John O'Grady
Alum 2001John P. O’Grady taught environmental literature and writing at Allgheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. John currently lives in the Catskill Mountains of New York, where he does some writing, takes pictures and chops firewood. He is author of Pilgrims to the Wild and Grave Goods: Essays of a Peculiar Nature. Along with his good pals Lorraine Anderson and Scott Slovic, he co-edited Literature and the Environment: A Reader on Nature and Culture.
Jason Mark
Alum 2001Jason Mark is a San Francisco Bay Area-based environmental journalist and the author of Satellites in the High Country: Searching for the Wild in the Age of Man. In the course of his writing career, Jason has covered a wide range of topics—from climate and energy, to food and farming, to wildlife conservation—that illustrate the intersections between industrial civilization and wild nature. His writings on the environment have also appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation, The Atlantic and The American Prospect, among many other publications.
Chris Kromm
Alum 2001Chris Kromm is the executive director of the Institute for Southern Studies. He is also publisher of Facing South, the Institute's online magazine. A frequently-sought commentator on Southern politics and current issues, Chris has appeared on over 300 TV and radio broadcasts. Chris is the author or co-author of more than 60 Institute reports on topics ranging from the changing demographic and political landscape in the South to money in politics, labor, voting rights and disaster recovery in the Gulf Coast. Under Chris' leadership, the Institute for Southern Studies and its media programs have been recognized with several prestigious honors and awards.
Peter Kahn
Alum 2001Psychologist Peter Kahn is the Director of the Human Interaction with Nature and Technological Systems (HINTS) Lab at the UW, where he explores the psychological effects of the rapid degradation of the natural world and the speed of technological development, both in terms of its computational sophistication and pervasiveness. Peter is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Ecopsychology. He is also the author of five books with MIT Press, including Technological Nature: Adaptation and the Future of Human Life. His publications have appeared in such journals as Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction and Journal of Systems Software.
John Kachuba
Alum 2001John Kachuba is the award-winning author of twelve books and numerous articles, short stories and poems. He has been a faculty member at many writers’ conferences, such as the Antioch Writers’ Conference and the Florida Suncoast Writers’ Conference. He was a 2016 Pushcart Prize Nominee, and a finalist for the Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Nonfiction. John has also worked with writers and writing students in Cambodia, Malta, Portugal, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Edith Eddy
Alum 2001Edith Eddy is the Executive Director of the Compton Foundation. The Compton Foundation’s grants are focused primarily in the areas of peace and security, population and reproductive health, and environment and sustainability. For nine years prior to joining the Compton Foundation, Edith was a program officer at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, where she directed the foundation’s program on Children, Youth, and Families. Currently she is a board member of the National Wildlife Refuge Association and the Robert Brownlee Foundation for Environmental Education, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Center on Ecotourism and Sustainable Development.
Kate Boyes
Alum 2001Kate Boyes' creative nonfiction has been published in a number of anthologies, including two volumes of the American Nature Writing series. As a travel writer for Fodor's, she contributed to their Historic America Guide to the Old West, Gold Guide to the Rockies, Skiing USA and the guidebook created for the 2002 Winter Olympics. Her latest play, which deals with the issue of homelessness, was produced by the Red Octopus Theatre Company in 2018.
Chris Benner
Alum 2001Dr. Chris Benner is the Dorothy E. Everett Chair in Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship, Director of the Everett Program for Technology and Social Change, and a Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has authored or co-authored six books and more that 70 journal articles, chapters and research reports. He received his Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley.
Linda Baker
Alum 2001Linda Baker is a Portland-based journalist whose articles have appeared in the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor. Her beat includes urban sustainability, autonomous vehicles, the startup scene, clean trucking and emissions regulations.
Ann Vileisis
Alum 2002Ann Vileisis is the award-winning author of three books that explore culture and nature through history, offering insight to current issues and hope for the future. As an independent scholar, Ann has pursued path-breaking topics in environmental history. Ann's first book, Discovering the Unknown Landscape: A History of America’s Wetlands, received prestigious honors from two national history organizations.
Geri Unger
Alum 2002Geri Unger has extensive program management experience in environmental and conservation biology, finance of green infrastructure, ecological restoration, urban youth agricultural programs and community education. She is the co-principle investigator of the Next Generation Careers in Environmental Biology under a grant from the National Science Foundation, focusing on diversity in undergraduates in ecological fields and placing them in entry level positions. Previously, Geri was vice president for education and research at the Cleveland Botanical Garden, where she managed a high school urban farming work-study program and initiated the ecosystems services on vacant urban property research program throughout the Great Lakes Basin.
Carol Steinfeld
Alum 2002Carol Steinfeld is a writer, researcher, and resource-recycling program specialist who writes about ecological resource management solutions. She is the co-author of The Composting Toilet System Book and Reusing the Resource: Adventures in Ecological Wastewater Recycling, and author of Liquid Gold: The Lore and Logic of Using Urine to Grow Plants.