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Sudha Soni
The Environment Collaborative (TEC), Chief Functionary
Alleyppey, Kerala, India
Sudha has been engaged for more than 14 years in the development/environment/sustainability sectors and for 5 years in her current position as Chief Functionary of [...]
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Steven Smith
Two Friends Farm, Sole Proprietor
Marshalltown, Iowa
For twelve years the Iowa Network for Community Agriculture (INCA) has been fostering connections between farmers and community members who are growing sustainable local food [...]
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Shanna Ratner
Yellow Wood Associates, Principal
St. Albans, Vermont
Shanna is a researcher and trainer, with 20 years experience specializing in rural community economic development. Through Yellow Wood Associates, she works with federal, state, [...]
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Sally McGee
The Nature Conservancy, Northeast Marine Program Director and Shellfish Growers Climate Coalition Project Manager
Mystic, Connecticut
Sally has in-depth knowledge and expertise in oceans, fisheries, aquaculture, and marine policy. Currently, she is the Northeast Marine Program Director for The Nature Conservancy, [...]
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Rachel Bagby
Choral Earth and Singing Farm, Vocal Artist, Activist, Founder
Charlottesville, Virginia
Rachel’s work as a vocal artist and composer has earned her acclaim from audiences and critics worldwide. As a member of Bobby McFerrin’s a cappella [...]
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Michelle Miller
Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems - University of Wisconsin – Madison, Associate Director
Madison, Wisconsin
Michelle Miller, Donella Meadows Fellows cohort 1, is at the UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, the campus sustainable agriculture research center. She is a [...]
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Josephine Brennan
Sustainable Value Creation Ltd., Founding Director
East Twickenham, United Kingdom
Josephine is a Sustainable Business Consultant and Executive Coach with 15 years senior level experience across renewable energy, cleantech project and sector development, top tier [...]
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Evelyn Arce
International Funders for Indigenous Peoples (IFIP), Executive Director
Mill Valley, California
For almost 10 years, Evelyn has been working for International Funders for Indigenous Peoples (IFIP), where she currently serves as its Executive Director. IFIP is [...]
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Elizabeth Luc Clowes
The Food Project, Former Director of Replication
Boston, Massachusetts
The Food Project (TFP) brings youth and adults together from city and suburb, to grow and distribute healthy food using sustainable agriculture practices. TFP’s community [...]
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Elizabeth Soderstrom
American Rivers, Senior Director of Conservation
Nevada City, California
Elizabeth joined American Rivers in 2008, and works in the California Office on headwater restoration, acquiring water rights for instream flows, and incorporating Native American [...]
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Elaine Kohrman
USDA Forest Service, Branch Chief Presentations
Washington, DC
Elaine is a part of a USDA Forest Service team engaged in revising forest plans for the Malheur, Umatilla, and Wallowa-Whitman National Forests in northeast [...]
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Cynthia Pansing
Changing Tastes Consultants, Principal
Gaithersburg, Maryland
Cynthia is a principal with Changing Tastes, a consulting firm based in the Washington DC metro area. The firm provides strategic planning, facilitation, research, organizational change [...]
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Christine Negra
EcoAgricultural Partners, Director of Research
New York City, New York
Dr. Christine Negra is an experienced scientist with a strong and dynamic track record of linking science with policy in the areas of climate change, [...]
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Brooke Simler Smith
Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea (COMPASS), Executive Director
Corvallis, Oregon
At COMPASS (Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea), Brooke has helped build a non-traditional bridging organization that connects ocean scientists and science to the media, [...]
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Andrea Athanas
African Wildlife Foundation, Program Design Manager – Agriculture and Energy
Arusha, Tanzania
Andrea is a Program Design Manager – Agriculture and Energy with the African Wildlife Foundation. Her ambition is to find pathways for societies to transition [...]
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Abigail Corso
CNT Energy, Senior Energy Efficiency Consultant
Chicago, Illinois
Abby is Senior Energy Efficiency Consultant at CNT Energy, a leading think-tank focused on urban sustainability, defined as “…the more effective use of existing resources and [...]
