Board
The US Partnership registered as a 501(C)3 non-profit corporation on May 12, 2006. The first full board was elected July 26, 2006. Following is the current board roster.
U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
Officers:
Debra Rowe, Ph.D. (President) is national co-coordinator of the Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium, founder of the Disciplinary Associations' Network for Sustainability and senior advisor to the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. Dr. Rowe has been professor of energy management, renewable energy technology and psychology for over 28 years at Oakland Community College.
David E. Blockstein (Vice-President and Treasurer) is a Senior Scientist with the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE). He serves as Executive Secretary of the Council of Environmental Deans and Directors (CEDD) and organizes NCSE's annual National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment. He is an ecologist and conservation biologist with 20 years of experience in the science-policy interface.
Peter Adriance (Secretary) serves as NGO liaison for the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the U.S. focusing on issues of the environment and sustainable development. He helped establish several major NGO networks for the UN conferences of the ‘90s. He is a member of the Governing Board of the International Environment Forum, co-leads the Faith Sector team of the US Partnership, and serves on the editorial board of Sustainability: the Journal of Record.
Dianne Dillon-Ridgley (Chair) is an environmentalist, human rights activist and noted international speaker on sustainability issues. She serves on the boards of Interface, Inc., and Green Mountain Energy. She also represents the World Y.W.C.A at the UN, and has served on numerous U.S. delegations to UN. global meetings. Following the 1992 Earth Summit she was national co-chair of the Citizen's Network for Sustainable Development and served on the President's Council on Sustainable Development. She is a past president of Zero Population Growth (ZPG).
William R. Godfrey (Vice Chair), is president of Environic Foundation International (EFI) and has worked extensively, both nationally and internationally, with diverse groups to increase their understanding of sustainability issues and develop their ability to design strategies that address them. Recently, he was the lead author for Sustainable Societies-Africa, a UNEP funded project designed to mainstream environment and sustainability education in African universities. For twenty-years he was an award-winning architect with projects in North America, Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific.
Directors:
Kelly Bennett serves as Chair of the New York State Apollo Alliance and teaches a climate change course as an adjunct professor in the MBA for Managing Sustainability at Marlboro College (VT). She is a former Vice President of Sterling Planet, a supplier of renewable energy, energy efficiency and low-carbon solutions. She has served as Deputy Executive Director of Government Affairs for the Environmental Business Association of NY State, Inc., and is a frequent presenter at national conferences and other events.
Steve Cochran is an internationally-recognized and nationally-prominent leader, speaker, writer, advocate and practitioner in the field of sustainable enterprise. He is the co-founder of Sustainability Strategies, LLC: an Asheville NC-based strategic planning and management consulting firm. He also serves on the boards of the Community and Economic Development Alliance, the Clean Air Community Trust, and Visitors of Warren Wilson College. He is the co-founder of the Sustainability Alliance of the Mountains (SAM).
Will Duggan is a leading US sustainability "movement diplomat" with 25 years of public interest media design for clients that have included PBS, Discovery, Turner Broadcasting, NASA, JPMorganChase, United Technologies, MasterCard, other Fortune 100 corporations and major U.S. foundations. As executive director of Better Days Alliance, Will helps track and model sustainability trends with a focus on effectively using diverse media and communications assets to ubiquitously amplify and celebrate progress towards a flourishing future.
A. Christine Eppstein is Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility & Sustainability for McGuireWoods Consulting, providing advice to clients to enhance their triple bottom line. She also worked at the Environmental Council of the States (ECOS) -- the national association of state cabinet-level environmental commissioners -- and was an assistant professor of environmental law in Romania, a member of the Bucharest Bar, and consulted with the Romanian Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development on air quality and industrial pollution issues.
Samuel H. Kosoff is the Director of Sustainability at the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, NJ. Sam was a founding member of The Island School, in Eleuthera, Bahamas. He has presented at the annual National Association of Independent Schools Conference, Friends School Environmental Education Network and several independent schools. He helps run the Green Cup Challenge, an energy competition among boarding schools and is the New Jersey coordinator for the Green Schools Alliance. He is also on the board of Sustainable Lawrence.
Tom Naiman is Vice President and President-Elect of the International Zoo Educator's Association. Since 1994, he has led environmental education training and curriculum development programs in the U.S., Bhutan, China, Cuba, India, Papua New Guinea and other nations. He is the author of Teachers for Tigers, an education manual for tiger range states which has been translated into 12 Asian languages.
Elizabeth Resek is an acting director for a science coordination and policy office dealing with pesticides and toxics, within the Environmental Protection Agency. She has worked with Tribal communities for much of her 16 years with the Agency, and leads EPA's innovative Tribal LifeLine Project that involves building risk assessment tools for Tribes and other unique communities. She has also worked as a private consultant in public-private partnering, specifically on economic development and sustainability issues.
Daniel Roth serves as a Sustainability Coordinator for Cornell University. He has worked in the fields of experiential education, organizational learning, and youth development for over a decade. As a social entrepreneur and community organizer he has developed Ithaca Carshare, advocacy campaigns, broad-based community partnerships, environmental and food security education, service learning programs, and civic engagement projects. He is Co-chair of the Youth Sector Team of the US Partnership.
Greg Wendt (CFP) is one of Southern California's leading financial advisors in socially and environmentally responsible investing. He heads the Sustainable Investing practice at Enright Premier Wealth Advisors, Inc. He serves on the advisory boards of a number of organizations and companies including Creative Citizen, Inc. and the Sustainable Business Council of Los Angeles, He currently leads the Los Angeles effort for Business Alliance for Local Living Economies and is the Founder of Green Business Networking.