DUKE UNIVERSITY - Key Persons


Aimee Whaley

Job Titles:
  • Quality and Environmental Manager

Alan Hunt

Job Titles:
  • Owner and Principal / Local Food Strategies LLC

Aleksandra Dobkowski-Joy

Job Titles:
  • Principal and Partner / Framework LLC

Alex Robel

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Alexis Kingham Fuge

Job Titles:
  • Sustainability Business Development Manager / Amazon Web Services

Alicia Burtner

Job Titles:
  • Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
  • Fish Biologist

Allison Besch

Job Titles:
  • Director, Career and Professional Development Center, Student Services

Amy Barbee

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director, Business & Finance

Ana Bessias

Job Titles:
  • Staff Assistant, Career and Professional Development Center, Student Services

Ana Canadas

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist ( MGEL )

Analie Barnett

Job Titles:
  • Landscape Ecologist, Eastern Conservation Science
Analie Barnett is a Landscape Ecologist with The Nature Conservancy's Eastern Conservation Science team and is based in Atlanta, Ga. She has been with the Conservancy for ten years. Analie has expertise in geospatial analysis, multivariate analysis, landscape ecology, and conservation planning. She holds a Master of Environmental Management (MEM) with a focus on conservation science from Duke University, and received her B.A. from Austin College in Economics and Literature. Analie currently works on a variety of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine projects in the Eastern US that incorporate spatial and statistical analysis to inform conservation planning and natural resource management at large geographic scales. Recent projects include multivariate analysis of long-term vegetation data to assess the effectiveness of ecosystem management on military lands, an ecosystem services assessment of bottomland hardwood reforestation scenarios in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, spatial analysis to identify priority marine areas in the South Atlantic Bight, and identification of coastal sites expected to be resilient to climate change in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic US. In addition to working on projects in specific geographies, Analie has developed ArcGIS and Python toolboxes and R scripts to automate complex spatial and statistical analyses for colleagues at the Conservancy and partner organizations. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals including BioScience, Ecological Applications, and Plant Ecology. She has presented her work to a variety of audiences including state and federal agencies as well as environmental and conservation organizations.

Andrew Menaquale

Job Titles:
  • Officer, Pew Charitable Trusts

April Lander

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager, Enabling Good Lives

Apurva Dave

Job Titles:
  • Staff Director
Climate Security Roundtable at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Audrey Archer

Job Titles:
  • Project Coordinator

Ben Donnelly

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Benjamin Prater

Job Titles:
  • Southeast Program Director

Betsy McCorkle

Job Titles:
  • Partner / Kairos Government

Big Belly Solar

Job Titles:
  • Inventor and CEO

Bindi Patel

Job Titles:
  • Environmental & International Development Consultant / Teton Associates, LLC

Brent Fewell

Job Titles:
  • Founder and Chair / Earth and Water Group

Brian Holly

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Senior Ecologist / BioResource Consultants, Inc.

Brian Holt

Job Titles:
  • Principal Planner / East Bay Regional

Brian McDonald

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Strategic Planning

Cakey Worthington

Job Titles:
  • Vice President of Carbon Operations, Bluesource Sustainable Forests Company

Carlos Gonzalez

Job Titles:
  • Director, Portfolio Management, Zeke Capital Advisors

Carmen Yeung

Job Titles:
  • Analyst

Carol Rizkalla

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Regional Biologist

Caroline Bales

Job Titles:
  • Development

Cassandra Pallai

Job Titles:
  • Geospatial Program Manager

Chad Nelsen

Job Titles:
  • CEO / Surfrider Foundation

Chandler Smith

Job Titles:
  • Independent Consultant / Chandler Smith Consulting LLC

Chantalle Clarke-Samuels

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer / Belize Coastal Zone Management Authority

Charles Murphy

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Scientist ( Retired )

