SENIOR FELLOWS:
THE ELP FELLOWSHIP CLASS OF 2000-2002

Deborah Anderson Andraca
Deborah Andraca was most recently vice president of the Houston, Texas office of Fleishman-Hillard International Communications. She is the former Director of Public Affairs at the Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest, and has also served in communications and press capacities at the Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology, for the congressional campaigns of representatives Lynn Rivers (MI) and Leslie Byrne (VA), The Kamber Group, and in the office of New York Governor Mario Cuomo.

Richard Tiburcio Campbell, Attorney, Office of Regional Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 9
Richard Campbell is an attorney at the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Regional Council in San Francisco and was recently appointed to the City of Pacifica Planning Commission. Before joining EPA in 2003, Richard practiced environmental and water law in Phoenix, Arizona for the law firm of Withey, Anderson and Morris. His pratice primarily involved the representation of the residential real estate industry, and water utilities, with regard to state and federal matters involving water, endangered species, historic properties, and other environmental aspects of federal and state permitting. Richard also represented American Rivers with regard to water law matters associated with instream flows in the Tonto National Forest. Prior to practicing law in Arizona, Richard enjoyed an environmental externship with the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund (now Earthjustice) in San Francisco.

Jason Corburn, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University
Jason Corburn is an Assistant Professor in the Urban Planning Program of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and the School of International and Public Affairs, at Columbia University. Before joining the faculty of Columbia in 2005, Jason was a fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health and Society Scholars Program. He is also the former co-director of the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at Hunter College, City University of New York and was a senior planner with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection. His research and practice explores issues of urban environmental health disparities and how community participation in science and technology policy can address social inequities. His book, Street Science: Community Knowledge and Environmental Health Justice (MIT Press, 2005), explores how local knowledge and professional science can improve research and decision-making to promote more technically sound and socially just urban health policy. Corburn is a member of the National Academy of Sciences' Workgroup on Citizen Engagement in Health Emergency Planning and a Harvard Law School dissertation fellowship.

Karen DeGannes, Regulatory Analyst, California Public Utilities Commission; Joint Doctoral Candidate, School of Natural Resources and Environment and Department of Sociology, University of Michigan
Karen Degannes is a regulatory analyst for the California Public Utilities Commission's Energy Division in San Francisco. Concurrently, Karen is a doctoral student in Sociology and Natural Resources & Environment at the University of Michigan. Her research analyzes corporate environmental behavior and its impacts on social and economic structure. She is examining the environmental performance of large U.S. companies between 1987-1998 to evaluate the efficacy of corporate strategies to reduce negative environmental impacts. Karen has conducted research on brownfields, appliance efficiency standards, global warming policy, and environmental justice.

Torri Estrada, Program Officer, Marin Community Foundation
Torri Estrada is a program officer at the Marin Community Foundation, where he manages the Foundation's environmental grantmaking program. Torri also directs Environmental Justice Solutions, a nonprofit project whose mission is to provide strategic research, technical assistance, and support to community-based organizations, social justice groups, and the public sector in the areas of environmental justice and policy. Previously, Torri served as the coordinator of the Water Funders Alliance at the Environmental Grantmakers Association, a funder working group that facilitated the exchange of information and experience among diverse funders concerned about fresh water and its connection to other critical issues. Torri was also a program officer at the Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock, a senior policy fellow with the Environmental Justice Coalition for Water, and Director of the Latino Issues Forum's Environment and Sustainable Development Program.

