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Graduate Students in Community Development and Applied
Economics
2007 - 2008 Academic Year
This page is created by Jessica Massanari and Qingbin
Wang. Please email your comments and suggestions to Jessica <jessicamassanari@gmail.com>
or Qingbin (qwang@uvm.edu).
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Amos
Baehr: I was born into the frontier atmosphere of Alaska before it was a state
and have sustained the image of myself as a pioneer. I find a kindred spirit in the grad program of CDAE.
I was the first generation not to grow up on a Midwest farm and all my grand parents spoke and wrote German.
I've worked as a swineherd on a Missouri diversified family farm, owned and operated my own licensed daycare
and preschool, taught second and third grade in predominately black inner city schools,
and had two small construction businesses. I have participated as a volunteer and volunteer coordinator
in solid waste and water quality programs and have an intensive and varied experience with spiritual communities and outdoor recreation.
So why CDAE? At a conference billed as an Upper Mississippi Watershed Summit held in 1996
I recognized the need to study economics, so as not to be "snowed" by economists.
I was mired in reading some neo-classical economics and when I heard Bob Costanza speak of a trans-disciplinary approach.
A synergy between CDAE and the Gund Institute of Ecological Economics supports integration
of theory and practice that takes advantage of my multicultural experience.
I am particularly interested in writing and speaking to the public about solutions
that are informed by academic study. Amos began the CDAE Graduate Program in 2004,
took a year's leave in 2005 and returned to the program in Fall 2006.
Committee: Thomas Patterson, Chris Koliba, Dana Walwrath and Josh Farley. Committee: Thomas Patterson, Chris Koliba, Dana Walwrath
and Josh Farley.
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Erica Campbell: I Erica grew up in Vermont and
currently lives in North Duxbury with her husband and three children. In her undergraduate studies she majored in
interdisciplinary holistic studies, focusing on human ecology, anthropology, and folk medicine. Before coming to the program,
she worked as a researcher of civic education and service-learning in public schools. She is on the board of directors
to a local non-profit and has begun a food council in her community. In the last year, Erica has worked on both
transportation and agriculture projects, including the Long Range Transportation Business Plan and the Vermont Agency
of Agriculture, Food, and Market's Fair Trade Milk Study. She is a University Transportation Center graduate fellow and
is pursuing thesis research on student transportation. Committee members: Qingbin Wang, Lisa Aultman-Hall, with Chair to be decided.
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| Mark
Cannella: I grew up in Liverpool, NY, just outside of Syracuse. In 2000 I graduated with a BS in Environmental Science and Biology from
St. Lawrence University. I'm not sure who I will be rooting for
this hockey season. I've spent three years living in the Adirondacks
working on backcountry trail crews for the Adirondack Mountain Club and
then with an Americorps/SCA program.
For the past 4 years I managed an organic vegetable market garden
and educational sugarbush at Shelburne Farms, VT. My experience in
farming and the many sustainable agriculture initiatives in the state
drew me toward further studies in economics and community development
here at UVM. I have a soft spot in my heart for hockey, lacrosse,
wild edible plants, cooking and rustic tools. I live with my wife
in Winooski.
Mark.Cannella@uvm.edu
| Thomas Patrick DeSisto:
As a full-time employee at the Center for Rural Studies and a part-time CDAE graduate student, Thomas has co-authored two peer-reviewed journal articles on
consumer information
and awareness issues and has
worked on projects related to sustainable agriculture, economic
development, parks and recreation use, information technology in Vermont
and in developing areas (Honduras). He is also heavily involved in local
community action projects in Burlington, Vermont, related to downtown
development (member of the Development Review Board) and community issues
(spokesperson for his local neighborhood association).
Thomas has been the director of the Vermonter Poll conducted annually by the CRS
since 2004.
Committee consists of Jane Kolodinsky, Fred Schmidt and a third member
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Ryan P. Farran:
Hailing from North Carolina where he earned a BA in Psychology,
Ryan came to Vermont to work as an AmeriCorps*VISTA for Burlington's Community and Economic Development Office
prior to enrolling in CDAE in Fall 2005. While serving as a TA for Professors Tom Patterson and Meg Ashman in service
learning Public Communication classes, he researched agriculture policies with Jon Winston. . Ryan has conducted program
evaluations for nonprofit community coalitions after working at an outdoor camp with kids from across the state in the summer.
