The Steering Committee of SustainUS is responsible for the organization's day-to-day operations. Members commit a minimum of five hours each week to SustainUS and stay in constant communication with one another. We are always working to make the Steering Committee more transparent, effective, and responsive to the full membership. Please email our Chairperson, Erin Kenzie, with questions or comments.

	Chairperson Erin Kenzie has been involved in the Agents of Change program since CSD-13 in 2005 and is a member of the SustainUS delegation to the upcoming UN Climate Negotiations in Bali. Originally from metro Detroit, Erin received a BA in Philosophy and Psychology from Western Michigan University. Two years ago, she moved to a small town in rural Colorado to serve as an AmeriCorps volunteer at a homeless shelter. For the past year, she has worked at a small nonprofit organization in the field of youth violence prevention and mediation. Erin is also passionate about increasing youth participation in the political process, and blogs for several progressive sites in her spare time.
	Secretary and Communications Coordinator While an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment, Yochanan Zakai founded a business partnership called Brewing Hope with farmers in Chiapas, Mexico. Working with students, faculty and businesses to promote the fair trade system, Yochanan 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. After six years as a volunteer organizer, Yochanan was hired by the Sierra Student Coalition, the national student chapter of the Sierra Club, to train and mentor students working for a clean energy future through the Campus Climate Challenge. He joined Co-Op America's Corporate Social Responsibility team as the Fair Trade and Climate Change Programs Coordinator in July 2007.
	Treasurer Kyle Gracey is a Master of Public Policy candidate at the University of Chicago studying Environmental Policy and International Policy. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2006 with degrees in Ecological Economics/Science, Technology, & Society and Biochemistry/Biophysics. At RPI, he was the Treasurer and later President of EcoLogic, the school's environmental organization, as well as a founding member and Vice President for Finance of RPI's chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World. He also studied international environment and development issues at American University in Washington, DC and in Brazil. A Truman Scholar, Kyle spent 14 months working in the Office of the United States Secretary of Transportation as an Environmental Policy Analyst. During that time, he was a Technical Board reviewer for Citizen Science and participated in the Agents of Change delegation to the UN Commission on Social Development 2007. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Student Pugwash USA and is a University of Chicago Representative for Campus Progress.
	National Programs Coordinator Anushka Shenoy is currently studying Economics and Mathematics at Columbia University. Originally from Portland, Oregon, she first got involved with SustainUS as an Agents of Change delegate to CSD-13 in 2005. After serving as Agents of Change Coordinator the following year, Anushka spent the last academic year studying at the London School of Economics.
	Geocluster Coordinator Meg Boyle currently lives and works in Washington, DC. Her professional passions include marine conservation, climate advocacy, and youth leadership and network building. Meg graduated from Bowdoin College in 2005 with a degree in Biology and Environmental Studies. As an undergraduate, she worked in the campus sustainability office and studied marine biology and environmental policy with Denmark's International Study Program in Copenhagen, Denmark. During her time at Bowdoin Meg was also a co-founder of the Climate Campaign, a volunteer- and youth-led coalition of students, local groups, and environmental networks active across nine Northeast states, and of Energy Action Coalition, a national youth climate and energy coalition based in part on the Climate Campaign model. Following her graduation from Bowdoin, Meg served as Director of the Climate Campaign and led a delegation of over 100 youth from the Northeast US to the 2005 UN Climate Negotiations in Montreal. She also participated in the most recent Commission on Sustainable Development as a member of the SustainUS delegation.
	External Relations Coordinator Whit Jones is a recent gradudate of Carleton College in Northfield, MN, where he majored in International Relations and minored 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 worked to make his campus carbon neutral. As a youth delegate at COP-12 in Nairobi and CSD-15, Whit saw how incredible youth involvement can be. Whit will also be an Agents of Change delegate to COP-13 in Bali in December.
	Membership Coordinator Dani 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 Master’s 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. Last summer she worked as an intern for UN-Habitat at UN Headquarters in NYC, and earlier this year she attended CSD-15 as a SustainUS delegate. 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.
	High School Outreach Coordinator Julia Wong is a high school student from Houston, Texas. Her interest in sustainability began when she studied the effects of land reclamation on Hong Kong's marine ecosystem. To better understand global policies and initiatives, Julia founded the Model UN - International Affairs Council at her school where the issue of development often sparks lively discussions. Volunteering for Red Cross has given Julia the opportunity to contribute to the Measles Initiative, and she is currently collaborating with youth from around the US on a national fundraising and awareness campaign to eradicate measles and malaria. Julia is thrilled to engage more high school students in SustainUS's national programs and geoclusters.