Lindsey Payne, Assistant Professor of Practice in Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Purdue University

Beth Mercer-Taylor, Co-Program Director, Sustainability Education, University of Minnesota

Beth Mercer-Taylor is one of two sustainability education program co-directors at the Institute on the Environment (IonE) at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She manages academic programs, including the Sustainability Studies Minor, an interdisciplinary, free-standing program with more than 200 undergraduates enrolled and the IonE Educators, a year-long cohort program for faculty and staff to develop their own own sustainability courses and projects. She teaches two interdisciplinary courses on energy that integrate equity, sustainability and systems-thinking. She supports students, staff and faculty centering environmental justice and indigenous-led environmental approaches to sustainability, including the development of a community-engaged course on Environmental Justice, the creation of projects like a new podcast called Just Sustainability and the revision of an annual student research expo into a sustainability and equity program centering indigenous perspectives. Beth participates in the University’s Diversity Community of Practices and is active in IonE’s Diversity Equity Inclusion Justice committee. She works with colleagues across the University system of five campuses to learn, support one another and push forward justice and anti-racism in their programs. In the past, she served as a city councilmember in Falcon Heights, as a real estate lawyer and land use planner

Rebecca Watts Hull, Assistant Director, Faculty Development for Sustainability Education Initiatives, Georgia Tech

Rebecca Watts Hull is assistant director, faculty development for sustainability education initiatives in the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at Georgia Tech, with an adjunct appointment in the School of History and Sociology. Rebecca works with faculty to incorporate Education for Sustainability into their course design and teaching practices. She partners with other units to lead strategic initiatives related to sustainability education, including Sustainability Next’s Sustainability Education plan. Rebecca also works with other colleges and universities to advance faculty development and peer-to-peer learning that expands and enriches the integration of sustainability across the curriculum across the state of Georgia and beyond. Earlier in her career, Rebecca held sustainability and educational leadership roles in the public, private and nonprofit sectors with responsibilities that included science and environmental curriculum design and community-based environmental education and advocacy. Rebecca earned an M.S. and Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in History and Sociology of Technology and Science, focusing her research on social movements and organizational change, and she also holds an M.S. in Natural Resources and Environment from the University of Michigan. She has taught Sustainability Leadership at Emory University, Environment and Sustainability Studies at Agnes Scott College, and American Environmental History, Social Movements, Community Organizing, and Organizing for Social Change at Georgia Tech.

Sarah Mincey, co-director of the Environmental Resilience Institute, Indiana University

Andrea Hicks, Director of Sustainability Education and Research, Wisconsin-Madison

Luis Rodriguez, Associate Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign