Steering Committee

In order to guide our mission, we have assembled a team from the various organizational partners and beyond to serve as our Steering Committee to help in designing and implementing programs through the Ecological Design Collaboratory.

• Walter Poleman — Faculty Director of GreenHouse Residential Learning Community; Director, PLACE Program; Senior Lecturer, Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources
• Bruce Beeken — Furniture-maker, Beeken Parsons, Inc.
• Margaret Burke — Program Specialist, GreenHouse Residential Learning Community
• Diane Gayer — Community Architect with the Vermont Design Institute and Faculty at the UVM Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources and the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics
• Tyler Kobick — Designer, Builder, and Architect with Design Draw Build
• Steven Libby — Executive Director, Vermont River Conservancy
• Leah Mital–Skiff — Program Coordinator, GreenHouse Residential Learning Community
• Ryan Morra — Program Developer, PLACE Program and Ecological Design Collaboratory
• Felix Wai — Founder and Director, ArtsRiot
• Marshall Webb — Woodlands Manager and Co-founder, Shelburne Farms