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Speaker Biographies Below.
- Mark Buckley, Vice President of Environmental Affairs, Staples,
Inc.
- Mark Chase, Director of Business Development/ Founding Management
Team, GoLoco and Zipcar
- Jeff Schwarz, President, Image Software Services
- Matthew Pawa, President, Law Offices of Matthew F. Pawa, P.C.
- Ann Berwick, Undersecretary for Energy, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- Anne Kelly, Director of Governance Programs, CERES
- Rick Mattila, Director of Environmental Programs, Genzyme Corporation
- Gwen Noyes, Partner, Oak Tree Development
- Susan Rodgerson, Executive Director, Artists for Humanity
- Steve Lanou, Deputy Director of Environmental Sustainability, MIT
- Dr. Ricky Stern, Founder and Executive Director, “e”
- Madeline Steczynski, Co-Founder and Executive Director, ZUMIX
- John Dalzell, Senior Architect, Boston Redevelopment Authority
- Michael Stoddard, Deputy Director and Attorney, Environment Northeast
- Amy Cotter, Senior Program Manager, Metropolitan Area Planning Commission
- Naomi Mermin, Consultant, National Center for Healthy Housing
- Susan Altman, Outreach Manager, Massachusetts Climate Action Network
- Melissa Luna, Director of Community Organizing, Sociedad Latina
- Jesse Foote, Manager, Green Campus Building Service - New Construction,
Harvard University
- Janet Brown, Partner Coordinator, Hospitals for a Healthy Environment
- Tolle Graham, Healthy Schools Coordinator, Massachusetts Coalition
on Occupational Safety and Health
- David Cash, Assistant Secretary for Policy, Executive Office for
Energy and Environmetal Affairs, Massachusetts
- Seth Kaplan, Senior Attorney and Director of Clean Energy and Climate
Change Program, Conservation Law Foundation
- Sam Krasnow, Policy Advocate and Attorney, Environment Northeast
- James Hunt, Chief for Environmental and Energy Services, City of
Boston
- Anthony Flint, Director of Public Affairs, Lincoln Institute of
Land Policy
- Peter Forbes, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Center for Whole
Communities
- William Shutkin, Author and Environmentalist
Susan Altman
Susan Altman has more than 20 years of experience in communications,
focusing on environmental projects related to climate change, marine
conservation, pollution prevention, and sustainability. She has been
involved with the Massachusetts Climate Action Network since 2001, joining
the board as vice president in 2006, as well as starting the Low Carbon
Living program and working on various outreach projects. She founded
the Medford Environmental Association in 2005 to coordinate and facilitate
communication among more than a dozen Medford environmental groups and
initiatives. In 2005 Susan co-founded the Massachusetts Social Marketing
Association, which supports professionals and projects to encourage
environmentally and socially progressive behavior change. She also served
on the board of the Mystic River Watershed Association from 2004 to
2006. She has consulted for the Pew Institute for Ocean Science, a marine
science and advocacy organization, and for the Boston-based Asthma Regional
Council. She spent six years as an environmental communications specialist
for Abt Associates, a Cambridge-based consulting firm. She has a master's
degree from Tufts University's Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning
Program.
Ann Berwick
Ann Berwick is the Undersecretary for Energy in the Patrick Administration.
From 1998-2006 Ann was a senior consultant at M.J. Bradley & Associates
in Concord, Massachusetts. In that role, she worked with the Clean Energy
Group, a coalition of major electric generating and distribution companies
that advocates for progressive positions on air pollution, energy, and
climate policy. At M.J. Bradley, Ann also managed projects concerning
air pollution and energy issues for other clients, including the National
Association of Clean Air Agencies and the Northeast States for Coordinated
Air Use Management. Prior to working at M.J. Bradley, Ann served as
Chief of the Environmental Protection Division in the Massachusetts
Attorney General's Office under Scott Harshbarger, where she also exercised
joint oversight of the Massachusetts Environmental Strike Force. She
worked as a legal services attorney in Seattle immediately after law
school, and then as a partner in the litigation department at the Boston
law firm Goulston & Storrs. Ann attended Radcliffe College and the
University of Wisconsin Law School. Ann has four grown children, and
lives in Newton with her husband, Don.
