Peter Dorman
Alum 2004Peter Dorman is professor emeritus of political economy at Evergreen State College. He is the author of Markets and Morality. His research interests have included occupational safety and health, child labor, international trade, environmental economics and the theory of the firm. For two decades he served as a consultant to the International Labor Organization, authoring several high profile reports.
Bill Sherwonit
Alum 2004Nature writer Bill Sherwonit has contributed essays and articles to a wide variety of newspapers, magazines, journals, and anthologies and is the author of 13 books. Most of Sherwonit's work focuses on Alaska, with an emphasis on wilderness adventure, wildlands preservation, environmental issues, natural history, wildlife management, relationship with place, and notions of wildness. He also teaches nature writing.
Jackie Hunt Christensen
Alum 2004Jackie Hunt Christensen is a Minneapolis-based health and environmental activist, author and artist. Since her diagnosis with Parkinson's disease at the age of 34, she has focused her activist efforts on Parkinson's disease and the environment. She has published letters and articles in a diverse array of publications, and has written two books about navigating life with Parkinson's. She is a founding member of the Alliance of Parkinson's Health Activists, and volunteers with several Parkinson's organizations, including the National Parkinson Foundation, the Parkinson's Disease Foundation, and the Parkinson's Action Network.
Benjamin Webb
Alum 2004Reverend Benjamin Webb is a priest and former bishop at All Saints Episcopal Church in Indianola, Iowa. He spent a dozen years working on public policy, philanthropy, community development, and social change and innovation, and is the author of Fugitive Faith: Conversations on Spiritual, Environmental, and Community Renewal.
Michelle Stevens
Alum 2004Michelle Stevens is a professor of environmental studies at Sacramento State, and the executive director of Hima Mesopotamia. She has used her expertise in wetlands restoration and ethnoecology to work on the eco-cultural restoration of the Mesopotamian Marshes of southern Iraq. She contributed to numerous books, writing chapters focused on ecology, healing, and wetlands restoration.
Ron Steffens
Alum 2004Ron Steffens is a communications professor at Prescott College in Arizona, the executive editor at Wildfire Magazine, and a wildland fire analyst and incident commander for the National Park Service at Grand Teton National Park. His expertise in fire management has led him around the globe as a consultant and student of the effects of climate change.
Christopher Rude
Alum 2004Christopher Rude is a political economist with an interest in finance. He has a PhD in economics from the New School, where he specialized in development and macroeconomics, and a MA and BA in political science from the University of Chicago, where he studied American politics and state theory. He has taught economics at NYU and the New School and political science at York University in Toronto and worked as a consultant for the United Nations.
Carolyn Raffensperger
Alum 2004Carolyn is executive director of the Science and Environmental Health Network. As an environmental lawyer she specializes in the fundamental changes in law and policy necessary for the protection and restoration of public health and the environment. Along with leading workshops and giving frequent lectures on the Precautionary Principle, Carolyn is at the forefront of developing new models for government that depend on these larger ideas of precaution and ecological integrity.
Karen Peabody O'Brien
Alum 2004Karen Peabody O'Brien has extensive experience in institutional change and grant-making from the environmental, health, and community-building arenas. She founded and directed the nonprofit Advancing Green Chemistry, and worked to shift institutional perceptions on safer chemicals at the Darden Business School at the University of Virginia and then at the American Chemistry Society’s Green Chemistry Institute. She holds a BA from UC Berkeley in Development Studies, an MA from the University of Virginia in Government and Foreign Affairs, and a PhD in Political Science.
Angela Nissel
Alum 2004Angela Nissel is the author of two accalimed books, The Broke Diaries and Mixed. She has worked as a television writer for shows such as Scrubs, Til Death, The Boondocks, and has served as co-executive producer on the show The Last O.G.
Craig Neal
Alum 2004Craig Neal is a publishing executive, author, trainer and executive…
Kathleen Dean Moore
Alum 2004Kathleen Dean Moore is a writer, moral philosopher, and environmental activist. Her essays are widely published and anthologized, having appeared in magazines such as High Country News, Orion, Discover, Audubon, Utne Reader, Earth Island Journal, New York Times Magazine, Conservation Biology, and many others. Currently, she is a member of the Council for an Uncertain Human Future, Clark College, Massachusetts.