Torri Jon Estrada
Alum 2002Torri Jon Estrada is the Managing Director of the Carbon Cycle Institute and has worked with nonprofit, community-based and public institutions to advance solutions to systemic social justice, climate and environmental issues for over twenty years, in part through his private consulting company, Environmental Justice Solutions. He has lectured at the university level on environmental justice, natural resource policy, and social equity for over a decade, including as an adjunct professor at the Department Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley.
Ann Fisher-Wirth
Alum 2002Ann Fisher-Wirth is a poet and scholar. Her poems appear widely and have received numerous awards, including a Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, the Rita Dove Poetry Award, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Award, two Mississippi Arts Commission fellowships, and thirteen Pushcart nominations including a Special Mention. She teaches at the University of Mississippi, where she also directs the minor in Environmental Studies.
Alison Deming
Alum 2002Alison Deming is an American poet, essayist and teacher, former Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in Environment and Social Justice and currently Regents Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Arizona. She received a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship. She has taught at the University of Arizona since 1990 and was appointed Agnes Nelms Haury Chair in 2014. Her new nonfiction book A Woven World: On Fashion, Fishermen, and the Sardine Dress will be published by Counterpoint Press in 2021.
Jan DeBlieu
Alum 2002Jan DeBlieu is the author of four nonfiction books to date and is a national medalist in literature. She has led writing workshops and clinics for all ages, in addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate creative writing courses. Jan’s work has been widely anthologized, and she has published dozens of articles and essays in literary journals and well-known national publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, Audubon, and Orion. She is also known for her work as a conservationist and activist.
Helen Corbett
Alum 2002Helen Corbett is a writer, activist and scholar. She has a B.A. at the University of Alberta and a degree in journalism from Carleton University. Helen has worked as a journalist and broadcaster, and recorded sound and co-produced the Pribilof documentary films. Helen's writing has earned her a grant from the Canada Council and an Alberta literary award. A research associate at the Arctic Institute of North America, she spent part of 2001 as a Ford Fellow in the Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics.
Ellen Bernstein
Alum 2002Ellen Bernstein is the founder of Shomrei Adamah, Keepers of the Earth, the first national Jewish environmental organization. She has published numerous articles on the topic of Bible and ecology and is author/editor of three books on Judaism and ecology. She has taught graduate level courses in Reading the Bible Ecologically, and has presented her work on biblical ecology in universities, synagogues and churches. She has consulted with numerous non-profit organizations, coached many young Jewish leaders and served as chairperson of the Adamah Advisory Council. She was named a Women of Distinction by Women's League of Conservative Judaism.
Glen Chamberlain Barrett
Alum 2002Glen Chamberlain has published two collections of short stories, and has received the Pushcart Prize for the best writing in America’s small presses, the first Gilcrease Prize for fiction and the Rona Jaffe Award for both fiction and creative nonfiction. She has taught writing at Montana State University for 26 years.
Jim Anthony
Alum 2002Jim Anthony has taught at the University level and worked as a consultant for the United Nations University, Tokyo. His teaching, research and consulting work has taken him to the Pacific islands, Australia, New Zealand, what was the Soviet Union, Europe, Malta, South-east Asia and North America. He was the Executive Director of Hawai’i–La’ieikawai Association, a non-profit Hawaiian cultural issues and environmental organization.
Susan Tixier
Alum 2003Susan Tixier was a longtime forest and wilderness advocate who served as Executive Director for Forest Guardians, Colorado Environmental Coalition, and Great Old Broads for Wilderness. During her career, she also helped found the New Mexico Environmental Legal Center, Western Lands Advocates and WildEarth Guardians. Susan died on October 8, 2015.
Peter Thomson
Alum 2003Peter Thomson has been covering the broad swath of issues related to the environment and global sustainability for more than 25 years and signed on as The World’s environment editor in 2008. After stints at WBUR and Monitor Radio in Boston he signed on as the founding editor and producer of NPR’s groundbreaking new environmental news program Living on Earth, in 1991. He served 15 years on the board of Directors of the Society of Environmental Journalists and currently sits on the advisory board of the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting.
Linda Stout
Alum 2003Linda Stout has been a grassroots organizer and activist for three decades. She is the founder a successful grassroots organization called the Piedmont Peace Project, which attracted national attention for its success in drawing leadership from within a poor and working-class community. She is also the founder director of Spirit in Action, an organization that seeks out transformative tools, models, and resources for building a powerful and visionary progressive movement. Linda is the author of 100’s of articles and a critically acclaimed book, Bridging the Class Divide. Her awards and honors include a Public Policy Fellowship from Harvard and Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe College.
Warren Snow
Alum 2003Warren Snow of Envision New Zealand is one of the countries foremost authorities on industrial and household waste and packaging. He runs an environmental and local economic development consultancy providing advice and support services for communities and businesses working towards sustainability. He is also co-founder of New Zealand’s Community Business and Environment Centre.