Lacey Phillabaum
Alum 1998Lacey Phillabaum is an activist (and award winning "hellraiser") and an editor of the Earth First! Journal. Her creative and investigative writing explores environmental and feminist struggles through personal narrative.
Andy Robinson
Alum 1998Andy Robinson has worked with a variety of nonprofits -- including the Wildlands Project and Native Seeds/SEARCH -- as a grantwriter, fundraiser, facilitator, editor and community organizer. He specialize in the needs of organizations working for human rights, social justice, artistic expression, environmental conservation and community development. In 1995 he authored Grassroots Grants: An Activist's Guide to Proposal Writing.
Jeanne Trombley
Alum 1998Jeanne Trombley administers the Recycling Revolving Loan Fund of the Materials for the Future Foundation. She has worked in the field of recycling for more than ten years serving in both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors.
Susan Schacht
Alum 1998Susan Schacht, a graduate of Brown University and Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University was a writer and editor, an advocate for social justice, an active member of her progressive congregation and an avid hiker. From 1991 to 1994 she was associate editor at the Regional Review, a publication of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
Bill Shireman
Alum 1998Bill Shireman is a social entrepreneur, environmental policy innovator, and rare San Francisco Republican. He brings together people from all sides of the political spectrum including capitalists, activists, conservatives and progressives, among others. Bill teaches leadership and negotiations at the UC Berkeley Haas Business School, and serves as a surrogate founding father of BridgeUSA, where young progressives, conservatives, libertarians and independents all engage in democracy by listening, speaking, learning, teaching and then solving problems together. He is also a prolific author.
Kim Roberts
Alum 1998Kim Roberts is an award-winning poet, literary historian and editor residing in Washington, DC. She is the author of five books of poems, editor of two anthologies and co-editor of the web exhibit DC Writers’ Homes. She is the founder of two literary journals. She established Beltway Poetry Quarterly in 2000 (and served as editor of the journal through the end of 2019). And she co-founded of the Delaware Poetry Review in 2007 (which published through 2017).
Jim Motavalli
Alum 1998Jim Motavalli has been writing for a long time. He is author or editor of nine books, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, Audubon, Success, Men's Journal, AMC Outdoors, Popular Mechanics, The Nation, The Boston Globe, Philadelphia Review, Salon, Grist, The Guardian, Tomorrow Magazine, Greenwich Magazine, Sierra and many other newspapers, magazines and websites. His career includes editor and writer roles at E/The Environmental Magazine, Car Talk at NPR, Mother Nature Network and the Connecticut alternative newspaper chain of Advocates and Weeklies.
Penelope Moffet
Alum 1998Born in Lorain, Ohio, Penelope Moffet has lived most of her life in Southern California. She is the author of two chapbooks, Keeping Still and It Isn't That They Mean to Kill You. Individual poems have been published in many journals, both print and online, including Verse-Virtual, The Rise Up Review, The Missouri Review, Permafrost, Natural Bridge, Poets Reading the News and The Ekphrastic Review.
Karen Lehman
Alum 1998Karen Lehman is the director of Fresh Taste, a funder collaborative formed by several Illinois foundations and the City of Chicago to relocalize Chicago’s food system and improve equity of access to good food. Karen’s food system work spans three decades, beginning with an award-winning PBS documentary on women’s leadership in farm movements. She directed both the Local Food and Regional Economy programs at The Minnesota Project, co-founded and was co-director of the Youth Farm and Market Project in Minnesota and directed the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy's Food and Agriculture Program.
Philip Klasky
Alum 1998Philip M. Klasky lectures in the Department of American Indian Studies on issues of law, environmental justice, human rights, de-colonization, media literacy, cultural preservation and ethnography. He is also an environmental justice activist working to protect endangered lands and cultures, wilderness, endangered species and human rights. He was involved with the fifteen-year successful campaign to stop the proposal for a radioactive waste dump at Ward Valley, and is co-founder of the Bay Area Nuclear Waste Coalition.
Ross Gelbspan
Alum 1998Ross Gelbspan retired several years ago after a 31-year career in journalism as a reporter. As special projects editor of The Boston Globe, he conceived, directed and edited a series of articles that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984. In 1995, he co-authored an article on climate change and the spread of infectious disease which appeared in the Outlook Section of The Washington Post. His article on climate change, which appeared on the cover of the December, 1995 issue of Harper’s Magazine, was a finalist for a National Magazine Award.
Pleasant DeSpain
Alum 1998Pleasant DeSpain has a most unusual but true name and an equally unusual but true profession - writer and storyteller. He travels the world collecting, researching, writing and retelling traditional tales from native cultures. Pleasant taught speech-literature-drama for six years at three universities, and wrote-produced-hosted an award-winning TV show called Pleasant Journeys on KING TV, Seattle.