Faculty and Staff
Faculty
Curt Gervich
Co-Director, School of the Environment
Associate Professor, SUNY Plattsburgh
- Email:
- cgervich@middlebury.edu
Liou Xie
Co-Director, School of the Environment
Associate Professor, SUNY Plattsburgh
- Email:
- lxie@middlebury.edu
Megan McKenna
Visiting Professor, School of the Environment
Practitioners
Practitioners help teach environmental leadership skills throughout the program. Previous practitioners include:
- Award-winning journalist and creator of Planet Forward Frank Sesno
- Middlebury College Director of Sustainability Integration Jack Byrne
- Journalist Lois Parshley
- Persuasive communications instructor Mike Kiernan
- Director of the George Washington University’s Planet Forward Dan Reed
- Author and environmentalist Bill McKibben
Past Guest Speakers
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Xiaolan Li: The Nature Conservancy. Conservation in Chinese context.
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Xinhao Cheng: a renowned environmental artist with a PhD degree in Chemistry from Peking University.
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Brian and Jeanee Linden: Cultural conservation and economic development in China.
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Josh Dyer: Ethnomusicology of Yunnan.
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Shirley Hong: Environmental activist and journalist. Co-founder of Wild China (野性中国), an NGO in China dedicated to environmental conservation.
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Hongyan Young and Zhi Zuo: Pesticide Environmental Action Center/Eco-women: Environmental advocacy and NGOs in China.
- Professor Douglas Yu: Biologist from University of East Anglia and Kunming Institute of Zoology