THE NEW ENGLAND CLASS OF 2007

Eric Becker, Vice President, Trillium Asset Management
Eric is a portfolio manager and research analyst at Trillium Asset Management Corporation, a firm dedicated exclusively, to socially and environmentally responsible investing. He is co-manager of the Green Century Balanced Fund, an environmental mutual fund. Eric's research interests include alternative energy, energy efficiency and green real estate. For over ten years he was the editor of Investing for a Better World, Trillium's investment newsletter. Prior to joining Trillium in 1993, he worked for Cultural Survival, a human rights organization focused on indigenous peoples and the environment. He serves on the advisory boards of The Carrot Project, a start-up non-profit working on sustainable agriculture financing, and Interlock Media, a non-profit human rights and environmental media organization. He recently became an active member of Somerville Climate Action. Eric is a Chartered Financial Analyst charterholder.

Pamela Bush, Community Organizer, Greater Four Corners Action Coalition
Pamela Bush is the Community Organizer for the Greater Four Corners Action Coalition. She is also the Program Coordinator for On the Move: New England's Transportation Justice Coalition. Currently she serves on the Housing Subcommittee for the Boston Urban Asthma Coalition, the Organizers for Green Housing Committee, the MBTA's Rider Oversight Committee and their Marketing Communications and Operations Subcommittee. Additionally, Pamela helps coordinate the activities of the Fairmount Coalition. Previously, she served on the Board of the Jamaica Plain Asthma Environmental Initiative and the steering committee for the Boston Urban Asthma Coalition. In 1999 Pamela founded and directed I.M.P.A.C.T, a parents' asthma support and advocacy group focused on conducting community asthma education forums and training parents in peer to peer mentoring.

Todd Callaghan, Regional Planner/Water Quality Specialist, Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management
Todd Callaghan is a biologist at the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management where he evaluates the environmental impacts of discharges to and withdrawals from coastal waters. He also assists in designing monitoring and mitigation plans for these impacts. Recently, Todd helped write a statewide policy for siting and operating desalination plants and reviewed environmental impacts of offshore LNG terminals and wind turbines. Todd also collaborates with DEP, using molecular methods for identifying sources of bacterial pollution. Todd is a board member of the Regional Association for Research in the Gulf of Maine and the Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System. Todd volunteers for the Mystic River Watershed Association and helps manage the Commonwealth's volunteer monitoring grant program. His current interest is in assessing the contaminants in fish and communicating these results to the public. Previously he was a science advisory panel member of the South Boston beaches CSO cleanup.

Kimberly Coletti, Regional Program Manager, The Americas, Earthwatch Institute
Kimberly Coletti is the Regional Program Manager, The Americas, at Earthwatch Institute. Kim is responsible for the management and delivery of a grant funded climate change research program in North and Latin America. This new research program, in partnership with a major international business and several research partners, is to be based around field centers - located in 5 key areas around the world (Brazil, UK, US, China, India). This program will support scientific research, an innovative employee learning scheme, and will have strong community and stakeholder links. One of the key aims of the program is to develop sufficient knowledge and capacity among local people over the duration of the program that will enable the work to continue after the initial 5 year program is completed. Previously, Kim has worked in both the nonprofit and private sector at United Planet, Columbia Mutual Funds, and Merrill Lynch.

Dan Gatmaytan, PhD Student, Northeastern University's Law, Policy & Society Program School of Law and Associate Professor, University of the Philippines, College of Law
Dan Gatmaytan is currently working toward a PhD at Northeastern University's Law, Policy & Society Program and an Associate Professor at the University of the Philippines, College of Law. Before he entered the academe in 1998, he practiced law with public interest law offices working on environment and natural resources law, and indigenous peoples' rights. His practice brought him at the forefront of battles between the government and rural poor communities who are directly dependent on natural resources. Dan worked with these communities to challenge development-induced displacement and helped reconcile community goals and aspirations on resource use into state policy. Dan assisted client communities to protect community interests through lobbying with policy-formulating bodies from local communities to the national government as well as by conducting research and litigation. Dan received his Masters in Studies of Environmental Law from Vermont Law School in 1995 (cum laude), and his Masters in Law from the University of California, Los Angles in 1996.