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Amba Jamir
The Missing Link (TML-India), Executive Director
Guwahati, Assam, India
A development consulting expert with over 15 years of multidisciplinary experience from policy formulation to project development, Amba is professionally trained as an environmental lawyer [...]
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Catharina Any Sulistyowati
Kuncup Padang Ilalang (KAIL), Coordinator for Youth Program and Sustainable Community Initiative
Bandung, Indonesia
Any’s passion is to motivate people to act effectively in response to social and environmental problems. In 2002 she founded KAIL (Kuncup Padang Ilalang), an [...]
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Huma Mustafa Beg
Serendip Productions, Co-Founder and Co-Director
Islamabad, Pakistan
Through Serendip Productions – the media and communications company she founded with her husband – Huma has created hundreds of documentaries on all issues of [...]
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Susanne Moser
Susanne Moser Research and Consulting, Director and Principal Researcher
Santa Cruz, California
Susi is an action researcher whose work focuses on the societal impacts of, and responses to, climate change, and on how to communicate global warming [...]
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Jennifer Sokolove
Water Foundation, Director of Programs and Strategy
Oakland, California
Jen has been working on sustainability issues for more than two decades, with a focus on community-based conservation. Prior to joining the Water Foundation, she [...]
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Kathy Tibbits
Cherokee Nation, Strategy Group
Stilwell, Oklahoma
Kathy has worked as a planner, organizer, and policy analyst for ten years with Cherokee Nation, with a focus on sovereignty and sustainable self-governance. Today she [...]
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Jerry Nagel
Meadowlark Institute, Co-Founder
Lake Park, Minnesota
Jerry believes strongly that participatory leadership and dialogue processes create communities and organizations where people are treated with respect and where there is an opportunity [...]
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Mark Spalding
The Ocean Foundation, President
Washington, DC
As President, Mark brings his extensive experience with the legal and policy aspects of ocean conservation to The Ocean Foundations’ grantmaking strategy and evaluation process. [...]
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Dayna Baumeister
Biomimicry 3.8, Keystone and Co-Founder
Helena, Montana
With a background in biology and applied natural history, and a passion for sharing the wonders of nature with others, Dayna has worked in the [...]
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Anna Jones-Crabtree
US Forest Service, RegionalOperations Coordinator, Rocky Mountain and Northern Regions
Helena, Montana
As the Forest Service’s first Sustainable Operations Coordinator, Anna provides both regional and national leadership for the Rocky Mountain and Northern Regions. She works to [...]
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Michaelyn Bachhuber Baur
Solidaridad, Managing Director, Central America and the Caribbean
Burlington, Vermont
Michaelyn has been with Solidaridad since May 2012. She is a specialist in the international trade of certified products, sustainable rural development, sustainable livelihoods, and [...]
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Danielle Hirsch
Both ENDS, Director
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Both ENDS supports organizations in developing countries to fight poverty and to work towards sustainable environmental management with thematic focus on Water, Land, and Capital. [...]
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Marcelo Michelsohn
Madron & Michelsohn Consultancy in Organizational Systems, Sustainability Consultant and Process Facilitator
Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Marcelo is developing a non-profit association for the advancement of systems thinking and the practice of liberating leadership in organizations. He is working in partnership [...]
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Virginia Farley
Conservation Study Institute, National Park Service (NPS), Director of Leadership Programs
Woodstock, Vermont
Virginia has worked in the conservation field for over 25 years. She served as a Regional Director for the Vermont Land Trust and currently serves [...]
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Sarah K Khan
www.sarahkkhan.com, Freelance multimedia journalist, writer, researcher
New York City, New York
Sarah K. Khan researches and writes about food, culture, migration, healthy lifestyles and sustainability. She consults with media outlets, chefs, museum and galleries, NGOs, corporations and [...]
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John Mlade
YR&G, Senior Sustainability Manager
Chicago, Illinois
John has over 12 years of experience as a specialist in sustainable building design, construction, facility operations, and management of strategic sustainability initiatives. His skills [...]