Liza Grandia, Assistant Professor , Department of International Development, Community, and Environment , Clark University
Liza Grandia, Assistant Professor, Department of International Development, Community, and Environment, Clark University. Last year through a postdoctoral fellowship with Yale University's Program in Agrarian Studies, she wrote her first book entitled Unsettling: The Repeated Dispossessions of the Q'eqchi' Maya and New Frontiers of Enclosure, which is currently under review with a university press also being translated into Spanish. This work draws together more than six years of research in northern Guatemala about the impacts of neoliberalism and a World Bank-funded land reform on the Q'eqchi' Maya, Guatemala's second largest indigenous group. Oven the past dozen years she has been involved with ProPeten, an organization affiliated with Conservation International from 1992-2002, but now an independent Guatemalan nonprofit. Liza served as ProPeten's President of the board of directors from May 2003 - August 2005. Living for more than six years in villages and towns across Petén, she worked to expand the typical conservation package of forest and park management into new arenas such as health, organic agriculture, gender and ethnic equity, opposition to petroleum extraction, and agrarian reform. Most notably, between 1997-2000, she founded an integrated health, population, and environment program called Remedios which established family planning services for more than half a million people living in this area of northern Guatemala. For her distinguished service to conservation and sustainable development in Petén, she was awarded an honorary degree by Peten's public university in 2004 and elected as a permanent emeritus member of ProPetén's board in 2005. She speaks Spanish and Q'eqchi' Maya fluently.

Timothy Gruner, Chief Financial Officer, Knowaste
At Knowaste, Tim leads the financial functions of the company. He is in charge of financing of internal growth, entry into new markets, as well as developing key strategic and financial partners around the world. Tim provides financial and strategic consulting to a variety of start-ups and environmental businesses in natural foods, retailing, and manufacturing. Previously, Tim served as director of Critical Resources Management (CRM), a commercialization stage venture fund that was formed to invest in the energy, water, transportation, and agriculture industries. Prior to joining CRM, Tim worked with Deloitte & Touche in the Mergers & Acquisition practice. His clients included investors and lenders in a wide variety of industries including real estate, agriculture, natural foods, and professional services. For Sumitomo Corporation, Tim led projects with investments in renewable energy, agriculture, aerospace, waste recovery, and financial services.

G. Bradley Guy, President, Building Materials Reuse Association
Brad Guy is president of Building Materials Reuse Association, a national non-profit educational organization whose mission is to facilitate building deconstruction and the reuse/recycling of recovered building materials. Previously, Bradley was the interim director of the Center for Construction and Environment in the College of Architecture at the University of Florida. He serves as Chair of the City of Gainesville Plan Board. Bradley's expertise is in the areas of sustainable architectural design and materials, deconstruction and materials reuse, sustainable community development, and planning and project management. He has worked with Habitat for Humanity International, AmeriCorps, NCCC, the U.S. Green Building Council, the Nature Conservancy, U.S. EPA, and state and local agencies.

Pegeen Hanrahan, Mayor, City of Gainesville, Florida
Pegeen Hanrahan is mayor of the City of Gainesville, FL. Before her election in March 2004, Pegeen was executive director of the Florida Conservation Alliance, the statewide affiliate of the Federation of State Conservation Voter Leagues. She was a two-term commissioner of the City of Gainesville, where she served three years as Mayor-Commissioner Pro Tem, and chaired both the Gainesville/Alachua County Metropolitan Transportation Planning Organization and the Gainesville Community Redevelopment Agency. She serves as a board member of Alachua Conservation Trust, The Gateway Girl Scout Council, The Healthy Communities Initiative, and Friends of Ring Park. Pegeen currently is developing a strategic plan for the Florida Local Environmental Resource Agencies (FLERA), a non-profit coalition representing city and county environmental programs.

Jonna Higgins-Freese,
Jonna Higgins-Freese was most recently the executive director of 1,000 Friends of Iowa, which promotes well-planned development in order to protect farmland and promote healthy, safe, and fair communities. Previously, Jonna was director of programs for the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation. She was also the environmental outreach coordinator for Prairiewoods: Franciscan Spirituality Center in Hiawatha, Iowa, where she managed programs for churches and other community groups on issues connecting spirituality and ecology. Her work included voluntary simplicity, food and faith, energy conservation, and non-chemical lawn care. Jonna was a two-term AmeriCorps Member. As a master's student at Harvard Divinity School, Jonna served as the Environment Chaplain. She is past President of the Iowa Renewable Energy Association.

