Lindsay Baker is a first year student at College of the Atlantic in Maine, currently focusing on green and socially responsible businesses, in addition to economic theory and practice. She has been extremely involved in SustainUS and currently serving as a co-coordinator for SustainUS Maine, which has fostered awareness for issues concerning sustainability on local, national, and global levels. In addition to working with COA on reducing carbon emissions in order to become a net-zero campus, she is currently helping set up a food co-operative for the local area, in an effort to both reduce food mileage and aid local Maine farmers.

Meg Boyle is an organizer with Earth Day Network. Previously, she was a co-founder/Executive Director of the Climate Campaign, a co-founder/steerer of the Energy Action Coalition, and a graduate of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Some of Meg's happiest "movement moments" have been helping to coordinate the US youth delegation at the 2005 UN Climate Negotiations in Montreal, organizing student climate summits of all shapes and sizes, and plotting with fellow Udall Scholars. Among other things, Meg thrives on trading banter with friends, camping on docks under the stars, games of "mafia" and "psychiatrist," traveling to new places, and envisioning a clean energy future.

Paul Ferris is currently an undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, completing a major in history and minors in political economy and philosophy. Previously, he also studied at the University of Sydney in Australia. Paul's interest in sustainable development was awakened while living and studying in Thailand during 2004, observing the connections between human rights, labor rights and environmental sustainability first-hand. Throughout his time at university, Paul has been involved in numerous student-led sustainability initiatives, including a campaign to convert the University of Sydney to renewable energy. A budding organic gardener and do-it-yourself enthusiast, he looks forward to taking the insights gained at CSD-15 back to the various grassroots organizations and campaigns he is a part of.

Ruthie Gould is currently pursuing an MA in Architecture at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln and anticipates graduation in May of 2008. She received a BA in the Science of Design in August of 2006. Her main interests regard the built environment, in particular reexamining the ways in which many American cities are designed. Currently, her thesis work involves determining what essentials such as adequate public transportation and a well distributed business market are currently lost in cities, and in turn forcing Americans to choose unhealthy lifestyles which have direct effects on themselves as well as on the ecological environment.

Jess Grainger is originally from California, and is currently getting a Masters in Education at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City. He has been interested in environmental issues since high school, and in college, and has been involved in many different forms of political activism over the years, including youth voter registration leading up to the 2004 election. He got involved with SustainUS through the GeoCluster in Boston last year, and was able to attend the Northeastern Climate Conference in Connecticut last spring. He is particularly interested in combining human needs and environmental concern, and would look to see environmental education become a more significant part of nationwide public education. He is incredibly excited to be an Agent of Change!

Amanda Hass is a high school senior at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, Maryland and will be attending New York University this fall. Amanda is currently vice president of Montgomery County Student Environmental Activists, a local environmental group that recently increased their county's purchase of clean energy. She interns with the Sierra Student Coalition, volunteers with the Chesapeake Climate Action Network and tutors students after school. Amanda takes a leadership role in her Model UN class and hopes to combine the topics of international relations and environmental activism as a job after college.

Caitlin Hedberg is the founder and director of the Sustainable Enterprise Program at Micro Business Development Corporation in Denver, CO. The program works with community entrepreneurs, their communities, and government agencies to promote economic development that creates profits for businesses, communities, and the environment. Prior to her work in microenterprise, Caitlin ran a translating company for 2 years (Spanish/English) and continues to work extensively with Hispanic immigrants on economic development and issues of democracy. Caitlin holds a BA from the University of Colorado at Denver in political science and a translators certificate from the University of Salamanca in Spain.

Whit Jones is a senior at Carleton College in Northfield, MN. He will graduate in June 2007 with a major in International Relations and concentrations in Political Economy and Environmental Studies. Whit has been studying the role of the developing world in international climate change policy, and he has done internships on this subject with the World Conservation Union (IUCN) in Switzerland and The Energy & Resources Institute (TERI) in India. As the co-chair of Carleton’s Environmental Advisory Committee, he is working to make his campus carbon neutral. At the twelfth Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC in Nairobi, Whit saw how incredible youth involvement can be, so he is incredibly excited about working with everyone at CSD15 as a delegation leader.

After obtaining a BA in Philosophy and Psychology from Western Michigan University, Erin Kenzie moved to rural Colorado to serve as an Americorps volunteer at a homeless shelter. She fell in love with the mountains and now does youth violence prevention and mediation at a small nonprofit in the same small town. Erin became active in SustainUS as a delegate to CSD-13, and now coordinates the Agents of Change program. In her spare time, she is involved in legislative advocacy for rural homelessness, blogs at Barack the Youth Vote, and tries to avoid taking the beauty of Colorado for granted.

