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April Atwood

April Atwood, PhD

Dr. Atwood is a member of the marketing faculty at the University of Washington. She has taught there for over twenty years in the areas of marketing principles, consumer behavior, environmental marketing, and marketing for non-profit organizations. She has also consulted with nonprofit organizations and government agencies on marketing and marketing research projects; her work includes years of work on a grant from the US National Institutes of Health with the Puget Sound Blood Center as well as work with local and county government agencies and health-care providers. Her PhD is in marketing and social psychology from The Ohio State University. She has also taught marketing at the Bainbridge Graduate Institute for the past four years and has enjoyed training students in marketing from the 'triple bottom line' perspective of a sustainable business.

Susan Bolton

Susan Bolton, PhD, PE

Dr. Bolton has academic training in ecology, biology, hydrology and civil engineering with masters degrees in both zoology and civil engineering and a PhD in Civil Engineering and is a licensed Professional Engineer. She received the Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Water Resources area from the University Council on Water Resources, and directed an interdisciplinary water center for six years. Dr. Bolton is very active in both the student (as the faculty mentor) and professional chapters of Engineers without Borders-USA and is actively working on water, infrastructure and health-related projects in Ecuador, Bolivia and Ethiopia. Dr. Bolton is a professor of forest resources at the University of Washington. She also manages and runs a 10-week undergraduate course in Costa Rica for University of Washington students that focuses on the interaction of community and environment in sustainable development.

Hector Saez

Dr. Hector Saez, PhD

Dr. Saez studied economics as an undergraduate at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) in Rio Piedras and completed his MA and PhD in economics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He has taught economics at UMass, the UPR, Wagner College (New York City), the Center for Sustainable Development Studies (Costa Rica), and the University of Vermont. At the Bainbridge Graduate Institute, he teaches Neoclassical and Ecological Economics. He is currently a research faculty with the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University. He is also a staff economist for the Center for Popular Economics. He is particularly interested in cooperation, workplace democracy, and environmental justice. His research focuses on the management of environmental resources and on sustainable rural development initiatives.

Brian Setzler

Brian Setzler, MBA, CPA

Brian Setzler is a Certified Public Accountant and is the founder of TriLibrium, a triple-bottom line public accounting firm located in Portland, Oregon. Brian's specialty is small business consulting, advising both profit and non-profit enterprises. He is a graduate of Washington State University and has an MBA in Sustainable Business from the Bainbridge Graduate Institute. He is a life long activist and the father of a teenage daughter.

Tressie Word

Tressie Word, MS

Tressie Word is a Project Engineer for Winzler & Kelly Consulting Engineers, where she designs and coordinates wastewater treatment, sewer and water distribution projects. She is also an adjunct instructor in environmental engineering at Humboldt State University ( Arcata , California ) and the University of Benito Juarez (Oaxaca , Mexico).

Tressie works to improve environmental conditions in creative, appropriate and elegant ways. Six years of engineering, four years of construction and fabrication, and a lifetime of artistic endeavors propel her to catalyze broad scale change in global health and sanitation, with style.

Tressie is codirector of Coalition of Water, Environment and Health of Oaxaca (CAMSO) that is working with the Appropedia Foundation, the Institute of Nature and Society of Oaxaca, the National Water Commission of Mexico and the Secretary of Health in Oaxaca to continue an ongoing workshop series for community leaders on watershed management and wastewater treatment in the Oaxaca Valley . She is Vice President of the Engineers Without Borders Northcoast Professional Chapter. She is also active on many boards, such as the design board for the Humboldt Bay Center for Sustainable Living.

Tressie earned her BS in Environmental Resources Engineering in 2002 and her MS in International Development Technology in 2006 from Humboldt State University.

 

 
 

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