Energy and Environment Program

Past Forum Scholars

2012 - 2008 Aspen Environment Forum Scholars 

2012

Jean-Christophe Amado, Climate Change Risk Manager, Acclimatise North America

Lawrence Berliner, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Denver

Eva Cermáková, Assistant Executive Director, Zden k Bakala’s Global Non-Profit

Whitney Clark, Executive Director, Friends of the Mississippi River

Greg Costello, Executive Director, Western Environmental Law Center

Catherine Craig, President, Conservation through Poverty Alleviation International

Chester Culver, President, Chet Culver Group, former Governor of Iowa

Jennifer Curtin, Attorney, Booz Allen Hamilton

Cait Dmitriew, Adjunct Professor/Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Colorado-Boulder

Luis Fernandez, Research Associate, Carnegie Institution for Science

John Fialka, Editor, ClimateWire, E&E Publishing, LLC

Stephanie Gripne, Director of the Initiative for Sustainable Development, University of Colorado

Marce Gutierrez, Founder, Executive Director, Azul

Jennifer Gooden, Director, Office of Sustainability, City of Oklahoma City

Joe Hsueh, Phd Student, System Dynamics Group, MIT Sloan School of Management

Joshua Humphreys, Fellow, Tellus Institute

Kate Knuth, Representative, Boreas Leadership Program Coordinator, State of Minnesota/ University of Minnesota

Daniel Lawse, Assistant Director of Campus Planning and Sustainability, Metropolitan Community College

Allen Manser, Technology Investment Associate, Zouk Capital

Melissa Ocana, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Fellow, Assistant to the Climate Change Policy Advisor, US Fish and Wildlife Service

Brian Palm, Director of Environmental Stewardship, Brooks School

Robert J. Phocas, Energy and Sustainability Manager, City of Charlotte

Sarah Finnie Robinson, Founding Partner, Head of Social Programming, Practically Green

Emily Rubenstein, Senior Policy Advisor, New York City Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability

Hrishabh Sandilya, Vice-President, Anglo-American University

Romeo Santos, Executive Director, WorkLand M&E Institute, inc.

Marco Seeman, Regulatory Affairs Analyst, Enel Green Power

Paul Spencer, Founder and President, Clean Energy Collective

Kate Stephenson, Executive Director, Yestermorrow Design/Build School

Kristen Walker Painemilla, Vice President, Social Policy and Practice, Conservation International

Cherilyn Widell, Principal Investigator, Department of Defense ESTCP Project

David Wright, Film Producer, Planet Earth Pictures 

2011

Troy Abel, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Western Washington University

Clayton Adams, Team Assistant, United Nations Environment Programme/Regional Office for North America

James Arnott, Research Associate, Aspen Global Change Institute

Todd Baylson, Associate Director and Governmental Affairs Director, The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

Rex Burkholder, Councilor, Metro

Kerrie Carfagno, Lecturer, John Carroll University

Eric Cefus, Executive Director, Catamount Institute

Chiara Dalla, Chiesa Head of Market Analysis and Business Development Strategies, Enel Green Power

Suzanne Dallman, Assistant Professor, California State University, Long Beach

Magali Delmas, Director, Institute of the Environment & UCLA Anderson School of Management, Professor of Management, Director, UCLA Center for Corporate Environmental Performance, UCLA Leaders in Sustainability Program

Daryl Edwards, Congressional Liaison, US Department of Energy

Luis Fernandez, Research Associate, Carnegie Institution for Science

Chris Garvin, Partner, Terrapin Bright Green

Gates Gooding, Urban and Environmental Planner, The Steamboat Springs and Routt County, Colorado Planning Departments

Carla Griffin, Teacher, Waters Elementary School

Gang He, Research Associate, Stanford University

Andy Hoffman, Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise and Co-Director of the Erb Institute, University of Michigan

Jason Jay, Lecturer, Sustainability, MIT Sloan School of Management

Joel Johnston, Project Manager and Hydrogeologist, Antea Group

Josephine Jones, Director of Programs & Center for the Book, Colorado Humanities

Taylor Keen, Director, Native American Center / Full Time Lecturer, Creighton University

Aaron Koch, Policy Advisor, New York CIty Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability

Zach Krapfl, Owner, Clean Slate Energy

David Levy, Professor and Chair, Department of Management and Marketing, UMASS-Boston Director, Center for Sustainable Enterprise and Regional Competitiveness

Peter Marcotuillio, Associate Professor, Hunter College

Jamie McLeod, President, Brewster McLeod Architects, Inc.