Chelsea Barnes

Job Titles:
  • Co - Chair of the Local Sierra Club
  • Energy Policy Analyst
  • Policy Analyst With EQ Research LLC
Chelsea Barnes is a Policy Analyst with EQ Research LLC, a research and consulting company she and her colleagues formed in 2013. She coordinates the firm's Policy Vista service, drafting renewable energy legislation and providing clients with reports and analysis of pending energy legislation at the state level. Additionally, Chelsea researches and analyzes solar and wind incentives for incorporation into financial models. She also conducts research for the firm's rate case tracking service, analyzing utility proposals and implications for distributed generation. Her areas of policy expertise include renewable portfolio standards, net metering, and the treatment of third-party ownership. Being on the ground floor of a new business, Chelsea is also the Marketing Coordinator, managing external partnerships and new product development. In addition to her work at EQ Research, Chelsea is the Co-Chair of the local Sierra Club group. She coordinates monthly educational programs on a variety of environmental topics and organizes volunteers for environmental advocacy related to local issues including transportation, renewable energy, climate change, and water quality. Recently, she coordinated the Clean Energy for Raleigh program, a group-purchasing program designed to activate citizens to install solar energy and make home energy efficiency upgrades.

Chet Work

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director / Teton Regional Land Trust

Christopher Bouquot

Job Titles:
  • Economist

Christy Ihlo

Job Titles:
  • Director of Monitoring and Evaluation

Cindy Brown

Job Titles:
  • Director, Gulf of Mexico Program

Corinne Walden

Job Titles:
  • Chemist
  • T'12, B.S., Environmental Science & Earth and Ocean Sciences

Corrie Curtice

Job Titles:
  • Research Analyst II

Courtney Lorenz - CSR

Job Titles:
  • Sustainability Manager

Cristina Villanueva Aznar

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Mexico Oceans Strategic Growth and Partnerships / Environmental Defense Fund

Curtis Bernard

Job Titles:
  • Senior Technical Director

Cy Stober

Job Titles:
  • Senior Regional Planner / Piedmont Triad Regional Council

Dale Threatt-Taylor

Job Titles:
  • District Director

Dana Mooney Davis

Job Titles:
  • Senior Manager

Daniel Kolomeets-Darovsky

Job Titles:
  • Director of Innovation

Danielle Alvarez

Job Titles:
  • Research Analyst - Read Lab

Danny Ross

Job Titles:
  • Associate Lecturer / Kent State University
  • Retired
Danny Ross is a retired USDA NRCS employee with over 33 years of experience in natural resource management with a specialty in Urban Conservation. Over 30 years, he was at the field office level, and the last 3 years, he was the State Urban Conservationist in Ohio. He has also taught 21 years part time at Kent State University in the Departments of Geography and Biology. In 2013, Dan went full time as an Associate Lecture in both departments. His major interests at the University have been in Urban Conservation, Forestry, Wildlife Development, Sediment Transport and Golf Course Design. Also, he has a natural resource education consulting business, where he does educational workshops, and CPESC/CESSWI Review Courses for clients. He is presently Chair of the CESSWI International Council, and Administrative Vice Chair of the International ENVIROCERT Council. Dan was award Adjunct Professor of the Year in 2013 at the Stark Campus of Kent State University. He loves to travel with family on vacations, sporting clays, pheasant hunting, racquetball, and of course, golf. He is also involved in the Music business because he helps manage his son - Ian - who is a full time professional musician.

Darden Restaurants - CSR

Job Titles:
  • Sustainability Manager

David Blaha

Job Titles:
  • Partner

David Rosoff

Job Titles:
  • Geologist, on - Scene Coordinator / US Environmental Protection Agency

Davie Nguyen

Job Titles:
  • Program Analyst / Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

Deann Corum

Job Titles:
  • Senior Systems Analyst / Information Technology

Debbie Breisblatt

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Project Manager - Sustainability / the Walsh Group

Dharini Amber Clare

Job Titles:
  • Sustainability Consultant

Dianne Pataki

Job Titles:
  • Director / Center for Environmental Biology

Dika Kuoh

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Branch Chief

Dimitris Floros

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate ( Dalia Patiño Echeverri )