Janet Brown
Janet Brown is the Partner Program Manager for Hospitals for a Healthy
Environment, the go to source for environmental sustainability in health
care. With 13 years experience managing environmental programs at Beth
Israel Medical Center in NYC, janet shares practical solutions to health
care environmental challenges. She is on the steering committee for
the Green Guide for Health Care and is currently chairing an operations
committee to review and update the Operations Section for release in
2008.
Mark Buckley
Mark Buckley is the Vice President of Environmental Affairs and directs
Staples' environmental commitment and sustainable business practices
to protect and preserve natural resources. He is responsible for driving
the company's environmental leadership in four major areas: the purchase
and development and promotion of sustainable products; waste reduction
and chain-wide recycling initiatives; carbon reduction and renewable
power procurement; as well as educational initiatives for customers
and associates. An 18-year Staples veteran, Buckley was previously vice
president of facilities management and purchasing at Staples where he
directed company-wide recycling and energy conservation programs. Prior
to joining Staples, Buckley held several leadership positions in the
field of environmental management for Star Market, Continental Baking,
General Environmental Services Inc. and the U.S. Department of Interior/Aquaculture
Project. He holds a Bachelor's degree in biology from St. Anselm's College
and is an active member of several environmental groups for the State
of Massachusetts.
David Cash
David Cash is the Assistant Secretary for Policy in the Massachusetts
Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EOEEA). In this
role, Dr. Cash advises the Secretary of Energy and Environment on a
wide array of issues including energy, land management, water management,
state parks and forests, oceans, wildlife and fisheries, air and water
quality, climate change, transportation, recycling and waste management.
The Assistant Secretary works with the Secretary and the Undersecretaries
of Environment and Energy to develop and analyze policy options to further
EOEEA's mission. Prior to working for the Commonwealth, Dr. Cash was
a research associate at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at
Harvard University in Cambridge, and a Lecturer in Environmental Science
and Public Policy. He received a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the Kennedy
School in 2001.
Mark Chase
Mark Chase has over ten years of transportation systems innovation in
the public, private and non-profit sectors. Mark is a social entrepreneur.
He was on the founding management team of Zipcar, is helping to launch
GoLoco an innovative service that helps people fill the empty seats
in their car. He co-founded Central Bike Services, a company that helps
large institutions install and manage bike parking. Mark consults with
organizations and businesses experiencing car-parking shortages to develop
sustainable transportation programs that get people out of their cars.
Amy A. Cotter
Amy A. Cotter manages both MetroFuture: Making a Greater Boston Region
and integrated smart growth activities at the Metropolitan Area Planning
Council, the regional planning agency for the 101 communities of metropolitan
Boston. Her work focuses on exploring policy and planning options through
research and data analysis in order to inform decision making with the
likely outcomes of different choices. Amy brings to the effort more
than 10 years of leadership in planning and policy making for smart
growth and sustainable development, and has held positions at Tellus
Institute and ICF Consulting. She holds Masters Degrees in regional
planning and environmental policy from the University of Michigan, and
received her BA from Tufts University.
John Dalzell
John Dalzell is a LEED Accredited registered architect. As Senior
Architect for Development Planning at the Boston Redevelopment Auothority,
John focuses City resources on industrial, commercial and residential
development in Boston through several new strategic planning initiatives
including; Green Building, Housing on Main Street, Transit Oriented
Development Planning, and Boston Back Streets. These planning initiatives
are community based and seek to build comprehensive visions for smart
growth and Green development in Boston.