Dale Meyer, Chairman, Western Partners Worldwide Foundation

Mark Orlowski, Founder & Executive Director, Sustainable Endowments Institute, a special project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Annie Perkins, LEED Green Associate, Andersen Corporation

Sharon Pfeifer, Natural Resources and Community Assistance Manager, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

Alessandro Pistella, Head of CEO Office, Enel Green Power

Nathan Ratledge, Executive Director, Community Officer for Research Efficiency

Rosemarie Russo, Sustainability Coordinator, City of Fort Collins

Emily Sadigh, Sustainability Project Manager, County of Alameda

John Sedgwick, Professor of Film Economics; Director, Centre for International Business and Sustainability (CIBS), London Metropolitan Business School

Joe Sehee, Executive Director/Founder, Green Burial Council

John Sterman, Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management and Director of MIT’s System Dynamics Group, MIT Sloan School of Management

Rogerio Traballi, Professor, Universidade Paulista - UNIP

Stacy VanDeveer, Associate Professor, University of New Hampshire

Jason Walser, Executive Director, The Land Trust for Central NC

Morgan Williams, Executive Director, Flux Farm Foundation

2010

Atishkumar Belliethathan, Assistant Professor/Program Officer, Environmental Science Program/HoA-REC/N, Addis Ababa University

Bright Simons, Director of Development Research, mPedigree Network, IMANI Center for Policy & Education - Ghana

Mattia Cavanna, Vice President Logistics, Energy & Global Service, Finmeccanica Group Services, Roma

Carlo Papa Head of Enel Chairman Office, Enel S.p.A.

Kakenya Ntaiya, President, Kakenya Center for Excellence; Emerging Explorer, National Geographic Society

Surya Dhungel, Lawyer, Nepal Consulting Lawyers Inc, Kathmandu, Kathmandu-32

Julia Lindesay, Board Member, Kaipatiki Project

Zuleika Mendoza, Executive Director, Fundacion NATURA

Corina Murafa, Programme Assistant, Energy and Environment Section, UNDP Romania

Leslie Abramson, NOAA Sea Grant Legislative Fellow, U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation

Khalid Al-Ali, Executive Director, UARC/University of California, NASA Ames Research Center

Jason Aramburu, Founder, re:char, Austin

Sean Arian, Director of Economic Development, Office of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, City of Los Angeles

Clare Bastable, Deputy Director, Western Energy Project

Curtis Brainard, Science & Environment Editor, Columbia Journalism Review

Gregory Costello, Executive Director, Western Environmental Law Center

Serge Dedina, Executive Director, WilDCOAST/COSTASALVAJE

Jessica Feldman, Senior Vice President, Willis Re Inc.

Scott Fitzwilliams, White River National Forest Supervisor, USFS White River National Forest

Jean Garrison, Director of International Studies, University of Wyoming

Nathan Glasgow, Principal, Rocky Mountain Institute

Elizabeth Guilbaud-Cox, Senior Program Officer responsible for Communications, United Nations Environment Programme

Ben Jervey, Editor and Ambassador, GOOD

Catherine Kleier, Associate Professor and Director, Environmental Studies Program, Regis University

Maxine Lipeles, Co-Director, Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic, and Senior Lecturer in Law, Washington University School of Law

Lira Luis, Principal Architect, Atelier Lira Luis, LLC

Aurora Mahassine, Founder & Design Director, Tesselation

Matt Petersen, CEO, Global Green USA

Jamie Ponce, Management Consultant, A.T. Kearney, Inc.

Greg Poschman, Media Producer / Filmmaker, Moving Media, Inc.

Alok Pradhan, Project Manager/Analyst, Rocky Mountain Institute

Amanda Reed, Outreach Manager, Office of the President, The Nature Conservancy

Kitty Wang, Principal (Energy & Resources Team), Rocky Mountain Institute

Michael Webber, Associate Director, Center for International Energy & Environmental Policy, University of Texas at Austin

Sheri Willoughby, Senior Program Officer, Business & Industry, World Wildlife Fund

Mark Zimring, Senior Research Associate, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

2009

Jeff Berkus, Jeffrey Berkus Architects, Inc.

Eugenia Choi, Violinist

Bennett Cohen, Special Aide to Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute

Richard Conant, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University

Miquela Craytor, Executive Director, Sustainable South Bronx

Jim Curtis, Curtis & Associates

Lisa Daniels Executive Director, Windustry

Katherine Dart, Special Projects Consultant, Community Office for Resource Efficiency, City of Aspen

Ashley Dean, Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara

Michel Di Capua, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Jessica Feldman, Partner, Campioni Risk Solutions

Douglas Fischer, Editor, The Daily Climate

Jon Fox-Rubin, President and CEO, FiberForge

Christy George, President and Executive Director, Society of Environmental Journalists

