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Laura Clise is a social entrepreneur and corporate sustainability leader. She is the founder and CEO of Intentionalist, an online platform and guide that connects consumers to the people and stories behind the diverse local businesses that shape our communities. Laura previously led sustainability and corporate responsibility at Weyerhaeuser and Plum Creek. Prior to Plum Creek, she led sustainable development, supplier diversity, external communications, and corporate citizenship at AREVA Inc., preceded by work for the U.N. Global Compact, Intel Corporation, and Business for Social Responsibility. She began her career in brand management at General Mills and subsequently worked for McMaster-Carr Supply Company, where she led the international sales operations department. ▼

As Member Services Coordinator, Johanna ensures that SPLC's members are receiving everything they need to access all the great member benefits offered by SPLC and that their needs are being heard and addressed within the Council's program development and delivery. Prior to joining SPLC, Johanna coordinated the State of Minnesota's Sustainable Procurement Program for 10 years, assisting the state with making purchases that demonstrated the highest level of environmental, social, and economic responsibility. During her time with the State, she led the development of a charter for the State's program, increasing the State's commitment to and accountability for sustainable procurement. She also successfully advocated for including sustainable purchasing in an Executive Order on state agency sustainability. Johanna holds degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and San Francisco State University.

Jennifer Atkinson is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Washington, Bothell, where she teaches courses on environmental humanities, environmental ethics, and American literature. Her recent seminar on Eco-Grief & Climate Anxiety has been featured in the Seattle Times, NBC News, High Country News, and many other publications and podcasts. Jennifer is also the author of Gardenland: Nature, Fantasy, and Everyday Practice, which explores American garden literature as an arena where people enact desires for sustainability, community, social justice, and contact with nature. She has published research on the use of outdoor experience in humanities education and representations of nature in utopian literature. Jennifer received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Chicago.

Ash has nearly 25 years of experience in the national energy industry. Under his leadership, McKinstry has grown from a local mechanical contractor into a nationally-recognized and comprehensive design, build, operate and maintain enterprise. Ash's extensive knowledge of the energy industry includes systems engineering, evaluation of sustainable ideas, development of alternative-financing solutions and optimizing & securing utility incentives and grants. Ash is responsible for evolving McKinstry's vision and leadership for a variety of related initiatives aimed at innovation in the built environment. He's also responsible for McKinstry's market development strategy and provides leadership for the sales and business development efforts of all lines of business. Ash earned his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts and a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington. Ash is a registered professional engineer.

Megan Banks is the Program Manager of Sustainable City Year Program (SCYP), an internationally recognized and awarded university-community partnership program that is part of the University of Oregon's Sustainable Cities Initiative. Prior to managing SCYP, Megan spent more than 20 years as a practicing landscape architect, planner, project manager and facilitator in the private and public sectors. She is well positioned to understand the ways in which the complex administrative structures of cities and universities can be matched to find both opportunities for all. Megan earned a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and a Masters in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Oregon.

Erica Bartlett works at the University of Washington as a Program Support Supervisor within the UW Recycling department, where she manages and oversees UW's flagship waste diversion program known as MiniMax. Previously, she consulted with renewable energy companies in Oregon and Washington state, and worked to reduce single-occupant vehicle commutes for Western Washington University's Office of Sustainability. Erica holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Policy from Western Washington University.

I am a Ph.D. student as well as the IPM and Sustainability Coordinator for Grounds Management at the University of Washington. In this roll I oversee the IPM plan set by UW grounds as well as multiple sustainability projects such as the salvage wood and composting programs. Currently, I am overseeing ways to increase the drought tolerance of our lawns and decrease our usage of vehicles and equipment that rely on fossil fuels. The Universities IPM plan has received salmon safe certification and goes through many lengths to keep the University beautiful while implementing environmentally friendly techniques. In 2015, I completed a Master of Science degree in Plant Science at the University of Washington. Currently, I am pursuing a Ph.D. studying invasive fungal pathogens under Patrick Tobin Ph.D. I have a keen interest in ornamental horticulture where non-native organisms are found to cause substantial economic losses to the industry. I am currently overseeing an undergraduate project evaluating how climate change will impact plant-pathogen dynamics. My goal is to become a university affiliated garden director where I will be able to teach while conducting research to provide new information to the scientific community.