Anthony Flint
Anthony Flint is director of public affairs at the Lincoln Institute
of Land Policy, a think tank in Cambridge, Mass., and a writer on urbanism
and development patterns. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard Design
School while writing This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future
of America, a narrative and analysis of sprawl and smart growth, published
by The John Hopkins University Press in April 2006. He is working on
his next book, to be published in 2008 by Random House, on the clash
of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses. He has been a journalist for over twenty
years, primarily at The Boston Globe, where he covered urban planning
and design, architecture, growth and transportation. His articles and
essays have appeared in The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, The Hartford
Courant, Planning magazine, the Journal of the American Planning Association,
Architecture Boston, Landscape Architecture, Architectural Record and
Land Lines, the online journal PLANetizen and PLANetizen's "Contemporary
Debates in Urban Planning" (Island Press, 2007),. He has also published
papers and a chapter on planning for publications of the Rappaport Institute
of Greater Boston at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. A graduate
of Middlebury College and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism,
he was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard in 2000-2001, and served in 2005-2006
in the Office for Commonwealth Development, the Massachusetts agency
coordinating housing, transportation, environment and energy. He is
an associate in the Citistates Group (http://citistates.com), a network
of speakers and authors on issues facing metropolitan regions, and a
member of the Metropolitan Area Planning Commission's MetroFuture Task
Force, implementing a visioning plan for future development patterns
in Massachusetts. He is a frequent lecturer on trends in land and living;
his website is www.anthonyflint.net.
Jesse Foote
Jesse Foote began work with the Harvard Green Campus Initiative
in August of 2005. He has worked for the organization in a number of
capacities, and currently manages new construction services for the
group’s Green Campus Building Services. In this role, Jesse works
with project teams to review designs, incorporate green features and
manage the LEED certification process. Jesse is currently helping to
implement a new set of University wide green building guidelines which
require all building projects to follow certain minimum green design
strategies. Jesse received his bachelors degree in 2001 in engineering
and environmental studies from Dartmouth College, where he wrote a thesis
encouraging the college to construct a new heating/power plant so that
the fuel type could be switched from oil to wood chips. Before coming
to Harvard, he helped form a non-profit organization named WinCycle
that reused and recycled computers in the Dartmouth area.
Peter Forbes
Peter Forbes is a photographer, writer, and life long student of the
relationship between land and people. After 18 years working in land
conservation and having founded several organizations, Peter began in
2002 to unfold an ambitious dream of creating a new type of social change
organization, one grounded in place but diverse in its relationships,
that seeks to understand and create healthy, whole communities. Today,
Center for Whole Communities has alumni from 45 states and more than
450 communities and organizations. Peter's essays on land, people and
culture have appeared in a dozen books including Our Land, Ourselves:
Readings on People and Place and the Great Remembering: further thoughts
on land, soul and society, and Coming to Land (TPL/Chelsea Green, 2001).
His photographs appear in A Handmade Life (Chelsea Green Publishing
Company, 2003) and many other collections. Peter and his wife and two
daughters raise sheep and blueberries in the Mad River Valley of Vermont.
Tolle Graham
Tolle Graham is an occupational health and environmental trainer/ organizer
at MassCOSH, the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and
Health. MassCOSH is a coalition of unions, occupational health and legal
professionals, and community groups who are dedicated to improving workplace
health and safety and building healthy communities. Tolle has worked
as an advocate and occupational health and environmental trainer for
20 years with MassCOSH. As project director of the MassCOSH Healthy
Schools Initiative, Tolle Graham provides training and technical assistance
to schools concerning indoor air quality and environmental problems
and helps schools establish Environmental Health and Safety Committees.
As a Steering Committee member of the Boston Urban Asthma Coalition
and founding member of the Boston Asthma Environmental Initiative, Tolle
has brought together medical professionals, parents, community groups
and the Boston School Department to address the asthma epidemic and
the conditions of the school environment. She is also the Coordinator
of the Massachusetts Healthy Schools Network, a statewide coalition
of parents, teachers, school staff, public health and environmental
activists working on designing, building and maintaining green and healthy
schools through advocacy, information and organizing.