Trina Hofreiter, Education Specialist, Harry P. Leu Gardens
Trina Hofreiter moved to Orlando, FL where she has taken a position as Education Specialist at the Harry P. Leu Gardens. Prior to her move, Trina was CityRoots and Yard to Oasis program manager for the Urban Ecology Institute; both programs work with residents throughout New England to create and improve green space in environmental justice neighborhoods. She is also an evaluation consultant for the US Fish and Wildlife Service and is developing an evaluation strategy for capturing the social impacts of environmental justice work. Trina came to Boston as an Environmental Justice Leadership Fellow. She is actively involved in the North American Association for Environmental Education and has developed environmental justice curriculum for the American Museum of Natural History and worked as an environmental educator for The Nature Conservancy, Disney's Animal Kingdom and the Sibun Watershed Association in Belize.

Trina Jackson, Activist and Board Member, Alternatives for Community and Environment
Trina Jackson is a social justice activist and organizer based in Boston, working on violence against women, primarily African-American women, and the people of color liberation movement. She has facilitated numerous trainings and workshops on racial justice, anti-oppresion organizing, and reproductive justice for women of color. She is an advisory board member of the Mass CEDAW Project, a member of Boston Incite! Women of Color Against Violence, Women of Color Coalition for Reproductive Justice, and a board member of Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE), which works to achieve environmental justice for low income communities of color in Boston.

Kate Killerlain Morrison, Marine Program Director, The Nature Conservancy Kate Killerlain Morrison is Marine Program Director for the Massachusetts Chapter of The Nature Conservancy. Kate is working to further develop the Chapter's Marine Program, including exploring innovative approaches to conservation like submerged lands leasing and working on an EcoRegional Assessment for the Eastern U.S. Kate previously served as Ocean Policy Analyst at the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management and was staff lead for the Ocean Management Program. Kate studied international fisheries trade in West Africa, and has worked as a staffer in the Washington State Legislature. She is an active member of The Coastal Society and is an Advisory Board member for Village Volunteers, a non-profit organization that works internationally in partnership with rural village and capacity-building programs to support the development of sustainable solutions for community survival, education, and growth.

Jennifer Lawrence, Executive Director, Groundwork Somerville
Jennifer Lawrence is the Executive Director of Groundwork Somerville, a community-based organization designed to serve as a catalyst for the reuse of former Brownfield sites and for community revitalization in Somerville. Jennifer's interests also include immigration/ immigrant policy, as well as environmental justice. She is a member of Somerville Climate Action, the Somerville Transportation Equity Partnership, and the Green Line Community Forum. In addition to this environmental community work, Jennifer participates in the political community extensively, as Vice Chair of the Progressive Democrats of Somerville, member of the advisory committee for a current political candidate, Treasurer for a current Alderman, and previous manager for a campaign for School Committee.

Tennis Lilly, Chairperson, Lawrence Conservation Commission and Board Member, Arlington Community Trabajando
Tennis Lilly is the chairperson of the Lawrence Conservation Commission and serves on the Board of Directors of Arlington Community Trabajando. His work focuses on the protection and expansion of parks and open space in Lawrence. Previously, Tennis was Executive Director of Lawrence Grassroots Initiative and also managed the Lawrence Downtown Farmers Market. Tennis was introduced to environmental activism when he joined the Den Rock Coalition to save Den Rock Park in Lawrence from commercial development. Since then he has worked to close Lawrence's two incinerators, promote environmental justice and raise environmental awareness among residents of Lawrence. As a member of the Lawrence Environmental Justice Council, Tennis received the Greenleaf Community Activist Award.

