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Summer Institute for Climate Change Education 2021

Welcome to the Summer Institute for Climate Change Education! Hosted in partnership with NOAA’s Climate Office and The Wild Center’s Youth Climate Program.

Featured Speakers

Raven Baxter (she/her)

STEM Educator, Founder and Owner of STEMbassy, Black in Science...

Sydney Asher

Margaretville Central School, NY

Youth Climate Leader

Maryama Warsame

Rosemount High School, MN

Youth Climate Leader

Reyna Day

Indigenous Youth Organizer

Speakers

AnnStrozyk

Howard County Public Schools & Howard County Conservancy

Environmental Educator

Melanie Hoffman

The King's Centre for Visualization in Science

Project Director & Visiting Science Communication Specialist

Nia Keith

Mass Audubon

Statewide Climate Change Education Manager

Adam McCurdy (he/him)

Aspen Center for Environmental Studies

Forest and Climate Director

Akira Yano (he/him)

Climate Generation

YEA! Campaigns Coordinator

Brian Batugo (he/him)

San Diego Unified School District

Ethnic Studies Resource Teacher

Edgar Massingale (he/him)

Beaverton School District and SoS

Science Teacher and Soul of Science Lead

Frank Niepold (he/him)

NOAA’s Climate Program

Climate Education Coordinator

Jason Rodney (he/him)

Climate Generation

Senior Youth Programs Coordinator

John Cook (he/him)

Climate Change Communication Research Hub, Monash University

Post-doctoral Research Fellow

Jose Sotoramos (he/him)

STEM4Real

Director of Programming

Kyle Tschida (he/him)

Rural Renewable Energy Alliance (RREAL)

Program Manager

Matt Scott (he/him)

Project Drawdown

Manager of Storytelling & Engagement

Mike Griffin (he/him)

Community Change

Senior Electoral Organizer

Ricardo Medina (he/him)

San Diego Unified School District

Ethnic Studies Resource Teacher

Robert Blake (he/him)

Native Sun Community Power Development

Executive Director

Robert K Nelson (he/him)

University of Richmond

Director of the Digital Scholarship Lab

Seth Spencer (he/him)

Climate Generation

Teach Climate Network Coordinator

Tim Swinehart (he/him)

Lincoln High School, Portland Public Schools

Teacher

Trevor Cobb (he/him)

Climate Generation: A Will Steger Legacy

Communications Coordinator

Alicia Christensen (she/her)

CIRES

Education & Outreach Associate

Allison Bender (she/her)

Wisconsin Energy Institute, UW–Madison

Outreach Coordinator

Ashley Young (she/her)

Alliance for Climate Education

Education Program Manager

Cathy "Cat" Techtmann (she/her)

University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension

Environmental Outreach Specialist

Denise Fosse (she/her)

Climate Generation: A Will Steger Legacy

Director of Development

Devarati Bhattacharya (she/her)

Central Washington University, Ellensburg

Science Education Specialist

Dr. Christina M. Castro (she/her)

Three Sisters Collective

Elizabeth Bagley (she/her)

Project Drawdown

Director of Drawdown Learn

Erin Girzone (she/her)

Good Health is a Habit Wellness Studio

Founder of the Good Health is a Habit Wellness Studio, Certified Yoga...

Gabi Porter (she/her)

Center for Climate Integrity

Campaigns Director

Gaby Petron (she/her)

NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory & University of Colorado CIRES

Scientist

Jessica Bean (she/her)

University of California, Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology

Understanding Global Change Project Leader

Jothsna Harris (she/her)

Climate Generation

Director of Community Engagement

Julie Marckel (she/her)

Native Sun Community Power Development

Education Director

Karin Kirk (she/her)

Yale Climate Connections

Geologist and Science Journalist

Kat Huybers (she/her)

University of Washington

Lecturer

Kristin Baja (she/her)

