Our Team
HGCI Co-Chairs
John D. Spengler is the Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation in the Exposure, Epidemiology & Risk Program, within the Department of Environmental Health, at Harvard University's School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
Thomas E. Vautin
is the Associate Vice President for Facilities and Environmental Services
for Harvard University. He is responsible for the management of the
University Operations Services group, which provides facilities operations
and maintenance services, engineering, utilities and energy management,
environmental health and safety, as well as parking and transportation
to the University community of eleven schools in Cambridge and Boston.
HGCI Director
Leith Sharp established
the HGCI in March of 2000, becoming the Director of this emerging organization.
Leith also co-instructs the Harvard Extension School course, Sustainability
- The Challenge of Changing Our Institutions. Leith has a Bachelors
degree in Environmental Engineering from UNSW and a Master of Education
in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard University. Leith has
worked with universities for the last 10 years to achieve organizational
change in the pursuit of environmental sustainability. In 1998 Leith
was awarded Young Australian of the Year, NSW Environment Category,
for her work in establishing the Environmental Management Program at
the University of New South Wales, Australia. In 1999 she was awarded
a Churchill Fellowship to research best practice in university environmental
management throughout Europe and the USA. In 2002, Leith was awarded
most outstanding paper for her contribution to the International Journal
of Sustainability in Higher Education. Leith has presented at many conferences
and events across the US and Australia.
HGCI Assistant Director
Nathan Gauthier joined HGCI in September 2004. He manages the Sustainable Design and Construction division of the Green Campus Building Service, offering green building consulting services to more than a dozen Harvard building projects. Prior to joining HGCI, Nathan worked as a research assistant with the South Carolina Sustainable Universities Initiative where he helped implement Environmental Management Systems, lectured on sustainable living, and developed campus sustainability indicators. He has experience as an environmentally-friendly general contractor with "Energy Conscious Builders" and has worked as a fisheries biologist in Texas, Hawai'i and Washington and with the Peace Corps in Ecuador. Nathan is an editor of the "Power of One: College Students and Sustainability" video for the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition and the author of the Resource Guide by the same name. When Nathan isn't working, he can be found in the mountains, on a whitewater river, or at the beach. Position Description (pdf)
HGCI Assistant Director
Jaclyn Olsen joined the Harvard Green Campus Initiative team in January of 2005 as the Longwood Campus Coordinator. Jaclyn comes from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs where she spent three years as the Project Manager for the State Sustainability Program, a comprehensive “Greening the Government” effort to help reduce the ecological footprint of state agency operations. As Project Manager Jaclyn worked with state agencies on specific pilot projects, tracking and reporting of environmental impacts, developing guidance and outreach materials, and planning for sustainability. Prior to her experience with the State Sustainability Program Jaclyn worked briefly as the Sales/Marketing Coordinator for a startup software company. Jaclyn received a Bachelors Degree in Environmental Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1999.
Staff
Coordinator, Longwood Green Campus Program
Claire Berezowitz joined HGCI in July, 2008. She received a B.S. in Environmental Science and Political Science from the University of Notre Dame in 2006, where she was active in campus sustainability initiatives and field research. Since then, Claire has worked as an environmental educator and outdoor education instructor for the Conserve School, a residential high school in northern Wisconsin, as well as at the Teton Science School in Kelly, Wyoming. Most recently, Claire obtained her Master's degree in Human Development and Psychology at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. She is particularly interested in how sustainability initiatives are able to effectively transform adult learning about sustainability into long-term behavioral change. In her free time, Claire can be found exploring the northeast by foot, bike, kayak, or skis - and cheering for her Fightin' Irish football team. Go Irish!
Project Coordinator, Green Campus - Existing Buildings
Kevin Bright joined HGCI's Green Campus Building Service in May of 2008. Currently, he splits his time between implementing energy conservation measures and guiding existing Harvard buildings through the LEED process. Kevin received a B.A. in Environmental Geology from Middlebury College in 2006 where he wrote a thesis investigating the source of arsenic contamination in private wells in Stowe, Vermont. In January of 2008, he received a M.A. in Energy and Environmental Analysis from Boston University. During the summers of his undergraduate and graduate years, Kevin worked in a variety of environmental fields ranging from an internship at The Nature Conservancy in Albany, NY, to working as a Field Engineer for a consulting firm that decontaminated a radioactive US Weapons Stockpile Facility in Fort Wayne, IN. Needless to say after a lot of traveling, he is excited to be living in Boston and working at Harvard with the Green Campus Initiative.
