Melissa graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 1991 with an honors BA in Integrated Ecology and graduated from UC Davis in 2000 with a Ph.D. in Ecology. For the 28 years, she served as the Executive Director and President of The Cultural...
Amy Wilson Morris has led community-based park, trail, and open space planning projects throughout the western United States. She specializes in working with diverse partners to build community consensus and leading a wide range of...
I'm a nature-based solutions strategist and practitioner with over 20 years of experience tackling global and local sustainability challenges. My work has taken me across Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa, developing innovative...
With her background in ecosystem services market mechanisms and many years in international environmental markets, Carina helps craft and foster private funding partnerships and mechanisms that leverage and celebrate the immense value of...
Evan Goldsmith is currently the Head of Business Development at IndiVillage, an impact sourcing social enterprise that delivers expert data annotation, natural language processing, and content optimization solutions that drive machine...
Linda is a northern California botanist with special interest and expertise in California coastal prairie. Her professional focus is on protection, restoration, and stewardship of significant natural lands in community-based settings. After...
Mary worked as a preservation planner for the San Francisco Planning Department for seven years. Before that she earned a Master’s degree in Geography at San Francisco State University. Her research focused on strategies to increase the...
Mike Wilson works as program director for the Northern Forest Center, a non-profit organization that serves as a convenor of ideas and dialogue on Northern Forest issues ranging from economics to ecology, community development, and cultural...
Susannah McCandless received her doctorate in human-environment geography and political ecology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts in 2010, and works with the non-profit Global Diversity Foundation (www.global-diversity.org)...
Carol has worked for the US Environmental Protection Agency for over 17 years in various programs including air emissions, water enforcement, emergency response, Superfund and Brownfields. In addition, Carol has worked for three years on a...
