2008 Switzer Fellowship and Grant Winners

From Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation

The Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation, a 22-year old environmental foundation, has announced the 25 new Switzer Fellows and 11 new Switzer Leadership Grant recipients working with Switzer Fellows on projects that aim to directly improve environmental quality. Each year, at least 20 future environmental leaders are awarded $15,000 each from the Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation to complete masters and doctoral degrees while advancing their skills and expertise to address critical environmental challenges.

The 2008 Switzer Fellows are:

• Leslie Abramson, MS, UC Santa Barbara - Marine Ecology
• Samuel Borgeson, MS/M.Arch, UC Berkeley - Building Science/Energy and
  Resources
• Matthew Davis, MPH, Dartmouth College - Public Health
• Sherrie Gallipeau, PhD, UC Berkeley - Integrative Biology/Endocrinology
• Linda Helland, MPH, San Jose State University - Public Health
• Christina Hemphill, PhD, Harvard University - Environmental Health
  Elizabeth Hoover, PhD, Brown University - Cultural/Environmental
  Anthropology
• Diana Humple, MS, Sonoma State University - Conservation Genetics
• Brian Johnson, PhD, Antioch University New England - Environmental
  Education
• Jamillah Jordan, MA, UCLA - Urban Planning
• Chris Larson, MBA, Yale University - Conservation Finance
• Christine Lee, PhD, UCLA - Civil and Environmental Engineering/Water
  Quality
• Nathan McClintock, PhD, UC Berkeley - Geography/Urban Agriculture
• Rebecca Menten, MS, Humboldt State University - Climate Change Policy
• Brian Milakovsky, MS, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
  - Forestry
• Urvi Parekh, MBA, UC Berkeley - Clean Energy Technology
• Jaclyn Prange, JD/MPH, UCLA - Law and Public Health
• Thu Quach, PhD, UC Berkeley - Environmental Epidemiology
• Kim Smaczniak, JD/MPP, Harvard University - International Environmental
  Law
• Jessica Strauss, MBA, Yale University - Sustainability/Corporate Social
  Responsibility
• Brad Timm, PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst - Wildlife
  Conservation
• Elena Traister, PhD, University of New Hampshire - Aquatic Ecosystem
  Science
• Dipti Vaghela, MS, San Jose State University - Renewable Energy
• Mele Wheaton, PhD, UC Santa Cruz - Science Education
• Joshua Wickerham, MA, UC San Diego - Pacific and International Affairs

More information on the 2008 class of Switzer Fellows, and the Switzer Environmental Fellowship program, is available on the Foundation website.

2008 Switzer Leadership Grant Recipients

As a complement to the Fellowship program, the Switzer Leadership Grant program provides grants of up to $40,000 to organizations which partner with a Switzer Fellow on a project that aims to directly improve
environmental quality. The recent Leadership Program Grantees are:

• Ashuelot Valley Environmental Observatory, Keene, NH - $40,000
• Environmental Investigation Agency, Inc., Washington, D.C. - $40,000
• The Pacific Institute, San Francisco, CA - $24,000
• American Rivers, Nevada City, CA - $40,000
• Consortium for Conservation Medicine, New York, NY - $40,000
• Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corp., Dorchester, MA - $35,000
• Environmental Grantmakers Association, New York, NY - $20,000
• Green Empowerment, Portland, OR - $30,000
• Hubbard Brook Research Foundation, Hanover, NH - $40,000
• Pinchot Institute for Conservation, Washington, D.C. - $40,000
• The Center for Food Safety, San Francisco, CA - $33,000

More information on the Switzer Leadership Grant program is available on the Foundation web site.

Source: The Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation