National Teach-In : Who We Are

ADVISORY BOARD / BOARD OF DIRECTORS / STAFF Advisory Board
	Dr. David Orr is currently Professor and Chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Oberlin College. He is perhaps best known for his pioneering work on environmental literacy in higher education and his recent work in ecological design. Dr. Orr raised funds for and spearheaded the effort to design and build a $7.2 million Environmental Studies Center at Oberlin College, a building described by the New York Times as "the most remarkable" of a new generation of college buildings. The building was also selected as one of 30 "milestone buildings" in the 20th century by the U.S. Department of Energy. Dr. Orr is a contributing editor of Conservation Biology.
	Dr. Stephen Schneider is a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Environment Science and Policy of the Institute for International Studies, and Professor by Courtesy in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University since September, 1992. Schneider’s current global change research interests include: climatic change; global warming; climactic change environmental and economic impacts; food/climate and other environmental /science public policy issues; integrated assessment of global change; climatic modeling of paleoclimates and of human impacts on climate, and the environmental consequences of nuclear war. [more]
	Dr. Mohan Munasinghe is the Founding Chairman of Munasinghe Institute for Development. Prof. Mohan Munasinghe has postgraduate degrees in physics, engineering and economics, from Cambridge University (UK), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), McGill University (Canada), and Concordia University (Canada). Presently, he is Chairman, Munasinghe Institute of Development (MIND); Vice Chair, U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Geneva; Honorary Senior Advisor to the Govt. of Sri Lanka; Visiting Professor, Yale Univ., USA. [more]
	Dr. James "Gus" Speth is Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. From 1993 to 1999, Dean Speth served as administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and chair of the UN Development Group. Prior to his service at the UN, he was founder and president of the World Resources Institute; professor of law at Georgetown University; chairman of the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality; and senior attorney and cofounder, Natural Resources Defense Council. [more]
	Van Jones, is an eco-visionary, award-winning human rights attorney and powerhouse speaker. He is the founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (EBC), a strategy and action center, working for justice, peace, and opportunity in urban America. Based on a decade of front-line activism, he offers comprehensive solutions and inspirational models to the three grave perils facing society: widening social inequality, radical environmental destruction, and deepening despair. His visionary proposals answer the call for expanded opportunity, ecological sustainability, and renewed hope. [more]
	Elysa Hammond, Clif Bar Ecologist is an environmental scientist with a special interest in food production systems. During the past 20 years, she has worked in ecological research and education in a variety of places including Mexico, Peru, Indonesia and, more recently, in New York where she now lives. Her work has varied in setting and task, but has always revolved around food, agriculture and resource use. She is very excited to work for Clif Bar Inc, a company that makes healthy food and truly seeks to make the world a better place along the way. [more]
	Dr. Debora Rowe has been a Professor of Renewable Energies and Energy Management at Oakland Community College for over 20 years. As part of her work with University Leaders For A Sustainable Future (ULSF), she works with both higher education and K-12 associations to integrate the sustainability paradigm into all levels of formal education. Dr Rowe has hosted many conferences and customized trainings at the Energy Awareness Center at OCC, which she created. She also won the State and Regional Professional Development Award from the Association of Energy Engineers for the curricula of the Environmental Systems Technology Program. [more]
	Dr. Anthony D. Cortese, President of Second Nature, a nonprofit organization with a mission to catalyze a worldwide effort to make healthy, just, and sustainable action a foundation of all learning and practice in higher education. He is also a co-director of the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment and co-founder of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education and the Higher Education Association Sustainability Consortium and a consultant to industry, government and non-profit organizations. [more]
	Dr. Penelope Canan, Professor of Sociology at the University of Central Florida. She graduated from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and received MA and PhD degrees from the University of Denver. Before joining UCF in 2006, she was on the faculties of the University of Virginia, the University of Hawaii, and the University of Denver. From 2004-2006, she served as Executive Director of the Global Carbon Project at Japan’s National Institute for Environmental Studies. She is the recipient of many awards, including the “Distinguished Career Award” from the Section on Environment and Technology of the American Sociological Association (2007); the US EPA’s “Best of the Best” award for individual contribution to ozone layer protection (2007); Her most recent books are SLAPPs: Getting Sued for Speaking Out (Temple University Press 1996, with George Pring) and Ozone Connections: Expert Networks in Global Environmental Governance (Greenleaf 2002, with Nancy Reichman). [more]
	Gillian Caldwell, 1Sky Campaign Director is a filmmaker and attorney with thirty years of experience advocating for social justice in the United States and around the world. Most recently, Gillian served as Executive Director of WITNESS, which uses the power of video to open the eyes of the world to human rights abuses. Gillian also wrote and co-edited Video for Change: A Guide to Advocacy and Activism, (2005), and was formerly the Co-Director of the Global Survival Network. Her numerous awards include the Echoing Green Fellowship (1996-1998), Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership Award (2000), Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship Award Winner (2001-present), Journalist of the Month by Women’s Enews (2004), and the Skoll Social Entrepreneurship Award (2005-present). She received her BA from Harvard University and a J.D.from Georgetown University, where she was honored as a Public Interest Law Scholar.
