Faculty profiles:

Bill Baue
B.A., English, Wesleyan University; M.A., English, The University of Vermont; Master of Letters, English, Bread Loaf School of English.
Bill Baue thinks, writes, talks, and teaches on corporate sustainability and responsibility in a whole lot of different ways and places.  His writings include: the Wal-Mart Sustainability Report, working for Flag Communications in collaboration with SustainAbility and BluSkye; a chapter on sustainable finance for the State of the World 2008 report from Worldwatch Institute; regular articles for SocialFunds.com, as well as the weekly news alert for CSRwire; and articles in magazines such as The CRO, Business Ethics, Corporate Knights in Canada, and Engaged Investor in the UK. 

Kelly Bennett
Kelly Bennett is Vice President of Sterling Planet, the nation's largest retailer of renewable energy. She serves as Chair of the NYS Apollo Alliance, a coalition of business, labor, environmental, social justice, and other community leaders working to support good, green collar jobs, as a member of the Renewable Energy Task Force convened by NYS Lt. Governor David Paterson, and as Co-Chair of the Climate Change Committee of the Environmental Business Association of New York State (EBA/NYS). Prior to joining Sterling Planet, Ms. Bennett was Deputy Executive Director of Government Affairs for the EBA/NYS, senior policy analyst for the NYS Assembly Commission on Critical Transportation Choices, and clerk and direct staff to the NYS Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee. An Albany Business Review 40 Under Forty honoree, Ms. Bennett holds a Masters of Regional Planning and a BA in geography, both from SUNY Albany, as well as an MS in Environmental Management and Policy from RPI.

Edith Callaghan
Dr. Callaghan is the Director of the Arthur Irving Academy for the Environment at Acadia University.   She has been teaching in the Acadia F.C. Manning School of Business since 2001 in the area of business strategy, corporate social responsibility, ethics, and sustainable community development.  She is currently working on several research projects, including: understanding the role of the consumer-citizen in pushing the sustainability agenda, and understanding of perceptions of sustainability and environmental risks in context of rural communities.
Dr. Callaghan is also active in her community as a board member of The Center for Rural Sustainability, a non-profit that works with rural municipalities to enhance their strategic decision making and planning processes with regard to rural sustainability; Steering Committee member for the Greening of Industry Network; and Council Member for the Arthur Irving Academy for the Environment.  Dr. Callaghan is also trained as a Natural Step Associate by Natural Step Canada.
Dr. Callaghan holds a Doctor of Business Administration (Management policy and Strategy) from Boston University, a Masters of Arts (Urban and Environmental Policy) from Tufts University, and a Bachelor of Arts (Economics and Political Science) from Bennington College. 

Barbara Charkey
B.A., Queens College, C.U.N.Y.; M.Ed., M.S., University of Massachusetts, Amherst;  C.P.A., N.H. Board of Accountancy
In 2007 Charkey begins her twentieth year as a Professor of Management at Keene State College, Keene, N.H.  Her primarily academic focus is in Accounting and Finance, but she also has extensive professional experience in International Management, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management.  Prior to joining the Management faculty at Keene State, Charkey developed and managed her own small business and was employed as an auditor for a regional public accounting firm. Charkey has been involved in a wide range of innovative curriculum development projects related to financial and managerial accounting topics, international accounting issues and women’s entrepreneurship.  Over the years her research and professional development projects have been funded by institutional and private grants and awards and have resulted in conference presentations and published case studies and papers.   Most recently she has focused her research and curriculum development efforts on measurement and accountability issues relative to organizational sustainability initiatives.  Charkey has taught Accounting and Finance courses as a visiting lecturer in M.B.A. programs both regionally and abroad.  She enjoys tennis, hiking and fine dining, especially in conjunction with international travel.

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Anita Dancs
Anita Dancs is an Asst. Professor at Western New England College. Her Ph.D is from the University of Massachusetts. From 2000-2008, she was Research Director of the National Priorities Project, a research organization that focuses on the federal budget and national security. Her research focuses on militarism, privatization of the military, and the relationship between energy issues and militarism. Anita has been interviewed hundreds of times by the media on federal budget and national security issues and has appeared on CNN, NPR, the Washington Post and the Boston Globe. Prior to 2000, she taught at Smith College, the University of Luton (UK), the Budapest University of Economics (Hungary) and the Godollo Agricultural University (Hungary). She has been a staff economist with the Center for Popular Economics since 1991. In her spare time, Anita and her partner are building an energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly house in Franklin County.

Lori Hanau grew up in New England in a successful entrepreneurial family that taught her a great deal about the central role that love, personal balance, and caring for one another plays in fostering strong leadership and healthy collaborative relationships.  From a very young age she experienced a deep personal connection to what she calls the Mystery & the universal spirit. Her relationship to the intangible has played and continues to play a central role in shaping the direction of her life, in developing her capacity to “see” and “listen”, in her ability to stand in and trust the unknown, and in strengthening her commitment to being of service.  Lori spent the greater part of her career in the business world, including presidency of a manufacturing company and had great opportunities to observe and engage with many different styles of leadership and a myriad of organizational systems.  She developed a clear sense for what causes leaders and the social eco-systems which they create to be vibrant and sustainable or, alternatively, to fall into dysfunction.  In time, feeling a calling she couldn’t ignore, Lori left the corporate world and allowed herself to enter a phase of deep inquiry and contemplation during which she attended a wide range of conferences and gatherings focused on different aspects of whole system change (including health, science, philanthropy, spirituality and business), observing and listening for what was emerging in the more conscious and innovative sectors of our society. 
Today Lori owns Global Round Table Leadership, a business whose mission is to call forth and support the shifts in consciousness, leadership and community needed to guide our creative endeavors and inspire us to support the emergence of a sustainable and collaborative world.  Lori’s own entrepreneurial work is as a spiritual ally, guiding and supporting leaders, change agents and pioneers on their paths toward the mastery and artistry that comes through increased consciousness and in living in greater connection with self, community and Spirit.  She works similarly with groups and networks as a spiritual space holder, communication bridge, and conversation facilitator, supporting the emergence of healthy collaborations and systems.  

