Environmental Education

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Walter Poleman

1994 Fellow
Walter left nine years of work as an environmental educator to study in the Field Naturalist Program at the University of Vermont. For his Master's project, he evaluated forest inventory techniques as a part of a sustainable forest...
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Jun Bando

2002 Fellow
An ecologist with a 20-year career spanning higher education, public policy, diplomacy, and advocacy. Executive Director of the California Native Plant Society, the state’s leading voice in conservation, plant science, and native plant...
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Katrina Schneider

1999 Fellow
Katrina began her work with California water issues in 1994 as a water resources analyst at the Environmental Defense Fund. Following a series of storms in the winter of 1996-1997, Katrina served as the principle coordinator of a new EDF...
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Angela Nardo-Morgan

1996 Fellow
Angela’s great passion is the natural world. She is Director of Development for Marine Conservation Institute where she brings her expertise with both oceans and people to guide the development and communication team engaging funders and...
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Mele Wheaton

2008 Fellow
Mele is currently a research associate Stanford University where she studies nature-based tourism, environmental behavior change, and environmental education . Mele completed her Ph.D in Education at UC Santa Cruz in 2011, where she...
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Dawn Chavez

2003 Fellow
Dawn Chávez began the doctoral program in Environmental Studies at Antioch New England Graduate School in 2001. Prior to that, she worked for eight years leading low-income inner city students from New York in environmental learning...
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Eunice Blavascunas

2005 Fellow
Eunice is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. She completed her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology at the University of California Santa Cruz and has taught at the...
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Jen Osha Buysse

2000 Fellow
Jen Osha (Jen-OH-sha) Buysse is currently is the Director and co-founder of the Mountain Stewardship and Outdoor Leadership School (Mtn SOL), a West Virginia environmental education non profit. The Mountain Stewardship and Outdoor...
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Alfred Gonzalez

1995 Fellow
Tenured biology instructor at Evergreen Valley College (SJ,CA). My focus has shifted to improving science curricula and facilitating educational achievement for Chicano/Latino and Native American students. Other areas of focus include...
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Mehana Vaughan

2009 Fellow
Mehana Blaich Vaughan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and U.H. Sea Grant. Mehana studies interactions between people and the environment...