Program Leadership & Coordination
School of Earth & Sustainability (SES) is home to the Climate Literacy Program Initiative. SES is responsible for the program administration, curriculum stewardship, and strategic oversight.
Leadership Team
- Lena Fletcher, Curriculum Lead and Experience Design Expert
- Roisin Kirby, PhD Student in Social Justice Education, SES Graduate Fellow
- Darci Connor Maresca, SES Assistant Director, Program and Impact Design
Contact: Roisin Kirby, Climate Literacy Graduate Fellow, [email protected].
Collaborating Departments & Campus Units
Fourteen units and programs contributed to the Climate Literacy Program, including
- Environmental Conservation
- Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences (EGCS)
- Environmental Science
- Natural Resources Conservation
- Sustainability Sciences
- Kinney Center for Renaissance Studies
- School of Public Policy
- Humanities and Fine Art
- Clean Energy Extension
- Integrated Concentration in Science (iCons) Program
- Social Justice Education (College of Education)
- Assessment, Survey and Effectiveness Research (ASER)
- Facilities Management
- Auxiliary Enterprises
- Capital Project Management
- UMass Libraries
Individual Acknowledgements
The Climate Literacy Program would like to thank the following collaborators, partners, and team members: Rob DeConto (SES), Tim Cook (EGCS), and Steve Petsch (EGCS, Environmental Science), Thad Miller (School of Public Policy), Malcolm Sen (Humanities and Fine Arts), Liz Fox and Marjorie Rubright (Kinney Center for Renaissance Studies), Jia Zheng and Ximena Zúñiga (Social Justice Education), Gabriel Rodriguez (Assessment, Survey and Effectiveness Research), Scott Auerbach, Wesley Dunham, and Jared Starr (Integrated Concentration in Science Program), Dwayne Breger (Clean Energy Extension), and Madeleine Charney (UMass Libraries).
We also want to recognize our operational partners, including Ezra Small and Laurie Simmons (Facilities Management), Kathy Wicks (Auxiliary Enterprises), and Ted Mendoza (Capital Project Management).
Angie Gregory brought the founding student idea and served as the first living lab intern, and Cass Ryder and Fatimah Rashid contributed as student team members supporting program assessment.
The program has also been shaped by the many students engaged along the way, both through paid team positions and through direct participation in the training itself.