GSCQ Editorial Board

William S. Bradley, Ph.D., AIA

William S. Bradley, Ph.D., AIA

Stantec Architecture

Bill Bradley Ph.D., AIA is a licensed architect, LEED accredited professional, and A4LE accredited learning environments planner. He lives and works in Charlottesville, Virginia where he is an associate at Stantec Architecture. For the last 30 years, Bill has been exploring opportunities at the intersection of education and design. He started his career teaching and doing research at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, where he played a role in shaping the direction of the Thomas Jefferson Center for Educational Design. From there, he transitioned into private practice as an architect and has worked with school districts around the country to envision ways to leverage architecture as a more effective medium for enhancing teaching and learning. Bill is a member of the American Institute of Architects’ Committee on Architecture for Education and is the Chair-elect of the Association for Learning Environments.  

Jill Buck, M.S. Ed.

Jill Buck, M.S. Ed.

Go Green Initiative

In 2002, Jill founded the Go Green Initiative, a 501©3 that is the global leader in environmental education, operating in all 50 U.S. states, 73 countries, and on 5 continents. In 2004, Jill established Buck Consulting, which helps businesses “go green”, and achieve profitability through sustainability. Jill is the host of “Go Green Radio,” a weekly program on the U.S.’s largest internet talk radio station, www.VoiceAmerica.com, and is co-author of the book, 47 Things You Can Do For The Environment. Jill Buck is an alumna of the University of Illinois, and after graduation, was commissioned a Naval Officer.
Jaimie P. Cloud

Jaimie P. Cloud

The Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education

Jaimie P. Cloud is the founder and president of The Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education in New York City. The Cloud Institute is dedicated to the vital role of education in creating awareness, fostering commitment, and guiding actions toward a healthy, secure and sustainable future for ourselves and for future generations. We monitor the evolving thinking and skills of the most important champions of sustainability, and transform them into educational materials and a pedagogical system that inspire young people to think about the world, their relationship to it, and their ability to influence it in an entirely new way.

 

Laura Cole, Ph.D.

Laura Cole, Ph.D.

University of Missouri at Columbia

Laura Cole, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Architectural Studies at the University of Missouri at Columbia where she teaches undergraduate studios, design business practices, and sustainable design. Before completing her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, Laura worked as a professional interior designer for the architectural firm Perkins+Will (P+W). As a project designer and associate in the P+W Chicago office, she worked on numerous LEED commercial interiors projects. Her current research focuses on the social dimensions of green buildings, particularly on how sustainable design can be environmentally educational for the public. She examines buildings designed as “teaching tools” for environmental sustainability, asking how such buildings can be stages for formal and informal STEM education.

Sharon Danks

Sharon Danks

Green Schoolyards America

Environmental city planner, Sharon Danks, MLA-MCP, is founder and director of Green Schoolyards America. Since 1999, Sharon’s professional work and passion have focused on transforming school grounds into vibrant public spaces that reflect and enhance local ecology, nurture children as they learn and play, and engage the community. Her current work focuses on scaling up the living schoolyard movement and integrating school ground use, design and management with green urban infrastructure planning. An experienced leader in the green schoolyard field, Sharon has facilitated green schoolyard master planning processes for more than three-dozen schools and has shaped school districts’ approaches to schoolyard greening. She is the author of the book Asphalt to Ecosystems and an experienced public speaker. Prior to starting Green Schoolyards America, Sharon co-founded the International School Grounds Alliance and the design firm, Bay Tree Design.
Anisa Heming, LEED AP

Anisa Heming, LEED AP

Center for Green Schools at USGBC

Anisa Heming is director of the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council. In 2014, she was named one of the Most Powerful Women in Sustainability by Green Building and Design Magazine. With a background in architecture, she began her work with USGBC in New Orleans, hired to assist with rebuilding the schools after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. After moving to Washington, DC, she launched the Green Schools Fellowship Program, which places and trains sustainability directors in school districts. As director of the Center for Green Schools, Anisa provides strategic direction to USGBC’s work in schools and coordinates an organization-wide team to promote environmental sustainability, health and wellness, and sustainability literacy in school systems around the world. She is a Little Rock native and holds a B.S. in Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.Arch. from the University of Washington in Seattle.

 

Lisa A. W. Kensler, Ed.D.

Lisa A. W. Kensler, Ed.D.

Auburn University

Lisa A. W. Kensler is an associate professor of educational leadership in the College of Education at Auburn University. Her original training as an ecologist continues to shape her research interests. Lisa’s current research is focused on green schools and the leadership and learning required for transforming schools into more socially just, ecologically healthy, and economically viable communities that engage intentionally with the global sustainability movement. She has published peer-reviewed articles and book chapters related to democratic community, trust, teacher leadership and whole school sustainability. She and Cynthia Uline have co-authored, Leadership for Green Schools: Sustainability for Our Children, Our Communities, and Our Planet.

 

Wyck Knox, AIA, LEED BD+C

Wyck Knox, AIA, LEED BD+C

VMDO Architects

Wyck is a partner in the architectural design firm VMDO Architects, which specializes in high performance building designs for K-12 and higher education clients.   He had led the design teams for many of VMDO’s most highly acclaimed K-12 projects – most recently, Discovery Elementary in Arlington, Virginia, the largest net-zero-energy school in the United States.  VMDO’s work is consistently recognized by national educational and environmental organizations and the USGBC’s Center for Green Schools routinely identifies VMDO projects as exemplary examples of schools that effectively use the “building-as-a-teaching tool’ concept to promote stewardship, wellness and engagement.  Wyck is the father of two elementary school children and lives and works in Charlottesville, Virginia.

 

Elisabeth Krautscheid

Elisabeth Krautscheid

Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS)

Elisabeth Krautscheid is Managing Director for CHPS and a Certified Energy Manager with more than 25 years of professional experience in environmental policy implementation, program management, and community activism. Prior to joining CHPS, Elisabeth directed the Green Schools Initiative (MA-CHPS program) for the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. During her tenure, she oversaw completion of the 2009 update to the MA-CHPS criteria and the Post-Occupancy Study of the first round of schools built under MA-CHPS. Elisabeth specializes in environmental justice and healthy communities, skills she honed while working with the Massachusetts Department of Community Development, where she spearheaded adoption of a green building policy for housing development and was part of an inter-agency team focused on sustainable development. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Michigan State University and an M.A. in Energy & Environmental Studies from Boston University.

Gerald A. Lieberman, Ph.D.

Gerald A. Lieberman, Ph.D.

State Educaion and Environment Roundtable

An internationally-recognized authority on school improvement using natural and community surroundings as interdisciplinary contexts. In 1995, Dr. Lieberman founded and has since directed the State Education and Environment Roundtable (SEER). In 1997, he led the development of the EIC Model, an innovative educational strategy. From 2003 to 2010, Dr. Lieberman served as the principal consultant for the State of California’s Education and the Environment Initiative (EEI). He serves of the California State Superintendent’s Environmental Literacy Steering Committee, and has been a major contributor to both California’s new Science and History-Social Sciences Curriculum Frameworks. Dr. Lieberman received his PhD and MA from Princeton University and his BA from UCLA. Previously he served on the executive committee of the National Education and Environment Partnership, operated by the National Environmental Education Foundation, and is a past chair of the Commission on Education and Communication of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

 

Cynthia Merse

Cynthia Merse

Green Schools National Network

Cynthia (Cyndy) Merse is is Director of Communications for Green Schools National Network (GSNN), managing the organization’s publications and editorial content. She is also owner of MerseCreative, a freelance writing and consulting business based in Knoxville, TN. Prior to joining GSNN and starting her own business, Cyndy worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency where she gained experience in research, data analysis, communications and outreach, and program development. She worked on several high-level, national scale projects that concerned children’s environmental health and healthy school environments including the Schools Chemical Cleanout Campaign, a voluntary program that promoted responsible chemical management in K-12 schools, and developing a set of guidelines and a model program for state school environmental health programs. Cyndy obtained her Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering from Vanderbilt University and a Masters Degree in Environmental Policy and Planning from Ohio University. 

 

Angelia Reid-Griffin

Angelia Reid-Griffin

University of North Carolina Wilmington

Angelia Reid-Griffin is an Associate Professor of Science Education at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNC – Wilmington). Angelia’s research involves providing youth opportunities to engage in authentic learning experiences through mentorship. She currently serves as the coordinator and instructor of an afterschool STEM program at UNC – Wilmington, Junior Seahawk Academy. Through this program Angelia uses interdisciplinary curriculum to teach youth to become good stewards of their environment by emphasizing sustainability and recycling/upcycling materials for service-learning. Her research also involves best practices in using technologies in teaching STEM, recruiting minorities in STEM, and teacher retention.

Bill Sterrett

Bill Sterrett

University of North Carolina Wilmington

Dr. Sterrett is a former award-winning principal who now serves as a faculty member and program coordinator in the educational leadership department at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.  His research includes principal preparation and support, teacher leadership, and school improvement.  His recent green schools research has been published in journals such as the Kappa Delta Pi Record, Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, and the Journal of Sustainability Education.  He is the author of three ASCD books, including Insights into Action: Successful School Leaders Share What Works.  He holds a B.S. from Asbury College (KY) and his M.Ed. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.
David Sobel, M.Ed.

David Sobel, M.Ed.

David Sobel is a Professor Emeritus in the Education Department at Antioch University New England in Keene, New Hampshire. He consults and speaks widely on child development, place-based education, and nature-based early childhood education. He has authored eight books and more than 70 articles focused on children and nature for educators, parents, environmentalists, and school administrators. In 2007, he was identified as one of the Daring Dozen educators in the United States by Edutopia magazine. He is a member of the Children and Nature Network Advisory Board and the Nature-based Learning Research Group.

 

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