Sarah Bronstein manages the Transportation Options program at Oregon State University in Corvallis Oregon, which aims to get more students and employees out of their cars and onto more sustainable forms of transportation. She has a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning with a Transportation specialization from Portland State University, and a BA in Politics and Environmental Studies from Whitman College. Sarah serves on the Linn Benton Loop Technical Advisory Committee for the regional transit service connecting Corvallis to nearby Albany.

Karen Cheng is professor of Visual Communication Design at the University of Washington, where she teaches information design and data visualization. Her research and practice focuses on making complex information both more understandable and more compelling in a wide variety of contexts-for example, making recycling/composting easier (and more pleasurable) for users.

Yolanda graduated from the University of Brussels, Belgium, with a Masters in Contemporary History and a post-Masters degree in Teaching and in International Humanitarian Aid. She is the author of Chileans in Exile: Their Immigration, Reception and Integration (2004), published by the University of Brussels Press, and worked for the Regional Integration Center of Brussels, providing social orientation programs to newcomers. After relocating to Seattle, she worked as a Program Officer at the World Affairs Council and Pacific Village Institute promoting international exchange for professionals, high school students and educators. Yolanda also worked several years in documentary production with KCTS9 and the Native American digital media nonprofit Longhouse Media. As a Sustainability Manager, Yolanda oversees the STARS and GHG reporting for Seattle University, and works with departments across campus to track SU's progress toward its Climate Action Plan goals and improve the university's sustainability performance. Yolanda is the recipient of the 2018 Seattle University Lee Thurber Outstanding Staff Award for distinguished service.

Elaine is the Sustainability Coordinator at Portland Community College's Rock Creek Campus and is responsible for the overall coordination of sustainability practices and programs. Some of these include strategic energy conservation, hydroponics, and personal printer reduction. Elaine helped establish an apiary on campus and supports ongoing efforts to increase pollinator habitat and education for solitary and honey bees. She has always had a deep commitment to population education and her 2017 TEDX talk was titled, Creating Eco-Friendly Families.

Kim Davenport is a Lecturer in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, where she teaches primarily lower-division humanities courses, both online and in the classroom. She brings her love of interdisciplinary teaching and diverse higher education administration experience to the table when teaching 'Sustainability in Action', a hands-on course open to students from all majors at UW Tacoma.

Since 2016, John has been building stronger operations for managing materials at Oregon State. Key projects are in improving training, building greater metrics and accountability into collection contracts, and spearheading waste reduction through changes in institutional procurement. John is the former Recycling Coordinator for the City of Norfolk, Virginia and is a National Trainer for Keep America Beautiful. John has degrees from University of Rhode Island, San Francisco State University and is LEED accredited. John is exploring Oregon and the Northwest with his wife of 23 years and stays connected with their three sons and three grandchildren.

Catalina M. de Onís is an Assistant Professor in Willamette University's Department of Civic Communication and Media in Salem, Oregon. Her teaching and research focus on rhetorical studies, energy colonialism, reproductive and environmental justice, and coalitional politics. Her essays appear in the Journal of Applied Communication Research, Communication Monographs, Communication Theory, Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, Women's Studies in Communication, and Women & Language, as well as in several edited collections. In collaboration with an interdisciplinary group of undergraduates, she organizes La Chispa, an environmental justice coalition on Willamette University's campus.

Tina Dilegge is a program manager at the University of Washington's Carbon Leadership Forum. In this role, Tina focuses on technical writing, outreach and project management. She also manages the Embodied Carbon Network, a communication platform bringing together nearly 400 professionals from over 100 cities worldwide who represent the building industry, academia, government agencies and nonprofits. Tina chairs the network's policy focus group, one of several working groups established for topical information sharing and development of educational content. Prior to the Carbon Leadership Forum, Tina worked on the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors study - the most comprehensive effort to date to measure health loss worldwide. Tina also spent time working overseas for the Canberra-based consulting firm Noetic Solutions, where she provided professional support to Australian Government and Australian Capital Territory departments and agencies, and nonprofit organizations.

Sonya is a faculty member at Bellevue College, where she teaches chemistry and environmental science, and coordinates a Sustainability degree. Currently, she is managing a Climate Justice project funded by BC's Provost. She received an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington's School of Oceanography (2003 - 2008). As a post-doc, she was adjunct teaching faculty in the UW's former Program on the Environment (now College of the Environment) and was a research associate in UW, Tacoma's Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences program (2008 - 2010). Sonya was a Lecturer in Arizona State University's School of Sustainability and also conducted sustainability education research there (2010 - 2013). Last year, the 2nd edition of her textbook, Sustainable World: Approaches to Analyzing and Resolving Wicked Problems (2018), was released. She has been active with the Curriculum for the Bioregion for over a decade and was nominated as one of the WOHESC 2018 McKinstry Champions of Sustainability.