Donald Gunster

Job Titles:
  • Partner / Senior Scientist / NewFields

Dr. Brian C. Murray

Job Titles:
  • Interim Director of the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability
  • Research Professor / Research Professor in the Division of Environmental Sciences and Policy Director, Duke Energy Initiative
Dr. Brian C. Murray is Interim Director of the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability, Research Professor at the Nicholas School of the Environment (primary) and Sanford School of Public Policy (secondary), and Faculty Associate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society. In 2015 he was Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Environment and Economy at University of Ottawa's Institute of the Environment. He is widely recognized for his work on the economics of energy and climate change policy, including the design of market based mechanisms to reduce greenhouse gases and deploy low-carbon energy. Members of the United States Congress, state legislators and regulators have sought the counsel of Dr. Murray and colleagues in developing energy and climate legislative proposals and regulatory options. Their development of the cost containment reserve mechanism is now in use in several greenhouse cap-and-trade programs in North America. Dr. Murray has been invited as a co-author of several national and international assessments of natural resources, especially related to energy and climate change. Of particular note, he serves on a National Academy of Sciences panel on greenhouse gases and the tax code, where he led the panel's efforts on biofuel subsidies. He was a convening lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Special Report on Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry. He has convened several forums of economic modeling experts to examine and communicate the results of their climate, energy and land use policy efforts to the public and private sectors. His research has examined the economic effects of traditional command-based regulatory strategies for pollution control and more market-oriented approaches such as cap-and-trade programs and emission taxes. He has been a consultant to a wide range of clientele in the public and private sector, including numerous federal government agencies, members of Congress and their staff, state regulatory agencies, CEOs and senior staff from Fortune 500 companies, trade groups, nongovernmental organizations, and other academic institutions. His work has been published in books, edited volumes, and professional journals, including Science, Nature Climate Change, The American Economic Review, The Review of Economics and Statistics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Land Economics, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Environmental and Resource Economics, Ecological Economics, PLOS One, Ecological Applications, Climatic Change, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Energy Journal, Energy Policy, and Forest Science. He is also a regular contributor to Forbes. Prior to coming to the Nicholas Institute in 2006, Dr. Murray was Director of the Center for Regulatory Economics and Policy Research at RTI International, a university-affiliated not-for-profit research institution.

Drew McConville

Job Titles:
  • Senior Managing Director for Government Relations

Duke Univiversity Marine Lab

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist / Duke Univiversity Marine Lab

Eliza Davis

Job Titles:
  • Lead Program Manager

Eliza MacLean

Job Titles:
  • Owner

Eliza Tortorella

Job Titles:
  • Director of Business Development / National Grid Partners

Elizabeth DeMattia

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist / Duke Univiversity Marine Lab

Ellen Cooper

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist, Stapleton Lab

Emily Myron

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

Emily Rodgers

Job Titles:
  • Corporate Responsibility Manager

Emma Fulop

Job Titles:
  • Sustainability Manager, Sustainable Duke

Erica Blyther

Job Titles:
  • Environmental Affairs Officer

Erica Rowell

Job Titles:
  • Managing Editor
Erica Rowell is managing editor of Dean Chameides' blog, TheGreenGrok.com. She is based in New York City.

Erika Zambello

Job Titles:
  • Marine Economic and Tourist Resource Development Coordinator

Erin Delionbach

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources Representative

Erin Fulton

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager / Alaska Sustainable Fisheries Trust

Fletcher Fields

Job Titles:
  • Economist

Forest Carbon

Job Titles:
  • Analyst, Anew
  • Forest Carbon Analyst, Anew

Gabriel Calvo

Job Titles:
  • Associate General Counsel for Environmental Health, Safety, and Sustainability, Volkswagen

Gaelin Rosenwaks - Founder, President

Job Titles:
  • Founder
  • President

Genna Heath

Job Titles:
  • Sustainable Chemistry Program Manager / Recreational Equipment, Inc.

