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
Heather Fair
Visiting Professor, School of the Environment
Alex Nickley
Resident Director and Instructor, 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; and persuasive communications instructor Mike Kiernan.
Mike Kiernan
Physician, actor, public speaker
Bill McKibben
Author and environmentalist
Frank Sesno
Journalist and director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University
Dan Reed
Program director, Planet Forward
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