Isabelle Anguelovski
Isabelle is originally from France and completed
her undergraduate studies in Political Science in
Science Po, Lille, France and her Master’s Degree in
International Development/Latin American studies
at the Sorbonne University, Paris. She came to Boston
in 2001 to work for Oxfam America and, later, started
a small NGO, Chacha Warmi, dedicated to help indigenous
people defend their rights in South America.
She also worked for two years at the Harvard School
of Public Health on Diversity and health disparities
issues, with a focus on environmental justice. For her
PhD at MIT, she is planning to focus on sustainable
development of indigenous communities affected by
oil and mining in South America.
Kathleen Araújo
Kathleen Araujo is specializing in energy, natural resource management and
associated technologies in the context of national planning. She has served in
management roles within the global banking and non-profit sectors and has
evaluated development aspects of the extractive industries for the United
Nations Global Compact and international energy consultants. Her prior research
focused upon energy and sustainability issues in transitioning economies, such
as those in Latin America. Currently, she is evaluating cross-country
frameworks, which enable the development and diffusion of renewable energy.
Catherine Ashcraft
Catherine Ashcraft grew up in New York City and Munich, Germany. She received her Master of Environmental Science from the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. She is currently interning at the Consensus Building Institute and is associated with the Processes of International Negotiations Project at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria. She plans to undertake a prescriptive analysis of negotiations for use in fostering cooperation in international watersheds in her dissertation research.
Michele Ferenz
Michele Ferenz graduated from Brown University
with a B.A. in Political Science and holds a Masters
in Public Policy from Harvard. She is completing her
doctoral studies at MIT in economic development
and natural resource management. Michele is a Senior
Associate at the Consensus Building Institute where
she is managing a number of projects in Israel and
the Palestinian Territories. She is an advisor to the
Joint Environmental Mediation Service (JEMS), a
Jerusalem-based center for training and intervention
in environmental disputes in Israeli and Palestinian
communities.
Rachel Healy
Rachel Healy’s fields of study are environmental policy and resource management. She earned her Master’s degree in Urban Planning from Columbia University in 1997, concentrating in international development and infrastructure. Rachel has spent the past decade working on a variety of national and international projects including: tenancy and service planning for squatter settlements; redevelopment planning for contaminated industrial and military facilities; environmental impact analysis; and public transportation management. While at MIT, she has been a part of JoAnn Carmin’s research team investigating the role of civil society actors in environmental policy, planning, and sustainable development initiatives in Central and Eastern Europe. Rachel has also worked with the United Nations Refugee Agency in its efforts to produce a model case of sustainable refugee camp closure practices in Southwest Ethiopia. This work was funded through from the Program on Human Rights and Justice and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning/Pubic Service Center.
Beaudry Kock
Beaudry has an MSci in Environmental Geology from
Imperial College London, with a focus on the science
and policy of water resources management. He has
since worked around the world in exploration and
remediation geology. At MIT he plans to research
multi-agent modeling and collaborative water resource
planning.
Tijs van Maasakkers
Tijs has an MSc in Political Science from the University of Amsterdam, with a focus on conflict resolution and collaborative processes. He has worked with the University of Amsterdam and the city of Amsterdam to set up the Amsterdam Center for Conflict Studies and interned at the Consensus Building Institute and the Office of US Senator Dianne Feinstein. Currently, Tijs is working with the Bureau of Reclamation on water management issues and stakeholder participation in the Columbia River Project. He is also collaborating with TNO, a Dutch research organization, to do research into stakeholder participation and the implementation of the European Union’s Water Framework Directive in watersheds in the Netherlands.
Nancy Odeh
Nancy received a Bachelors of Science in Physical Geography from McGill University and then went on to complete a Masters of Science in Environmental Management from The University of Oxford. Since graduating, she has worked with the Climate Change Bureau at Environment Canada and, most recently, as a Research Associate with the Stockholm Environment Institute- Boston Center (SEI-B). While at SEI-B, Nancy coordinated a civil society and sustainable development initiative and worked on various environment-related capacity building projects. As a doctoral student, Nancy plans to research environmental governance with a focus on Arab states. Nancy Odeh is a Canadian citizen of Palestinian origin.
Abby Spinak
Abby studied Aeronautical and Astronautical
Engineering at MIT as an undergraduate, then
attended the University of Chicago to complete a
Master’s degree in Anthropology. While finishing her
Master’s thesis on the effects of tourism and fishing
regulations on Tangier Island, VA, Abby returned
to MIT to work on a research project within the
Department of Anthropology, where she studied the
interactions between scientific research laboratories
and environmental, health, and safety regulations.
As a DUSP PhD student, Abby plans to examine
the relationship between environmental protection
and the preservation of local cultures, with the aim
of helping develop solutions for communities where
the two goals seem to be in conflict. Abby would
like to use her engineering background as well by
working with existing and emergent technologies as
additional tools that may aid in designing sustainable
cultural and environmental practices.
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