Amy Dvorak is the Director of Sustainability at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon where she works to integrate sustainability into the life of the three Lewis & Clark schools with the aims of developing cross-school collaborations, broadening relationships with the community, promoting hands-on student learning and communicating the institution's commitment to sustainability. She earned her BS in Environmental Science and BA in International Studies at Oregon State University and Master of Environmental Management at Portland State University in 2007. She is an active participant in the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education and a GPSEN Board member.

A student leader doing what she can to improve the lives of her fellow peers. Is a returning student pursuing her degree 7 years after graduating from high school, Teri immediately jumped into student government through joining the Black Student Union at her campus in 2016. She is extremely passionate about social justice, and stresses in her work that all issues need to be viewed through an equitable lens. Teri uses her knowledge of Critical Race Theory, her understanding of our nation's true history, and her life experience as a Black woman growing up in PWI's to drive her approach and purpose to her work in student government. In her year and a half at Portland Community College she has so far helped create an annual social for the students, staff, and administration of color on her campus, hosted a number of events to honor the history and stories of people of color like Honoring Black Wall Street, lobbied in Washington DC for ethnic studies, spoken at AASHE about Eco-Social Justice, written grants to bring speakers such as Tara Houksa to her campus, as well as spoken on many panels, facilitated group discussions, and continues anchor her fellow student leaders in their decision-making to ensure equitable student success remains the top priority. ▼

Stacey Foreman manages the City of Portland's Sustainable Procurement Program and has been incorporating environmentally preferable products and services into public contracts for over a decade. Stacey is active in a variety of regional and national efforts to build sustainable procurement resources, and sits on advisory committees for the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council, EPEAT and Sweatfree Purchasing Consortium. Stacey is a LEED Accredited Professional and has presented to national and international audiences on the topic of sustainability in public procurement.

Liz Gignilliat is a Manager at UW Recycling, where she serves as the programmatic and operational leader of the UW Recycling administrative unit. She has worked at UW Recycling for five years, specializing in strategic planning, resource deployment, data collection and reporting, and contract management. She graduated from Georgia State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, where her studies focused on consumption and material culture, globalization, and visual culture.

Hall leads the university's equity, diversity and inclusion efforts, and plays a key role in advancing institutional excellence. He has oversight of the UW Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity (OMA&D) which administers programs that broaden college access, support student success and enhance diversity-related teaching and learning across campus. OMA&D also works collaboratively with and serves as a resource for colleges and administrative units as they establish, coordinate and assess their contributions to institutional diversity goals. Hall has over 20 years of experience in higher education and is involved with a number of national organizations including the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education and the Association of Public Land-Grant Universities Commission on Access, Diversity and Excellence. Hall came to the UW after serving as the inaugural vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville for three years. ▼

A recipient of Western's 2018 Team Recognition Award for writing Western's first twenty-year Sustainability Action Plan, Susanna is now supporting its implementation by connecting people and resources across campus and throughout the greater Bellingham community. Susanna's work includes overseeing communications of Western's sustainability initiatives, giving voice to the efforts and achievements of students, staff, and faculty. She is passionate about social and economic justice and the deep ties to ecological protection, believing that the earth will be safe when people have what they need and feel secure. Susanna holds a Master of Arts in Education from California State University, San Bernardino. A practitioner and promoter of individual and collective resiliency, Susanna is a ballerina, gardener, and volunteer with the Whatcom County Community Emergency Response Team.

Local, seasonal, and organic quickly became the name of the game during Mark Harris' time as Executive Chef at Reed College, where careful observation and a deeply-rooted dedication to quality, nourishing food cued him into the importance of sustainable options in an industry working to be more planet-conscious. Several years down the line finds Mark spearheading PSU Eats' work to provide these same options to Portland State's large and dynamic student body. As Sustainability Coordinator, Mark is charging ahead with the mission of providing PSU students with accessible, sustainable options in partnership with Portland food entrepreneurs and pioneers, local farmsteads, and sustainability advocates. This passion extends to his personal life; in the traditional Portland mold, Mark will be putting his bike rubber to the road with hundreds of fellow chefs as a part of the Chefs Cycle Bike Ride this coming spring, benefiting the No Kid Hungry Campaign. With Mark at the helm, the future of sustainable food at Portland State is a bright one.