He is currently exploring the nature of the relationship between civic engagement and patterns of development in Vermont towns.
Ryan is employed by a small nonprofit organization working with schools statewide. |
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Mark
Gately was born in Boston, Massachusetts. After completing his high school education in New
Jersey, he earned a BA in computer science from Cornell. Upon graduation in 2000, Mark moved to Burlington,
his permanent home. Four years out of school, Mark has decided to return to the classroom, shifting his focus of study
from the technical discipline of Computer Science to the trans-disciplinary field of Ecological Economics. His
research interests include the development of alternative energy sources and sustainable international development. Travel is Mark's favorite pastime. In January of 2005, he attended a two week project-based learning course dealing with ecological restoration in
Paraiso, Costa Rica. Following the course, he completed a three week internship at a local agro-ecology
institute, where he learned basic concepts of sustainable land use. In January of 2006, Mark will travel with a class to the island of St. Lucia in
the West Indies, this time to study the possible use of alternative energies of the island. In his spare time, Mark enjoys web design. He is currently working with the Burlington Currency
Project, a local NGO, as a web support specialist. Mark began the CDAE Graduate Program Fall 2005 and is earning
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| Amanda Goldstein
Born and raised in Silver Spring, MD, Amanda Goldstein moved to New Orleans for undergrad.
She studied abroad while in college and developed a passion for learning about other cultures and places.
After graduating, she joined the Peace Corps and spent 2 and a half years living and working in Malawi.
She has since been back for another 6 month stint because she appreciates the lifestyle there and pace of life.
She is hoping to return again as soon as she receives her degree in community development and applied economics
and never again utter the words, "There aren't enough hours in the day."
amanda.goldstein@uvm.edu
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| Kelly Hamshaw
Before coming to the University of Vermont as an undergraduate, Kelly grew up in a small town near Keene, New Hampshire.
She earned a
BS in Natural Resources from the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources with a minor in Community and International Development in 2006.
Kelly worked closely with Dan Baker on service-learning projects based in rural communities in both Vermont and Honduras,
culminating in an undergraduate honors thesis entitled International Transfer of a Student Water Quality Monitoring Program:
A Case Study Analysis in the Lake Yojoa Region of Honduras. Since returning as a graduate student to CDAE, she continues to work with Dan Baker
on issues facing rural communities in Vermont and Honduras, particularly focused on re-envisioning affordable housing.
Kelly currently lives in Richmond with her husband Scott Hamshaw, UVM '06.
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Jessica Hyman
Jessica Hyman grew up on a dairy farm in the Eastern Townships of Quebec.
She did her undergraduate work in linguistics and philosophy at McGill University and spent
almost a decade in community journalism in Vermont before starting the CDAE program in 2006.
As a research assistant at the Center for Rural Studies, she is studying agricultural land use and
the effect of development pressure on farmers' land-use decisions.
When not on campus, she is likely gardening, cycling or renovating her ramshackle Old North End home.
Jessica.Hyman@uvm.edu
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Robin Kemkes: Robin is working toward a Master's in Community Development and Applied Economics and a certificate in Ecological Economics.
She holds a BA in Art and Design from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also has a strong post-college course load in
economics from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University. Her research addresses the role of the
public and private sectors in payments for ecosystem services. She is also analyzing survey results that will reveal the willingness of
Vermont woodland owners to provide ecosystem services. Her interests are in behavioral economics
and institutional evolution applied to environmental issues.?
(Robin began in the CDAE program in August 2006).Robin.Kemkes@uvm.edu
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Mark Kolonoski: I was raised in Western Massachusetts. After earning a BA in English at St. Michaels's College, I worked with emotionally and behaviorally disabled middle school students in South Burlington.
After spending the summer of 2005 traveling in Peru, I moved to Seattle where I taught middle school children with Autism for two years. I thoroughly enjoyed, and miss, the outdoor recreation the Pacific Northwest offers; especially hiking, fly-fishing, and skiing.
In September of 2007 my partner, Amanda, and I had our first child; a son named Miles. We now reside in Montpelier and focus much attention on improving our new home.
Here at CDAE I hope to research Payment for Ecosystem Services opportunities in Vermont.
