Dr. Joy Amulya
4901 Deer Trail Court
Fort Collins, CO 80526
Phone: 970-443-9426
Joy.Amulya@colorado.edu
Joy Amulya (Ed.D., Harvard University) works domestically and internationally to promote research and practice in the implementation, support, and evaluation of community and development initiatives. The primary focus of her work has been to apply her background in human development to creating innovative methods for learning and engaging knowledge generated from community-based work. At the Center for Reflective Community Practice at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she co-developed a learning technology called Critical Moments Learning, which has been widely implemented in domestic and international settings. She has extensive experience designing and implementing strategies for learning and knowledge building with community organizations, project teams, philanthropic institutions, university courses, service learning teams, and research groups. Dr. Amulya has also directed large-scale participatory and empowerment evaluation projects, and trained students and faculty in methods for engaging the knowledge and experience of community practitioners. Her current work focuses on community health, indigenous knowledge, community-engaged research, HIV/AIDS, women’s empowerment, and issues related to children living in poverty.
Dr. Ernesto G. Arias
Apartado Postal 269-3017
San Isidro de Heredia
Costa Rica
ariase@colorado.edu
Ernesto G. Arias (PhD., University of Pennsylvania) is professor emeritus in the College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Colorado. After his retirement from CU in the fall of 2006, he moved to Costa Rica where he serves as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Costa Rica’s National Institute of High Technology (CENAT). A two-time Fulbright Scholar and Associate Director of the Center for LifeLong Learning and Design at the University of Colorado, he takes an active interest in technologies that support place-based education and collaborative learning communities.
Dr. Sheridan Bartlett
711 Windmill Hill South
Putney VT 05346
Phone: 802-387-4075
sheridan.bartlett@gmail.com
Sheridan Bartlett (Ed.D., University of Massachusetts) is a senior research associate in the Human Settlements Program at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) in London, England. She works mostly in South Asia supporting various organizations in research, staff training and program development related to children. , and is the managing editor of IIED’s journal, Environments and Urbanization. Recent work has focused on children and conflict in Nepal, community-based planning in post-tsunami reconstruction, and rebuilding after disasters with children in mind. Her publications include a UNICEF Innocenti Digest on urban children with David Satterthwaite, a review of children’s rights and the physical environment for Save the Children, Sweden, and articles in various journals on topics related to children’s environmental health and urban governance.
Dr. Sudeshna Chatterjee
C-57 D, Gangotri Apartments
Alaknanda
New Delhi 110019
India
Phone: +91-9810475651
chattes@colorado.edu
Sudeshna Chatterjee (PhD, North Carolina State University) is a principal of Kaimal Chatterjee & Associates, New Delhi. She is the urban design consultant for the new capital city, Naya Raipur and involved in conceptualising and designing several new schools across India in diverse climatic and cultural contexts. Her research interests explore the intersections between childhood, child friendly places, and globalizing cities; children and young people’s agency and the production and consumption of place; and the politics of displacement and urban development. Dr. Chatterjee is a visiting faculty in the graduate department of Urban Design in the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, and the News Archive Editor for Children, Youth and Environments.
Michael Duffin
PEER Associates
836 Snipe Ireland Road
Richmond, VT 05477
michael@peerassociates.net
Michael Duffin (PhD) iis a co-founder of PEER Associates. He specialized in program evaluation and environmental sustainability in Antioch University's doctoral program in Leadership and Organizational Change. He was the project director of the Program Evaluation Team in the Craiglow Center for Applied Research and Policy of Antioch New England Institute and has over 15 years experience as an educator and administrator in environmental education programs in New England and the Pacific Northwest. PEER Associates is a small but diverse team that provides program evaluation and educational research services to projects seeking to promote environmental, place-based, or empowerment goals. It is committed to using a multiple-methods, utilization-focused, participatory evaluation process with the intention to help organizations better articulate their vision, align their resources and their rhetoric accordingly, and improve their programs based on evidence of program functioning and outcomes. PEER Associates also helps organizations build their own capacity to reflect on and internally evaluate programs.
Karen S. Hollweg
4440 Greenbriar Blvd.
Boulder, CO 80305
Phone: 303-494-2016
khollweg@stanfordalumni.org
Karen S. Hollweg (M.S., Stanford University) is a consultant to several national science and environmental education projects and 2008-2009 President of the North American Association for Environmental Education. Much of her 40-year career, which began as a classroom teacher in public middle schools and senior high schools, has been dedicated to bringing together the resources and expertise of schools, community-based organizations, scientists and higher education institutions to support teachers, students, and citizens of all ages in pursuing inquiry-based learning and addressing real-world issues. She was a district curriculum and instruction specialist and a Principal Investigator for seven different NSF-funded Elementary, Secondary and Informal Education (ESIE) projects, and has led nationwide teacher enhancement, curriculum development, and community-based projects. At the National Academies’ National Research Council she was responsible for the dissemination and implementation of the National Science Education Standards and directed professional development initiatives on inquiry and on the use of formative assessment for state science supervisors, school district leaders, and classroom teachers. As Fellow with the Institute for Learning at the University of Pittsburgh, she designed and led professional development for urban school district leaders. Karen has authored and edited books on team-based professional development, understanding urban ecosystems, program evaluation, and the influence of the national standards. She has served on many NSF panels and several national advisory boards, as well as state and local organizations, and has extensive experience recruiting and training volunteers for local projects. In 2007, she was awarded an Indo-American Environmental Leadership Fulbright to study environmental education for sustainability.
Beverly E. Kingston
Beverly.Kingston@Colorado.EDU
Dr. Alcinda Lewis
425 Arapahoe Ave.
Boulder, CO 80302
alcindaa@comcast.net
Alcinda C. Lewis (Ph.D., University of Texas) is an evolutionary biologist and lecturer in biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Division of Continuing Education. Her work aims to improve access to life chances of underserved students of all ages through science education, both formal and informal. She is particularly interested in increasing the cognitive skills and confidence of her students and in defusing their fear of math and science.