My name is Zaida Hatfield and am a Freshman at the University of Oregon. If it wasn't for the Pathway Oregon scholarship, I would most likely be living at home and working full time. I am hoping to pursue a Psychology major with a minor in Ethnic Studies, and with higher education I hope to support my passion for social justice, particularly issues surrounding minority communities. My senior year in high school, I was co-president of the Restorative Justice Club and helped to protest and recreate my school's sexual harassment policy, which is work that I hope to continue in college. While holding the title of Cultural Sustainability Coordinator, my main goal is to bring the importance of sustainability to attention, particularly the intersection between sustainability and under-served, minority students. Through events like clothing drives, cultural sustainability tours, and cross collaborations with the Student Sustainability Center and cultural groups across campus, I hope to change the idea that sustainability is something that only serves and affects wealthy Caucasian people. Ideally, students of color become more involved in sustainability in ways of recycling and reusing, but also speaking up for one another and protecting our cultures, identities, ideas, and futures.

Chris is the Living Building Challenge Services Director, architect and author with The Miller Hull Partnership in Seattle with a variety of project experience including two certified Living Buildings and several more currently in design and construction. His recent book, Living Building Education, chronicles the story behind his first Living Building, the Bertschi School. Chris founded the Seattle 2030 Roundtable and co-founded the Healthy Materials Collaborative. A Living Future Accredited professional and a Living Building Challenge Hero, Chris is a university guest lecturer and speaker at numerous conferences across the country. He publishes articles and volunteers with local school groups mentoring students about sustainable practices and advocacy. As an Affiliate Instructor with the University of Washington, Chris is currently teaching a graduate sustainability course for the College of Built Environments.

Maddy Jones is a senior at Western Washington University. She is working towards a BA in Environmental Studies with an emphasis in education and policy, is minoring in Education and Social Justice, and is a student in the Honor's Program. Maddy is employed in Western's Office of Sustainability, and currently is in her second year as the Sustainability Representatives Program Coordinator. The Sustainability Reps Program is a peer-to-peer mentor education program for students living on campus to be engaged in sustainability issues, and Maddy is passionate about empowering the Reps to be change makers. Maddy is also the President of Western's Students for Renewable Energy and is working to create an Environmental Justice minor on campus. When not being overexcited about environmental issues she can be found running the trails, cooking vegan food, or with her nose in a book.

Olga Kachook is a Sustainability Manager at World Centric, where she works to close the loop on compostable food serviceware by collaborating with waste generators, haulers, and composting facilities. She also provides life cycle analysis on materials and manages zero waste initiatives with partners, such as Rubicon and the Post Landfill Action Network. Prior to World Centric, Olga worked at Etsy on USGBC zero waste facility certification and at Cascadia Consulting on a variety of sustainability programs, including green business programs and recycling and composting efforts for multifamily properties. Olga has a Master of Environmental Management from Yale University's School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, and a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from the University of Washington, Foster School of Business. She is a LEED Green Associate and a TRUE Zero Waste Advisor.

Dave is Fovea's principal in charge of customer engagement, technology management, and business development. He spearheads the development of interactive tool sets and management of data that provide clients the basis for successful outcomes. Dave is also adept at explaining complex topics at a high-level for non-technical client employees and other stakeholders. He previously served as a president of his own software development and consulting firm and has worked in a variety of technical roles solving client's diverse problems with a combination of creativity and business acumen. He is the creator and host of an exciting new podcast called the "Campus Energy and Sustainability Podcast." Dave holds a BA from the University of North Texas and attended the Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership Program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Devin Kleiner is a Project Architect and Senior Associate with Perkins+Will. With over 15 year of experience in practice, Devin has been leading the Sustainable Design Initiative for the Perkins+Will Seattle office for the past 10 years. He has been the project architect on numerous innovative higher education projects and received awards including the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP), the Association of College Unions International (ACUI), Energy in Design Award, and AIA Washington Civic Design Award. In addition to being a frequent lecturer, Devin has co-taught a University of Washington graduate design studio for three years advancing research on next generation computational design with an emphasis on energy, water, and environmental metrics. Devin was a presenter and panelist at the Facades+ AM Conference and led workshops including a 2-day Integrated Design Process Training for practicing architects and industry partners.

