Members

Alissa Cordner is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Whitman College, where she teaches Sociology and Environmental Studies courses. Her research ... Read More

Andrea R. Hindman is a postdoctoral research fellow at Silent Spring Institute and Northeastern University, Boston, MA. She completed her Ph.D ... Read More

Andrew Bergman is a PhD student in Applied Physics at Harvard University, studying self-organization and design of programmable materials using DNA-coated ... Read More

Anya Zilberstein is an Associate Professor in the Department of History, Concordia University, Montreal and author of a book about ... Read More

Aparna Sundar was EDGI’s Organizational Coordinator. She knows Louisa May Alcott was right when she said “housekeeping is no joke.” Organizational ... Read More

Becky Mansfield is a Professor of Geography at the Ohio State University. Her academic focus is on politics of environmental health ... Read More

Brendan O’Brien, Technology Development Coordinator, is a software developer and startup advisor with a focus on social entrepreneurship. He’s currently ... Read More

Britt Paris is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. She is lead author of “Pursuing a ... Read More

Dan Allan is an Associate Computational Scientist at a national laboratory, where he works on open source data acquisition and ... Read More

Dan Phiffer is a software engineer, artist, and educator working on tools that have social impact, and helping others to ... Read More

David Bond teaches on the environment and public action. Trained as an anthropologist, Bond studies oil spills and their imprint ... Read More

Dawn Walker is a PhD student at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. Her research focuses on citizen participation in ... Read More

Devin Balkind is the Executive Director of Sarapis, a nonprofit that helps other nonprofit organizations leverage open source tools and ... Read More

Elizabeth Stanny is a Professor of Accounting at Sonoma State University. Her research interests include climate change and political disclosures ... Read More

Ellen Kohl is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at St. Mary's College of Maryland. As a researcher and teacher, she ... Read More

Emily Pawley is Associate Professor of History at Dickinson College, where she teaches environmental history and food studies. Her research ... Read More

As an urban geographer and political ecologist, my research explores themes of water politics, adaptation, and environmental justice. My current ... Read More

Eric Nost is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics at the University of Guelph. He is ... Read More

Gabrielle Trudo was the Social Media Intern for EDGI and EDGI's Environmental Enforcement Watch. She studied environment and American politics ... Read More

Grace Poudrier is a member of the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute (SSEHRI) and a PhD student in the Department ... Read More

Irene Pasquetto is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. As a research assistant at the Center ... Read More

Jake Wylie studied economics and political science at the University of Michigan and recently completed an MBA from NYU Stern ... Read More

Jamie Lyons is an avid surfer, educator, writer, filmmaker, sailor and stage director who received his AB and PhD from Stanford ... Read More

Janak Raj Chadha is an undergraduate student at National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India. His fields of interest are Machine ... Read More

Dr. Jason A. Heppler is a Digital Engagement Librarian and an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nebraska ... Read More

Jeffrey Liu is a PhD student at MIT in Civil Engineering & Computation who works on transportation research, and co-teaches the ... Read More

Jennie Liss Ohayon is a Joint-Postdoctoral Fellow at Northeastern University and the Silent Spring Institute, a non-profit environmental health research institute ... Read More

Jennifer Bender is a Boston based environmental scientist actively involved in bridging gaps between scientists, policy makers, the public and other ... Read More

Jennifer Pierre is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA, focusing in computer-mediated communication and social informatics ... Read More

Jill Harrison is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her research focuses on environmental sociology, sociology ... Read More

Julia Upfal joined EDGI in June of 2017 as a part of the web monitoring team. Julia’s background in urban planning ... Read More

Justin Schell is the Director of the Shapiro Design Lab, a peer learning and project design community at the University of ... Read More

Katherine Kulik is from the greater Boston area and graduated from Harvard College in 2015, with a concentration in the History ... Read More

Kelsey Breseman is a Civic Science Fellow at EDGI. Throughout her time with EDGI, Kelsey has worked on environmental accountability, data ... Read More

Kevin Nguyen is an average human and artist in Universe, who plays with computers, hoping to make our world work for ... Read More

