Jeff Batton is a serial entrepreneur with a diverse professional background in start-ups, large corporations, and non-profit entities. Most recently Jeff completed a 3-year turnaround project as CEO of The Natural Baby Company, a Certified B Corporation in the baby products industry. Prior to that, Jeff established a successful “executive for hire” practice, assisting aContinue reading “Jeff Batton”
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Joseph Azzarelli
Joseph Azzarelli is a graduate student pursuing his Ph.D. in chemistry at MIT, where he focuses on inventing novel classes of low-cost wireless chemical sensors for water, food, agricultural, and industrial applications. Prior to graduate school, he spent one year in Pfizer’s Neuroscience unit in search of therapeutics to treat Alzheimer’s disease. He holds aContinue reading “Joseph Azzarelli”
Terra Alpaugh
After a decade in New York, Terra Alpaugh returned to her home state last year to start her masters in Environmental Science and Management at the Bren School at UC Santa Barbara. She is specializing in Climate and Energy, with an emphasis on the impacts of climate change on water supplies. She is contributing toContinue reading “Terra Alpaugh”
Josh Eagle
Josh Eagle is a professor of law at the University of South Carolina and a 2014 PERC Lone Mountain Fellow. He is affiliated both with USC’s Marine Science Program and the School of Earth, Ocean and Environment.
Frank Wolak
Frank A. Wolak is the HolBrook Working Professor of Commodity Price Studies in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. His fields of specialization are Industrial Organization and Econometric Theory. His recent work studies methods for introducing competition into infrastructure industries — telecommunications, electricity, water delivery and postal delivery services — and on assessing theContinue reading “Frank Wolak”
Whitney Tilt
Whitney Tilt is a PERC Impact Fellow and Private Lands Coordinator, applying over four decades of professional experience and passion within the conservation community. Early in his career, Whitney was a wildlife technician with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as well as a cattle rancher. He went on to serve in leadership roles forContinue reading “Whitney Tilt”
Timothy Taylor
Timothy Taylor is the managing editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, published by the American Economic Association. He is the author of several books including The Instant Economist: Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works. He blogs at Conversable Economist.
Brent Fewell
Fewell, a former environmental scientist and senior U.S. EPA official, is a partner and environmental attorney with the law firm Troutman Sanders and a frequent lecturer on 21st century environmental leadership and innovation.
MacKenzie Waro
MacKenzie Waro is the Land Conservation Stewardship Specialist for the Watershed Agricultural Council of the New York City Watersheds, Inc. She works for one of the largest Purchase of Development Rights programs in the Country helping to steward over 25,000 acres of land in the Catskill Region of New York. Born in Cooperstown, NY MacKenzieContinue reading “MacKenzie Waro”
Wendy Purnell
Wendy Purnell helps communicate ideas to new audiences. Programs she developed with environmental NGO Paso Pacífico, have received recognition from National Geographic, the Clinton Global Initiative, and the InterAmerican Development Bank.