Michelle Larkins is the Director of the Center for a Sustainable Society at Pacific University, and an Assistant Professor in the Environmental Science and Studies Dept. Her research focuses on women's labor in food and environmental justice action at the local level, with emphasis on the experiences of Latinx immigrants and how resource inequity impacts sustainability outcomes. Previously she served as a researcher for the USAID Global Center for Food Systems Innovation, working on gender and food insecurity in Malawi, Africa. Other projects include time at the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL), where she worked to inform approaches to STEM pedagogy and recruitment to reflect the experiences of underrepresented student groups; and at Michigan State she assisted in the development of assessment standards for a new minor in sustainability studies. She earned her PhD in Community Sustainability from Michigan State University. Outside of work, Michelle enjoys working in her garden, hiking with her two dogs, and any water sport-- but especially sailing, and kayaking.

Anne LeSenne has a Masters in Plant & Soil Science from Texas Tech University, and is a Master Arborist and Beekeeper. She is currently teaching Beekeeping classes Spring and Summer terms at Portland Community College, and is a key person in the annual Certification of Bee Campus USA and Tree Campus USA for the college. She is constantly working on increasing pollinator habitat and survivability here in the Pacific Northwest through education and technology.

Jessica works to effect a holistic vision of sustainability in her community in both her roles as student and employee at Western. She believes that with education and empowerment, sustainability can be simultaneously incorporated into large-scale systemic changes as well as everyday practices. As a student, Jessica researched, designed, secured grant funding for, and is in the process of implementing one of the country's first fully institutionalized compost programs in a university's residence halls. As the Assistant Coordinator of a peer-to-peer sustainability education program, she supports program representatives on their journey to increase sustainability and environmental justice on Western's campus. Jessica is currently working toward a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science with a Freshwater and Terrestrial Ecology Emphasis.

A first-generation college graduate and now Graduate student at Oregon State University's College Student Services Administration Program (CSSA), Angel oversees the Food Assistance Application for the Human Services Resource Center and conducts research on food security and other issues facing students at the OSU-Corvallis campus and in trends in higher education. Angel works closely with all professional and student staff to support students and community members in meeting their needs to ensure their personal and academic success through the various programs the HSRC offers. As a student affairs professional in the making, Angel will take his knowledge around historically marginalized communities and put them at the center of his work, ensuring institutions are holding themselves accountable to the communities they now reside in.

Jade Menchaca is a senior at the University of Oregon from Beaverton, Oregon. She is majoring in Environmental Studies with minors in Food Studies and Ethics. She started at the Student Sustainability Center as an Office Assistant in 2016, became the Event Coordinator in 2017 and is now the Food Security Program Coordinator. Current projects include organizing Produce Drops that act as free farmer's markets providing eligible students with fresh produce twice a month, hosting SNAP enrollment events to assist students' enrollment process in SNAP benefits, coordinating volunteers for both projects and overall destigmatizing food assistance. She is very passionate about reducing food insecurity around college campuses and and facilitating community outreach for education opportunities.

Jessica is a current senior at the University of Washington who will graduate with a degree in Oceanography in June 2019. During her time at the university, she has pursued on-campus leadership in sustainability through her role in Students Expressing Environmental Dedication (SEED). As the Executive Director of SEED for two years, Jessica has worked alongside professional staff and students to create a community of residents who are passionate about education and advocacy centered on sustainability issues on the UW campus. It is this experience that has defined her college career and given her a voice as a leader in sustainability that she hopes to continue to use after graduation.

Ellen Moore is a senior lecturer at the University of Washington Tacoma. Her research and teaching revolve around environmental justice. Her first book - "Landscape and the Environment in Hollywood Film: the Green Machine" - attempts to make more room for ecology in cultural studies through an examination of environmental issues in different genres of Hollywood film. Her latest book ("Journalism, Politics, and the Dakota Access Pipeline") reveals her work with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, including their perspectives, thoughts, and beliefs on the Dakota Access Pipeline and on the mainstream media. Currently she is teaching her new course "Ecology, Inequality, and Popular Culture."

Julia Olson is a junior at the University of Oregon from Stoughton, Wisconsin. She is triple-majoring in Geography, Environmental Studies, and Spatial Data Science and Technology. She started at the Student Sustainability Center as an Event Assistant in 2018 and is now the Waste Reduction and Reusables Coordinator. Current projects include a pilot program that works with first year students to familiarize them with organizing and executing sustainability efforts in their residence halls, a gown share program where graduating seniors can donate their used gowns for reuse in the next year, and the revamping and further introduction of a dishware reusables program in the student union.

Kiran Oommen is a community organizer, gardener, and musician currently studying sociology at Seattle University. In addition to his work as a plaintiff on the Juliana vs. US lawsuit, he is on the Board of Directors for the Civil Liberties Defense Center, and associates with a variety of direct action groups in the Pacific Northwest. Kiran does mandolin and vocals in the anarchist folk punk collective known as Geophagia, and books underground punk concerts in Seattle.

Marilyn Ostergren is the Renewable Energy Liaison at the University of Washington. She has a PhD in Information Science has worked for the UW Sustainability Office on special projects since 2008. She also teaches Visual Information Design in the Information School and Energy Systems at the College of Built Environments.

Megan Patton-López is an Assistant Professor at Western Oregon University. Her teaching and research focus on community collaboration, child and adolescent health, multicultural health and policy, systems and environmental change for health promotion. Recent projects have included working with low-income mothers passionate about creating health promoting neighborhoods; first generation college students mobilized to address food insecurity; and community residents dedicated to reducing health disparities. She regularly collaborates with higher education, local government, non-governmental organizations, community residents and college students to develop health promotion programs and policies that improve nutrition outcomes, food security, and physical activity. Her research appears in Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, Nutrients, Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, and Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.

Arlene Plevin received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington and her MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa. Her work has appeared in Interdisciplinary Environmental Review; Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality, and Activisim; Wild Things: Ecological Criticism, Ecological Literacy, and Children's Literature; Ecocomposition: Theoretical and Pedagogical Approaches, The International Herald Tribune, and other publications. She teaches technical writing, and creative writing at Olympic College, and as a former Fulbright Lecturer in Taiwan (2002) at Tamkang University, she has bicycled nearly all over the world and written a now very out of print book about bicycling (Fodor's 1994). In 2012, she was a Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Lecturer in Dharamsala, India, teaching at Central University of Himachel Pradesh and focusing on sustainability and diasporas. She has designed a Faculty Learning Community on Sustainability, funded by the State of Washington and been active with the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), serving on the board and moderating/contributing to numerous panels. ▼

Alison Pugh is Faculty for the Sustainable Building Science Technology Bachelors of Applied Science program at South Seattle College. She is also the Principal Investigator (PI) for the National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, Aligning Students in Accelerated Pathways in Engineering, Technology, and Building Science, at South Seattle College, and just recently closed the Expanding Lifelong STEM Career Pathways in Sustainable Building Science Technology NSF grant as Co-PI. Prior to that, she served as faculty and Chair of the Energy Management academic department at Edmonds Community College for six years. She led the development of the energy management program at Edmonds CC, including convening the industry-led advisory committee, developing course sequencing within the degree, curriculum, and online content. In addition, she was the PI for the NSF grant, Meeting the Challenge of Energy Management in a Carbon-Constrained World, as well as directing three other energy-related grants at the college. ▼

Shawn is committed to social justice principles to reach sustainability goals that will have positive impacts immediately but provide a framework for the future. Building capacity in our programs, with fellow staff, stakeholders, and community is a top priority to ensure success in our ever-changing technological and political environments that are moving towards values-based ROI's. Shawn wants to empower everyone to work collaboratively and create safe spaces so everyone can be their authentic selves at home and at work which will ensure all are welcome here. Shawn wants to work with you.

After graduation from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1998 and the Arizona State University School of Law in 2001, where she served as co-executive editor of Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science and Technology, she clerked for the Hon. John C. Gemmill on the Arizona Court of Appeals. She has served as an Honors Attorney for the U.S. Department of Transportation, In-House Legal Counsel for the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe, and Staff Attorney for the Western Environmental Law Center. Her environmental law practice focuses on reducing pollution from industrial agricultural operations, protecting and enhancing instream flows for people and fish, and fighting climate change on behalf of young people and future generations. Andrea is licensed to practice law in Washington and Oregon and is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Washington, Oregon, Montana, and Northern California, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Tenth Circuit, the U.S. Supreme Court, the Snoqualmie Tribal Court, the Lummi Indian Nation Tribal Court and the Muckleshoot Tribal Court. In 2016, Seattle Met Magazine recognized her legal work representing youth in the Washington Atmospheric Trust Litigation case in King County Superior Court against the Washington Department of Ecology, and named her part of their "Perfect Party," which includes the "month's most interesting locals and newsmakers."

Narce Rodriguez is the Executive Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at Pacific University. She leads and manages an institution wide effort to support and further develop a diverse community of faculty, students, and staff through policy development and programs that foster equity and inclusion in the broadest sense possible. This includes providing strategic, operational, and organizational leadership that grows capacity for intercultural competence, nurturing of diversity populations, and inclusive leadership across campus. Rodriguez brings more than 25 years of higher education experience, with a substantial background in diversity and inclusion. Most recently, she has served as dean of student development at Portland Community College, Rock Creek Campus, where her other roles since 2000 have included interim campus president, retention and multicultural coordinator, and program advisor for the College Assistance Migrant Program. ▼

Alexa Russo isn't your traditional environmentalist, she did not grow up hiking in the forest with her parents, she did not grow up experiencing the earth through any lens other than getting from one place to another; she would play outside as a child, but was never one to dig in the dirt, or plant a garden. It was her time at Cascadia College that instilled in her an unexplainably deep connection to the world around us, and a desire to conserve and celebrate the magnificent things that the earth has to offer. Tromping through the wetland in the pouring rain, and seeing the impacts that development and climate change was having on the area that she was raised in created this sense of compassion within Russo, producing a drive to do something about it; to become a steward of the earth. Her time at UW Bothell has only magnified these feelings, and advanced her passion further. Alexa Russo has been with the University of Washington Bothell since 2016, working as Student Sustainability Assistant within the Sustainability Office. She graduated from UW Bothell in 2017, with a Bachelor's in Environmental Studies, concentrated in Sustainability & Society. ▼

Ann Scheerer is an instructor and the academic advisor for the Sustainability Double Degree and Minor at Oregon State University in Corvallis. Before academia, Ann worked with local governments and nonprofits on sustainability programs in the Puget Sound region and from this experience, designs student learning opportunities through community-based sustainability projects. Ann earned an M.P.A. from the University of Washington Evans School as well as a Ph.D. in Design and Planning from the University of Colorado with a focus on climate policy and planning, a Master of Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability from Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden, a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and a B.A. in Physics from Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Ann is passionate about sustainability and encouraging people to engage in their community and pursue their life's work to advance sustainability and resilience efforts.

Briar is the college's Sustainability Manager, with the focus of mainstreaming sustainability throughout all college practices district-wide. She has taught sustainability courses at PCC and sits on the Board of Directors for the Greater Portland Sustainability Education Network. She holds a Master's Degree in Sustainability from Arizona State University, as well as a B.A. in Sustainability and a B.S. in Justice Studies. She is a LEED Green Associate and received her Master Gardener certification in 2016. Briar has represented the college at the local, national and international-level, including COP23 in Bonn, Germany. She likes to spend her free time crafting, gardening, and playing with her kitty.

Kate Simonen, AIA, SE, is an associate professor in the Department of Architecture and licensed as an architect and structural engineer. She joined the faculty at the University of Washington with over 15 years of professional practice experience bringing expertise in high performance building systems, seismic design and retrofitting, net-zero energy residential construction, prefabrication and collaborative practice. Her research is focused on environmental life cycle assessment (LCA), integrated practice and innovative construction materials and methods. She is founding director of the Carbon Leadership Forum, an industry-academic collaborative research effort focused on linking LCA to design and construction practice to advance low carbon construction. She authored a handbook on LCA for building industry professionals, Life Cycle Assessment, which was published in 2014.

Sarah Stoeckl, PhD, is the program manager in the Office of Sustainability at the University of Oregon. Her work at the UO focuses on campus and community outreach, including support for sustainability in research, curriculum, co-curricular activities, and community engagements. She also supports the office's gathering and tracking of the campus' greenhouse gas emissions data, content creation that tells the university's sustainability story, and generation of sustainability policy and plans. Before starting this position in 2018, she worked in technology and education. Sarah earned her PhD in literature from the UO in 2012.

After earning a degree in environmental science and working in OSU's Government Relations office, Brandon helped create the Sustainability Officer position in 2005. His primary duties include setting OSU's strategic sustainability direction; tracking and reporting institutional progress toward sustainability; fostering student and academic engagement; managing communication about sustainability efforts; and scoping, funding and implementing infrastructure projects. Brandon chairs OSU's Transportation Committee and Sustainability Advisory Council, and volunteers extensively with government and community organizations. In 2010, Brandon was recognized by 1000 Friends of Oregon as one of the state's 35 Innovators Under 35.

Robert Turner has a PhD in Marine Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and two previous degrees in Geology. Rob has been teaching a variety of undergraduate earth and environmental science courses since 1998. In 2006 Rob joined the faculty of the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell. This most recent move started him down an interdisciplinary pedagogical journey centered on sustainability teaching.

