New England

Fellow

Sara Santiago

2018 Fellow
Sara currently serves as the Communications Manager at The Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment, translating science and research on the world’s forests for a broader audience. Sara earned her Master of Forestry degree from...
Fellow

Kathryn (Katey) Lesneski

2018 Fellow
Originally from Massachusetts, Katey graduated from Brown University in 2012 with a BS in Geo-Biology. She always had a passion for conducting science that produces tangible outcomes to support knowledge that communities have of the state...
Fellow

Matthew Williamson

2018 Fellow
Matt is a conservation scientist interested in understanding how the interactions between people, their environment, and the institutions that govern them inspire (or inhibit) conservation action and how that impacts their effectiveness.
Fellow, Trustee

Ekow Edzie

2018 Fellow
Ekow is a Foreign Service Officer, currently serving at the U.S. Embassy in Conakry, Guinea. Previously, he was a senior associate at the Consensus Building Institute (CBI), where he facilitated multi-party negotiations on natural resource...
Fellow

Lauren Richter

2017 Fellow
Lauren Richter is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2018 she was the recipient of a Leadership Grant from the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation to work at the Silent Spring...
Fellow

Jolisa Brooks

2017 Fellow
Jolisa Brooks received her Masters of Environmental Science from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. At Yale, Jolisa's work focused on the geopolitics of energy development and the resource curse in the Balkans. During...
Fellow

Jonathan Moch

2017 Fellow
Jonathan Moch is a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow working in the U.S. Department of State's Office of Global Change and with the Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. Before arriving at the State Department...
Fellow

Olivia Fraser

2017 Fellow
Olivia is a PhD student in the Natural Resource and Earth System Sciences (NRESS) Program at the University of New Hampshire (UNH). Her dissertation research investigates changes in soil chemistry and forest productivity across the White...
Fellow, Fellows Advisory Committee

Bruni Pizarro

2017 Fellow
Bruni Pizarro (she/ella) is the Director of Brand Strategy & Partner at For La Diáspora, a creative studio that connects brands to the Latine community through culturally-driven design and bilingual communications. Her family migrated from...
Fellow

Doug McPherson

2017 Fellow
Doug received his master's at MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning. His concentration is Housing, Community and Economic Development, and his research focuses on policies and initiatives that promote the development of open space...