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After teaching ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) for almost 30 years, I recently moved from Texas to North Carolina. One of my goals in doing this was to have more access to nature. As I type this in August of 2023, I am just beginning to work on the North Carolina Environmental Education Certification Program.

A focus on the environment, education, the arts, human service, social justice, and sustainability has been at the core of Dave’s professional life for more than forty years. For twenty-five of those years, he successfully led and managed a variety of nonprofit organizations within these fields at the local, regional, and national levels. For almost twenty years, Dave has worked as an independent organizational consultant, concentrating his work as Founder and Principal of DRC Consulting on various aspects of organizational development, including strategic planning, board, and staff training and development, process facilitation, program evaluation, and conflict resolution. Dave has also served as Adjunct Faculty at Antioch University, where he has taught and advised graduate students in the Environmental Studies, Education, and Management departments. He holds a B.S. in Natural and Human Resource Management from the University of Maine and an M.Ed. in Organizational Teaching and Learning Environments from Harvard University, as well as post-graduate certificates in Organizational Development, Leadership and Management, Nonprofit Administration, Human Resource Management, and Professional Coaching. Dave is a Lifetime Member of NAAEE and a past recipient of the organization’s President’s Award. He, his wife Amy, and their Black Lab Grendel, live in a 19th-century farmhouse on the coast of Downeast Maine.

Adrian has enjoyed a lifelong career in environmental education. Starting out as a park ranger, he has since served as Statewide Director of Education at Massachusetts Audubon, Director of Operations at the Center for Whole Communities, in Vermont, and as NAAEE's Senior Director for Technology Programs. As the founder of eeMatters, an environmental education and interpretive planning consulting group, Adrian led professional and community-based teams that developed strategic plans, master interpretive plans, exhibits, and technology-based communication tools for clients as varied as NAAEE, Maine Audubon, Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Trustees of Reservations, Monadnock Media, Old Sturbridge Village, and New York Botanical Gardens.

Aaryan Doshi created Cirfin.org to bring awareness about circular economy and how fintech solutions can be leveraged to create incentives to facilitate a transition from linear economy to circular economy.

Micah Borkan is a senior in the Environmental Studies program at CU Boulder. He is a co-chair of the Environmental Board, a joint-board of CUSG working closely with the Environmental Center to promote the advancement of impactful student-led sustainability initiatives, policy, and projects on campus. Micah has also served on the Climate Action Plan (CAP) steering committee as the undergraduate student representative, and the Chancellor's University Sustainability Council alongside campus staff, faculty, and students. Originally from the Boston area, Micah came to CU Boulder with the ambition of preparing himself for a career in sustainability and environmental action and, grateful for his own opportunities to participate in this critical juncture of campus climate action, is a strong advocate for ensuring the students that come after him have more opportunities to contribute to advancing sustainability on campus and in the Boulder community. Micah's favorite experiences at CU have been conducting stakeholder engagement during the CAP process, working with students and staff to implement innovate sustainability projects on campus through the Environmental Board's Sustainable CU grant fund, and attending many of the amazing events put on by the Environmental Center and its campus partners. Micah has also served as an intern for a garden-based EE organization in Boulder called Garden to Table, a non-profit partner of Boulder Public Schools. Working with students from 1st to 5th grade, he helped lead lessons and provide garden education imbedded in the Boulder Public Schools' curriculum.

Program Manager at Earth Force

I am the Director of America Adapts Media and host of America Adapts – The Climate Change Podcast. I previously worked on climate adaptation issues with the National Park Service, FL Fish and Wildlife Commission and in Queensland Australia. I'm dedicated to highlighting the issue of adaptation.