Stephanie Kwan received her B.S. in Environmental Studies and Political Science in December 2004 from Emory University. During her time at Emory, Stephanie worked for a grassroots environmental group, an environmental consulting firm, and a government environmental agency. In August 2005, Stephanie began her M.S. in Environmental Engineering with a focus on Air Quality Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research focused on the effects of air pollutant emission sources and meteorology on air quality in Shanghai, China, as well as on the implications for local and multi-jurisdictional air quality management in Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta region. Following receipt of her M.S. in December 2006, Stephanie began working at Trinity Consultants. Stephanie aspires to pursue a career in international environmental policy, focusing on the development and implementation of environmental policy frameworks and governance programs concerning air pollution issues on local, regional, and global scales.

Julia Lurie is currently a senior in high school in Minneapolis, Minnesota and plans to attend Yale College in the fall. She first become involved in environmental activism when she interned at Fresh Energy, a non-profit organization that lobbies for renewable energy-related legislation within Minnesota. Since then, Julia has worked extensively with arctic explorer Will Steger to create a presentation about his experiences with global warming. She recently participated in Al Gore¿s Climate Project training sessions, where she was taught by Al Gore to give the presentation in An Inconvenient Truth. Julia is now focusing on promoting awareness among teens about global warming, presenting information about climate change to middle and high school students in the Twin Cities.

Bob Ma was born in Beijing, China and grew up in Singapore and Calgary, Canada. He is a freshman at NYU majoring in Finance, Sociology and Psychology. He has a passion in social entrepreneurship, especially in social justice. In high school, he founded the Amnesty International Club, the Political Science Club, and the Youth in Political Science Organization. The YPS became the voice of Calgarian high school students in the city's imagineCALGARY project, which developed long-term targets for urban sustainability. At NYU, Bob founded Solacetics, a collegiate socio-political action network, with a grant from mtvU. He currently serves on two student councils and conducts research in corporate social responsibility and cosmology.

Dominic MacCormack graduated in 2006 from the University of California, Davis with a degree in Environmental Policy and Planning. At Davis, Dominic served on various committees dedicated to educating students about environmental and political issues on campus and across the country. While participating in SustainUS's Agents of Change program last spring for the first time, he realized how diligent we all must be in order to get sustainability issues and social responsibility into the mainstream - and he has no plan on giving up. Dominic has since returned to his native San Francisco and works as an environmental educator for Save the Bay, a non-profit dedicated to protecting, restoring, and educating the public about San Francisco Bay. In addition to playing trumpet in his spare time, Dominic is currently one of two policy coordinators for SustainUS, and is thrilled to be able to participate in the CSD process again this year.

Danielle Maniscalco received a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a minor in Spanish from Villanova University in 2005. She is currently finishing thesis work to complete a Masters of Science in Technology and Policy from MIT in Cambridge, MA. While at Villanova, she studied abroad in Spain and served on mission trips to Latin America to work with Los Ninos and Trinity Missions in San Juan, Costa Rica. She also lead a group of peers to Cape Town, South Africa to work with Habitat for Humanity in one of the townships. This past summer she worked as an intern for UN-Habitat at UN Headquarters in NYC. She is very interested and dedicated to sustainable development, particularly with regards to energy, and looks forward to helping further international collaboration and implementation to this end.

Mike McConnell is completing his MS in Economics from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA in May and will be begin working at the Economic Research Service within the United States Department of Agriculture later this summer. He received his BA in Economics and History from Lehigh as well. He has had work experience in the US Senate and John Hancock Financial, as well as research experience at Lehigh and NUI-Galway in Ireland.

Neha Mukhi is a graduate student in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard University. She is an Environmental Engineer from University of Delhi, India. She has researched in the field of indoor air quality in low-income housings in India. She has also worked with TERI (India) on climate change policies especially market mechanisms like Kyoto Protocol and opportunities like the Clean Development Mechanism for developing countries. As a part of her thesis for her engineering studies, she worked on economic analysis for air pollution control technologies in coal-fired power plants - looking at public health benefits from reduced air pollution. Currently her research entails developing quantitative measures for environmental equity to determine spatial hetrogeneity in outdoor and indoor air pollution in low income urban neighborhoods due to vehicular emissions.

