Emerging Leaders, Emerging Solutions -- Climate Change and Global Warming

Emerging Leaders | Emerging Solutions


Taking Action on Climate Change and Global Warming

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We would like thank our advisory and planning committees for their time and effort spent developing our climate change conference.

Our Advisory Committee

Sharon Alpert - Associate Program Officer for Environment, Surdna Foundation

Augusto Amador - Newark City Council Member, East Ward

John Anderson - Director of Education, New England Aquarium

Frances Beinecke - President, Natural Resources Defense Council

David Cash - Assistant Secretary for Policy, Massachusetts Executive Office for Energy & Environmental Affairs

Don Chen - Executive Director, Smart Growth America

John Cusack - Executive Director, NJ Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability

Michael Dorsey - Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College

Kerry Emanuel - Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chris Fox - Director of Investor Programs, Ceres

Peter Frumhoff - Director of Science & Policy and Chief Scientist, Climate Change, Union of Concerned Scientists

Michel Gelobter - President, Redefining Progress

Carl Guardino - President and CEO, Silicon Valley Leadership Group

Gary Guzy - Senior Vice President, Emerging Environmental Risk Practice, and Director, Climate Change Risk Initiative, Marsh USA, Inc

George Hoguet - Director, Mid-Atlantic Operations, NativeEnergy, LLC

Peter Huybers - Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University

Jonathan Lash - President, World Resources Institute

Eugene Linden - Author

Charlie Lord - Executive Director, Urban Ecology Institute

Dale Manty - Senior Project Officer, Research Centers and Fellowships, USEPA

David Ponet - Confidential Assistant to the Governor, New Jersey Board of Public Utilities

Rob Sargent - Energy Program Director, Environment Texas

Truman Semans - Director for Markets and Business Strategy, Pew Center on Global Climate Change

Peggy Shepard - Executive Director, West Harlem Environmental Action

James Gustave Speth - Dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

Benjamin Strauss - Doctoral Student, Princeton University

Jessica Strauss - Senior Sustainability Consultant, Arup

Kim Teplitsky - PA, OH, WV & MI Regional Organizer, Sierra Student Coalition

Josh Tulkin - Organizing Director, Chesapeake Climate Change Action Network

Beverly Wright -- Director, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ)

Don Wuebbles - Department Head and Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois

Elizabeth Yeampierre - Executive Director, UPROSE

Shelley Zimmer - Senior Manager of Footwear Sustainability, Nike


ELP Senior Fellow Planning Committee

Scott Edward Anderson
Director of Philanthropic Marketing, The Nature Conservancy


Ana Baptista
Doctoral Candidate, Rutgers University, School of Planning and Public Policy


Cameron Brooks
Vice President of Resource Development, Renewable Choice Energy


Kevin Bryan
Mediator, Meridian Institute


Bodhi Burgess
Graduate Student, University of Michigan, Erb Institute


Felicia Davis
Mothers and Others Program Manager, Georgia Conservancy


Shalini Gupta
Senior Energy Associate, Izaak Walton League of America


Fletcher Harper
Executive Director, GreenFaith


Kristin Hegazy
Communications Manager, Environmental Careers Organization


Jennifer Hill-Kelley
Environmental Quality Director, Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin


Elke Hodson
Graduate Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Suzanne Leta Liou
Global Warming and Clean Energy Advocate, Environment New Jersey


Jonathan Lewis
Staff Attorney, Clean Air Task Force


Janani Narayanan
Urban Planner, Philadelphia City Planning Commission


Jacob Park
Assistant Professor of Business & Public Policy, Green Mountain College in Vermont


Susie Qashu Doctoral Candidate, University of Arizona

Carmelo Ruiz Marrero
Reporter, Claridad


Jessica Sargent-Michaud
Associate, Industrial Economics, Inc.


Joe Sehee
Executive Director, Green Burial Council


Rahul Shendure
Independent Consultant


Thompson Smith
Director of Tribal History and Ethnogeography projects, Salish-Pend d'Oreille Culture Committee, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation


Ben Spinelli
Mayor, Chester Township, New Jersey


Brett Stevens
Manager of Business Development, Sustainability, NELSON


Kristin Sullivan
Special Projects, Community Energy, Inc.


W. Warner Wood
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies, Central Washington University, and Research Associate, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County


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