Environmental Procurement Coordinator
Jon Chapman joined HGCI in July 2008. He earned his Ed.M. from the Higher Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2007 and is currently a member of the Harvard University Management Fellowship Program. He will be working with the Harvard Green Campus Initiative and the Office of Strategic Procurement to help develop and promote environmental purchasing practices at all levels of the university. Jon worked as a Program Assistant with HGCI’s Campus Energy Reduction Program during a year-long internship and is looking forward to building upon that experience in his new role with the organization. His favorite non-work activity is spending time with his twin nieces, Emma and Wiley. He is proud to report that they are both huge fans of organic produce.
Manager, Green Campus Building Service - Existing Buildings
Darien Crimmin joined HGCI in July, 2006 in Green Campus Building Service. Darien received a B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Vermont in 2002, where he was active in planning the University’s first ecologically designed building. Also in Burlington, he helped organize “Visionary Vermont,” a future-oriented sustainability conference. In 2005, Darien earned a M.A. in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning from Tufts University. Darien is an outdoor enthusiast and enjoys running and playing frisbee. Position Description (pdf)
Manager, Green Campus Building Service - New Construction
Jesse Foote began work with the Harvard Green Campus Initiative in August of 2005. He has worked for the organization in a number of capacities, and currently manages new construction services for the group’s Green Campus Building Services. In this role, Jesse works with project teams to review designs, incorporate green features and manage the LEED certification process. Jesse is currently helping to implement a new set of University wide green building guidelines which require all building projects to follow certain minimum green design strategies. Jesse received his bachelors degree in 2001 in engineering and environmental studies from Dartmouth College, where he wrote a thesis encouraging the college to construct a new heating/power plant so that the fuel type could be switched from oil to wood chips. Before coming to Harvard, he helped form a non-profit organization named WinCycle that reused and recycled computers in the Dartmouth area. Jesse also worked for a Vermont based mentoring program, DREAM, where he purchased a 50-acre property and created a summer camp for the organization. Position Description (pdf)
Coordinator, FAS Undergraduate Resource Efficiency Program
Brandon Geller joined HGCI in July 2008, taking over the role of Undergraduate Resource Efficiency Program Coordinator just after graduating from Harvard with a B.A. in Biochemistry. During his undergraduate career, he spent a majority of his time organizing big events and representing the student body for Pforzheimer House as the House Committee Co-Chair. However, he still found time to do scientific research, an endeavor that took him to both to Germany and the Dominican Republic. For his senior thesis, he generated genetic data and developed a novel evolutionary tree for the Longhorned family of beetles. Though always somewhat involved with REP as an undergrad, it wasn't until doing research for his thesis that his eyes became open to many environmental issues. Now he is excited to be sticking around Harvard and doing the two things he loves most- working with undergrads and reducing environmental impact!