I also enjoy spending time with my dog, Lucy, walking in the woods. |
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Emilie Kornheiser: Emilie K. Kornheiser joined the department of CDAE at UVM in Fall 2007 spurred by her long-term interest
in epistemology and issues affecting the sustainability of social mobilization efforts, such as non-profit and education financing structures.
A hopeless pragmatist, Ms. Kornheiser is keen to understand the mutually reinforcing relationship between the construction
of knowledge and social manipulation projects in order to design monitoring and evaluation systems that reflect reality within
social institutions. Her past work includes field research, development, and executive level management of various civil society
organizations both domestically and internationally. Emilie is also a chef and has owned and worked in various venues across the country.
She received her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Marlboro College in southern Vermont and lives with her beautiful son Solomon in Burlington.
Emilie Kornheiser@uvm.edu |
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Mary Mankin
graduated from the US NavalAcademy in 1991 with a BS
in English and served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy for
thirteen years, attaining the rank of lieutenant commander.
She served on six different ships in various
departments, including deck, engineering, operations, combat systems,
and navigation departments. She
also served as an instructor of newly commissioned officers in basic ship
operations before they reported to their first shipboard assignments as officers. She had the opportunity to
make several deployments overseas, including four to the Persian
Gulf.
In June 2004, Miss Mankin bought a house in Richford,
Vermont and
moved north. She spent her first two months of freedom
hiking over 700 miles of the Appalachian Trail
from Georgia
to southern Virginia.In Richford, she
volunteers at the town library as Programs and Grants Coordinator.
She also serves as the Town Service Officer.She is active in the
Covered Bridges Garden Club and the Green Mountain Club.Mary
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Marina
S. Michahelles
was born in Paris, France,
and moved to Cambridge
MA
in 1989. She learned how rewarding small scale farming could
be at The
Mountain School in Vershire,
VT,
combining high school academics with farm chores. She continued farm
work through high school and college, earning a BA in Biology and Psychology
at Earlham College, in Richmond,
Indiana,
a small Quaker liberal arts college.
At
college Marina
learned about Permaculture, an interest she has continued to pursue, most recently on
a trip to Croatia
for the 7th International Permaculture Convergence.
She hopes to incorporate systems-thinking
design in developing a business plan for her farm in the Hudson Valley,
NY. Marina
began in
the CDAE Graduate Program in Fall 2005. |
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Caitrin Eva Noel is is a fifth generation Vermonter, born and raised near her great-grandparents' farm in Chelsea.
She received a BS in Environmental Science from UVM in 2003, then spent the next 4 years as Outreach and Education Coordinator for the
UVM Watershed Alliance. Recently, she has transitioned into a position with the Friends of the Mad River, a non-profit watershed conservation
organization. Caitrin and her family (including her husband William and two daughters)
currently live in Warren where they love to ski, bike, hike and play music. She came to CDAE for a master's degree in Community International Development
because of her interest in international environmental issues, especially in less developed countries.
Her thesis work centers around a watershed education project with Dan Baker and local partners in Taulabé Honduras.
Caitrin began her CDAE program in Spring 2006. Committee members: Jane Kolodinsky, Joshua Farley, Jurij Homziak, and Daniel Baker.
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Amanda Richardson is in her second year of the CDAE graduate program.
She received her B.S. in Natural Resource Ecology and Conservation from the University of Idaho in 2002.
She has a background in vegetation community mapping/monitoring, with a bit of fire ecology and wild land firefighting in the mix.
She spent 2 seasons with The Nature Conservancy of Oregon and two in Grand Teton National Park. She has traveled in Chile and Argentina,
backpacked in national parks and volunteered on an organic farm in Argentina. In 2003 she headed to Nepal as a soil conservation volunteer
with the Peace Corps. Her time in Nepal was cut short when the Peace Corps/Nepal program was suspended in 2004 due to the Maoist-government conflict.
Disappointed and lacking direction,she traveled around SE Asia, returned home, then returned back to SE Asia and taught English to Thai children in a
suburb of Bangkok, Thailand for 15 months. She is currently the UVM campus Peace Corps representative. Her interests include: ecological restoration,
payments for ecosystem services, equitable access to and distribution of environmental services--the social side of payments for ecosystem services.
