Sarah Gage
Alum 2004Sarah Gage is a writer, writing instructor and botanist. She served as the chief US Botanist for the International Kuril Island Project, managed the University of Washington Herbarium for thirteen years and co-authored A Centenary Survey of Plant Life in Washington State. Her creative nonfiction and scientific articles have appeared in Seattle Weekly, Douglasia, Northwest Science, the American Journal of Botany and many other publications.
Harold Glasser
Alum 2004Harold Glasser is executive director for campus sustainability and professor at Western Michigan University. His research focuses on the evaluation of complex environmental problems and the processes used to make individual and collective choices for using and protecting the environment. He was a visiting Senior Fullbright scholar at the University of Oslo's Center for Development and Environment.
Mary Gomes
Alum 2004Mary Gomes is a Professor of Psychology at Sonoma State University, and a core faculty member in Sonoma State’s Depth Psychology MA program. She integrates mindfulness and compassion practices into her undergraduate coursework at Sonoma State, and has a long-standing interest in nature awareness practices and a commitment to ecological sustainability. She was co-editor of the book Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind.
Hal Hamilton
Alum 2004Hal Hamilton founded and co-directed the Sustainable Food Lab for fifteen years, where he currently works as Senior Advisor. He has founded and directed several rural development and leadership organizations, and was the executive director of the Sustainability Institute. Hal is a frequent guest faculty at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and has written numerous columns and journal articles and three chapters in books on agricultural policy and change.
Toni Martin
Alum 2004Toni Martin is a general internist and writer. Currently, she serves at the Social Security Administration as a medical consultant for Region 9 and practices at the Berkeley Primary Care Clinic. She has taught at UCSF as a clinical professor. Her essays have appeared in several East Bay newspapers, Hippocrates, Health Affairs and The Threepenny Review.
Mary O'Brien
Alum 2004Mary O’Brien is a botanist, author, and environmental advocate. She has worked as a staff scientist within toxics reform, environmental law, and public lands conservation organizations for over 30 years. Her book, Making Better Environmental Decisions: An Alternative to Risk Assessment, provides numerous examples of the power of alternative proposals and assessments to leverage positive change.
Tom Price
Alum 2004Tom Price is a veteran newspaper reporter, Washington correspondent and freelance writer whose work focuses on government, politics, business, technology and education. Tom is a contributing writer for Congressional Quarterly’s The CQ Researcher, and he writes a public policy column for the science magazine Optics and Photonics News. Tom’s work also has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, and Rolling Stone.
Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero
Alum 2004Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero was the founder of the Puerto Rico Project on Biosafety and author of Transgenic Ballad: Biotechnology, Globalization and the Clash of Paradigms, a book about the challenges of biotechnology and globalization. He was also a senior fellow at the Oakland Institute and a research associate at the Institute for Social Ecology.
Mark Salvo
Alum 2004Mark Salvo is program director at Oregon Natural Desert Association. Early in his career, Mark helped to enact the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Act. He petitioned to list three species and populations of sage-grouse under the Endangered Species Act, drafted various pieces of legislation, and managed a seminal species settlement agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Barbara Sattler
Alum 2004Dr. Barbara Sattler is a professor at the University of San Francisco and an international leader in environmental health and nursing. She is a founding and active member of the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, an international organization that is helping to integrate environmental health into nursing education, practice, research, and policy/advocacy. She directed the Maryland Hospitals for Healthy Environments, a 10-year statewide initiative that helped hospitals develop sustainable policies and practices to achieve employee health, patient health, and ecological health. She is the author of Environmental Health and Nursing, and a host of peer-reviewed articles.
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Alum 2004Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is a research professor at Georgetown University, where she founded the Center for Retirement Initiatives. As the State of Maryland’s first woman lieutenant governor, she was in charge of a multimillion dollar budget and had oversight of several major cabinet departments. She is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and has taught foreign policy at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Maryland.
Kimery Wiltshire
Alum 2004Kimery Wiltshire is the CEO and director of Carpe Diem West, a non-profit dedicated to addressing the effects of climate change on water resources. For over twenty years, Kimery’s work has focused on building strategic, solution focused partnerships to meet water and climate challenges. She is the former Director of the Kenney Foundation, where she worked on initiatives to protect and restore river systems in the western United States.