected four socialist-feminists (Michael E. Rotkin, Bruce Van Allen, Mardi Wormhoudt and John Laird) to a majority on the Santa Cruz City Council in 1981. Previously, in 1980, Stephens served a six-month internship monitoring Environmental Review Committee actions under the guidance of Santa Cruz County Supervisor Gary Patton and Andy Schiffren.
As an undergraduate student at UCSC (1979-1982), Stephens pursued a double major in Community Studies and Sociology, studying intensively under Rotkin, William H. Friedland, James O'Connor and G. William Domhoff. ALthough primarily involved politically in city and community affairs, Stephens organized the Merrill College Town Hall as a means to give students a stronger collective voice in campus affairs. In 1981 he was elected campuswide to represent UCSC on the statewide University of California Student Body President's Council, a position typically held by a campus student body president (there was no campuswide student government at UCSC). As a Council member, Stephens chaired the Legislative Committee and worked with then California State Assemblymember John Vasconcellos on several education reform bills. Stephens also co-founded West Coast Mobilization Against the Draft in 1981 and led demonstrations in San Francisco and other cities in opposition to the military draft.
In 1982, Santa Cruz County was devastated by historic-level storms and flooding. Stephens quickly organized a campus-disaster relief organization that coordinated its efforts with local fire, rescue and volunteer community agencies.
Stephens graduated from UCSC in 1982 with Highest Honors in both components of his double major, College Honors for outstanding overall academic accomplishment, and the College Service Award for contributions to the Merrill College community. He was selected by his peers to give the Senior Address at the 1982 Graduation Commencement.
In the summer of 1982, Stephens began work with Ralph Nader's (CalPIRG) as organizer in Los Angeles, later rising to direct CalPIRG's organizing efforts in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties of southern California. In 1983 Stephens co-led the Nuclear Free Santa Monica ballot initiative while continuing his work at CalPIRG.
In 1984, Stephens initiated graduate studies in Sociology as a University Fellow at UCLA, concentrating on Macrosociology under the guidance of Professor Maurice Zeitlin, a noted neo-Marxist researcher and scholar. After completing his Master's degree in 1986, Stephens completed his coursework and comprehensive examinations for Ph.D. in Sociology at UCLA. His doctoral research concerned power at the highest levels of the American state, taking the origins and early development of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as his case study. During this period, Stephens served as Research Associate to renowned Professor Michael Mann on Volume II of Mann's Sources of Social Power. In 1990 Mann and Stephens co-authored an article on the original American Revolutionaries that utilized the same prosopographical research methods that Stephens was applying to his study of the CIA.
While writing his doctoral dissertation in 1992, mass civil disturbance (the "Rodney King Riots") broke out across Los Angeles. Still involved in community organizing and political campaign work, Stephens was disillusioned by the seeming irrelevance of UCLA and other academic institutions to the social conflict that was occurring within eyesight of the campus' towers. Stephens left UCLA to begin teaching social studies in Compton, California until securing a teaching position in Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) Juvenile Court and Community Schools (JCCS) with incarcerated gang members. It was at this time that Stephens began his second wave of studying and practicing yoga.
During two years at the Camp David Gonzales senior security juvenile facility located in the mountains near Malibu, California, Stephens taught social studies and journalism, advised his students in creating a monthly news magazine, wrote several successful grant proposals and volunteered to supervise a a wide range of extracurricular cultural and recreational programs. In all of this work, Stephens enjoyed the grudging respect of facility staff and worked successfully to help many of the youth leave the facility with a positive, historically- and socially-informed perspective.
Stephens' skill as a program visionary and strategic thinker were recognized by Larry Springer, director of JCCS, and Dr. H. Jennifer Hartman, head of Educational Programs for LACOE, who tapped Stephens to focus on program development, system reorganization, legislative initiatives, policy work and strategic planning. In 1995 he was appointed to Decisionmakers 95, representing LACOE in inter-agency collaboration work in L.A. County and laying the groundwork for the County's Inter-Agency Operations Group. He also served on the Los Angeles County Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council from 1996-1999 and played a leading role in shaping California legislation pertaining to youth-at-risk. After ten years with LACOE as a teacher and management consultant, Stephens left to advise Los Angeles County Chief Probation Officer on educational policy for incarcerated youth.
In 1996, Stephens had assisted the Samaya Foundation in a project initiated by the Dalai Lama bringing Tibetan monks into L.A. County juvenile facilities to teach meditation and principles of non-violence. The beneficial effects of this project combined with Stephens' passion for the healing and self-transforming benefits of yoga inspired him in 1997 to create the non-profit Yoga Inside Foundation as a means for bringing yoga to incarcerated youth. Within one year, demand for the program resulted in it being expanded to adolescent mental health treatment facilities, shelters, inner city schools and adult prisons. By 2002 the program spread to 42 states and three Canadian provinces, linking yoga teachers and institutions in over 300 settings and providing training, insurance, supplies, guidance and networking. In recognition of this work, Stephens received Yoga Journal's First Annual Karma Yoga Award in 2000.
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