People
Led by:
Dr. Burnell “Burney” C. Fischer, Ph.D., CF, Clinical Professor Emeritus of Public and Environmental Affairs, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs; Senior Research Fellow, Affiliated Faculty, and Former Director, The Ostrom Workshop.
Dr. Sarah K. Mincey, PhD. Associate Clinical Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs ; Managing Director, Environmental Resilience Institute
- Jess Vogt, MPA/MSES(2012), Ph.D. in Environmental Science (2014) from SPEA, currently Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Department of Environmental Science and Studies in the College of Science and Health at DePaul University (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
- Jess’s DePaul University research website: Lab for Urban Forestry in the Anthropocene (LUFA)
- Stephanie Freeman-Day, MES (2019), PhD candidate in Environmental Science at O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Urban Green Infrastructure Resilience Coordinator at the Environmental Resilience Institute
- Neil (Yoong Sin) Tong, M.P.A. / M.S.E.S, focus on Water Management (2023) at O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Neil works with Stephanie Freeman-Day on map visualization, and GIS tutoring for the McKinney Climate Fellowship's Urban Green Infrastructure Resilience Cohort. Neil is also the data manager of the Indiana Green City Mapper. Along with his work with Stephanie, Neil works with Bill Brown, Marie Renahan, Cate Racek and other McKinney Climate Fellows on grant applications for the Indiana Resilience Funding Hub. He is interested in pursuing research into the environmental legacies of redlining and the impacts of human interventions (tree planting and other) to increase canopy cover
- Neil Tong Yoong Sin, MSES-MPA (2023) at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Community Resilience Coordinator at the Environmental Resilience Institute
- Lynne Westphal, Ph.D., Research Social Scientist with People and their Environments: Social Science Supporting Natural Resource Management and Policy for USDA/USFS Northern Research Station, The Strategic Foresight Group
- Hannah Gregory, BS Environmental Science (2019) at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, currently Associate Researcher at the Environmental Resilience Institute
- Matthias Benko, undergraduate student, BA Environmental and Sustainability Studies and BA Geography (Spring 2023)
- Tom Evans, Ph.D., Professor of Geography, University of Arizona
- The late Dr. Elinor Ostrom, Nobel Laureate, Founding Co-Director of CIPEC, Founding Co-Director of the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis
- Shannon Lea Watkins, Ph.D. in Public Affairs (2015) from SPEA, currently Assistant Professor of Community and Behavioral Health at the the University of Iowa
- Susan Stewart, formerly a Research Social Scientist with the Northern Research Station of the US Forest Service
- Sean Sweeney, GIS/Remote Sensing Specialist I, Center for the Study of Institutions, Population and Environmental Change (CIPEC), Indiana University Bloomington
- Teresa Dunn, MPA-MSES (2017) from SPEA, Assistant Director, Integrated Program in the Environment, IUB
- Hope Reamer, MPA-MSES Candidate (December 2020), O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs
- Sarah Widney, MSES (2015) from SPEA, currently Environmental Health Scientist, Salt Lake County Health Department, Utah
- Donovan Moxley, MPA-MSES (2018) from SPEA, Natural Resource Specialist, USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, McKinney, TX.
- Charlie DeVoe, MPA (2019) from O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, currently Grants Specialist (State and Local Grants), EPA Region 10, Seattle
- Lindsey Hummel, MPA-MSES (2019) from O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs
- Anagha Gore, MPA-MSES (2021) from O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs
- Rodoshi Sinha, MPA-MSES (2022) from O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs
- Erin Hatch, MSES-MPA (2019) at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, formerly Urban Forester for the City of Bloomington
- Gretchen Luchauer, MPA-MSES (2021) from O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, PhD student in Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University
- Graduated SPEA/CIPEC students:
- Rachael Bergmann (MPA/MSES ’14)
- Noah Blumenthal (MSES '17)
- Lance Dye (BSES ’10)
- Laura Garrett (MPA/MSES ’12)
- Rachel M. Krause (PhD Public Affairs ’10)
- Kaitlyn McClain (MPA/MSES ’14)
- Nick Myers (MPA/MSES ’12)
- Matt Patterson (MPA/MSES ’12)
- John Roberts (MPA-MSES '17)
- Tatyana Ruseva (PhD Public Affairs ’11)
- Mikaela Schmitt-Harsh (MPA/MSES, PhD Environmental Science ’12)
- Mike Steinhoff (MPA/MSES ’07)
- Jennifer Swilik (BSES ’14)
- Rich Thurau (PhD '13)