Andre Uribe has been in charge of producing food for thousands of people daily, and he sees this as a huge responsibility and a powerful tool to help our community, making a difference in our current food system and the way food is purchased at big institutions. He is committed to creating meaningful relationships between chefs, growers and producers, and has stablished real friendships with small local farmers who grow the majority of produce for his large kitchens. Every year he has been able to get more new growers and producers to work together, organizing them to cultivate part of their farms exclusively for his use. Eliminating competition, giving them financial security and preventing potential food waste. Andre is currently part of the Northwest Food Buyers Alliance Advisory Team and is working with EcoTrust to bring local and sustainable food to large institutions such as public schools, hospitals and correctional facilities.

As Western Washington University's Director of Sustainability, Seth Vidaña oversees the functions of the Office of Sustainability, working with students, staff, and faculty to make Western a national leader in sustainability through advances in academics, operations, and co-curricular learning. Seth is driven to provide students with the opportunity to identify as protectors of people and planet, and hopes that their experiences at Western will stay with them for the rest of their lives. An envelope-pusher, knowledge source, and mentor, Seth is also co-chair of the Washington Higher Education Sustainability Consortium. He enjoys being a father, partner, trail runner, bee keeper, and is a proud first-generation American of Latino-Teuton heritage.

Dr. Grace Wang is Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental Studies at Western Washington University's Huxley College. She is also the Academic Program Director for Sustainability at WWU and Director of Curriculum for the Bioregion. These are fancy titles for coordinating sustainability-related curricular initiatives both on campus and throughout the Salish Sea region. She teaches courses in Environmental Studies, Natural Resource Policy, and Sustainability Literacy. Dr. Wang is a public lands scholar, recently completing research on Bureau of Land Management decision-making and the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

Kevin Wilhelm is one of the world's pre-eminent business consultants and teachers in the field of sustainability. He wrote the industry leading "Sustainability Jobs: The complete Guide to Landing Your Dream Green Job" and has worked with over 140+ organizations including Nordstrom, REI, Expedia, Alaska Airlines, Tommy Bahama, Whole Foods and the University of Washington.

Mary Christina Wood is a Philip H. Knight Professor of Law at the University of Oregon and the Faculty Director of the law school's nationally acclaimed Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center. She is an award-winning professor and the co-author of leading textbooks on public trust law and natural resources law. Her book, Nature's Trust: Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age (Cambridge University Press), sets forth a new paradigm of global ecological responsibility. She originated the legal approach called Atmospheric Trust Litigation, now being used in cases brought on behalf of youth throughout the world, seeking to hold governments accountable to reduce carbon pollution within their jurisdictions. She has developed a corresponding approach called Atmospheric Recovery Litigation, which would hold fossil fuel companies responsible for funding an Atmospheric Recovery Plan to draw down excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere using natural climate solutions. Professor Wood is a frequent speaker on climate issues and has received national and international attention for her sovereign trust approach to global climate policy.

Lee has over 30 years' experience in Customer Service, Operations, and Transportation. Over 20 years in Management working in various professional, and diverse settings, including 10 years as a Manager in the Solid Waste Line of Business.

Deborah Sigler, is a Program Coordinator at the UW Center for Integrated Design. In this role, Deborah has spent over three years leading thousands of visitors - public, professional, local and international individuals - through the Bullitt Center, a model for true sustainability. She knows firsthand the impact touring the Bullitt Center has, stating "showcasing a building that's designed and operates like a living organism, harnessing all the energy it needs from the sun, using only the water that falls on its roof, producing no waste, and using locally soured materials that are toxic free, is transformative."

Claudia Frere-Anderson is director of Sustainability at the University of Washington. She started her career in the financial services industry prior to working in the nonprofit and social entrepreneurship sector in the San Francisco Bay Area. In these positions, she launched community involvement plans for multi-national companies and advised corporations with corporate social responsibility program implementations. She also worked with national nonprofit organizations to help create efficiencies for volunteer recruitment. Claudia graduated Cum Laude in Politics from the University of San Francisco with a certificate in Peace and Justice Studies. She received an MBA in Corporate Social Responsibility from Nottingham University Business School in the UK where she received a full scholarship from the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ICCSR). While in graduate school, Claudia launched the business school's first Net Impact Chapter and led post-graduate students with environmental engagement projects. Claudia spends most of her time outdoors with her husband and two fur babies on the trails of the Olympic Peninsula.;