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Matt Roman
Visteon Corporation, Environmental Health and Safety Affairs Manager
Beverly Hills, Michigan
Matt’s role is to design and implement the corporate environmental strategy for both products and manufacturing processes at Visteon, an automotive manufacturing company. In this [...]
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Lorie Loeb
TellEmotion, Inc, Co-Founder and President; DALI Lab, Co-Founder and Executive Director; Dartmouth College, Professor, Director of Digital Arts
Hartland, Vermont
Lorie builds technology tools to help affect change. She gets giddy about the innovation and creativity that happens at the overlap of science, art, visualization [...]
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Justin Maxson
Mountain Association for Community Economic Development, President
Berea, Kentucky
Justin has been engaged in social change work in Kentucky and across the country for over 15 years. He is currently President of the Mountain [...]
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Nicole Betancourt
Parent Earth, Founder, CEO
New York City, New York
Nicole Betancourt is an Emmy award-winning producer and director with twenty years experience creating and distributing documentaries and short videos. Her work has shown on [...]
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Michael Dupee
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc., Vice President, Innovation Exploration
Shelburne, Vermont
Mike serves as Vice President for Innovation at Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, where he leads efforts to embed sustainability into the company’s product innovation and [...]
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John Fisk
Henry A. Wallace Center, Winrock International, Director
Arlington, Virginia
John Fisk, PhD, is the Director of the Wallace Center at Winrock International. The Henry A. Wallace Center works across the nation to increase the sustainability [...]
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Jed Davis
Cabot Creamery Co-operative, Director of Sustainability
Waitsfield, Vermont
Jed has been involved in dairy agriculture and cooperatives his whole life. Raised on a seven-generation family dairy farm in Central Massachusetts, he moved to [...]
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Karabi Acharya
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Director, Global Ideas for US Solutions
Pennsylvania
Karabi Acharya, who has drawn upon her expertise in anthropology, public health and systems thinking in working with the citizen sector in the United States, [...]
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Nirmala Nair
School of Practical Sustainability, Director
Cape Town, South Africa
As a sociologist, and systems inspired permaculture designer, Nirmala’s expertise is in developing strategies for fostering livelihoods that enhance deeper connections with the ethos of [...]
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Mary Roscoe
Children in Nature Collaborative, Coordinator
Mountain View, California
Mary coordinates the Children in Nature Collaborative in the San Francisco Bay Area, one of over ninety regional movements and a national movement to reconnect [...]
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Antoinette Royo
The Samdhana Institute, Executive Director
Bali, Indonesia
Nonette actively bridges community actors and institutions in key ecosystems, including forest, agroforest and agricultural landscapes, for the Philippines, Indonesia, and other Southeast Asian countries. [...]
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Laura Freeman
Mt. Folly Farm, Farmer and Entrepreneur
Winchester, Kentucky and Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts
Laura is involved daily with Mt. Folly Farm in Kentucky. On her 150 acres, her goal is to sequester carbon in the soil, moving away [...]
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Amália Souza
Socio-Environmental Fund - CASA, Executive Director
Cunha, São Paulo, Brazil
Amália is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Socio-Environmental Fund – CASA, whose mission is to promote environmental conservation and sustainability, democracy and social justice [...]
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Lynn Stoddard
Institute for Sustainable Energy at Eastern Connecticut State University, Executive Director
Willimantic, Connecticut
Lynn is the Executive Director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy at Eastern Connecticut State University. Under Lynn’s leadership, the Institute spearheaded and administers Sustainable CT, a voluntary [...]
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Tim Brown
Tradewater, LLC, President
Chicago, Illinois
Tim is president of Tradewater, LLC, which creates, develops, and implements high value projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Their projects result in quantifiable and [...]
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Dominic Stucker
Collective Leadership Institute, Senior Project Manager
Potsdam, Germany
Dominic is a convener, collaborator, and researcher who brings together diverse action teams to address pressing sustainability challenges. He is facile with group processes and [...]
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Angela Park
Mission Critical, Consultant
Vermont
Angela Park | Consulting Overview To contact Angela, please email: ruby.apconsulting@gmail.com Angela Park is an independent consultant, researcher, and writer dedicated to making social justice and equity hallmarks [...]