Gergely "Nemo" Nemeth

Job Titles:
  • Senior Manager, Strategy & Analytics

Greg Piniak

Job Titles:
  • Director, NOAA Beaufort Lab

Hanna Karnei MEM

Hanna Karnei is a second-year master's in environmental management student specializing in Energy and Environmental Analytics. She is an international student from Belarus who also lived in Ecuador and Armenia. Before joining the Nicholas School, she worked in the non-profit sector in New York City on issues related to migration, tenants' rights, and the environmental impacts of fracking. At Duke, Hanna is the Industry Engagement Chair at the Nicholas School Energy Club and a member of the Global Energy Access Network at the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability. Hanna graduated with a B.A. in Political Science and International Development from Bennington College in 2021. Her passion for energy technology and decarbonization is what fuels her desire to pursue a career in the renewable energy industry.

Harry Stokes

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director / Project Gaia, Inc.

Heather Tansey - CSR

Job Titles:
  • Sustainability Manager

Ilana Cohen

Job Titles:
  • Natural Resource Specialist and Geospatial Data Lead / Bureau of Land Management

Ivonne Higuero

Job Titles:
  • Secretary - General

Jack Beuttell

Job Titles:
  • CEO / Kunoa Cattle Company, LLC

Jagdish Krishnaswamy

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow and Convenor

Jaime Palter

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Oceanography / Graduate School of Oceanography

Jana Holt

Job Titles:
  • Client Director / Context Group

Jared Smith

Job Titles:
  • Consultant / PA Consulting

Jason English

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean, Housing and Residence Life

Jason Symonds

Job Titles:
  • Senior Consultant

Jeb Stenhouse

Job Titles:
  • Chief of Program Development for Clean Air Markets / US EPA

Jeff Fisher

Job Titles:
  • Co - Owner

Jeffrey Allenby

Job Titles:
  • Director of Conservation Technology at the Chesapeake Conservancy
Jeffrey Allenby is the Director of Conservation Technology at the Chesapeake Conservancy. His team explores new ways to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the Conservancy's projects and focuses on developing new ways to empower partner organizations by providing them with access to geospatial data and analysis tools that will create beneficial management outcomes. He is currently investigating the use of high-resolution imagery and LIDAR elevation data to map land cover at the large landscape scale and is constructing interactive tools to better target nutrient and sediment reduction practices and riparian conservation and restoration projects.

Jesse Cleary

Job Titles:
  • Associate in Research, MGEL

Joel Dunn - CEO, President

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • President

Johannes Dietrich

Job Titles:
  • Staff Assistant

John Neagley

Job Titles:
  • Founder & Principal, Blue Native Consulting

Julia Chen Rinaldi

Job Titles:
  • Senior Resilience Specialist, Arcadis

Julia German

Julia German, who owns 24 acres of her family's 185-acre working farm, wants to develop a sustainable farm on her property. A recent graduate of Duke Law, Julia has forged a relationship with local tenant farmers, and created an innovative long-term lease agreement that essentially gives her renters the same rights an owner would have. The idea is to eradicate some of the hurdles small farmers typically run into on rented property. But as ready as the farmers are to begin farming, the German farmland is not. Among many needs are fences for cows and funding for a primary well. Addressing these issues is expensive and yet another reason first-generation farmers struggle to get by. German knew there was funding for water-quality protections, but she also knew finding those funds was complicated and not unlike the proverbial needle in a haystack. So she hired Unique Places. "She's trying to have a viable farm and before she can get paid to get a well, she has to fence all the cattle out," says Fisher. "There are three different funding sources-some will pay for the well, some will pay for it but only if there's fencing. It's very complex." German has confidence in the outcome. She says, "Fisher has the knowledge of how to get from Point A to Point B ‘I have a well.'"

