The Collective
Maxwell Boykoff, University of Colorado-Boulder, Environmental Studies
Maxwell T. Boykoff is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Science and Technology Policy, which is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He teaches in the Environmental Studies program and is Adjunct faculty in the Geography Department. In addition, Max is a Senior Visiting Research Associate in the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford.
He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies from the University of California-Santa Cruz and Bachelor of Sciences in Psychology from The Ohio State University. Max has ongoing interests in climate adaptation, cultural politics and environmental governance, science-policy interactions, and political economy and the environment, and he has experience working in North America, Central America, South Asia and Europe.
He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies from the University of California-Santa Cruz and Bachelor of Sciences in Psychology from The Ohio State University. Max has ongoing interests in climate adaptation, cultural politics and environmental governance, science-policy interactions, and political economy and the environment, and he has experience working in North America, Central America, South Asia and Europe.
Kevin Andrews, University of Colorado-Boulder, Environmental Studies
Kevin Andrews is an M.S. student in the Environmental Studies program at the University of Colorado Boulder. He earned a B.S. in the Biological Sciences from Salisbury University in 2008 and transitioned into a career as a science educator and outdoor enthusiast. He is interested in the role of science and its ability to formulate effective environmental policy. More specifically, his research interests include climate change adaptation and communication, environmental law and policy, and natural resource management.
Marilyn Averill, University of Colorado-Boulder, Environmental Studies
Marilyn Averill is an environmental attorney who is pursuing a PhD in Environmental Studies. Her research focuses on international environmental governance, the politics of science, and the ethical implications of environmental issues, primarily in the context of global climate change. She is particularly interested in the role of the U.S. courts in shaping public policy in response to complex and controversial environmental problems. Before returning to school Marilyn was an attorney for the U.S. Department of the Interior. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College, an M.P.A. from Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and an M.A. in Educational Research and Evaluation Methods and a J.D. from the University of Colorado.
Aditya Gosh, University of Colorado-Boulder, Environmental Studies
Aditya Gosh is pursuing a PhD in Communication (media studies track) in the Program for Journalism and Mass Communications (JMC). In his last position, he was Programme Manager with Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a prominent Indian think-tank on environmental issues (2010-2012). Prior to that, Aditya worked for three years as Assistant Editor with Hindustan Times, India’s second largest English language broadsheet newspaper. Aditya has also had a four-year stint with The Times of India, world’s largest English language broadsheet newspaper, and was attached to The Guardian (London) in 2007-08 as part of a fellowship, and later as a freelancer. In previous adventures, Aditya was a freelancer editor with Reuters Alertnet, and writer with Scidev.net., he edited The Express in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and worked with Encyclopedia Britannica as review editor. In previous brushes with academics, Aditya taught Science Journalism at the University of Sussex in 2009-10 and Journalism at the University of Calcutta.
Mike Henry, University of Colorado-Boulder, Environmental Studies
Mike Henry examines the response of the U.S. Congress to climate change in order to gain a deeper understanding of how and why Members of Congress act (or fail to act) on one of the defining global issues of the 21st Century. A PhD student pursuing the Policy Track in ENVS since 2009, Mike also works full-time as a Legislative Specialist in the UCAR/NCAR Office of Government Affairs. Before becoming an ENVSer, Mike was a Legislative Correspondent for U.S. Senator Ben Cardin in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Williams College in 2004 with a B.A. in Political Science.
Lucy McAllister, University of Colorado-Boulder, Environmental Studies
Lucy McAllister is broadly interested in the nexus of environmental justice, inequality and political ecology at the international level. She is currently exploring transboundary movements and governance of electronic-waste, particularly between India and the United States. Before coming to study at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Fall of 2011, Lucy spent time in Hamburg, Germany on a Fulbright scholarship and worked at the German Consulate in Chicago, Illinois. This past summer Lucy worked at the University of Hamburg’s climate change campus, where she conducted research for her Masters thesis on e-waste governance. Lucy graduated summa cum laude from Connecticut College in 2009 with a B.A. in Environmental Studies and German Studies.
Marisa McNatt, University of Colorado-Boulder, Environmental Studies
Marisa McNatt is generally interested in the factors that influence and shape the public and policy-makers' opinions on climate change and environmental policy, ranging form geographical, to socioeconomic, to cultural values. She is pursuing a PhD in Environmental Studies with a policy focus. Marisa McNatt earned a Master’s in Journalism and Broadcast and a Certificate in Environment, Policy and Society from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 2011. Her Master’s thesis (“Moving Forward Despite Scientific Uncertainty”), a research paper plus documentary, discusses an implementation of the Climate Wise Program in Fort Collins, CO, a “No Regrets” approach to meeting greenhouse gas reduction objectives while reducing small business utility bills and realizing other goals of the community.
Shawn Olson, University of Colorado-Boulder, Environmental Studies
Shawn Olson hails from the Pacific Northwest, where she received BA in Environmental Studies and Social Movements from The Evergreen State College. Since then, she’s roved the West, spending several seasons as an environmental educator in Alaska’s Wrangell Mountains and Utah's high deserts. Her graduate work examines the politics, history, and ideological polarizations underlying conflicts over resources and land in the American West. She is conducting research on conflicts arising in the space of the new energy economy; particularly, she studies opposition to utility-scale wind energy in the Inter-mountain West. Shawn is the co-author of two books: Defending Wild Washington: A Citizen’s Action Guide (Mountaineers Books, 2004) and Community and Copper in a Wild Land (Wrangell Mountains Center & National Park Service, 2005).
Kanmani Venkateswaran, University of Colorado-Boulder, Environmental Studies
Kanmani Venkateswaran graduated from Kenyon College in May 2011 with a Bachelors in Biology and a concentration in Environmental Studies. She completed an internship at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment in Bangalore, India in 2012 (www.atree.org). She has been working with Dr. Siddhartha Krishnan and Dr. Gladwin Joseph on human adaptation to climate change in agricultural communities in Natham taluk, Tamil Nadu. Earlier in the internship, Kanmani was also a part of Indian policy-making, collating the report on sustainability, biodiversity and rural livelihoods for the Planning Commission's Five Year Plan. Kanmani also spent time in 2012 in Ooty, Tamil Nadu mapping self-identified settlements and areas of cultural/religious importance in Toda communities.
Xi Wang, University of Colorado-Boulder, Environmental Studies
Xi Wang is a Master of Science student in the Environmental Studies (ENVS) program at University of Colorado-Boulder. She is also a group member at the Center for Science & Technology Policy Research (CSTPR), which is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES). Xi is focusing on examining resource use in the context of energy. She is particularly interested in understanding the interactions among actors across societal sectors--scientists, policy makers, industry, and the public--which challenge large-scale transitions to renewable energy use.
Prior to ENVS, Xi worked as a strategy and technology consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton in Washington, D.C. While there, she also engaged in social, food, and environmental justice activism. Xi has also worked at the Monterey Bay Aquarium as an environmental stewardship guide and spent summers in southern Spain and Ecuador on organic and subsistence farms. Xi earned a B.A. in English from Cornell University. She has lefts bits of her heart and common sense in all of the above mentioned places.
Prior to ENVS, Xi worked as a strategy and technology consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton in Washington, D.C. While there, she also engaged in social, food, and environmental justice activism. Xi has also worked at the Monterey Bay Aquarium as an environmental stewardship guide and spent summers in southern Spain and Ecuador on organic and subsistence farms. Xi earned a B.A. in English from Cornell University. She has lefts bits of her heart and common sense in all of the above mentioned places.