Dr. Carol Weyland Conner - Talks on America

Dr. Carol Weyland Conner was born on a Pawnee Indian Reservation, 70 miles from Prague, Oklahoma.  Her father, a music educator, was doing alternative military duty due to a physical disability.

Raised in Central California’s San Joaquin Valley, she studied English literature at UC Berkeley, French literature at the Sorbonne in Paris, and medieval studies at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore before receiving her Ph.D. in 1976 in clinical psychology from Catholic University in Washington, D.C. After teaching for several years in the George Washington University School of Medicine, she went into private practice as a therapist, practicing for twenty-five years in Walnut Creek, California, during which time she was a volunteer counselor with Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity in San Francisco.

Initiated into Sufism at the age of 37 by Murshida Ivy O. Duce, she was named murshida by both her predecessors, Murshida Duce and Murshid James S. B. MacKie, assuming office in 2001.

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