James Hunt
James Hunt serves on Mayor Thomas Menino's Cabinet as Chief for Environmental
and Energy Services for the City of Boston. In this capacity, Jim Hunt
is the Mayor's lead advisor on Environmental and Energy policy and oversees
several City agencies including the Inspectional Services Department,
the Environment Department, Parks Planning, and Boston's Recycling Program.
Jim also serves as a Mayoral Appointee to the Board of Directors of
the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) and as a Trustee
on the Boston Groundwater Trust. Prior to joining the City, Jim Hunt
served as Assistant Secretary for the Commonwealth's Executive Office
of Environmental Affairs (EOEA) and was responsible for administering
the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act (MEPA). As administrator
of the Commonwealth's MEPA program, Jim was in charge of major project
reviews for the state including downtown waterfront development, MBTA
transit projects, and energy projects such as Cape Wind. Jim Hunt served
on Governor Romney's Ocean Management Task Force and served on the Environmental
Oversight Committee for the Central Artery/Tunnel Project. An attorney,
Jim received his Juris Doctorate from Suffolk University Law School
and his Bachelors Degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Jim Hunt is a lifelong resident of Dorchester, where he lives with his
wife Robin, daughter Ella and son Matthew.
Seth Kaplan
Seth Kaplan is the Vice President for Climate Advocacy at the Conservation
Law Foundation, serving as the Director of CLF's regional Clean Energy
and Climate Change Project and overseeing all work at CLF involving
global warming and greenhouse gas emissions. A graduate of Wesleyan
University and Northeastern University School of Law he worked as a
real estate and environmental attorney in private practice in New York
City before his return to CLF (where he had previously worked as a law
student) in 1998. His current work focuses on fostering renewable energy,
working for climate protection and reducing the environmental impact
of fossil fuel power plants and pressing for expanded opportunities
for meeting energy needs through energy efficiency. This work has included
FERC litigation and extensive participation in ISO New England and New
England Power Pool processes. In particular he has been deeply involved
in the multi-state and stakeholder process that shaped the Regional
Greenhouse Gas Initiative and the ISO New England process defining a
new "Forward Capacity Market." The Program that he manages
at CLF includes advocacy for public transit expansion, supportive clean
renewable energy policy, energy efficiency and regulation of emissions
from automobiles as well broader legal advocacy regarding greenhouse
gas emissions and energy policy. Previously, he directed CLF's transportation
work, which included advocating in favor of expanded and cleaner public
transit, including a successful effort to substantially reduce emissions
from the MBTA bus fleet. A native of Rhode Island, he is the father
of three children. His wife, also a graduate of Northeastern Law, teaches
at Suffolk University Law School.
Anne Kelly
Anne Kelly is an environmental attorney with twenty years of experience
in the private sector and in state and federal regulatory agencies.
Currently she is the Director of Governance Programs at Ceres, a non-profit
coalition of investors and public interest groups working toward sustainable
prosperity. She is also a principal in the law and mediation firm, Creative
Resolutions, LLC based in Boston. Prior to joining Ceres, Ms. Kelly
was the Director of the Massachusetts Environmental Strike Force, a
specialized unit of the Attorney General's Office dedicated to bringing
criminal and civil actions against major environmental violators. She
also served as Special Assistant to John DeVillars, Regional Administrator
of EPA New England. Ms. Kelly is a member of the adjunct faculty at
Boston College Law School and has taught environmental law at Tufts
University, Suffolk University and New England School of Law. She is
on the board of the Environmental League of Massachusetts and the Massachusetts
Energy Consumers Alliance. In addition to her JD, Ms. Kelly received
her Masters in Public Administration from Harvard's John F. Kennedy
School.
Samuel P. Krasnow, J.D., M.E.M.
Sam Krasnow is a policy advocate at Environment Northeast (ENE),
a nonprofit research and advocacy organization focusing on climate,
energy, and clean air policies in the Northeastern United States and
Eastern Canada. ENE has successfully advocated for many new laws and
regulations to increase investments in energy efficiency, renewable
generation, and establish minimum efficiency standards for appliances
and equipment. Mr. Krasnow's is a co-author of ENE's Climate Change
Roadmap detailing innovative policies to advance efficiency resources
and renewables. He contributed greatly to the creation of MA's Green
Communities Act and the passage of RI's "Comprehensive Energy Efficiency
and Affordability Act of 2006." In 2007, Mr. Krasnow was appointed
by Governor Carcieri to serve on the RI Energy Efficiency & Resources
Management Council, a body charged with the implementation of next generation
efficiency and renewables policy. He serves on the Policy Committee
and Board of Directors of the New England Clean Energy Council. Prior
to receiving his law degree and a master's in environmental management
at Yale, Mr. Krasnow worked for at Efficiency Vermont where he authored
a report on innovative financing tools for efficiency.
Steven Lanou
Steven Lanou is the Deputy Director in the Environmental Programs
Office leading the office’s campus sustainability program. In this
capacity, Mr. Lanou works to develop, promote, and coordinate MIT-wide
policies and initiatives to advance the Institute’s commitment
to sustainable practices. Working in a cooperative fashion with all
Institute departments, labs, and centers, the Environmental Programs
Office seeks out and promotes partnerships to undertake and advance
initiatives that minimize the environmental impact of the campus, provide
educational opportunities for students, and ensure sound environment,
health and safety practices and services on campus. Mr. Lanou has been
deeply involved with the recent work of the MIT Energy Initiative to
develop a campus energy program that showcases leading approaches for
significantly reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions through
the implementation of best practices, campus-focused research, and student
learning opportunities. Mr. Lanou is an environmental planner with 15
years experience in environmental policy development and program implementation.
He holds a Bachelors degree in international economic development from
Brown University, and a Masters degree in environmental policy and planning
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Melissa Luna
Melissa Luna is the Director of Community Organizing at Sociedad Latina,
a community-based organization located in Mission Hill whose mission
is to work in partnership with Latino youth to cultivate the next generation
of leaders. With the support of families and the broader community,
Sociedad Latina fulfills its critical mission by providing a broad array
of programs that promote community leadership, civic engagement, meaningful
employment, educational attainment, cultural identity and pride and
the continuation of traditions. With over eight years of youth work
experience, Melissa has developed programming and curriculum to train
youth to become advocates and community organizers, developing positive
solutions for change in their community. The youth community organizers
of Sociedad Latina are currently working to educate residents on the
benefits of sustainable design and preservation of open space, while
partnering with neighborhood development project to include youth voice
throughout the development process. Melissa has worked over five years
organizing with youth and parents of Boston on issues varying from education
reform to community development.
Rick Mattila
BA, Biology (Boston University), MS Health Science (Northeastern University).
Rick is Director of Environmental Affairs for Genzyme Corporation, a
worldwide biotechnology and pharmaceutical company. At Genzyme for the
past 23 years, he has held positions in laboratory management, health
and safety and environmental management. Currently he directs a department
responsible for guiding environmental management and performance for
the corporation. He was a member of the design team for the Genzyme
Center project that began in 2000 and achieved a Platinum LEED rating.
He is a LEED Accredited Professional and was responsible for the focus
on green design elements with the project. A microbiologist by profession
he has been a member of several advisory committees with environmental
agencies working on joint environmental improvement projects. He is
currently a member of the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust, Green
Building Advisory Committee, the City of Cambridge, Climate Protection
Advisory Committee, Museum of Science Environmental Sustainability Committee,
Town of Hull Water Resources Committee and on the board of A Better
City in Boston.