	Dan Worth is the Executive Director of the National Association of Environmental Law Societies (NAELS), a coalition of environmental law student groups that seeks to mobilize the university community in support of public interest environmental solutions. Dan also currently serves on the Steering Committee for the Energy Action Network, a coalition of student and youth groups working on climate and energy issues. Dan is Vice Chair of Membership for the American Bar Association Section on Energy, Environment, and Resources Committee on Climate Change, Sustainable Development, and Ecosystems and Chair of Unviersity Outreach for the MIT-based IGNITE Clean Energy Competition. Dan also serves as an advisor to the National Teach-In on Global Warming Solutions and to Net Impact's Green Campus Initiative. Dan served as the Harvard Law School Environmental Fellow, where he coordinated the Environmental Working Group - a team of Harvard Law School administrators, professors, alumni, and students working to develop a comprehensive environmental law program. [more]
	Billy Parish, Director, Energy Action. I'm a co-founder and coordinator of the Energy Action Coalition and have been a full-time organizer working to build the youth climate movement for four years. I'm from NYC, went to Yale for 5 semesters and left to do this work. I believe young people will lead the way. [more]
	Jessy Tolkan is an 8-year veteran of the youth organizing and voting movement. Jessy has worked as the Wisconsin State Director for the New Voters Project, registering over 130,000 18-24 year old voters across the state and helping to produce one of the highest youth voter turnout rates in the country, a historic 11% increase in youth voter turnout in the US, the largest increase since 18 year-olds got the right to vote. In 2006, Jessy was recently named one of the "Real Hot 100," an award given to women making real change in their communities. Jessy currently serves as the Executive Director of Programs for the Energy Action Coalition, a coalition of more than 40 youth organizations united in their fight for the clean energy future.
	Dr. Bunyan Bryant, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan. Although Bunyan Bryant's major faculty appoin tment is in the School of Natural Resources and Environment, he is a member of the Urban Technological and Environmental Planning Program, and has an adjunct position with the Center of Afro-American and African Studies. In 1973 Dr. Bryant did post-doctoral work at the University of Manchester in England in Town and Country Planning. His current research interests include developing case studies on corporate, agency, and community responses to hazardous waste sites. [more]
	Dr. William Moomaw is Professor of International Environmental Policy and has been the Director of the International Environment and Resource Policy Program at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, since 1992. In addition to his work at the Fletcher School, he is also Director of Tufts Institute of the Environment, which coordinates a variety of environmental programs in research, education, activism, outreach and service at all of Tufts University's varied schools and colleges. [more]
	Dr. Jon Isham has been appointed Luce Professor of International Environmental Economics at Middlebury College. He is working with colleagues at Middlebury and elsewhere to develop global strategies for building a more hopeful, sustainable future. For the last several years, his collaborative work with Middlebury students and others has focused on building the climate movement, as summarized at the “What Works” project. Based on this work, Island Press published Ignition: What You Can Do to Fight Global Warming and Spark a Movement in June 2007 which he co-edited with Sissel Waage. [more]
	Nino Amato is the government relations and policy development specialist for the Wisconsin Farmers Union. He is working on a number of environmental issues involving energy conservation and efficiency, renewable energy and global warming. Amato is a successful business executive and civic leader who has served on the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, the University of Wisconsin Hospital Authority Board, and as president of the Wisconsin Technical College System. [more]
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Board of Directors
	Hunter Lovins, Board Member, is President and founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions. NCS educates senior decision-makers in business, government and civil society to restore and enhance natural and human capital while increasing prosperity and quality of life. NCS also partners with leading thinkers and implementers to create tools and strategies that enable companies, communities and countries to become more sustainable. Trained as a sociologist and lawyer (JD), Hunter co-founded the California Conservation Project (Tree People), and the Rocky Mountain Institute, which she led for 20 years. Lovins has consulted for scores of industries and governments worldwide. She is currently a founding Professor of Business at Presidio School of Management, one of the first accredited programs offering an MBA in Sustainable Management. [more]
	Ross Gelbspan, Board Member, has a career spanning 30 years in journalism, writing for the Philadelphia Bulletin, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe. As a senior editor at the Boston Globe until his retirement in 1992, he directed and edited a series of articles on job discrimination in Boston which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984. Gelbspan continues to have his considerable voice heard on one issue: global warming. Gelbspan is the author of two recent books on the climate crisis: The Heat is On (Perseus 1997), and Boiling Point (Basic Books 2004). Gelbspan has appeared widely on television and radio advocating a global strategy for dealing with global warming. [more]
