Spring 2024

Irene Bailey

Irene is the Director of Temenos Rising, where she designs and facilitates nature connection and mindfulness programs. She also served as the Program Coordinator for CUHF through August 2024. Over the past 20 years, Irene has worked with numerous environmental and sustainability education programs as an educator, leader, mentor, and wilderness guide.

Leia Barnett

Leia is the Greater Gila New Mexico Advocate for WildEarth Guardians. She brings her love and deep reverence for the high desert country of the Southwest to the Greater Gila campaign. Leia graduated from the University of New Mexico’s cultural anthropology program, where she focused on the ways the more-than-human world can be reimagined through anthropological theory and practice.

Sarah Buie, convener

Sarah is Founding Convener of the Council on the Uncertain Human Future. She is Professor Emerita and Research Scholar at Clark University, where she served as Director of the Higgins School of Humanities and its Difficult Dialogues initiative for ten years, initiated the CUHF, and founded the curriculum initiative A new Earth conversation. As a museum exhibition designer (1978-2005), she designed more than 100 exhibitions for art, natural history and history museums.

Lauren Faria

Lauren has worked in the arts and culture sector for more than 20 years, as both a fundraiser and a grant program officer. They are currently Assistant Director of Institutional Giving and Evaluation at the RISD Museum. Prior to joining the museum, Lauren was Director of Grants to Organizations at the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA) and previously held positions with Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Creative Capital Foundation, and MacDowell. Lauren holds a BA in English from Wellesley College and a MA in Arts Administration from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Kevin Gallagher, convener

Kevin is an attorney, author, and facilitator. He is the Director of Emergent Resilience, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that helps government agencies, private organizations, academic institutions, and individuals build resilience for a climate changing world. Kevin previously worked as a climate change law and policy attorney in Washington, D.C. Kevin is a National Convener for the Council on the Uncertain Human Future.

Selina Gallo-Cruz

Selina is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Syracuse University. She researches culture, conflict, gender, global change, NGOs, nonviolence, social movements and theory. Selina is the author of Political Invisibility and Mobilization: Women Against State Violence (Routledge, 2021), winner of the American Sociological Association’s Peace, War and Social Conflict section’s Outstanding Book Award.

Brittany Goede

Brittany is the Chief of Staff at the Academy for the Love of Learning, a nonprofit based in Santa Fe, NM, which strives to transform learning, the way we think about it, and the way we approach it. She is also deeply involved with the Santa Fe Community Yoga Center, a nonprofit that works to make yoga and mindfulness practices accessible to all bodies in the Santa Fe area, including in our local schools and to incarcerated populations. Brittany earned her M.A. at St. John’s College in Santa Fe and her B.A. in Political Science from Buena Vista University.

Kristine Maltrud

Kristine is a life-long dance/movement artist. She currently facilitates creative life-mapping with Latino and Indigenous middle- and high-school students at Working Classroom in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She also facilitates and practices Authentic Movement in the US, Canada and Europe. She is most at home is the wild places of ocean, mountain, river and wherever there are trees.

Simone Marisseau

Simone is a former small-business owner who resides a 1760s NH farmstead, where she and partner have been experimenting with sustainable practices such as water recovery and solar panels. She is the mother of two teenagers, and a dharma and yoga practitioner. She currently works in tech, coaching businesses on marketing and social media.

Ayana Mathis

Ayana is the author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie and most recently, The Unsettled, which was named a New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book of 2023. Mathis received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and went on to become the first African-American woman to serve as an Assistant Professor in that program. She currently teaches at Hunter College in the MFA Program.

Erin Moore

Erin is a Professor in the Department of Architecture and in the Environmental Studies Program at University of Oregon. She is currently the Director of Academic Programs for the UO Environment Initiative and Associate Director of the Environmental Studies Program. Moore’s recent design work explores the architectural space of fossil fuel consumption, multi-species design, climate justice, and ideas of nature.

Tom Murphy

Tom is an Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomy/Astrophysics at the University of California, San Diego. Before turning away from astrophysics, he built instrumentation to study galaxies and test general relativity. Now his focus is on the fundamental flaws in modernity, long-term ecological sustainability, and the different ways of knowing and living that put humans back in context within the community of life.

Chris Rabe

Chris is a Postdoctoral Associate in Environmental and Sustainability Education at the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative, where his main area of research focuses on better understanding and expanding climate justice and sustainability education at MIT and beyond. Chris is also interested in exploring environmental education and community engagement that centers inclusive and anti-racist practices and supports students who experience challenging emotions in relation to the climate crisis.

Sarah Stephens

Sarah is Founder and Executive Director of CARE LAB, and a veteran leader in bridging, human rights, and the art of convening leaders for authentic, bipartisan conversations. Prior to launching CARE LAB, Sarah was the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for the Democracy in the Americas, which played a key role in bringing about the historic opening between the U.S. and Cuba in 2014. Through her decades of foreign policy work, Sarah has honed her skills in trust-building, bipartisan work, and convening diverse groups of leaders and stakeholders.

Kerri Stearns

Kerri has over 20 years’ experience in Education and is currently employed at Clark University as the Undergraduate Student Assistant for the Psychology Department. In 2022, Kerri expanded her role by becoming the Administrative Coordinator for the CUHF. Kerri is in the process of earning a Master of Public Administration (MPA) at Clark.

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