Coordinator, Green Campus Building Service - Existing Buildings
Jenny Harvey joined HGCI in July 2007 as a Program Coordinator for the Green Campus Building Service. She transitioned to Harvard from the Consortium for Energy Efficiency where she managed a national awareness campaign promoting smart motor planning in industrial and commercial facilities. Prior to working in the energy efficiency industry, Jenny taught advanced middle school and high school biology in Baltimore. While in Maryland, Jenny also volunteered for Baltimore Green Week and the Chesapeake Climate Action Network. Her background includes outreach, programming and special events coordination for a community literacy center while serving as an AmeriCorps*VISTA. She holds a Bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College and a Masters in the Art of Teaching from Johns Hopkins University. Jenny is thrilled to be working with the HGCI team on greening existing buildings at Harvard. Position Description (pdf)
Coordinator, FAS Green Labs Program
Philip Kreycik joined HGCI in July, 2006 as the Undergraduate Resource Efficiency Program Coordinator. As of July 2008, however, he coordinates the FAS Green Labs Program. Philip graduated from the college in 2006 with an A.B. in Earth and Planetary Sciences. His thesis documented desertification in the Sahel region of Africa using a new geochemical tracer method to track atmospheric mineral dust. As an undergraduate Philip spent much of his free time working to revive the outdoors club at Harvard. Summer jobs and courses have taken him to Australia and Alaska, and he spent a summer working for an environmental engineering firm that supervised landfill construction in rural Virginia. When not at work, Philip bakes goodies for Adams house students and organizes hikes, bike rides, and other outdoors trips. Position Description (pdf)
Manager, Web Development
Camille McMorrow joined HGCI in February 2007 as a Web Developer, with a background in web, art, and editorial work. Since then she has worked on projects such as the Sustainability Pledge and the Green Building Resource. Camille's current work is centered on the redesign of the main Green Campus site. Her goal is to design and build effective, beautiful websites that engage and inspire people, using web standards and usability best practices. Prior to working at HGCI, she was a developer for an agency, and before that, a systems analyst at UT Austin. Position Description (pdf)
Coordinator, High Performance Building Resource
Katherine Moxhet joined HGCI in August 2007 as Coordinator for the High Performance Building Resource. She spent the previous 7 years at Union of Concerned Scientists supporting the organization’s Executive team, and working on communications and outreach projects on issues such as climate change, diesel school buses, and scientific integrity in policymaking. She holds a BS in Environmental Studies from the University of Vermont. In her spare time, Katherine enjoys gardening and photographing at night. Position Description (pdf)
Coordinator of Education and Outreach
Krystal Noiseux joined HGCI in August 2007 as the Coordinator of Education and Outreach. She graduated from Juniata College in 2004 with a B.S. in Environmental Science and received her M.S. in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation from the University of Florida (go Gators!) in 2007. Krystal has worked as a wildlife rescue/rehabilitator, sea turtle biologist, and environmental educator. With a strong personal interest in sustainable development and living, she joined a group dedicated to corporate greening in the Walt Disney Company while working in conservation education at Animal Kingdom. From there she decided to focus her graduate studies on the human dimensions of conservation, doing research on the promotion and creation of sustainable green communities in Florida. A native of Rhode Island, Krystal is thrilled to be back in New England as a part of HGCI.
Special Projects Coordinator
Dara Olmsted graduated with honors from Harvard in 2000 with a degree in anthropology. She was a teaching fellow at Harvard for four years and taught abroad in Cyprus. She received her Master's degree from Tufts University in 2005 in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning. She has worked on several research projects for HGCI, including sustainable purchasing and green cleaning. She is a non-resident tutor in Environmental Studies in Mather House. Position Description (pdf)
Web Developer
Lev Rickards joined HGCI in February 2008 with a background in content management systems and information architecture. He studied ecology at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, and graduated with a Masters of Information Science from the University of Michigan School of Information in 2007. He worked in urban agriculture and regional food systems on the south side of Chicago, and studied the overlap between information systems and the built environment while at Michigan. Working for HGCI allows Lev to combine his interest in institutional environmental change with an interest in standards-based web design and ubiquitous computing. When not designing tagging systems for Green Campus, he can be found teaching neighborhood children's classes and checking up on a family of composting earthworms. Position Description (pdf)
Manager, Green Campus Building Service - New Construction
Andrea Ruedy joined HGCI in February 2006 after receiving a Master of Science in Historic Preservation from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Architecture from Virginia Tech. Both of her thesis projects focused on recycling existing buildings and integrating them into the surrounding landscape to maximize and promote environmental responsibility. During school she held various advocacy internships, including studying residents' recycling practices to improve the Town of Blacksburg's programs, and preservation advocacy with New York's Municipal Art Society to encourage reusing buildings. Most recently, she worked as a preservation architect for a Boston architecture firm, and currently teaches drawing courses at local architecture schools.
Manager, FAS Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program
Gosia Sklodowskajoined HGCI in July 2005. She manages the FAS Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program, developing strategies for energy conservation through occupant engagement and infrastructural upgrades. She also offers LEED-EB consulting services to FAS building operations groups. Her team runs educational programs in lab and office buildings and develops FAS-wide sustainable policies. Gosia is currently enrolled in the Environmental Management Program at the Harvard Extension School, but her initial academic background is in education and sociology (MA in French, Warsaw University; MS in Sociology of Religion/Gender Studies, EHESS, Paris) When not at work, Gosia can be found traveling through South Asia, sailing on the Charles or having coffee at Darwin's. Position Description