Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education
Board of Advisors
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Mary Evelyn Tucker Tucker is the author of Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase (Open Court Press, 2003), Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism (SUNY, 1989) and The Philosophy of Qi (Columbia University Press, 2007). She also edited two volumes on Confucian Spirituality (Crossroad 2003, 2004) with Tu Weiming and the Religions of the World and Ecology series (Harvard 1997-2004) with John Grim.
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David W. Orr David W. Orr is the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics, Special Assistant to the President of Oberlin College, and a James Marsh Professor at the University of Vermont. His career as a scholar, teacher, writer, speaker, and entrepreneur spans fields as diverse as environment and politics, environmental education, campus greening, green building, ecological design, and climate change.
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Lawrence J. Amon Larry is currently the Chief Financial Officer of Ocean Conservancy, a nonprofit organization working to promote healthy and diverse ocean ecosystems. Larry was a strategic financial management consultant prior to joining the Ocean Conservancy in 2007, helping organizations design their budgeting and financial reporting processes to achieve organizational goals.
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Armand Ball Armand Ball, a native of Louisiana, currently consults with children’s camps nationally and internationally. His professional experience relates to administering camps for church groups and the YMCA in Florida, Tennessee and Minnesota, and as CEO of the American Camp Association for 13 years.
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Richard M. Clugston Rick Clugston is Project Coordinator of the Earth Charter Scholarship Project. Dr. Clugston served on the the Earth Charter International Steering Committee where he chaired the fundraising committee. Clugston also serves as publisher and editor of Earth Ethics.
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Jack Crocker Jack Crocker came from the University of South Florida in Tampa to Florida Gulf Coast University in 1995 as founding dean of the college of arts and sciences. He has served twice as interim provost and is currently Special Assistant to the President and Dean of Graduate Studies and Continual Learning.
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Alison Hawthorne Deming A direct descendant of the great American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, poet and essayist Alison Hawthorne Deming is Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Arizona. She is the author of four poetry collections, Science and Other Poems (1994), selected by Gerald Stern for the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, The Monarchs: A Poem Sequence (1997), Genius Loci (2005), and Rope (2009).
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Marci Greene Dr. Marci Greene is Dean of the College of Education at Florida Gulf Coast University. She began her work at FGCU as Assistant Professor and leader of the graduate program for Special Education in 1997. Dr. Greene has authored more than thirty published scholarly articles and documents, conducted more than one hundred professional presentations, and received major research grants.
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Maxine Greene Maxine Greene has been at the forefront of educational philosophy for well over half a century as a teacher, lecturer, and author. She is the Founder and Director of the Center for Social Imagination, the Arts, and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University where she has been on the faculty since 1965 and is now Professor Emeritus. In 1984, she was elected to the National Academy of Education and has received Educator of the Year Awards from Columbia University and Ohio State University.
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Donna Price Henry Donna Price Henry is Dean for the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Biology at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU). Henry completed her undergraduate work at the University of Pennsylvania, earning her B.A. in Biological Basis of Behavior in 1982, and her graduate work at Thomas Jefferson University earning her Ph.D. in Physiology in 1987. She was Chairman of the Department of Physical Sciences and Mathematics, and Assistant Professor of Biology at Saint Thomas University in Miami, Florida, for six years before joining FGCU.
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Collette M. Hopkins Collette Hopkins is a strong advocate for the rights of children, especially to the right to learn in a variety of environments with an assortment of teaching materials. She has designed curricular materials, conducted workshops, and organized educational tours to Africa and countries of the African Diaspora to provide teachers with new resources and to broaden their educational experience.
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Louise M. Johnson Louise Johnson, of Sanibel Island , Florida , is a long-time nature lover, environmental activist, and public servant. A former Mayor of the City of Sanibel (1985-1986), Dr. Johnson has served as Sanibel City Councilor, as well as several terms, for a total of twelve years, on the City of Sanibel Planning Commission. Dr. Johnson holds degrees from Syracuse University, including a B.A. in English and Education, a Master’s degree in Library Science, and a Doctorate of Arts. She has completed studies at Ohio State University and Bread Loaf School of English.
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June LaCombe June LaCombe is a sculpture curator exploring through exhibitions the dialog between art and the land. Her exhibitions have included The Heart of Matter, Touchstones: Sculpture Participating with Place, Sculpture for this Animate Earth, and Where Nature and Culture Meet.
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Jacob Scott After moving from the UK to Florida as a college student, Jake became one of the first teaching assistants to Florida Gulf Coast University 's ground breaking Colloquium course. This course was the first environmental course required of all students graduating from a public university in the United States.
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Joe Shepard Dr. Joe Shepard has provided executive leadership since 2003 as the Vice President for Administrative Services and Finance for Florida Gulf Coast University. As Chief Financial Officer of the University, he oversees more than twenty departments and has taken an active role in sustainable development, most recently with the planning and building of a solar energy field on campus. He also serves as the Assistant Treasurer to the University Foundation.
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Erik Thijs Wedershoven
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Terry Tempest Williams The work of celebrated nature writer and activist Terry Tempest Williams has been widely anthologized, having appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Outside, Audubon, Orion, The Iowa Review, and The New England Review, among other national and international publications. Williams is perhaps best known for her book, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (Pantheon, 1991), now regarded as a classic in American Nature Writing. |