Kyala Shea studied physics and botanical informatics and works as a technologist in the publishing industry. She helps produce EDGI’s long-form ... Read More

Lauren Richter is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at Northeastern University and a member of the Social Science Environmental Health Research ... Read More

Leif Fredrickson is co-curator of EDGI's oral history project and the A People's EPA website. He teaches environmental and public ... Read More

Leslie Alanis was EDGI's EEW Storytelling Intern. She is interested in using data and first person narratives to explore issues ... Read More

Lindsay Poirier is a cultural anthropologist and PhD Candidate in Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Through the lens ... Read More

Lindsey Dillon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz, and is affiliated with the Environmental ... Read More

Liz Barry is Director of Community Development at the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science, a global community collaborating to ... Read More

Liza Piper is an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton where she teaches environmental history and the histories ... Read More

Maalvika is a student at Olin College, engineer, designer, writer, and researcher. Passionate about using technology for social good, she ... Read More

Marianne Sullivan is an Associate Professor of Public Health at William Paterson University of New Jersey. She received her PhD in ... Read More

Matt Price, Technology Development Lead, is a historian of science and technology interested in the social impacts of technologies. His interest ... Read More

Maya Anjur-Dietrich is a PhD student in Applied Physics at Harvard University. In EDGI, she works in and has helped develop ... Read More

Megan Martenyi is a PhD student in the Politics Department at UC Santa Cruz ... Read More

Michelle Murphy is a science and technology studies scholar whose research focuses on chemical exposures, environmental justice and the Great Lakes ... Read More

Mike Hucka is a staff scientist at an academic institution, where he leads development of data standards and open source software ... Read More

Muhi Khwaja is EDGI’s Development Director. Earning a Bachelor’s in History and Psychology from the University of Michigan-Dearborn in 2009, ... Read More

Nancy Langston is Distinguished Professor of Environmental History at Michigan Tech. She is currently researching climate change and wildlife migrations ... Read More

Nicholas Shapiro is the Matter, Materials and Culture Fellow at the Science History Insitute and the Open Air Fellow at Public ... Read More

Patrick Connolly, Technology Development Coordinator, is a failed biochemist, a computer programmer, a co-organizer of CivicTech Toronto, and an anarchist ... Read More

Phil Brown is University Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences, and directs the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute at ... Read More

Ray Cha is the Software Project Manager for the Web Monitoring project and volunteer with Data Together. He has been ... Read More

Rebecca Lave is a founding member of EDGI and was on the Steering Committee from its inception through early 2018. She ... Read More

Sara Johns is a Research Fellow at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She graduated from Northwestern University in 2017 with ... Read More

Sara Wylie is the coordinator of EDGI's Environmental Enforcement Watch. Wylie is an Assistant Professor in Northeastern University’s Social Science ... Read More

Sarah D’Onofrio is a PhD student in environmental sociology and political economy at the University of Tennessee- Knoxville. Her research aims ... Read More

Sarah Lamdan, Director of Legal Research, is an Associate Professor and law librarian at CUNY School of Law. She graduated ... Read More

Shannan Lenke Stoll is EDGI’s former Communications Coordinator. She has an MS in environmental studies from the University of Oregon, ... Read More

Sophia Jaworski is a PhD student in the faculty of Anthropology and the Women and Gender Studies collaborative program at the ... Read More

Stephanie Knutson is a Financial Officer in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at MIT. She is EDGI’s ... Read More

Stephen Bocking is a Professor of Environmental History and Policy in the Trent School of the Environment, Trent University, in ... Read More

Toly Rinberg is a PhD student in Applied Physics at Harvard University, researching programmable self-organization of colloidal systems. In EDGI, he ... Read More

Tyler Wedrosky graduated with a BA in Urban Planning with minors in Disaster Risk Reduction and Environmental Policy from Western Washington ... Read More

Vanessa De La Rosa is a joint postdoctoral fellow at Northeastern University and the Silent Spring Institute. As a toxicologist, her ... Read More

Vivian Underhill is a PhD student in Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She work on environmental justice ... Read More