Ben Packard, Director of Environmental Affairs, Starbucks Coffee Company
Ben Packard is director of environmental affairs for Starbucks Coffee Company where he is responsible for initiating and implementing corporate environmental programs. He manages the company's partnership with Conservation International and works with buyers, designers, and engineers to implement leading-edge environmental performance initiatives. Prior to receiving his MBA and certificate in Environmental Management from the University of Washington, Ben worked for Recycled Plastics Marketing, Inc., the King County Commission for Marketing Recyclable Materials, and the Environmental Careers Organization.

Jacob Park, Assistant Professor of Business & Public Policy, Green Mountain College; and Senior Research Consultant for Japanese and Asian Equities, Governance.
Jacob Park, Assistant Professor of Business & Public Policy, Green Mountain College and Socially Responsible Investment Analyst/Adviser Jacob's expertise covers a wide range of sustainable business issues including socially responsible investing, environmental management, community-based entrepreneurship and has worked as a business ethics advisor for a Bahamas-based hedge fund/investment firm as well as an Asian equity specialist for a London-based socially responsible asset management company. He also serves on the international planning board of the Greening of Industry Network ; steering committee of the North American Green Purchasing Initiative ; regional loan committee of Millennium Ecosystem Assessment . He has written and lectured widely on a wide range of sustainable business issues and his co-authored book on globalization and sustainable governance will hopefully be hitting the bookstores in mid-2007.

Lynn Pinder, Founder, YOUTH WARRIORS; Program Associate, DC Children & Youth Investment Trust Corporation; Instructor, The Learning Bank of COIL, Inc.
Lynn Pinder is founder and former executive director of YOUTH WARRIORS, a nonprofit environmental justice organization working in Baltimore neighborhoods to provide urban environmental education and training, leadership development, and organizing skills to young African Americans. Currently working as a Program Associate with the DC Children & Youth Investment Trust Corporation, Lynn also works part-time as an adult literacy instructor at The Learning Bank of COIL, Inc. In her efforts to meet the goals outlined in her ELP Personal Leadership Plan, Lynn recently launched two e-commerce businesses: www.createabookbaltimore.com and www.baltimoreandbeyond.com.

Matthew Raimi, Associate, Design, Community & Environment
Matthew Raimi is a land use and transportation planner for Design, Community & Environment in San Francisco. His work focuses on creating more livable and sustainable cities by promoting public dialogue on environmental, transportation, and land use issues. Previously, Matt was an associate at the planning firm Simon Martin-Vegue Winkelstein Moris, and worked as a transportation policy analyst for the Natural Resources Defense Council where he co-authored Once There Were Greenfields: How Urban Sprawl Is Undermining America's Environment, Economy and Social Fabric, a comprehensive book about sprawl, its impacts, and smart growth alternatives. At the Surface Transportation Policy Project, he co-wrote Five Years of Progress: 110 Communities Where ISTEA is Making a Difference.

Robert Rosenheck, Photographer
Robert Rosenheck is an award-winning photographer, filmmaker, and author of The Love Book (Macmillan, 1995) and three screenplays. He was the 1997 artist-in-residence at Joshua Tree National Park and recipient of the New Jersey Council for the Arts Fellowship, Art Matters  Fellowship, and MTA Arts for Transit Award. Previously, he was a lecturer at the Graduate School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. His work has been exhibited throughout the country and has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, and Metropolis, and featured on the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour and CBS This Morning. Visit Rob's work at www.robertrosenheck.com.

James Spencer, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Departments of Urban Planning and Political Science, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
James Spencer is an assistant professor of public policy at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. As a doctoral student in UCLA's Department of Urban Planning and a consultant for PolicyLink, Jim developed an initiative to strengthen the equity component of local and national smart growth agendas. In addition, Jim consults for development organizations in VietNam on the provision of comprehensive medical services in remote rural areas. Previously, he was project director of the Southern Rural Development Initiative's Livable Communities Network and program assistant in the Community Resource Development Unit at the Ford Foundation, researching possible future program areas. He is the author of the Tropical Resources Institute Working Paper #90, a study of conflicts between park managers and local subsistence resource users in the Tram Chim National Park in Vietnam.