Julia Kertz Grant

Job Titles:
  • Founder / Natural Asset Advisors LLC
  • Founder / Natural Asset Advisors LLC / Master of Forestry

Julia Kintsch

Job Titles:
  • Principal / Connectivity Ecologist / ECO - Resolutions LLC

Julian Dale

Job Titles:
  • Associate in Research ( MaRRS Lab )

Julie Nace

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator

Julio Guzman

Job Titles:
  • Freelance Consultant / Sustainable Development Consulting

Karen Carty

Job Titles:
  • Financial Management Analyst

Karen Fadely

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director / Millennium Challenge Corporation

Karen Young

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator

Karina Lassner

Job Titles:
  • Director

Katharine Hetts

Job Titles:
  • Fire Analyst

Katharine Kollins - President

Job Titles:
  • President

Kathleen Dunn

Job Titles:
  • Program Coordinator, Student Services

Kathryn Eggers

Job Titles:
  • Project Lead

Kathy Moser

Job Titles:
  • Chief Conservation Officer, Open Space Institute

Katie Douglas

Job Titles:
  • Climate Program Manager

Katie LaJeunesse Connette

Job Titles:
  • International Program Manager, Conservation Ecology Center at Smithsonian Institution

Katya Hantel

Job Titles:
  • Director, Sustainability Practice

KerriLynn Miller

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate, Global Shark Conservation Campaign

Kevin He

Job Titles:
  • Economics Associate / Oceana, Inc

Kim Fogg

Job Titles:
  • Research Liaison

Kimberly C. DuBose

Job Titles:
  • Head of Forest Research

Kira Jacobs

Job Titles:
  • Water Quality Scientist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Kirsten Cappel - President

Job Titles:
  • President

Kristen Bremer

Job Titles:
  • Policy and Communications Analyst / U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Kristin Burkholder

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Environmental Science

Kristina Duff

Job Titles:
  • Forest Certification Manager, American Tree Farm System / American Forest Foundation

Krithi Karanth

Job Titles:
  • Associate Conservation Scientist, Adj Assistant Professor, Executive Director / Wildlife Conservation Society

Laura A. Watt - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Laura Marie Davis

Job Titles:
  • Owner, LM Management LLC Project Management With the New Conservation Initiative

Laura Singer

Job Titles:
  • Principal

Laura Smith

Job Titles:
  • Public Education Coordinator

Lauren Chacho

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician II

Lauren Fety

Job Titles:
  • Forest Analyst

Lauren Gloekler

Job Titles:
  • Health Scientist

Lauren Latchford

Job Titles:
  • Policy and Impact Manager, Finless Foods

Lia Protopapadakis Flynn

Job Titles:
  • Doctoral Student / UCLA Institute of Environment and Sustainability

Lidia Berger

Job Titles:
  • Director, Technical Core / U.S. Green Building Council

Lisa Campbell

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Marine Affairs and Policy

Lisanne Petracca

Job Titles:
  • Geospatial Analyst

Luana Lima

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of the Practice in Energy and Data Analytics

Lucas Joppa

Job Titles:
  • Chief Environment Officer / Microsoft

Lucy Guyett MEM

Lucy graduated from Tulane University in 2019 with a BA in history. After graduation, she moved to Cape Coast, Ghana, to work for Global Mamas, a sustainable fashion enterprise. Before getting her Master of Environmental Management at Duke University, she was an AmeriCorps fellow in New Orleans, working as a grant writer for Jericho Road Episcopal Housing Initiative.

Lynnette Batt

Job Titles:
  • Conservation Director / Placer Land Trust

Madison Barnes

Job Titles:
  • Environmental Sustainability Graduate Associate / the Walt Disney Company

Maggie Monast

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Sustainable Sourcing / Environmental Defense Fund

Maiana Hanshaw

Job Titles:
  • Associate Scientist / Center for Severe Weather Research

Mandy Schmitt Mahoney

Job Titles:
  • President / Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance

Marcia Crippen

Job Titles:
  • IMEP Program Coordinator, Student Services

Maria Ramirez Millan

Job Titles:
  • Supply Chain and Sustainability Project Leader

Marico Sayoc

Job Titles:
  • Mayor

Marine Debris

Job Titles:
  • Marine Debris Specialist

Marine Lab

Job Titles:
  • Admin / Marketing and Communications

Mark Rampolla - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Founder

Marsha Adams-Rucker

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean, Human Resources and Administrative Services

