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Adelheid Fischer

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

Torri Estrada

Alum 2006
Estrada 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 2006
Elder 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 2006
Dr. 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 2006
Burdick'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 2006
Carla 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 2006
Lane Barden is an award winning Los Angeles based photographer and artist.

Tom Zoellner

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