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The Board of Directors of SustainUS is a group of SustainUS alumni, leaders in the field of sustainable development, our allies, and key members of the Steering Committee that assume legal responsibility for the organization and advise the Steering Committee on organizational, financial, and management issues.
For more information on the Board of Directors, contact Yochanan Zakai, our Secretary and liaison to the Board.
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Jason K. Babbie
is the Membership Services Program Director for the Environmental Grantmakers Association. He holds an A.M. in Environmental Policy from Brown University and a B.S. in Environmental Science from the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry. In addition to SustainUS's Board of Directors, Mr. Babbie serves on the Board of Reviewers for the Queens Clean Air Project, is Chair of the Board of Trustees for Kids Against Pollution, and was a member of NYPIRG's Board of Directors.
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Julie Larsen is a graduate of international development studies and has contributed to projects related to sustainable housing in Mexico, gender equality in India and agro-forestry in Thailand. Originially from Montr?al, she currently works with the United Nations Programme on Youth, which aims to build an awareness of the global situation of young people, as well as promote their rights and aspirations. She believes strongly that greater participation of young people in decision-making will lead to more equitable development Through her work alongside young people in the preparations for the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002, she heard the first rumblings of SustainUS and is pleased to now serve the organization as a member of its Board.
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Brennan Van Dyke is the Director of the Regional Office for North America of the United Nations Environment Programme.
Ms. Van Dyke comes to UNEP from the office of United States Senator, Carl Levin, where she served as Legislative Assistant. Prior to that, Ms. Van Dyke was Director of the Trade and Investment Program of Center for International Environmental Law and worked for the New York law firm, Hughes Hubbard and Reed and as Issues Director of a gubernatorial campaign.
She also taught as an adjunct professor of law at the American University's Washington College of Law and has published numerous articles, primarily addressing the environmental impacts of international trade and investment rules.
Ms. Van Dyke is a graduate of Yale Law School and has a degree in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Lockey White started sustainable development advocacy in 1990 as a teenager organizing Earth Day and Earth Week celebrations in India and California. A Morris K. Udall Scholar, she graduate summa cum laude from Humboldt State University with a degree in Natural Resources Management Policy and a minor in International Relations. She completed her law degree and a Certificate in Environmental and Natural Resources Law at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. While in law school she worked as an environmental Law Clerk for Davis Wright Tremaine LLP and later as a Law Clerk for the International Environmental Law Project, which led her to attend the International Whaling Commission meetings in London as an assistant to one of the United Kingdom's delegates. Lockey is currently a member of the Club of Rome's young think tank program (the tt30 program), an interdisciplinary global sustainable development think tank. Most recently she works at the legal counsel's office at the State of Nevada, Department of Business and Industry. She has lived abroad in India, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, Germany and Holland and currently spends her free time with her German husband and beautiful new baby daughter.
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Kristen Hite works with the
international program of Environmental Defense Fund. She previously
worked for the US Army Corps of Engineers in New Orleans while
moonlighting as a piano player in the French Quarter. A founding
member of SustainUS, she has been a spokesperson for international
youth during UN negotiations and chaired the peace working group. While
in law school, Kristen was an editor of the Georgetown International
Environmental Law Review and an active member of the SustainUS-DC
geocluster. She is a graduate of Wofford College (B.S. biology, B.A.
Spanish) and the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador (M.S.
gestión ambiental/environmental management). She hails from southern
Appalachia and loves bluegrass music and the mountains.
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