Mary Turnipseed

Job Titles:
  • Program Officer / Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Matt Grove

Job Titles:
  • Principle Geologist and Project Manager

Matthew Burks

Job Titles:
  • Chief Strategy Officer, E Source

Matthew Redmann

Job Titles:
  • Environmental Manager, Powertrain Operations / Harley - Davidson

Maureen Quinlan

Job Titles:
  • Market Design Analyst / Pacific Gas & Electric Company

Meagan Knowlton

Job Titles:
  • Director of Sustainability Practice, BlueLabs

Meaghan Calcari

Job Titles:
  • Program Officer / Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Megan Maltenfort

Job Titles:
  • Senior Manager, Corporate Social Responsibility / Campbell Soup Company

Melanie O'Meara

Job Titles:
  • Senior Project Manager / United States Army

Melissa Fiffer

Job Titles:
  • Student / Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Melissa Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Director, Southern California

Melissa Semcer

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Law Judge

Michael Barrett

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist / Batelle Memorial Institute
Mike Barrett is striking a balance between pursuing his own research, and enabling the research of others. As a project manager and Director at the world's largest non-profit Research and Development firms, Mike gets to do just that. At 23, Mike became the youngest and "least educated" person to receive a grant from National Geographic. Mike's project was to map WWII shipwrecks that posed a risk of oil spills to the fragile reefs in the South Pacific. In the end, Mike mapped more than 3,500 sunken ships, using field-work and historical records. Working at WWF, Mike's colleagues (Duke alums) introduced him to Pat Halpin. Working with Pat, Mike created a risk index of the wrecks, now known in the literature as the "Barrett Index". Mike shared his data with the Navy, and was able determine the types of oil onboard through a Duke-WHOI fellowship. Unlike most CEM's, Mike stayed in Durham for year two to continue working with Pat, and to work with Luke Dollar and Stuart Pimm on the Big Cats Initiative for National Geographic. After graduating, Mike was hired by Battelle, the world largest non-profit R&D firm. Working for former CEM, Leslie-Ann McGee ('96) to train U.S. regions in Marine Spatial Planning. Their short course has been recognized as "the resource" by the National Ocean Council, and Mike was invited to build a similar course for the German government. The course is now managed by the Duke Environmental Leadership program. But Mike is quick to talk about his other passion-encouraging others to pursue their own science. Mike has served almost ten years on the Board for the Explorer's Club's Student Grants, and has spoken several times at Duke to encourage MEM's to submit proposals. "This is a great program to fund people getting out in the field-many of them for the first time." This passion led to Mike's rotation as the Director of Independent Research and Development at Battelle. Mike also built Battelle's drone program, co-led the data management for the BP oil spill, and helped bring in one of Battelle's largest ever contracts, the National Ecological Observatory Network, a $200M project.

Michael Chenard

Job Titles:
  • Independent Consulting

Michael Diehl

Job Titles:
  • Marine Superintendent, R / V Shearwater

Michael Jacobson

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Forest Resources, Dept. of Ecosystem Science & Management

Michael LeVine

Job Titles:
  • Senior Arctic Fellow, Ocean Conservancy

Michael Mascia

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President, Moore Center for Science

Michael Pentony

Job Titles:
  • Regional Administrator

Michaela Margida

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder and Social Media Director

Mike Nolan

Job Titles:
  • Siemens Graduate Program
  • Siemens Industry, Inc

Miranda Smith

Job Titles:
  • Dean - Lorenz Szumylo

Monica Patel

Job Titles:
  • Wilderness Coordinator / National Park Service

Morad Bali

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Morgan Hagerty

Job Titles:
  • Director / CE2 Capital Partners

Moriah Carleton

Job Titles:
  • Program Coordinator, Career and Professional Development Center, Student Services

