Emily Biesecker is a member of Yale College ’08, majoring in the Environmental Studies department, with a concentration in American environmental history. She is a former co-chair of the Yale Student Environmental Coalition and is the current energy director of the Student Taskforce for Environmental Partnership.

John Bollier is the Associate Vice President for Facilities at Yale University. Bollier leads the University departments with responsibilities for operating and maintaining Yale's facilities and grounds. These include custodial services, physical plant, utilities, grounds, residential colleges operations, environmental compliance, and the fire marshal. Prior to his current appointment, Bollier was executive director of facilities development and operations at the School of Medicine. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan College of Architecture and Urban Planning and holds an M.B.A. from the University of New Haven.

Lynne Bonnett is Chairperson of the New Haven Environmental Justice Network, an all-volunteer organization that started in New Haven in 2001. The goals of NHEJN are to safeguard the health of New Haven residents and reduce illness from environmental pollution. Bonnett moved to New Haven from the west coast in 1990 and works full time as a physical therapist.

Richard D. Bowden is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Science at Allegheny College. He also chairs the PA Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy Executive Committee. At Allegheny, he directs the Ecotourism Program and co-directs the Forest Sustainability Program for the Allegheny Center for Economic and Environmental Development. His professional pursuits and interests include environmental sustainability, natural resource conservation, and forest ecology.

Nils Brandt is Director of Studies in Industrial Ecology, Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH).

Donald A. Brown is Senior Counsel for Sustainable Development at the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. He also directs the Pennsylvania Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy, an organization of colleges, universities, and state agencies that collaboratively address environmental issues. He directs the Program on Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change, and speaks and writes on integrating environmental ethics, science, law, and economics.

Kelly Brownell is Professor in the Department of Psychology at Yale University, where he also serves as Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health and as Director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity.  In 2006 Time magazine listed Kelly Brownell among “The World’s 100 Most Influential People,” citing him as a leading “warrior” in the area of nutrition and public policy.  He has published 14 books and more than 300 scientific articles and chapters.  His numerous honors include the James McKeen Cattell Award from the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Book from the American Library Association.

Jack Byrne is the Campus Sustainability Coordinator at Middlebury College. Jack has a Master’s in Environmental Law from Vermont Law School and a B.S. in Biology from Kent State University.  He currently works with faculty, students and staff at Middlebury College to develop and implement sustainability policy and practices. As the former Vice President of Foundation for Our Future, he worked with various institutions on integrating sustainability into their operations.

Chris Caners joined the University of Toronto Sustainability Office in 2005. Previously, he studied the generation of hydrogen from fossil and renewable fuels for fuel cell applications. Chris is also working with citizens and staff to find solutions to the problem of residual solid waste in the City of Toronto.

Chantal Line Carpentier, agricultural economist and Yale World Fellow, is head of the Trade and Environment program at the Montreal-based Commission for Environmental Cooperation. She previously worked for Winrock International and IFPRI and consulted for the UNDP, World Bank, and OECD among others. She holds a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech and B.S. and M.S. degrees from McGill University.

Eliezer Lee Cruz is Senior Philanthropic Officer at the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven. He represents the Foundation on the Steering Committee for the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce Non-Profit Council and on the Advisory Board for Leadership Greater New Haven.  Lee is on the board of Connecticut Fund for the Environment and is a member of the Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice. He also serves on the City of New Haven Board of Zoning Appeals. Lee is a founding board member and Vice-President of the Board of SOSTENICA; a micro-loan fund that lends to small businesses in Nicaragua.

John Cusack is Executive Director of the NJ Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability (NJHEPS), a consortium of NJ colleges & universities encouraging and facilitating the practice of sustainability concepts in higher education. He is also the President of Gifford Park Associates, a consulting firm specializing in the relationships between environmental and financial performance. He serves on the boards of the NJ Corporation for Advanced Technologies, the Environmental Business Association of New York State, the NJ Sustainable State Institute, and the Center for Economic and Environmental Partnership.

Julian Dautremont-Smith is a graduate of Lewis & Clark College (2003), where he spearheaded an effort that brought Lewis & Clark into compliance with the Kyoto Protocol. He authored “Guidelines for College-Level Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventories,” and has been published in the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education.

Michael Dietz earned his graduate degrees at the University of Connecticut in the Department of Natural Resources Management and Engineering, where he researched alternative treatment practices for stormwater runoff. He currently works with the Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials (NEMO) program at UCONN, and provides outreach on low impact development practices to towns.