Jeffrey Tomhave, Co-Owner, The Tomhave Group, Inc.
Jeff Tomhave is president and co-founder of the Tomhave Group, Inc., an Indian owned and operated consulting firm that facilitates communication, collaboration and cooperation between Native American community leaders, tribal officials, state stakeholders, and federal agencies. Previously, Jeff was a policy advocate for the Navajo Nation Washington Office where he worked on tribal sovereignty, Navajo Nation. He has conducted legal work for unionized employees of the Indian Health Service, represented Indian parents in tribal court under the Indian Child Welfare Act, and documented the land conservation easement process for Indian people seeking repatriation of land and cultural resources. Jeff is an enrolled citizen of the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation and a lineal descendant of the Ho-Chunk Nation and the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation.

Brian Trelstad, Chief Financial Officer, Acumen Fund
Brian Trelstad is the Chief Financial Officer of Acumen Fund, a non-profit global venture fund serving the 4 billion people living on less than $4 a day. Acumen aims to use entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty by building financially sustainable and scalable organizations that deliver affordable, critical goods and services to the poor in the areas of health, water and housing in South Asia and East Africa. As CFO, Brian manages the finance and operations functions, supports the deal structuring and investment process, and leads Acumenís metrics and evaluation work. Previously, Brian was an associate at McKinsey & Company, and the co-founder of the Center for Environmental Citizenship, a national nonprofit dedicated to training student environmental leaders, where he serves as a board member. He is also active on the boards of New Jersey Future, a smart growth advocacy organization, and ISLES, a community development organization in Trenton, NJ.

Janice Varela, Mining Action Campaign Director, Amigos Bravos
Janice Varela is the Mining Action Campaign Director for Amigos Bravos, an organization dedicated to the restoration and preservation of the Rio Grande watershed. Previously, Janice was the director of administration at Reconnecting America, a national nonprofit that builds connections between and among transportation networks and the regions and communities they serve. Janice also works for the Rio de las Gallinas Acequia Association, where she advocates for rights of land based people in Northern New Mexico, and assists with defense of water rights during adjudication proceedings. She has been active in acequia and environmental justice issues in New Mexico for many years, and was a key figure in efforts to clean up the Terrero mine in her hometown of Pecos, New Mexico. She is an AmeriCorps veteran and serves on the board of a number of public interest organizations, including Community and Indian Legal Services of Northern New Mexcio, 1000 Friends of New Mexico, and serves as co-chair of New Mexico Coalition for a Liveable Future.

Marsha Weisiger, Assistant Professor, New Mexico State University
Marsha Weisiger has joined the history faculty as an Assistant Professor at New Mexico State University. Before her post at NMSU Marsha was a research fellow at the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University, where she was working on a book that examines the cultural dimensions of federal land conservation policies in Navajo Country. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has taught courses in environmental history and U.S. western history. Marsha has worked as a public historian and historic preservationist and is the author of Land of Plenty, a history of migrant agricultural workers.

Marjorie Wonham, Research associate and science writer, University of Alberta
Marjorie Wonham is a research associate and science writer at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. She currently splits her time among research, science and other freelance writing, and teaching. Her research focuses on the introduction, impact, and spread of invasive species. Her writing treats biology, ethics, and communication. She teaches courses in conservation biology and invertebrate zoology. Since Edmonton is land-locked, she is always looking for an excuse to spend time on the coast, preferably the left one.

Tracey Woodruff, Scientist and Policy Analyst, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Tracey Woodruff is a senior scientist and policy analyst in the National Center for Environmental Economics, Office of Policy, Economics, & Innovation, at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Her research focuses on environmental health issues, including health effects from air pollution, children's health risks, and science policy issues. Tracey has published articles in Environmental Health Perspectives, Toxicology and Industrial Health, Environmental Research, and other journals. She has served as an epidemiological expert for the U.S. EPA in the preparation of the regulatory standards for particulate matter and ozone. Tracey has held postdoctoral fellowships at the National Academy of Sciences and the University of California, San Francisco.