Tom Angotti
Alum 2005Tom Angotti is Professor Emeritus at Hunter College’s Urban Policy and Planning and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Tom Turner
Alum 2005Tom Turner is senior editor at Earthjustice, a nonprofit environmental law firm based in Oakland, California.
Jennifer Sumner
Alum 2005Jennifer Sumner is a Lecturer in the Adult Education and Community Development Program at OISE/University of Toronto, where she teaches a course called The Pedagogy of Food. Her food-related research interests include sustainable food systems, food literacy, critical food pedagogy, food co-ops and organic agriculture.
Melissa K. Scanlan
Alum 2005Professor Melissa K. Scanlan co-founded the New Economy Law Center with Gus Speth in 2015 and is now directing the Center. An active scholar, she is also directing the Colloquium on Environmental Scholarship.
Beth Sawin
Alum 2005Beth’s work increasingly focuses on Multisolving, helping people find solutions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions while producing multiple benefits in health, justice, equity, resilience, and well-being. She writes and speaks on this topic to local, national, and international audiences.
Debra Salazar
Alum 2005Debra Salazar's work in the university is motivated by her obsessions with democracy, justice, and place. Her teaching is focused in the areas of American Government and social movements, especially environmental and queer movements.
Ruth Rosen
Alum 2005Ruth Rosen was an early activist and journalist in the women's movement in Berkeley, and pioneered women's history at U.C. Berkeley and U.C. Davis, where she won the distinguished teaching award. She is now Professor Emerita of History, a fellow at the Institute for the Study of Social Change at U.C. Berkeley and continues to write journalistic articles for a variety of online magazines and journals.
Jessica Prentice
Alum 2005Jessica is a professional chef, author, local foods activist, social entrepreneur, and sought-after speaker on issues related to healing our broken food system.
David Oates
Alum 2005In both poetry and prose I am continuing to explore questions of resistance to entrenched political power. . . But also, how much deeper our lives are than politics. (A paradox, since politics is inescapable in a social species!)
Jane Midgley
Alum 2005Jane Midgley assists leaders to get to and live in the sweet spot of work they love and making a deep impact on the world. She has been an executive and leadership coach and consultant for over twenty years, working with visionary leaders from all walks of life. Jane is dedicated to social action for racial justice, equality, and the equitable distribution of resources. She has been an organizational leader, including serving as the Executive Director of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
Hilary Kaplan
Alum 2005Her translations of Brazilian poetry and prose have appeared on BBC Radio 4 and in journals internationally.
Brian Jamison
Alum 2005Brian Jamison is an “ecopreneur” dedicated to demonstrating socially responsible, environmentally harmonious, reasonably profitable business practices. In previous years he’s founded a number of companies from balloon delivery to video game development. He lives in Portland, Oregon.