Tom Downing joined Yale in 2002 as the University’s Energy Manager and works in the Facilities Systems Engineering group. Tom graduated from the University of Connecticut with a BS in Environmental Engineering in 1989 and later attended Yale University in the Special Students Program to further his studies in Environmental Science.  Tom was previously employed at the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft division of United Technologies for 12 years, where he worked as a Utilities Engineer, Facilities Projects Engineer, and eventually became the Chief Mechanical Engineer for all Pratt & Whitney Facilities Operations. Tom is a registered Professional Engineer, a LEED Accredited Professional and a Certified Energy Manager.

James Elder works on issues of advocacy, funding, and policy development for environmental and sustainability education. He recently launched the Campaign for Environmental Literacy, which advocates for greater federal support for environmental and sustainability education, and published “A Field Guide to Environmental Literacy” for grant makers.

Dan Esty is the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at Yale. He is the Director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and the Center for Business & Environment. Esty’s research focuses on the relationships between the environment and corporate strategy, competitiveness, trade, security, performance measurement (data-driven decision-making), governance, and development. He is the author most recently of Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage. Prior to coming to Yale, Professor Esty served at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Melissa Garcia Lamarca is the Sustainability Coordinator at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She is part of a larger process called Sustainable Concordia, a multi-stakeholder initiative creating an economically responsible, ecologically aware, and socially equitable university. Melissa co-coordinated a sustainability assessment as a student in 2002, and began as the university’s Sustainability Coordinator in June 2004.

Brad Gentry is a Director of the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale and a Senior Lecturer at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.  Trained as a biologist and a lawyer, his work focuses on strengthening the links between private investment and improved environmental performance.  He recently co-authored the chapter "International Investment Law and Renewable Energy" in the forthcoming report of the Renewable Energy and International Law Project and co-edited "Emerging Markets for Ecosystem Services:  Lessons from Panama" in a forthcoming Special Issue of the Journal of Sustainable Forestry.

Rob Gogan is the Recycling and Waste Manager for Harvard University. He oversees refuse recovery from Harvard’s 38,000 students, staff and faculty. In FY2006 Harvard recycled over 7,000 tons of refuse for a 44% recovery rate. His short-term goal is to beat Yale in RecycleMania 2007!

Dudley Greeley is Sustainability Coordinator with the University of Southern Maine Environmental and Economic Sustainability Office.  Dudley grew up in a small Kentucky coal-mining town and at an early age came to understand some of the external costs of powering America's industrial expansion with Appalachian coal. He received a degree in Environmental Health and Toxicology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.   Dudley has helped develop and teach courses on principles of sustainability including "Ten Billion People, One Damp Rock”.  He lives in Maine with his family and their three geese on an early 19th-century farm.

Fredrik Gröndahl is an Associate Professor at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH).

Katherine Hamilton is a recent (2006) MEM graduate from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and managed the purchase of FES’ graduation offset portfolio. She is currently co- authoring a book with the Katoomba Group Ecosystem Marketplace on the voluntary carbon market.

Sarah Hammond Creighton is Tufts Director of Sustainability and Manager of the Tufts Climate Initiative, a project to help Tufts reduce emissions related to global warming. She is author of Greening the Ivory Tower.

Keisuke Hanaki is Professor at the Department of Urban Engineering and Adjunct Professor at Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S), The University of Tokyo (UT). His research field is holistic environmental management in urban areas for sustainability.  He is Vice President of the Japan Society on Water Environment and an editor of the journal Water Research.  He was the lead author of the water chapter in the IPCC 2nd and 3rd assessment report.

Anjali Helferty is the National Coordinator for the Sierra Youth Coalition’s Sustainable Campuses Project. The goal of Sustainable Campuses is to make college and university campuses more socially, environmentally, and economically sustainable in their operations, curricula, and campus culture. It plays a unique role in supporting, documenting and spreading the efforts of post-secondary students working on campus sustainability in dozens of campuses across Canada

Caroline Howe is a senior Environmental and Mechanical Engineering major at Yale University, where she has been involved in research projects both in and out of the classroom dedicated to furthering Yale’s sustainability. She is the former co-chair of the Yale Student Environmental Coalition, an intern in the Office of Sustainability, and a representative on the Energy Task Force.

Mary Jensen is Coordinator of Campus Sustainability and Recycling Programs at Keene State College. She oversees the campuses’ Sustainable development and initiatives and the recycling program. Mary is a member of the NECSC steering committee and CURC (the College and University Recycling Council).