Naomi Mermin
Naomi Mermin is a nationally known expert on the connections between
housing and health. She is the principal of Naomi Mermin Consulting,
an environmental consulting firm in Portland, Maine providing healthy
housing, green gardening, smart growth and strategic planning services.
She is an adjunct Professor of Community Health at Tufts University
School of Medicine.
Gwendolen Noyes
Ms Noyes is a founding partner of Oaktree Development, a small residential
development company with a 35-year history in Cambridge, MA. The company
has built approximately 2000 units of market-rate, multifamily, often
multi-use residential communities during this time. All of Oaktree's
developments are in New England. Though her Master's Degree is in Architecture,
and she participates in site selection and design decisions for Oaktree
projects, her title is Director or Marketing. She has been particularly
involved in the "greening" of all Oaktree's projects, starting
from the codification of 'screens' used to decide if a particular development
opportunity qualifies as a Smart Growth, market-feasible project, and
continuing through overseeing the details of compiling points to qualify
a project for LEED certification. Ms Noyes' MArch is from U Penn, and
BA is from Vassar College. She is a founding member of Cambridge's Affordable
Housing Trust, a past president of the Cambridge Center for Adult Education,
and lives in one of her developments, Cambridge Cohousing. She is married
to her Oaktree/architect partner, Arthur Klipfel, with whom she shares
a number of children and grandchildren.
Matthew Pawa
Matthew Pawa has represented governments, citizens, property owners,
small businesses, environmental groups, non-profit organizations and
injured persons in a wide range of cases. He has handled cases involving
issues of national importance and cutting-edge legal issues. He is an
award-winning legal writer. His legal articles are regularly published
in law reviews and journals; he recently authored a chapter in a legal
handbook on the use of common law strategies to protect the environment.
He is an adjunct professor of law at Boston College Law School, where
he teaches Climate Law and Policy. He has appeared as a guest speaker
on the use of tort law in environmental cases at Columbia University
Law School and Harvard Law School. Mr. Pawa pioneered the use of common
law tort doctrines such as public nuisance in global warming.
Mr. Pawa received the national Scribes Award in 1993 for clarity force
and style in legal writing and the University of Pennsylvania Law School's
Leebron Prize for excellence in constitutional law writing. He is a
member of the American Bar Association, the Massachusetts Bar Association,
the American Association for Justice, and the Massachusetts Academy
of Trial Attorneys. He attended Cornell University (B.S. with distinction,
1987) and the University of Pennsylvania (J.D. cum laude, 1993).
Susan Rodgerson
Susan Rodgerson directs Artists For Humanity, a non-profit youth development
organization she co-founded with six urban teens in 1990. In seventeen
years, she has led AFH from a small painting studio to a nationally
and internationally recognized leader in the youth arts field. Artists
For Humanity enables Rodgerson and her many dedicated staff, supporters,
partners, and participants to challenge themselves in many ways –
to create, to grow, to give a voice to talented young people, and to
make a contribution to the community. Rodgerson’s most recent challenge
involved overseeing the design and development of the EpiCenter, AFH’s
permanent and energy sustainable facility in Boston’s Fort Point
Arts District. Susan has studied fine art and art history, has exhibited
widely in the Boston area, and is the recipient of numerous awards to
include: the 2005 Social Entrepreneur in Residence from PACE University,
the 2005 Alumni Community Service Award from Lesley University, the
2004 Changing People’s Lives Award from Grand Circle Foundation,
the first Carlisle Foundation Creative Entrepreneurs Award in 1999,
and a 2006 and 2004 Finalist for the Volvo for Life Awards.
Jeff Schwarz
Jeff Schwarz is President of Image Software Services (ISS), a 15 year
old digital duplication company focused on providing products to the
financial services, software, municipalities and conservation groups
and small business community. By creating a total environment - from
profit sharing to employee involvement to reuse/recycle - ISS has been
able to achieve the Ecostar Achiever award - the first in the region!