Nathan Glasgow, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

Chad Griller, Senior Project Manager, Fenton Construction

Laurel Gutenberg, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Kathleen Hawley, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University

Andrew Hoffman, Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, University of Michigan

William Humke, Teacher, Boulder Valley School District

Ted James, Technology Market Analyst, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Ben Jervey, Web Editor, OnEarth, Natural Resources Defense Council

Erin Kassoy, Director, Climate Solutions and Analysis, Alliance for Climate Protection

Paul Komor, Lecturer, Environmental Studies Program, University of Colorado, Boulder

Paul Koval, Faculty Director, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Initiative, University of Colorado, Boulder

Margie Kriz, Reporter, National Journal

Adam Lorimer, Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

Avy Mallik, Program Coordinator, Institute at the Golden Gate

Jason Meyer, Denali Commission Fellow, Energy Program, Denali Commission

Tamera Minnick, Associate Professor of Environmental Science, Mesa State College

Edward Morris, Co-Founder and Director, The Canary Project

Wizaso Munthali, Senior Inspector, Environmental Council of Zambia

Martha O’Keefe, Senior Project Coordinator, Fenton Construction

Greg Poschman, President, Moving Media

Alok Pradhan, Research Fellow, Rocky Mountain Institute

Charles W. Ransler, IV Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder, Husk Power Systems

Nathan Ratledge, Climate Project Manager and Acting Director, Community Office for Resource Efficiency, City of Aspen

Nia Robinson, Executive Director, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, Redefining Progress

Sandhya Savarala, Safe Routes Ambassador, Chicago Department of Transportation

Sarah Schmidt, Education Director, Aspen Center for Environmental Studies

Darin Schulte, Senior Project Manager, Chevo Studios

Aekta Shah, Program Manager, Institute at the Golden Gate

Sloan Shoemaker, Executive Director, Wilderness Workshop

Olivia Siegel, Development Coordinator, Aspen Center for Environmental Studies

Joshua Smith, Energy Manager, Community Office for Resource Efficiency

Jacob Susman, Founder, OwnEnergy, Inc.

Andrew Svedlow, Dean, College of Performing and Visual Arts, University of Northern Colorado

Diana Wall, Founding Director of the School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University

Bryan Wee, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Denver

Kathryn Wendell, Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

Jason White, Planner Roaring Fork Transit Authority

2008

Suzy Ageton, Boulder City Council, Boulder, CO

Mike Andrews, Senior Conservation Fellow, The Nature Conservancy

Seema Arora, Principal Counselor & Head, CII- ITC Centre for Sustainable Development

Charles Bedford, Colorado State Director, The Nature Conservancy

Lionel Bony, Senior Consultant, Rocky Mountain Institute

Kevin Bryan, Mediator, Meridian Institute

Michael Callahan, Founder and Director of PowerMundo, MSBA Candidate in the Global Social, Sustainable Enterprise Program at Colorado State University

Gregory Costello, Director, Western Environmental Law Center

Leonard Fitts, Superintendent, Glassboro Public Schools

Heather Henry, Associate/Legacy Environment Forum Leader, Design Workshop

Dylan Hoffman, Outreach and Compliance Coordinator, Pitkin County Resource Recovery

Arnold Ricalde de Jager, Director, Organi-k, Asociacion Civil, Ecovillage Network Mexico (GEN)

Lacrimioara Isvoranu, Chief Human Resources and Communication Officer, UCM

Kirk Johnson, VP of Research & Collections, Chief Curator, Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Megan Kram, Public Lands Program Manager, The Nature Conservancy

Francesco Leopardi, Program Manager in International Activities, Secretary of Aspen Junior Fellows, Aspen Italia

Valerie Minard, Head of Programmes, Institut Aspen France

Dave Noel, VP Operations, CIO, Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Arthur Nozik, Senior Research Fellow, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, (NREL)

Greg Poschman, Documentary Filmmaker, President, Moving Media, Inc.

Nick Rancis, Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory, Colorado State University

Jeff Rennicke, Teacher, Conserve School, Writer, National Geographic Society

Marie-Christine Roy, Wildlife Biologist, Environmental Educator, and Project Manager, Montreal’s Biosphere, Museum of the Environment

Terri Schulz, Conservation Ecologist, The Nature Conservancy

William Shutkin, Professor and Chair of Sustainable, Development, Leeds School of Business, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder; Interim Executive Director, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies

Andrew Steiger, Outside-In Supervisor, Academy of Natural Sciences

Linda Tsang, Senior Fellow, Environmental Leadership Program

Edith Widder, Co-founder and Director, Ocean Research and Conservation Association

Ken Wilson, Boulder City Council, Boulder, CO

Martin Wolf, Director, Product and Environmental Technology, Seventh Generation