Team

Staff

A. Karim Ahmed, Ph.D.
Senior Advisor
Crystal Chissell, J.D., M.S., MBA
Senior Advisor
Avriel Díaz, M.A.
Executive Director
Krista Hiser, Ph.D.
Senior Lead and Advisor for Sustainability Education
Shelley Kossak
Senior Advisor
Liz Nelson
Program Manager

Fellows

Christopher Boone, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, Sustainability Education
Tracy Hester, Esq.
Senior Fellow, Law and Policy
Diane Husic, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, United Nations Climate and Sustainable Development Goals
Jordan King
Graduate Student Fellow, Sustainability Education
Esther Obonyo, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, Local Climate Action and Just Transition
Rod Parnell, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, Sustainability Education
Jeffrey Seay, P.E., Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, Chemical Engineering
Jennie C. Stephens, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, Climate Justice
Mary Ellen Ternes, Esq.
Senior Fellow, Law and Policy

Board Directors

Maria Boccalandro, Ph.D.
Chair, GCSE Board of Directors
Dean of Special Academic Programs, Dallas College
Kristina Douglass, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Climate, Columbia University
Lynda Hopkins
Supervisor, Fifth District of Sonoma County
Amy Luers, Ph.D.
Global Lead, Sustainability Science, Microsoft
Valerie Luzadis, Ph.D.
Immediate Past Chair, GCSE Board of Directors
Associate Provost for Instruction and Dean of the Graduate School, The State University of New York, ESF
Tom L. Richard, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Penn State University
Anna Stewart-Ibarra, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research
Godfrey A. Uzochukwu, Ph.D.
Founding Director, Waste Management Institute and Senior Professor, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University