Robert Engelman
Alum 2005Engelman has written extensively on population’s connections to environmental change, economic growth, and civil conflict. He was founding board chair of the Center for a New American Dream, a non-governmental organization working to make U.S. consumption of energy and natural resources a sustainable model for the world.
Phoenix Eagleshadow
Alum 2005Phoenix Eagleshadow is currently researching the ethical, legal, and social implications of genomic research, including ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.
William deBuys
Alum 2005Writer and conservationist William deBuys is the author of nine books, which range from memoir and biography to environmental history and studies of place.
Cameron Davis
Alum 2005Cameron Davis has spent more than three decades in the government, corporate, academic, and non-profit sectors. In 2018, he was elected to serve in one of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago’s part-time commissionerships.
Chris Clarke
Alum 2005As California Desert Associate Director, he works with desert communities to protect national parks, monuments, and other protected places, and the landscapes that surround them.
Elizabeth Bernays
Alum 2005Bernays has published over two hundred scientific papers and books and several popular biology articles. She has published poems and essays in a variety of literary journals and self-published two non-fiction books.
Chip Ward
Alum 2006After living for four years in wilderness, Chip Ward moved to the edge of Utah’s West Desert, an environmental sacrifice zone, where he organized and led several campaigns to make polluters accountable.
Holly Wren Spaulding
Alum 2006Driven by her belief that living a mindful life immersed in art is a revolutionary act, Holly Wren Spaulding is a poet and teaching artist who catalyzes her collaborators, clients and students toward a more humane and intimate way of being in the world.
Marcia Smith
Alum 2006Marcia Smith is President of Firelight Media. Firelight’s most recent film is Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities, that premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
Ritzy Ryciak
Alum 2006Ritzy Ryciak is a Seattle native, a biology teacher, and a regular contributor to Pacific Northwest newspapers and magazines. She recently completed the Olympic Peninsula section for Northwest Best Places guidebook and is a staff writer for Conscious Choice Magazine.
Christian Parenti
Alum 2006Parenti's teaching and research focuses on social justice, environmental justice, globalization, climate change and climate justice, sustainable energy, American economic and environmental history, and political violence.
Anna Mills
Alum 2006Anna Mills' poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Salmagundi, Cimarron Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Lunarosity, Isotope, and the anthology Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes.