People

Administrator, Educator, Transformational Leader, Sustainability & Environmental Advocate and Champion for Community Engagement and Empowerment

I am a documentary filmmaker and home gardener who has been volunteering at the North Carolina Botanical Garden for more than ten years.

Irma Vazquez

36 year dual immersion bilingual education teacher. I'm currently teaching 3rd grade in Inglewood Unified School District and working towards earning my EE certificate so that I can integrate language learning best practices with EE. I'm most interested in helping newcomers enjoy outdoor learning while acquiring a target language. 

Michele Archie leads Harbinger Consulting’s public deliberation, economic analysis, and Geotourism work. Michele holds a Master’s Degree in environmental studies from the University of Montana.

Michele has been involved with NAAEE’s Environmental Issues Forums program from its inception, contributed to the Environmental Education Community Engagement Guidelines, and has developed curricula and conducted trainings related to community engagement in public deliberation.

Since 2003, Michele has led Harbinger’s work engaging communities and public lands managers in understanding and expanding economic relationships between national parks and other public lands and their gateway communities. Harbinger has conducted more than 25 of these economic studies, where effective engagement has frequently spurred collaborative sustainable tourism and economic development efforts.

Etibar Mikayilov is a PhD researcher, EU project manager, and youth climate advocate whose work has secured over €7.5M in international funding for climate and STEAM education. As author of Solar4Future+ (€250,000) and CLIMACT (€400,000), he leads consortia spanning the Technical University of Munich and partners across Europe, reaching 10,000+ students in solar energy and climate literacy. A BRICS Youth Energy Expert, WSA Youth Ambassador, and Mercedes-Benz beVisioneers Fellow, Etibar mentors young changemakers while building Farmlign, his own climate-tech venture. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering (Politecnico di Bari & Imperial College London) and an MBA.