Our Team

Staff

Chris Allan

Chris Allan is a consultant on international environmental and development programming and fundraising. He has twenty five years experience in community development and environmental protection with the Environmental Health Fund, Global Greengrants Fund, Catholic Relief Services and the US Peace Corps. Ten of those years were in East and Southern Africa, and the remainder in the United States. He has a Masters Degree in Social Change and Development from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, and a Bachelors Degree in Biology and African Studies from Wesleyan University in Connecticut.

Cari Ladd

Cari Ladd, M.Ed., is our curriculum writer. She specializes in developing curricula that taps the strengths of media to engage students in meaningful learning experiences. She has produced educator materials for Bill Moyers, P.O.V., FRONTLINE, FRONTLINE/World, and others. Previously, she served as PBS Interactive’s Director of Education, overseeing the development of curricular resources tied to PBS programs, the PBS TeacherSource Web site (now PBS Teachers), and online teacher professional development services. She has also taught in Maryland and Northern Virginia.

Colin Beavan

Colin is a former communications consultant for nonprofits turned book writer, blogger, and activist. In 2006, his No Impact Man experiment exploded in the media after being featured in the New York Times, and he has since come to be considered one of the spokespeople for the environmental movement. He writes and administers the provocative environmental blog noimpactman.typepad.com, which has become a meeting point for discussion of environmental issues from a “deep green” perspective. He is an advisor to NYU’s Sustainability Task Force, board member of Transportation Alternatives and advisor to Just Food. He was named one of MSN’s Ten Most Influential Men of 2007, one of Elle Magazine’s 2008 Eco-Illuminators, and his blog was named one of the world’s top 15 environmental websites by Time Magazine.

Stephanie Bleyer

Stephanie Bleyer is the Associate Director of the No Impact Project. Over the last ten years she has crisscrossed the globe working for a wide variety of nonprofit organizations and media outlets. In 2001 Stephanie moved to Kenya for two years to work in a performing arts school for street boys as well as for the International Organization for Migration (IOM). After the 2004 tsunami she moved to Sri Lanka and spent a year managing camps for the internally displaced (with IOM) and received grants from UNICEF, USAID and others to start a nonprofit organization creating arts programs for war and tsunami affected women and children. Her participation in the environmental movement has taken many forms – as a teenage journalist, Stephanie received the National Ernest Hemingway Writing Award for uncovering her city’s bogus recycling program. Since then she has studied organic farming in Italy, bicycled across Cuba on a grant to study sustainable energy, created a documentary for Oxygen about her bicycle trip from Seattle to Washington D.C., managed a silent-auction fundraiser for the National Tribal Environmental Council, produced a 35-city bus tour for the Eat Well Guide to advocate for local family farmers and sustainable agriculture and most recently produced the opening of Mercy Corps’ Action Center to End World Hunger with a week-long festival in Lower Manhattan. Stephanie holds a Masters of Public Administration from NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service.

Advisors

Working Films

Working Films leverages the power of storytelling through documentary film to advance struggles for social, economic, and environmental justice, human and civil rights.

Gillian Caldwell

Gillian Caldwell is the Campaign Director for 1Sky, a new non-partisan national campaign campaign for strong federal action to tackle global climate change and invest in building the clean energy economy of the future. Gillian is also a film maker and an attorney with thirty years of experience advocating for social justice in the United States and around the world.

Graham Hill

Graham Hill is the founder of the sustainability website TreeHugger.com. He currently focuses on building TreeHugger, managing his ceramic greek cup business, and developing sustainable prototypes. Graham’s goal is to help push sustainability into the mainstream.

Tim Kasser

Professor Tim Kasser is the Chair of Psychology at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. He has recently been investigating how materialism and values relate to well-being in various nations around the world, as well as what leads some people to become especially focused on different types of values.

Richard Wise

Richard Wise has spent 16 years as a cultural anthropologist at Agent 16, an independent advertising agency. Agent16 is known for non-traditional marketing, combining cultural insights with leveragable brand assets which leads to “culture branding”.

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