Abby Lindsay, Graduate Student, The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy and Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning Program at Tufts University
Abby Lindsay is finishing her Dual Masters Degree at Tufts University, concentrating on international environmental policy with a focus on Latin America. With an environmental science background, she came to graduate school to build her policy expertise, particularly looking at the intersection between government policy, economics, culture, and the natural world. Issues such as trade policy, agriculture, and climate change exemplify Abby's interest in how global policy impacts local livelihoods. While she has studied and worked throughout the Americas, Abby also immerses herself in her local community. Whether she is planting a garden with kids in the Amazon, connecting Tufts with the community through working at the Lincoln Filene Center, or holding an Environmental Leaders Roundtable at Tufts, Abby enjoys uniting people around environmental issues. Her latest endeavors include interning at the State Department on international environmental affairs and receiving a grant to do climate change research in Honduras and Costa Rica.

Roxan McKinnon, Executive Director, City Life/Vida Urbana
Roxan McKinnon is an artist and community activist in the Boston area. She has worked with youth and adults in transition through public art projects and mentoring programs. Through the experience of trying to preserve her own housing, she became involved with low income housing advocacy work. Prior to City Life/Vida Urbana Roxan worked as the assistant coordinator of the Boston Tenant Coalition. Roxan has been involved with policy issues of healthy housing, transit justice, identity and land development, and media framing. She has worked as a painter (mural and canvas) and printmaker. Her pieces have been published, and shown in local galleries and museums. Most recently, she has been teaching herself to weave and work increasingly with fabrics. She is a member of the board of directors of City Life Vida Urbana, as well as a board member of Fair Housing Center of New England.

Mark Orlowski, Founder & Executive Director, Sustainable Endowments Institute
Mark Orlowski is Founder & Executive Director of the Sustainable Endowments Institute, a special project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. Mark leads the Institute's research and outreach efforts in raising awareness about college sustainability initiatives. Mark has spoken at more than 60 colleges in 28 states and has worked with students, faculty, administrators and trustees at dozens of schools. A graduate of Williams College, Mark chaired the Campus Environmental Advisory Committee and served on the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility at the college. Since then, reports on Mark's work have appeared in the news and business press. Media coverage includes articles in the Boston Globe, CNN Money, Los Angeles Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Chronicle of Philanthropy, USA Today and on National Public Radio. At 21, Mark was profiled in BusinessWeek as a social entrepreneur and recently was interviewed for the PBS newsmagazine NOW with David Brancaccio.

Charissa Rigano, Program Manager, Pure Strategies
Charissa Rigano is a sustainability consultant for a private consulting company and has worked on identifying alternatives for toxic substances in the wire and cable industry and preparing life cycle analysis and sustainability indicators for Seventh Generation. Charissa's previous work experience includes green chemistry projects for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and environmental compliance consulting for CH2MHILL Inc. Charissa is an active environmental and education volunteer in her community schools, with Sustainable Merrimack Valley and the League of Women Voters. Her passion for sustainable living and how to communicate and engage others in a dialogue on this important issue has led her to the Environmental Leadership Program.

Jenna Ringelheim, Executive Director, Wild Gift
Jenna is Executive Director of Wild Gift, an organization that gives outstanding leaders a deep wilderness experience and a year's support to launch self-designed projects that promote wildlands stewardship and the development of sustainable human communities. Before joining Wild Gift, Jenna worked for The Trust for Public Land, The Wellesley Natural Resources Commission, ICLEI in Melbourne, Australia, The Johnson Creek Watershed Council in Portland, Oregon, and The Nature Conservancy in Idaho and Rhode Island. In her spare time, Jenna is writing a book entitled, "Best Hikes with Dogs: Boston and Beyond."

Anthony Sanchez, Board President, Eagle Eye Institute
Anthony Sanchez is the Board President of Eagle Eye Institute, a non profit organization he co-founded in 1990 to address diverse urban youth's lack of access to the natural world and lack of career opportunities in the environmental fields. Anthony was the volunteer Executive Director for 13 years and in 2003 he received the Massachusetts Governors Points of Light award for his volunteerism. As Eagle Eye Board President he helps to guide the organization, raise money and build strategic partnerships. He is also a member of the Advisory Council of The Trustees of Reservations, the oldest land conservation organization in the country, and assists them with their diversity initiative. Anthony was a Boston Eureka Fellow and a member of the Leadership Team for the National Grassroots Summit that focused on national urban and community tree issues.