Miranda Newberry is currently a graduate student in the Environmental Engineering and Earth Science program at the University of Texas in Arlington. Her research interests include modeling nutrient cycling and how to utilize the biochemistry of microbes to generate energy and water, clean up contamination and produce sustainable products. She has won numerous leadership as well as scientific awards and looks forward to one day being able to influence science policy. She became involved with SustainUS in 2006 through the Citizen Science competition and attended last year's CSD as a presenter.

Mike Norelli got his start in SustainUS as one of the Citizen Science Paper Competition winners in 2005. His paper discussed the use of decentralized energy generation in rural areas of developing countries, which he had the opportunity to present at the United Nations during CSD-13. Shortly after the Citizen Science presentation, he graduated from Lehigh University with a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering. Currently Mike is employed by Ingersoll Rand Company, designing decentralized energy generation units that run on alternative fuels. Mike also spends time giving climate change presentations as part of The Climate Project, founded by Al Gore. Mike will serve as a delegation leader at CSD.

Lauren Nutter studies at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine and is an active member of SustainUS Maine. She is also a member of a communication and PR committee for College of the Atlantic carbon neutral initiative. She is also a leadership trainer for a non-profit, the Student Leadership Training Program. Through SLTP she has spent the past several summers teaching leadership skills to high school students throughout the New England area, tackling issues of bullying, abusive relationships, and issues of hate that students deal with everyday. Lauren was an Agents of Change delegate at the Commission for Social Development earlier this year, and will be returning to the UN as a delegation leader for CSD.

Carlos Rymer is a sophomore at Cornell University majoring in Environmental Science and concentrating in Sustainable Development. Over the past three years, Carlos has been very involved with environmental research programs and non-govermental organizations, particularly in New Jersey, his state of residence. In high school, he founded the only Environmental Club and led a network of high schools that worked on several environmental issues. He has also led campus sustainability efforts, such as the recent campaign to commit his University to the Presidents Climate Commitment. Recently, Carlos led the New Jersey Climate March, a state-wide effort to ensure passage of ground-breaking legislation to fight climate change in New Jersey, and is now co-leading an Energy Action committee to organize a climate march in Washington, D.C. next Fall. Having founded an organization in the Dominican Republic to promote sustainable development, Carlos is passionate about leading the world into a sustainable and just future.

Originally from Namibia, Helena Shilomboleni is currently pursuing a BA in Human Ecology, with a focus on International Development, at the College of the Atlantic in Maine. She has a strong passion for advocating for sustainable development, particularly for the poor in developing countries through social change. Helena recently completed an internship with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) at the Fiji Multi-country Office. Her job was to analyze and assess the extent of energy and environmental components and gender implications in the ten Pacific countries' National Sustainable Development Strategies. By attending CSD-15, she hopes to gain a broader understanding of how policy frameworks for sustainable development are agreed upon and implemented.

Chloe Stull-Lane, a native of Northern California, now lives in Minnesota where she studies at Saint Olaf College. Next year, she will continue her studies at Lunds Universitet in Sweden as a Masters candidate in International Development and Management in the discipline of Sustainable Natural Resources Management. Her academic studies and internships in California, Minnesota, Namibia, Kenya, Somaliland, and South Africa have focused Chloe's interests around the impact of colonial legacies on development in African countries; the role of development professionals, academics, and volunteers of European descent in international development; and the social and political dynamics of freshwater access, management, and policy. With a passion for activism, Chloe joined SustainUS in January 2005, and, a few months later, founded the Minnesota Geocluster. For the last two years, she has served on the Steering Committee and attended the Commission on Sustainable Development as a Delegation Leader with Agents of Change.

While an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment, Yochi Zakai founded a business partnership called Brewing Hope with farmers in Chiapas, Mexico. Working with students, faculty and businesses interested in promoting the fair trade system, Yochi set up a program that not only sold coffee, but also created a relationships between coffee growers and latte drinkers. Brewing Hope's student delegations visit Mexico to learn about coffee production and meet with indigenous communities while farmers from Chiapas travel to speak at educational events in the Midwest. He turned over the management reins of Brewing Hope to study the connection between biodiversity, economic sustainability and coffee certifications in Central America. Yochi join the staff of the Sierra Student Coalition in December 2005. He now has the privilege of working with Energy Action's talented organizers and the environmental movement's finest students running the campus climate challenge. Yochi is an active member of the SustainUS DC geocluster. He also organized the Youth Caucus' messaging and media at last year's CSD. When not organizing, Yochi enjoys backpacking, bike riding and dancing merengue. Yochi will serve as a delegation leader at CSD-15.