Featured Fellows

Infusing Organizations with Sustainability
Timothy Greiner (1992)

Join us for a webinar with Tim Greiner on "Greening Stonyfield Farm" on Thursday, February 17 at 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific.  Register now

How do you take a sustainability mandate at the corporate level and infuse the entire organization with it? 1992 Switzer Fellow Tim Greiner is Managing Director of Pure Strategies, a sustainability consulting firm helping companies improve the sustainability performance of their businesses, products, supply chain, and internal operations.

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Laura Wisland of the Union of Concerned Scientists: Supporting California's Move Towards Renewables
Laura Wisland (2007)

Where has California's renewable energy policy been, and where it is going?  What role have California's utilities played in promoting the development of clean electricity? What must utilities and state policy makers do to ensure California continues to lead on clean energy policies?  Laura Wisland works on these issues every day in her role as Senior Energy Analyst for the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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Stuart Cohen of TransForm: Advocating for World-class Transportation and Walkable Communities
Stuart Cohen (1996)

How does urban sprawl and highway expansion impact the environment and the quality of life? That question is being addressed by Stuart Cohen and TransForm, a coalition of environmental, social justice and public health groups in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Chuck Striplen: The Application of Historical Ecology in the San Francisco Bay Area
Chuck Striplen (2003)

Chuck Striplen, a 2003 Switzer Fellow and PhD candidate at UC Berkeley in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management (ESPM), has been working with the San Francisco Estuary Institute since 2002 using historical ecology to look at how our landscapes were managed and modified by tribes for more than ten thousand years prior to the arrival of the Spanish in 1769.

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Translating Science Into Action: the Mombasa Marine Park, Kenya
Jennifer O'Leary (2006)

Dr. Jennifer O’Leary, 2006 Switzer Fellow and recent Leadership Grantee with the American Museum of Natural History, is working with the Kenya Wildlife Service to develop an adaptive management program for the Mombasa Marine Park and Reserve.  Jennifer received a Switzer Leadership Grant in 2009 to work with both of these organizations to train KWS staff to integrate science into their management decision making process. Through her work with the Museum and the Wildlife Service, Jennifer has developed a self-sustaining, scientifically rigorous management program for Park staff.

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Mark Schlautman: Conducting Science that Leads to Environmental Improvement
Mark Schlautman (1988)

1988 Switzer Fellow Dr. Mark Schlautman and San Francisco-based Sustainable Conservation led the scientific studies that ultimately resulted in the passage of a landmark California law that will reduce the use of copper in brake pads and help reduce concentrations of this heavy metal from rivers and roadways.

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Green Chemistry: A Scientific and Public Policy Challenge
Michael Wilson (2002)

Seventy-four billion pounds of industrial chemicals enter the U.S. daily.  Many are toxic, and most will survive long-term to impact life on earth.  Global chemical production will double in the next 24 years.  As the Integrated Sciences Associate Director of UC Berkeley's new Center for Green Chemistry, 2002 Switzer Fellow Dr. Michael Wilson rides the cutting edge of the essential, emerging field called green chemistry.

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Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining and Alternative Energy in West Virginia: Raising Awareness and Increasing Public Participation
Jennifer Osha (2000)

Jen Osha, Founder and Director of Aurora Lights in Morgantown, West Virginia, discusses the production of a widely acclaimed CD to raise awareness about the issues of mountaintop removal coal mining.  The CD, entitled "Still Moving: The Journey Home", includes songs by artists such as Kathy Mattea and interviews with residents of communities affected by this mining practice.  It was developed simultaneously with a companion website which just won "Website of the Year" by the Appalachian Studies Association.

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