Utilizing his 20 years of experience in manufacturing Jeff has been
engaging his employees to look differently at how we use materials and
how our materials can be saved and used more wisely by our customers.
William Shutkin
William Shutkin is a global leader in sustainability and social entrepreneurship
who has helped pioneer novel solutions to some of our most pressing
environmental and social challenges. An attorney, author, educator and
non-profit leader, Shutkin's expertise spans many fields and disciplines,
from urban planning to economic development, green design to ecosystem
management, public policy to social justice. He has lectured extensively
across the U.S. and abroad on the ideas and innovations guiding us to
a prosperous and sustainable future and has written two books, the award-winning
The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First
Century and A Republic of Trees, Fields Notes on People, Place and the
Planet. The legendary environmentalist David Brower described Shutkin
as "an environmental visionary creating solutions to today's problems
with a passion that would make John Muir and Martin Luther King equally
proud."
Madeleine Steczynski
Madeleine Steczynski, Co-Founder and Executive Director, is an East
Boston resident. Together with her Board and Youth Advisory Board she
has built ZUMIX from a kitchen table project to a $400,000 operation.
As an active advocate for the arts in East Boston, she has served on
the Executive Committee for East Boston Healthy Boston Coalition, and
was one of the original innovators of the Cultural Connections initiative.
She is an Artistic Fellow for The Boston Foundation's Arts and Audiences
Initiative, and a Community Fellow for Eureka Communities Boston. She
also served for three years as a Cultural Fellow for the New England
Foundation for the Arts Building Communities through Culture Initiative.
Recently Madeleine was chosen to present as part of the 2006 Social
Innovation Forum at MIT. She is currently participating in Achieving
Excellence, Executive Leadership Training through the Massachusetts
Cultural Council and the Hauser Center at Harvard University.
Dr. Ricky Stern
Dr. Ricky S. Stern is the Founder and Executive Director of “e”
inc., the environmental learning and action center focused upon developing
a scientifically literate and environmentally responsible citizenry.
Headquartered in Boston, and now in its fourth year, “e” inc.
provides in-depth educational residencies to children and youth through
inter-agency partnerships, in-school placements, and one-time workshops.
Each of their four current curriculums combine science understanding
with all manner of action training and projects that effect issues locally
and globally. A recent doctoral recipient from Harvard’s Graduate
School of Education, Dr. Stern has successfully combined her interests
in human development and evolutionary biology through the formation
of this organization. In 1982, Dr. Stern founded and directed a clinical
organization, The Boston Institute for Arts Therapies, which still provides
site-based surround-care services to over forty agencies a year and
is now an part of the Whittier Street Health Center. Dr. Stern has also
been active in her community as a Girl Scout leader, and a board member
working for green space preservation, environmental education, and community
involvement in natural areas projects. She is a resident of Sharon,
MA where she resides with her husband and daughter and the household
cats and fish inside and all manner of critters outside.
Michael Stoddard
Michael Stoddard is the Deputy Director and Attorney at Environment
Northeast (ENE). His work focuses on climate change, energy and transportation
issues. Based ENE’s Portland office, he is ENE’s lead advocate
in Maine and coordinates ENE’s diesel and Canada initiatives. He
was project team leader and editor of the Climate Change Roadmap for
New England and Eastern Canada. Before joining ENE, Michael consulted
to as the organization and other nonprofits, including the Conservation
Law Foundation, the Clean Energy Group, and the Clean Air Task Force.
He also worked with the Federal Trade Commission and the state attorneys
general to develop deceptive advertising guidelines for the marketing
of environmentally preferable (“green”) energy. Earlier, Michael
worked as an election law specialist at the Federal Election Commission
(FEC), and at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
(NDI) on projects in Africa and Latin America. He serves on the boards
of Cultivating Community and the Psalmodi Foundation for Archeological
Research. He holds a JD from the University of Maine School of Law and
a BA in political economy from Williams College.
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