Ari Shapiro, PhD Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Ari Shapiro is a fourth year graduate student in biological oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His research focuses on the behavior and communication of free-ranging toothed whales, including an analysis of the movements of sperm whales exposed to mid-frequency sonar and an exploration of the coordinated feeding activity and associated vocal behavior of Norwegian killer whales. During graduate school, Ari has been an active member of the MIT campus group Students for Global Sustainability. Over the last few years he has also volunteered to teach bimonthly science enrichment classes in a local third grade classroom.

Yeumei Shon, Founder and CEO, Cottonfield, LLC
Yeumei Shon is founder and CEO of Cottonfield, a socially responsible and mission driven business. Yeumei is committed to building a strong community by providing an environmentally and people friendly workplace, promoting organically grown products, and adhering to the fair trade law. Prior to founding Cottonfield, Yeumei was a patternmaker for several Boston companies. She also held the position of technical designer for Talbot's and served as apparel inspector for Snyder Leather Company. Raised in Taipei, Taiwan, Yeumei graduated from Shih-Cheng College's Department of Dress Design. Following her graduation, Yeumei became an instructor of the history of Chinese women's costume, pattern making and tailoring. Yeumei participates in many trade shows including "All things Organic," "Green Festival," the "Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability Conference" and the "Northeastern Organic Farming Association Conference." She has participated in a biodynamic agricultural seminar with Bob Connor, a Dr. Rudolf Steiner seminar, and volunteered at the Waltham Organic Farm in Massachusetts.

Krissa Skogen, PhD Student, University of Connecticut
Krissa Skogen is a fifth year doctoral student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut studying the dramatic decline of a native plant from New England. Her research has two main goals: to investigate the role of human-caused increases in nitrogen pollution in population declines and to determine how genetic diversity, reproductive biology and demography affect the chances that this plant species will persist without human intervention. Using scientific data and methodologies, Krissa hopes to help guide management efforts to prevent species extinctions on the local, national and global levels. Krissa was Conservation Science intern at the Chicago Botanic Garden and worked in the Terrestrial Ecology department at Argonne National Laboratory. More recently, she has worked with local landowners, New England Wildflower Society volunteers, and Natural Heritage and power company officials in New England to coordinate research and awareness of rare and declining plant species.

Nebulla Stephen, Program Coordinator, B.O.L.D Teens and Graduate Student, Brandeis University
Nebulla is the Program Coordinator of the B.O.L.D (Breath of Life Dorchester) Teens, where she is expanding the program into the Fields Corner Site at the Dorchester House Multi-Service Center. Currently a graduate student at Brandeis University, Nebulla is pursuing her Masters in Anthropology with a research focus in medical anthropology, community empowerment and engagement. Her research builds on her undergraduate work at Tufts University, where she looked at tobacco advertising targeting of African American youth. Nebulla also volunteers for Healing Our Land, a grassroots HIV/AIDS faith-based awareness initiative, and serves as a board member of the Codman Square Neighborhood Council. Formerly she worked as a Training Coordinator and Research Assistant at John Snow Inc., a public health consulting firm.

Wendy A. Waller Esq., Policy Specialist, Save The Bay- Narragansett Bay
Wendy Waller works for Save The Bay in Providence, Rhode Island. As a policy specialist, she deals with a wide range of issues affecting the health of Narragansett Bay and its watershed, including water quality, coastal development, urban waterfront redevelopment, public access and habitat restoration by reviewing and commenting on municipal, state and federal regulatory activities, permit applications and project proposals. In her capacity as staff attorney, Wendy represents Save The Bay in matters before both state court and regulatory agencies, federal court and regulatory agencies and local municipalities. After earning a joint degree (Juris Doctor and Master of Marine Affairs), Wendy worked in the private sector with a small litigation and real estate firm. Her environmental work experience includes internships with the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management and the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Board. Wendy currently serves as the Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Blackstone River Coalition.