USDN

Program Director of Climate Resilience

LaStelshia Speaks (she/her)

Baltimore County Public Schools

Special Educator/Social Emotional Learning Educator

Lauren Boritzke Smith (she/her)

Climate Generation: A Will Steger Legacy

Communications and Marketing Manager

Leena Bakshi (she/her)

STEM4Real

Executive Director

Lin Andrews (she/her)

National Center for Science Education

Director of Teacher Support

Lindsey Kirkland (she/her)

Climate Generation

Climate Change Education Manager

Marianne Krasny (she/her)

Cornell University

Professor

Marie Fargo (she/her)

Climate Generation

Climate Change Instructional Resources Coordinator

Mary Ellen Daneels (she/her)

Illinois Civics Hub

Instructional Specialist

Milan Neeley (she/her)

Minhang Crosspoint High School (California Crosspoint Academy)

Teacher

Nancy Metzger-Carter (she/her)

Schools for Climate Action

Education Leader

Natalie Stapert (she/her)

Lowell School

Teacher, Humanities Coordinator

Ratha Kelly (she/her)

San Diego Unified School District

Ethnic Studies Resource Teacher

Rebecca Noble (she/her)

Climate Generation: A Will Steger Legacy

Senior Development Coordinator

Ruthie Gold (she/her)

Yale Program on Climate Change Communication

Manager of Secondary Education Initiatives

Sabine Peterka (she/her)

Climate Generation

Summer Institute Specialist

Samantha Sencer-Mura (she/her)

826 MSP

Executive Director

Sarah Ott (she/her)

Dalton Middle School

Teacher

Sarah Peters (she/her)

Northern Lights.mn

Executive Director

Sarah Pidgeon (she/her)

Solar One

Co-Director of Programs

Na Choih (they/them)

Climate Generation

Youth Leadership Mentor

Anne Armstrong

Cornell University

PhD Candidate

Katie Boyd

CIRES

Education & Outreach Associate

Becky Bronstein

EarthGen

Program Manager

Cassandra Breeze Ceballos

Climate Interactive

Multisolving Program Coordinator

Thadd Copeland

NYC DOE - Office of Sustainability

Deputy Director of Sustainability

Dominique Diaddigo-Cash

Carrie Ferraro

Coastal Climate Risk & Resilience Initiative,Rutgers University

Associate Director

Amy Frame

Ten Strands

K-12 Program Manager

Sarah Goodspeed

Climate Generation

Senior Youth & Policy Manager

Erin Griffin

The Wild Center

Youth Climate Program Manager

Brittany Gutermuth

Mass Audubon

Arcadia Climate Education Coordinator

Nayiri Haroutunian

EarthGen

Program Director

Autumn Bernhardt (she/her or he/him)

Environmental and Natural Resources Policy Specialization Lead, CU...

Brittany Jayroe

EcoRise

Program Director Eastern US

Sarah Johnson

Wild Rose Education

Watershed Education Specialist

Bethany Jorgensen

Cornell University

PhD Candidate

Justin Kaput

Suffield High School

Environmental Science Teacher

Jen Kretser

Wild Center

Director of Climate Initiatives

Kelley Le

UCI Science Project

Director

Elodie Linck

The Wild Center

Climate Communications Fellow

Meredith Mcdermott

NYC Department of Education

Director of Sustainability

Janice McDonnell

Rutgers University

Educator

Katie Modic

Communitopia

Executive Director

Asomgyee Pamoja

EcoRise

Texas Program Manager

Kristen Poppleton

Climate Generation

Senior Director of Programs

Kate Roney

Claremont McKenna College

Student

Kathryn Semmens

Nurture Nature Center

Science Director

Elise Trelagan

NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office

B-WET Program Coordinator

Dr. Marie Tremblay

Alberta Council for Environmental Education / French

Laura Tyler

Earth Gen

Program Coordinator

LaDale Winling

Virginia Tech

Associate Professor of History