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Vivian Barlach Albertini |
Vivian Barlach Albertini is a Spring Intern at the New Economics Institute. She recently earned her MS degree in Environment and Development at the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland, where she conducted research on the practices of Industrial Symbiosis and Industrial Ecology amongst firms in the UK. Prior to joining the Institute, Vivian worked with environmental education at a Botanic Garden in South Florida, and as an events planner. A Brazilian native, Vivian was introduced to environmental issues from a very early age and has always believed in the possibility of finding a positive balance between sustainable economic development and environmental conservation. An avid international news reader, Vivian is always searching for new trends in economic thought and policy, particularly in ecological and de-growth economics. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking and home-brewing. |
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Camille Goulding |
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Scott Grimm-Lyon |
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Nicholas Kacher |
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Katharine Millonzi |
Operations and Development Manager Katharine has a breadth of experiences in the sustainability and social change sectors worldwide. An eco-gastronome and food systems thinker, she brings an integrative, multidisciplinary perspective to the relationship between culture and nature. After several years work in international public health, she enjoyed being part of several start-up business ventures - from an artisanal cheesemongers to a fair-trade botanicals company. She recently directed the Sustainable Food and Agriculture Program at Williams College, where she examined the role of institutional procurement within regional economic development. Katharine holds an MA in Food Culture and Communications from the University of Gastronomic Sciences, founded by Slow Food International. She also holds a BA from the University of London in Social Anthropology and International Development. Her 2007 Fulbright Fellowship in Italy offered her a platform from which to measure and assess the responses of traditional food producers to global economic policy and structures. Katharine is a trained massage therapist and herbalist who finds inspiration in ‘the peace of wild things'. |
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Dmitriy Oziransky |
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Debbie Pierce |
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Susan Witt |
Education Director Susan Witt was the Executive Director of the E. F. Schumacher Society, the predecessor of the New Economics Institute. She helped found the Society in 1980 and led the development of its highly regarded publication, library, seminar, and other educational programs while at the same time remaining deeply committed to implementing Schumacher’s economic ideas in her home region of the Berkshires. She helped found the Community Land Trust in the Southern Berkshires in 1980 and has been responsible for many of the innovative financing and contracting methods that the Land Trust uses to create more affordable access to land. In 2006 she co-founded the BerkShares local currency program that has won unprecedented international media attention as a model for other regions. She created and administered the SHARE micro-credit program, the precursor of BerkShares, and in 1985 helped Robyn Van En form the first Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm in the United States at Indian Line Farm. Susan Witt writes and speaks on the theory and practice of building sustainable local economies. Her essays appear in Rooted in the Land edited by William Vitek and Wes Jackson (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1996); People, Land, and Community: Collected E. F. Schumacher Society Lectures edited by Hildegarde Hannum (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1997); A Forest of Voices: Conversations in Ecology edited by Chris Anderson and Lex Runciman (Mayfield Publishing Company, Mountain View, CA, 2000); Environmental Activists edited by John Mongillo (Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, CT 2001); The Money Changers: Currency Reform from Aristotle to E-cash edited by David Boyle (Earthscan Publications, London, UK, 2002); in the 1999 edition of Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered by Ernest Fritz Schumacher (Hartley and Marks Publishers, Point Roberts, WA and Vancouver, BC, 1999); The Essential Agrarian Reader edited by Norman Wirzberg (University Press of Kentucky, 2003); and What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs edited by Stephen Goldsmith and Lynne Elizabeth (New Village Press, 2010). Detailed biography of Susan Witt |