She enjoys being outdoors, hiking, biking, sniffing
posies (aka identifying plants), reading, knitting, cooking Thai food, drinking wine with friends, and, of course, kicking up her heels for a little barn dance now and then.
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Erin Roche quit her marketing job in 2002 and has been
taking on interesting, if not financially rewarding, projects ever since. She and her husband, Mark, left their longtime home in Seattle, Washington
for a 3 month cross country roadtrip. Then Peace Corps sent them to Tonga for 27 month where she taught classes in computers and marketing at
a business college. Mark and Erin then worked their way around the world harvesting crops on organic farms, compared and contrasted wines
from the northern and southern hemisphere, and conducted a comparative analysis of the world's beaches. Never having been to Vermont was
enough of a reason to enroll at UVM, but the CDAE program was appealing for its interdisciplinary approach. Her current research interest
focuses on transportation and economics. When she's not in Vermont, Erin relaxes on her floating home in Seattle.
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Emily J.
Stebbins
interests center on the key Vermont policy issues related to
land use, transportation, agriculture, energy, and community engagement.
Through an internship with the Snelling Center for Government, she
conducted research on the use of community visioning and scenario
planning in integrating long-range transportation and land-use planning.
This work informed the Chittenden County Metropolitan Planning
Organization's Futures Initiative, a forum to discuss and understand
emerging regional issues that may affect transportation planning in northwestern Vermont. Emily is
currently working with the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund and the Vermont
Biofuels Association to evaluate the economic feasibility of
small-scale, on-farm biodiesel production in Vermont, and was honored as
the UVM University Transportation Center's Student of the Year for 2006.
Her professional experience includes strategic planning, organizational
development, and marketing communications. A native Vermonter who grew
up on a dairy farm in West Enosburg, Emily holds an A.B. cum laude in English and American
Literature and Language from Harvard University. She serves on the
Burlington Planning Commission, dances and teaches ballet, and is a
member of the Green Mountain Folklore Society. Emily entered the CDAE
program on a part-time basis in the fall of 2005.
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Christopher Wardell
aka. 'Brains' is ridiculously smart. So dang smart that he has just entered his first year as a CDAE student.
Before becoming so ridiculously smart, 'brains' was pretty darn smart enough to earn his BA in Geography from UVM in 2004.
Now that brains was pretty darn smart he packed up and moved to Washington D.C. for the summer where he used his brains
working as an intern for the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. This caused his head and brain to grow a little more due to
all the knowledge he acquired. In March of 2005 'Brains' moved to Morocco to serve as a Peace Corps Volunteer.
He worked and lived in a small village in Toubkal Nat'l Park working on a potable water project and helped with designing a management
plan for a Barbary sheep and gazelle reserve. His head got so big after this due to the fact that his brain grew even more,
and Brains became ridiculously smart. Brains interests are studying international grassroots development.
Many cant believe how smart he is.
Christopher.Wardell@uvm.edu
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Patrick Wood was born in Wayland, MA. He earned a B.A. in Anthropology in 2002 from Bates College.
He began to call Vermont home in 2005. His academic interests range from the economics of local food systems,
to business planning for innovative beef enterprise, to ecological economics. In addition to school he works as
the Environmental Accountant for AgRefresh, a Burlington company that finances farm based renewable energy projects
through the sale of composite carbon credits. His thesis articles include an exploration of the feasibility of managing
Vermont groundwater resources through a common asset trust, and an environmental accounting protocol to promote the
production of "High Benefit" biofuels. When not working and studying he loves to ski, run, swim, hike, bike,
and sail with friends and his dog, Abe. Patrick.Wood@uvm.edu
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John Woodward John began his collegiate life as a literary type, majoring in English at Skidmore
College where hindsight took too long to explain to him that he did not want to spend his academic life doting over arcane
poetics of dubious benefit to any struggle for social betterment. In search of relevance, John stumbled into a revelation
so mundane as to be profound: money is power. Thus begins John's path to UVM, where he intends to unpack the full significance
of this overdue realization, asking specifically how the money power can be used to improve communities instead of dismantle them.
In particular, he is interested in examining how municipal and state finances will be
affected by the collapse of the international dollar standard and how local currencies can be used to mitigate fiscal consequences.. John.Woodward@uvm.edu
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