Catherine Jones is Executive Chef of the Yale Sustainable Food Project.  Before returning to Yale, Jones was the Research Chief at Gourmet Magazine, New Jersey Food Critic for the New York Times, Time Off NYC Critic for the Financial Times, Test Kitchen and Research Editor for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Sous Chef at Susan Morton Catering in Greenwich, CT, and PR Director at Dancing Deer Bakery in Boston, MA.  Jones received her A.O.S. with distinction from the Culinary Institute of America in ‘98, after interning at Eating Well Magazine in Charlotte, VT and Chez Panisse Restaurant and Café in Berkeley, CA.  She graduated from Yale College in 1994.

Bernd Kasemir is a Founding Director of sustainserv, Inc., an international management consulting group that specializes in sustainability management and communications. In a collaboration between sustainserv and Novatlantis – Sustainability at the ETH domain, he contributes to building an International Sustainable Campus Network. His main interests are sustainability aspects in corporate management and communications, and in public-private partnerships.

Thomas H. Kelly became the first director of the Office of Sustainability Programs at the University of New Hampshire in July 1997. He develops teaching, research, policy and outreach activities related to the OSP's four educational initiatives in biodiversity, climate, culture and sustainability and food and society. Tom is a co-principal investigator on the INHALE project, a NOAA-funded study of the effect of climate variability, air quality and weather on human health in New England. Prior to coming to UNH, Tom worked on the environmental dimensions of U.S.-Mexico relations. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Steven Lanou leads the sustainability program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as Deputy Director in the Environmental Programs Office. In this capacity, Mr. Lanou works to develop, promote, and coordinate MIT-wide policies and initiatives to advance the Institute’s commitment to sustainable practices. Mr. Lanou is an environmental planner with 15 years experience in environmental policy development and program implementation. He holds a Bachelors degree in international economic development from Brown University, and a Masters degree in environmental policy and planning from MIT.

William M. Leahy CEM, CDSM holds a BS and MS in Industrial Technology from Connecticut State University, and a MS in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Leahy has twenty-seven years experience in energy efficiency, demand side management, distributed generation, and energy commodity sales. The Institute facilitates the evaluation for energy and climate change opportunities for the CT State University system and supports the Green Campus Initiative of the Connecticut Climate Change Action Plan.

Mark Lennon is a founder and principal of the Institution Recycling Network (IRN). The IRN is an experienced recycler of C&D wastes in the Northeast; providing markets & training, assistance in preparing specifications, waste management plans and LEED submissions, managing waste hauling and marketing. Mark has extensive experience in the public and private recycling arena.

Richard C. Levin, Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Economics, has been President of Yale University since 1993. He holds a B.A. from Stanford and a B.Litt. from Oxford. In 1974 he received his Ph.D. in economics from Yale and was named to the faculty. Before becoming president, he chaired the economics department and served as dean of Yale's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. As president, Mr. Levin has led an administrative team that has restored the campus, revitalized Yale's relationship with the city of New Haven, invested heavily in strengthening science and engineering, and taken substantive steps toward making Yale a truly international institution. Mr. Levin is a trustee of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and a director of Lucent Technologies. He recently served on a bipartisan commission to investigate the roles and challenges facing the United States intelligence community and chaired a major review of the nation's patent system for the National Academy of Sciences. He holds honorary degrees from Harvard, Princeton, Oxford, and Peking Universities and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Ryan Levinson is a research analyst with WRI’s Climate and Energy Program. His work involves the adoption of GHG Protocol accounting and reporting standards and engaging with businesses on climate and energy strategies. Ryan holds an MSc in International Relations and a BBA in Finance.

Corinna Lowe is a senior major in Environmental Studies with a concentration in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Production at Green Mountain College. With support from Chartwell dining services, Corinna served as the organizer of the highly successful “Five Farms in 5 Days” local food week event at Green Mountain College.

Kim Marsella is a faculty member of the Environmental Studies Program & Department of Geosciences at Skidmore College. She received her MS in geology from the University of Vermont. She teaches courses in both geosciences and environmental studies and her research focuses on local water issues. As faculty liaison to the Campus Environment Committee, she works with staff & students to move the campus forward on issues of sustainability.