Máximo J. (Max) Cerame-Vivas

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Public Health

Nancy Lauer

Job Titles:
  • Co - Instructor in the Nicholas School of the Environment

Naomi Tsurumi

Job Titles:
  • Environmental Specialist / City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services

Nate Woiwode

Job Titles:
  • North America Risk Reduction and Resilience Project Manager

Nick DiLuzio

Job Titles:
  • Partner / Newfields
  • Project Scientist Partner

Niles Barnes

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Director / East Coast Greenway Alliance
Niles graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Kentucky and received his master's degree in environmental management from Duke University. He is a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional (LEED AP) and holds a certificate in business administration from the University of Kentucky's Gatton College of Business and Economics.

Olivia Eskew

Job Titles:
  • Sustainability Coordinator

Parker Brown

Job Titles:
  • Communications Specialist / Marketing & Communications

Patrick Duggan

Job Titles:
  • Trial Attorney / U.S. Department of Justice - Environmental Crimes Section

Patrick McNamara

Job Titles:
  • Data Scientist

Patrick Megonigal

Job Titles:
  • Senior Scientist & Deputy Director / Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Patrick Reaves

Job Titles:
  • Energy Analyst

Paulina Arroyo

Job Titles:
  • Technical Officer
  • Director, Adaptive Management & Evaluation / Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Paulina serves as the embedded technical officer providing adaptive management and learning support to the foundation's Environmental Conservation Program, in addition to supporting foundation-wide efforts in building capacity and creating learning opportunities in adaptive management.

Petya Miteva MEM

Petya is a dual-degree Master of Environmental Management and MBA student focusing on Climate and Energy. She holds a BA from Williams College, MA and has 10+ years of professional experience spanning 4 countries on 3 continents. She spent the last five years before her graduate studies in Corporate Sustainability including as a Sustainability Advisor at leading Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) rankings provider ISS and as an Investor Relations and Sustainability Analyst at the fourth largest wood pulp manufacturer globally, Empresas CMPC. As an EDF Climate Corps Fellow in the summer of 2022, Petya helped Google accelerate the decarbonization of their data center suppliers by streamlining supplier engagement. Before that, she led the development of the Environmental, Social and Governance strategy and targets for battery manufacturer Energizer Holdings. At Duke, Petya served on the Committee on Facilities & Environment for the 2021-2022 academic year and co-chaired the Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition, part of Energy Week 2022. Petya is passionate about leveraging her experience working cross-functionally to support innovations and technologies that will facilitate the energy transition and allow companies to decarbonize their operations and value chains.

Phillip Lai

Job Titles:
  • Portfolio Management Analyst

Pincelli Hull

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Geology & Geophysics, Yale University

Rachel Strader

Job Titles:
  • Program Officer

Rebecca Fisher

Job Titles:
  • Electric Vehicle Outreach Specialist

Rikki Grober-Dunsmore

Job Titles:
  • Director, Marine Protected Areas Program / California Marine Sanctuary Foundation

Robert Bonnie

Job Titles:
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture ( USDA )

Robert McDonald

Job Titles:
  • Lead Scientist

Robert Phocas - CSR

Job Titles:
  • Sustainability Director

Robert Schick

Job Titles:
  • MASTS Senior Research Fellow / University of St Andrews

Roxanne Nanninga

Job Titles:
  • Director of Sustainability

Salinda Bacheler

Job Titles:
  • Staff Assistant, Marine Robotics & Remote Sensing Lab

Samuel Cohen

Job Titles:
  • Science Communications Specialist, Superfund Research Center

Samuel Matias

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Investment Banking Division / Goldman Sachs

