UCLA

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Isaac Silverman

2010 Fellow
Isaac is an environmental attorney and organizer working with Sierra Watch to fight irresponsible development proposals in the Sierra Nevada, notably a proposal to more than triple the number of condos and build a massive indoor recreation...
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Teresa Michelsen

1989 Fellow
Dr. Michelsen is an environmental scientist specializing in the development of sediment and tissue quality guidelines, geochemistry, sediment cleanup and source control, and the development of regulatory programs. She has provided technical...
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Mark Sudol

1994 Fellow
Mark Sudol is the Director of the Navigation and Civil Works Decision Support Center for the Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources. He manages a staff of research scientists and economists that deal with many of our Nation's most...
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Karleen Boyle Sudol

1994 Fellow
Karleen graduated from UCLA with a BA in English and a PhD in biology with an emphasis in marine ecology. Karleen's research focused on human impacts in the marine environment. Her dissertation investigated nutrient cycling and the effects...
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Nancy Steele

1993 Fellow
Dr. Nancy Steele focuses her work on the protection and conservation of land and water, striving always to have a direct positive impact on nature and humanity. She is a professional executive manager who has founded and led nonprofits and served on boards of directors. Endlessly curious, she applies a scientists mind to answering questions that result in turning data into actionable knowledge resulting in good policies and practices.
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Marijke Bekken

1989 Fellow
Marijke's dissertation developed a market-based control plan for locomotives. She was the lead staff developing the 1998 Memorandum of Understanding wherein southern California railroads committed to using only the cleanest locomotives in...
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Maille Lyons

1993 Fellow
Maille is currently a Patent Examiner in the Biotechnology Tech Center at the US Patent and Trademark Office, in Alexandria, VA. Her specialties include microbiology/molecular biology patents.
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Emily Scott

2007 Fellow
Emily Eliza Scott is an interdisciplinary scholar and artist focused on artistic practices that illuminate-interrogate pressing geopolitical and/or ecological issues, often by blurring with other forms of thinking and making to impactfully...
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Bonnie Becker

2001 Fellow
Professional larval shellfish tracker | Passionate, authentic educator | Collaborative, curriculum-building administrator My professional life is dedicated to empowering the public, especially those traditionally not included in higher...
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Jamillah Jordan

2008 Fellow
Jamillah Jordan is Marin County’s Equity Director. She is a multi-disciplinary strategist, urban planner and social justice leader with over 10 years of experience catalyzing systems change. Jamillah has worked with a wide range of public...