Fellows Staff Bios

 

Edie Farwell directs the Donella Meadows Leadership Fellows New Initiatives Program. As the number of graduates of the Fellows Program grows, Edie is launching a social networking project to significantly increase the ongoing impact the Fellows make to sustainability. This will be done by joint think/do tanks; projects across sectors; and by expanded interactions between Fellows, their networks and Sustainability Institute partners, colleagues and networks. Edie also co-designs the curriculum, workshops, and coaching methodology and serves as a leadership coach for the Fellowship.

Nancy Gabriel directs the Donella Meadows Leadership Fellows Program. Nancy co-designs the curriculum, workshops, and coaching methodology and serves as a leadership coach.  Nancy is an experienced designer and facilitator of multi-stakeholder learning and action environments for people engaged in the movement to create a sustainable world.  Nancy works with a diversity of stakeholders to design projects working towards the twin goals of social justice and environmental sustainability and has brought people together to create and lead change in fields that include higher education, youth leadership and global communications on health and the environment. 

Beth Sawin co-designs the curriculum, workshops, and coaching methodology for the Donella Meadows Leadership Fellows Program.  After receiving her Ph.D. in biology from MIT in 1997 she was recruited to Sustainability Institute in 1998 by Dana Meadows. Her work at Sustainability Institute has included research and computer modeling on commodity agriculture, developing trainings in systems thinking for sustainability and extensive writing (both research reports and monthly columns). Together with Phil Rice she has directed SI’s Our Climate Ourselves Program, which focuses on empowering leaders at all scales to take action on global climate change. She also works within SI’s Climate Interactive Program where she helps create computer simulations of climate and energy and use those simulations to engage leaders in creating climate and energy policy that is based on sound science and a commitment to fairness and equity.

Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees co-designs the curriculum, workshops, and coaching methodology and serves as a leadership coach for the Donella Meadows Leadership Fellows Program.  Kaylynn is a guide and cartographer who lives and works at the intersections of cultures, species, ideas, beliefs, and the unknown. She utilizes the wisdom of the Earth to explore the crossroads with a practice which engages both critical inquiry and spiritual awareness. She has worked with individuals, communities and organizations in the US, Europe and New Zealand in arts, education, health care, prisons and cross cultural mediation.

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