Sara Blinebry

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician I

Scott Babcock

Job Titles:
  • Proect Manager, Senior Planner / National Park Service
  • Project Manager and Senior Planner
Scott Babcock has served as a project manager and senior planner within the National Park Service's (NPS) Denver Service Center Planning Division since November 2013. Prior to coming to the NPS, he served for about seven years as the strategic planning manager for Colorado State Parks (which became Colorado Parks and Wildlife after merging with the Colorado Division of Wildlife in 2011). He also served as a natural resource planner with ERO Resources and Greystone Environmental Consultants (both Denver-based consulting firms) for a little over six years after finishing his MEM degree at the Nicholas School in 1999. Scott currently leads a variety of planning teams to help national park units around the country address a wide variety of issues and challenges. Some of his work has included leading visitor use management planning at Zion National Park (UT) and Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore (MI), backcountry and wilderness planning at Katmai National Park and Preserve (AK), and road and trail management planning at the Ozark National Scenic Riverways (MO). These planning efforts strike at the core mission of the NPS-essentially conserving resources and providing for their enjoyment in such a manner that they are left unimpaired for future generations. The work that he and his teams are leading can serve as a model for not only other national park units, but also other non-NPS parks and protected areas. Scott previously served as a Board Member on the Society of Outdoor Recreation Professionals from 2010 to 2014. In 2010, Colorado State Parks awarded him with a Distinguished Service Award for leading development of the agency's strategic plan. Scott is a professionally certified planner through the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) and a certified project management professional (PMP) through the Project Management Institute.

Scott Kelly

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  • Director of Sales & Client Relations / Antimicrobial Therapy, Inc.

Scott O'Connell

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  • Director of Environmental Affairs

Sergio Castillo

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  • President & CEO / Eco BCG Corporation

Shannon Lyons

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  • Chesapeake Program Director

Sid McLaurin

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  • Regional General Manager / Lime
Sidney McLaurin, Jr. spent much of his childhood in the small city of Clinton, Mississippi. Clinton is a relatively suburban place, where quiet neighborhoods are full of decades-old Oak trees and freshly-cut St. Augustine grass. Most folks there are friendly and the seasons come and go without much ado. By and large, the city's residents are well-educated and eschew the negative racial stereotypes of the South. Clinton was, and still is, a slow and comfortable place. Today, McLaurin lives in Durham, NC and is an integral part of the team that is building Lime, a high growth tech company that offers inexpensive, environmentally-friendly mobility options for cities and campuses. He launched Lime's first-ever market in 2017, shortly after graduating from Duke's MEM/MBA program, and has since continued to help drive Lime's rapid expansion to over 70 operations across the world. Although he's geographically less than 1,000 miles away from his hometown, most people would regard the current point on his life journey as worlds away from the beginning. Sidney often reflects that his story is probably more fit for a GEICO "surprising" commercial than a bio, and he's grateful for all of the support and blessings that have made it possible. He credits the time in Mississippi for his love of the outdoors and he continues to be fueled each day by a desire to reduce humans' impact on the environment through technological innovation.

Sidharth Sharma

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  • Owner

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Stuart Iler

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Susannah King

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  • Director of Water Quality Programs

Syril Pettit

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  • Executive Director / ILSI Health and Environmental Sciences Institute

Tali Trigg

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  • Project Director

Taylor Price

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  • Senior Manager, Global Sustainability, AptarGroup, Inc

Temis Coral Castellanos

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  • Sustainability Consultant / John Beath Environmental, LLC

Terah Donovan

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  • Principal Program Manager / Santa Clara Valley Habitat Agency

Thomas Minter

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  • Operations and Market Strategy Manager

Tiffany Busby

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  • President / Wildwood Consulting Inc.

Tim Barco

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  • Operations Coordinator, Duke Forest

Timothy O'Connor

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  • Director, California Climate Initiative / Environmental Defense Fund

Tobin Freid

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  • City - County Sustainability Officer

Tom Brooks

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  • Building Coordinator

Tommy Caggiano

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  • Climate and Energy Policy Manager, Nature Conservancy NC Chapter

Trevor Nace

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TyAnn Lee

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Tyler Sammis

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Valeria Orozco

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Virginia Palacios

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Will Cook

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Willis Gilbert

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Xander Kent

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Ye Lin

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Zach Eyler

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Zakiya Leggett

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