
Adelheid Fischer
Alum 2006Fischer is a writer who focuses on natural history, ecology, and environmental history.

Torri Estrada
Alum 2006Estrada has worked with nonprofit, community-based and public institutions to advance solutions to systemic social justice, climate and environmental issues for over twenty years, including through his private consulting company, Environmental Justice Solutions.

Jane Elder
Alum 2006Elder has a strong background in public policy leadership, nonprofit management, and involvement in Wisconsin arts. Her career has focused on environmental policy and communications, while personal interests include theater, modern dance and painting.

Elizabeth Castle
Alum 2006Dr. Castle brings almost 20 years of experience as a scholar, activist, and media maker working in collaboration with Native Nations and underrepresented communities. Warrior Women is based on the research done for her book "Women were the Backbone, Men were the Jawbone: Native Women’s Activism in the Red Power Movement."

Alan Burdick
Alum 2006Burdick's previous book, “Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion,” from 2005, was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Overseas Press Club Award for environmental reporting.

Carla Blank
Alum 2006Carla Blank is a writer and editor. Carla Blank has also been a performer, director, dramaturge and teacher of dance and theater for over forty years.

Lane Barden
Alum 2006Lane Barden is an award winning Los Angeles based photographer and artist.

Tom Zoellner
Alum 2007Tom Zoellner is the author of five nonfiction books, including Train. He is the co-author of the New York Times bestselling book An Ordinary Man, and his book Uranium won the 2011 Science Writing Award from The American Institute of Physics.

Dave Wann
Alum 2007David Wann is an author, filmmaker, and speaker on the topic of sustainable lifestyles and designs. Simple Prosperity is a sequel to the best-selling book he coauthored, Affluenza, which is now in 9 languages.

Meera Subramanian
Alum 2007Meera Subramanian is an award-winning freelance journalist whose work has been published around the world, and her first book is A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka, published in 2015 by PublicAffairs.

Rinku Sen
Alum 2007A visionary and a pragmatist, Sen is one of the leading voices in the racial justice movement, building upon the legacy of civil rights by transforming the way we talk about race, from something that is individual, intentional, and overt to something that is systemic, unconscious, and hidden.

Rick Piltz
Alum 2007Frederick S. “Rick” Piltz was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan; he was a public interest educator, writer, policy analyst, and advocate.