Mélanie McDonald is an environmental graduate student from the University of Sherbrooke and the University of Montréal. She was the Quebec regional coordinator for the Sustainable Campuses project and was part of the committee that wrote University of Sherbrooke’s Sustainable Development policy. Now coordinating an international meeting on sustainable development, she is also a member of the Sustainable Development Action Plan committee at U Sherbrooke.

Rich Miller is the Director of Environmental Policy at the University of Connecticut. He works on sustainability issues ranging from climate change to recycling, water conservation and environmental literacy, and oversees compliance with land use, water, air and other environmental requirements. Before joining UConn, Rich worked as an energy and environmental lobbyist; environmental and land use attorney; corporate environmental manager; and adjunct professor of environmental law and management.  He served on the Connecticut Council on Environmental Quality for five years and currently chairs his town’s Inland Wetlands & Conservation Commission.

Vernice Miller-Travis is the Executive Director of Groundwork USA, which leads a network of non profits helping communities impacted by brownfields to revitalize. Formerly she was a Program Officer of the Ford Foundation, where she launched their Environmental Justice portfolio in the United States. She served as the Director of the Environmental Justice Initiative of the Natural Resources Defense Counsel from 1993 until 1999, and on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Council from 1996 until 2001, chairing its Waste and Facility Siting subcommittee. Ms. Miller-Travis is also a co-founder of West Harlem Environmental Action in New York City.

Mark Mitchell is a public health trained physician and the founding president of the Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice  Dr. Mitchell has spent twenty years working in the public health sector; including 4 years as the Director of Health for the City of Hartford, CT. In addition to overseeing CCEJ’s operations in Hartford, Bridgeport and New Haven, he provides technical assistance to environmental justice communities across the country. Dr. Mitchell has been a member of the Board of Directors of the American Lung Association of Connecticut and the Hispanic Health Council, as well as a member of the U.S. EPA’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Committee. He received his M.D. from the University of Missouri at Kansas City and his MPH from Johns Hopkins.

Colleen Murphy-Dunning is the Director of the Hixon Center for Urban Ecology and the Urban Resources Initiative at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She also chairs the CT Urban Forest Council. Prior to her Yale work she was Lecturer in Forestry at Kenya Forestry College and Coordinator of Rain Forest Action Network’s New Guinea Campaign. Colleen holds a Masters in Forestry from Humboldt and a B.S. in Environmental Policy from Indiana University.

Derek Murrow is the Director of Policy Analysis for Environment Northeast where he advances climate change, clean power, and energy efficiency policies, including advocating for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.  He also holds an appointment as a Research Affiliate at Yale University in Energy Systems Analysis. Derek’s previous experience includes business strategy development for hydrogen technology at Proton Energy Systems in Connecticut, and six years as an environmental consultant and business manager for Stone Environmental in Vermont where he continues to serve as a member of its board of directors. Derek holds a master’s degree in environmental management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a BA in geology from Carleton College.

Julie Newman is the Director of the Yale University Office of Sustainability. She comes to Yale from the University of New Hampshire, Office of Sustainability Programs (OSP) where she assisted with the development of the program since its inception in 1997. Julie pursued her interest in sustainable development by working as an environmental management volunteer with the Peace Corps in Guatemala. Julie holds a BS in Natural Resource Policy and Management from the University of Michigan, an MS in Environmental Policy and Biology from Tufts University and a Ph.D. in Natural Resources and Environmental Studies from the University of New Hampshire.

Chris Ozyck is the Community Green Space Manager for Urban Resources Initiative of New Haven (URI) a program at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.  He graduated from the University of Connecticut  '89 with a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Design. Chris has owned and operated a landscape design and construction business for over ten years in New Haven.  Chris is the lead organizer for the Vision trail, the Harbor Trail and the Historic Quinnipiac River Loop trail.  He is the founding president of the Elm City Parks Conservancy and the newly formed water pollution mitigation endowed fund.  Chris lives in Fairhaven Heights (New Haven) with his wife Rosemary and two daughters.

Jacob Park is assistant professor of business and public policy at Green Mountain College in Vermont. He specializes in the teaching and research of global environment & business strategy, corporate social responsibility, campus sustainability, and community-based entrepreneurship. Jacob’s special expertise/interest is in Japan, China, and the Asia-Pacific region.

Robert L. Pratt is Senior Vice President - Climate Change/Energy at the Kendall Foundation. Before that he was the Director of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative's Renewable Energy Trust, the state's $250 million clean energy fund. Rob brings to his role at the Kendall Foundation 30 years of renewable energy and energy efficiency experience in the private sector, government, and various non-profit organizations. He is also the Chairman of the Board of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). He received an MPA degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, a JD degree from Georgetown University Law Center and a BA degree from Wesleyan University.

Ramsay Ravenel is an Associate at MissionPoint Capital Partners, a private equity firm focusing on clean technology and environmental commodity markets. MissionPoint’s predecessor firm MSM Capital Partners is the largest shareholder in EcoSecurities, a leading global originator of carbon credits under the Kyoto Protocol.

Jennifer Schroeder coordinates Clean Air-Cool Planet?s campus program, working with partner institutions and organizations to find and promote solutions to global warming on college campuses. She is also webmaster at CA-CP, where she has worked for the past six years. She holds a B.A. in English and an M.A. in Counseling.

Leith Sharp is Founder and Director of the Harvard Green Campus Initiative, an organization of 16 professional staff and a $12 million revolving Loan Fund working to integrate campus environmental sustainability throughout Harvard University.  Leith has a bachelor of Environmental Affairs (UNSW) and a Master of Education in human development and psychology (Harvard). She has 13 years of experience in greening universities and currently instructs a course offered through the Harvard Extension School, Sustainability: The Challenge of Changing Our Institutions.

James Gustave Speth is the 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. The author of many journal articles and books, he most recently wrote Global Environmental Governance and Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment.

Matthew St. Clair is the first Sustainability Specialist for the University of California's Office of the President, supporting sustainability efforts across the 10-campus UC system. Mr. St.Clair has a background in environmental policy and advocacy, working on international campaigns for Friends of the Earth Czech Republic and on renewable energy policy research at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Matt holds a Masters degree in environmental policy UC Berkeley and a Bachelors degree in economics from Swarthmore College.

Paul Stoller brings the technical experience of numerous international high performance projects to the New York office of Atelier Ten, where he is a Director. Project work includes the Kroon Building for the Forestry School and six other buildings at Yale, as well as a range of higher education, cultural, and commercial projects across the country.

Kurt Teichert heads Brown University’s campus sustainability efforts and has been involved in the design and construction of high performance educational facilities for 20 years. Kurt is Resource Efficiency Manager in Facilities Management and teaches Sustainable Design and Environmental Stewardship as Adjunct Lecturer in the Center for Environmental Studies.

Gioia Thompson, Environmental Coordinator at the University of Vermont, published Tracking UVM in 2002, an environmental report card since hailed as a model. As chair of the NECSC indicators workgroup in 2005 she oversaw comparison of six institutions’ energy, waste, and institutional data. She is now working on a greenhouse gas report.

John Turenne, President and Founder of Wallingford, CT-based Sustainable Food Systems, is recognized for extensive senior management and culinary experience that has encompassed over 25 years in the food industry. John is the former Executive Chef for Aramark Corporation at Yale University where his accomplishments included the original design, development and implementation of the Yale Sustainable Food Project. His recent work has included collaboration with the Culinary Institute of America, Kaiser Permanente, several public school systems as well as the international work of The Sustainable Food Laboratory.

Josh Viertel is a director of the Yale Sustainable Food Project.  He came to Yale in 2002 to help the university create the project.  He aids in directing dining services in its transition to a local sustainable food program, oversees the Yale Farm and works to cultivate awareness and enjoyment of a meaningful food culture on campus.  Prior to his work at Yale, Viertel started a small vegetable farm in Connecticut and taught at the Mountain School of Milton Academy in Vermont.  He graduated from Harvard University in 2001 with a degree in philosophy and literature.

Sandra Wachholz received her Ph.D in criminology from Sam Houston State University. She teaches at the University of Southern Maine and has developed a course on crimes against the environment.  Her research focuses on hate crimes against the homeless and the gender-differentiated impact of climate change.

Judy Walton is a founding member and director of EFS West, which became AASHE in 2006. She has delivered presentations to campuses and businesses, organized conferences, and participated in national webcasts on campus sustainability. Judy holds a Ph.D. in geography from Syracuse University (1997).

Dan Worth is the co-founder and Executive Director of the National Association of Environmental Law Societies (NAELS), a coalition of law students that seeks to mobilize the university community in support of public interest environmental solutions. Dan also served on the initial Steering Committee for the Energy Action Network, a coalition of student and youth groups working on climate and energy issues. In these roles, Dan is the founder of Campus Climate Neutral and a co-founder of the Campus Climate Challenge. He holds a J.D. from Boston University School of Law.