International Conservation & Development

Leadership Grant Grant

Service Learning Coordinator for Green Empowerment, Year 1

Green Empowerment (GE) hired Jason Selwitz as their first Service Learning Coordinator to oversee projects and fundraising in the newly created Service Learning Department of the organization. GE has recently expanded its activities to...
March 29, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Risks of Importing Live Animals as Pets, Year 1

To hire Kate Smith as Senior Research Scientist with the Consortium for Conservation Medicine (CCM), Wildlife Trust, to oversee three projects, all aimed at preventing negative outcomes associated with the importation of live animals into...
March 29, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Participatory Action Research Director

To hire Chris Bacon as full-time Participatory Action Research Director, to continue his prior years of academic work on small-scale coffee farmer livelihood improvements and biodiversity conservation measures with shade coffee production...
March 29, 2010
Fellow

Jill Kauffman Johnson

1993 Fellow
Jill currently serves as the Managing Director of the Erol Foundation and 836M. For decades, Jill has been involved in the environmental movement ranging from roles in the NGO, private, and public sectors. She was the Founding Pacific Coast...
Fellow

Rachel O'Malley

1993 Fellow
O'Malley's dissertation work took her to Asia, Africa, Latin America and finally the upper Sacramento Valley of California--where she used theory from community ecology to help assess impacts of rice management practices on wetland insects...
Fellow

John Sanderson

1992 Fellow
John Sanderson is the Director of Colorado State University’s Center for Collaborative Conservation. At the Center, John and his staff work to build the capacity of organizations, communities, and future leaders to achieve conservation...
Fellow

Thomas Kelly

1993 Fellow
Thomas Kelly is Assistant Professor of Economics, and is a cooperating member of the Latin American Studies Program and the Environmental Studies Program at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. Professor Kelly received his Ph.D. in...
Fellow

Susan Lund

1993 Fellow
Susan worked as an agroforestry volunteer for the Peace Corps in the Philippines. Her present research focuses on the strategies that poor farmers in the Philippines uplands use to cope with the income fluctuations inherent to agriculture...
Fellow

Steve Rothert

1994 Fellow
In 1987, Steve received a BA in Geography/Ecology from UCLA. Steve served with the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone as a fisheries volunteer. In 1995, he completed his MS from U.C. Berkeley with a focus on river ecology and management. Steve...
Fellow

Lisa Micheli

1993 Fellow
I specialize in supporting organizations focused on designing and scaling nature-based solutions that protect and enhance terrestrial and marine environments—working hand-in-hand with communities at the front lines of global change.