	Scott Highleyman, Board Treasurer, has been the principal of Wildhavens Consulting for the last 11 years, providing foundations and NGOs with the tools to directly improve conservation results on the ground, in the air, or in the seas. Prior to his work for Wildhavens, Scott worked to protect rainforests and oceans and fight coal and oil projects for the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, the Alaska Environmental Lobby, the Alaska Marine Conservation Council and Trustees for Alaska. He was a founding board member of Green House Network and serves on the board of the Boreal Songbird Initiative. Scott has an undergraduate degree in English from Williams College and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
	Eban Goodstein, Board Chair, and National Teach-in Director. Chungin Chung, Board Member, and National Teach-in Communications Director. (For bios see below)
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Staff
	Eban Goodstein, Director, is Director of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Goodstein is the author of a college textbook, Economics and the Environment, (John Wiley and Sons: 2007) now in its fifth edition, as well as The Trade-off Myth: Fact and Fiction about Jobs and the Environment. (Island Press: 1999). His most recent book is Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction: How Passion and Politics Can Stop Global Warming (University Press of New England: 2007). Articles by Goodstein have appeared in among other outlets, The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Land Economics, Ecological Economics, and Environmental Management. His research has been featured in The New York Times, Scientific American, Time, Chemical and Engineering News, The Economist, USA Today, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Goodstein received his B.A. from Williams College and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He serves on the editorial board of Sustainability: The Journal of Record, and Environment, Workplace and Employment, is on the Steering Committee of Economics for Equity & the Environment, and is a Member Scholar at the Center for Progressive Reform.
	Chungin Chung, Communications / Creative Director. From 2006-2008 Chung was Communications Director for the predecessor to the National Teach-in, Focus the Nation. Prior to that, she was the founder and first Board President of the Korean American Citizens League, steering the organization through its first two years of development into a vibrant Oregon-based civil rights advocacy organization. She also brings extensive private sector experience in small business development, graphic and web design, and personnel and database management. holds a masters degree in Public Administration from Portland State University, and an undergraduate degree in fine arts. Chung has served on the President’s Board of Visitors supporting diversity efforts at the Oregon State University.
	Grady O'Shaughnessy, Congressional Consultant, is working to build communication between members of Congress and their constituents at Teach-In events around the country. Before joining the Teach-In effort, he spent a year traveling around the globe to learn a bit about how things work outside the Western world. Prior to that, he worked for five and a half years with Clif Bar & Co. where he designed programs to educate the public about the company and the many environmental issues they were learning about on their 'journey toward sustainability'. He holds a B.S. in Biology from Lehigh University and will attend graduate school in 2009 to study energy and climate policy and business.
	Jamie Myers, Outreach Coordinator, amie Myers is currently a graduate student at the Bard Center for Environmental Policy. Prior to attending Bard CEP, she worked for AmeriCorps St. Louis as a literacy tutor in the St. Louis Public School District and taught English in South Korea. Jamie earned her BA in Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies from the University of Missouri- Columbia.
	Karen Corey, Outreach Coordinator, is currently pursuing her masters of science in Environmental Policy at Bard College. She is also participating in the Masters International program with the Peace Corps and will hopefully begin her Peace Corps experience in the summer of 2010. She also has an MA in Eastern European Studies from the Free University of Berlin. She received her undergraduate degree from the University at Buffalo in German, cognitive science, and psychology. After finishing her undergraduate degree, she received a Fulbright Fellowship to Germany. She lived and taught English at the Staatliches Gymnasium-am-Lindenberg in Ilmenau, Germany, as well as lecturing at the Technical University of Ilmenau. She also worked at the Free Waldorf School of Weimar and Berlitz as an English teacher. She currently resides in Kingston, NY with her husband, David Nacmanie.
	Tim Banach, Outreach Coordinator, is currently a graduate student at the Bard Center for Environmental Policy. He received his BS in Biology from Loyola College in Maryland. Before attending Bard, Tim worked for 4 years as a data analyst in the pharmaceutical industry.

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