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Ralph Meima - Program Director
B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; M.A., Johns Hopkins University; M.B.A., Wharton School Of Business, University Of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., Lund University, Sweden.
Until he joined the Marlboro College Graduate Center as director of the new MBA program in December 2006, Ralph Meima held the title of Assistant Professor of Organizational Management in the graduate program of the School for International Training (SIT) in Brattleboro, where he taught various management courses, advised M.S. and M.A. students, and was engaged in a variety of professional and institutional service efforts.  His doctorate focused on the organization of corporate environmental management in industry. Meima spent 14 years based in Sweden, where he moved as a strategy and marketing analyst for LM Ericsson AB in 1989.  There, in addition to completing his doctorate and teaching at the International Environmental Institute (IIIEE) at Lund University, he managed international research projects for the European Commission, the Bank of Sweden, and several industry clients, and also operated a small communications consulting firm with clients in the EU and North America.
He has written books and articles on environmental management and policy. Other research interests include simulation design, outdoor experiential education, corporate social responsibility, and sustainable industrial development. Meima is a member of the steering committee of the Greening of Industry Network, and is an active member of Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility and several community-based groups. A U.S. native, he speaks four languages and has lived in six countries on three continents. Meima began his career as an engineer in the IT industry.  He is married with three children, and lives in Brattleboro.

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Héctor Sáez
Héctor Sáez is the BioAg Value-Added Research Associate at Washington State
University's Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources. He
also teaches economics at the Bainbridge Graduate Institute¹s MBA program.
Previously, Héctor held a joint appointment with the Community Development
and Applied Economics department and the Environmental Program at the
University of Vermont. He has also taught economics at the University of
Puerto Rico, at the Center for Sustainable Development Studies (Costa Rica),
and at Wagner College. His research focuses on agriculture and environmental
issues, most recently on sustainability alternatives in the coffee industry.
Héctor has an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of
Massachusetts, and a B.A. in economics from the University of Puerto Rico.
His office is located in the Northwestern Washington Research & Extension
Center in Mount Vernon, WA.

David S. Timmons
Dave holds a B.A. in international studies from the School for International Training, an M.S. in community development and applied economics and graduate certificate in ecological economics from the University of Vermont, and is currently a Ph.D. student in resource economics at the University of Massachusetts. Dave’s background is in renewable energy systems, and during the summer of 2007 is leading an SIT program to Iceland, looking at renewable energy sources and utilization decisions in that country. Work experience includes campus facilities management and use of green building technologies. Current research interest is sustainable agriculture, in particular the economics of local food systems: what environmental, social, security, and other benefits accrue from local food production, and how do these compare to the benefits and costs of industrial-scale food production for the world economy?

Amy Townsend
B.A. Drew University; Master of Marine Affairs, University of Washington; Ph.D. in Environmental Studies, Antioch New England Graduate School.
Dr. Amy Townsend is Founder and President of Sustainable Development International Corp (SDIC). Since the early 1990s, she has researched, written, and presented on green building, greening the workplace, indoor environmental quality, green business, and the human-environment interface. 
Dr. Townsend also has consulted and taught in the US and abroad.  She worked with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to develop agency-wide environmental awareness through a green office manual and training workshops.  She also supported the National Aquarium in Baltimore’s greening efforts, working with the staff to undertake an environmental audit, compiling a staff conservation manual, and developing presentations for senior management and others to explain the importance of in-house conservation. 
In addition, Dr. Townsend has worked on Indian environmental issues, focusing on conservation in West Bengal’s Sundarbans (one of the world’s largest mangrove ecosystems), and in India’s northeast state of Meghalaya, where she worked with government ministers and an environmental organization to develop solutions to local environmental problems, suggest strategies for sustainable development, and raise awareness regarding cleaner, healthier technologies.
The author of The Smart Office (1997) and Green Business (2007), Dr. Townsend currently is completing her third and fourth books, Business Ecology and Biodiesel Challenges.  She wrote a weekly environmental column for the newspaper Malta Today and has written several articles on related topics for popular publications, including In Business,Sailing, and E magazines.  She contributed to two United Nations’ reports – one on environmental degradation and human rights abuses in South and Southeast Asia and the other on abuses of indigenous people’s cultural and intellectual property rights worldwide.  Moreover, she was involved in researching, writing, and editing Choosing a Sustainable Future (Island Press, 1992), one of the first national policies for sustainable development.
Dr. Townsend serves as adjunct assistant professor in James Madison University’s Department of Integrated Science and Technology.  In the summertime, she leads an environmental project and co-teaches a Sustainable Societies course in Malta. 

Valerie Voorheis
Valerie Voorheis is a Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in the Department of Economics and a Visiting Professor at Marlboro College. Val has also held positions at the School for International Training, the Labor Studies Masters Program at UMass, as well as other undergraduate institutions. Her research interests includes household production, gender, labor and discrimination. She has recently been focused on the history of industrial organization and comparative industrial policy. Val lives in Franklin County with her two young daughters and her partner who is Chief Technology Officer at CSRwire.

Beverly Winterscheid
Beverly C. Winterscheid, Ph.D., is Founder and Executive Director of The Institute for Nature and Leadership, a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC that promotes the sustaining effects of nature on human interaction and achievement.   She holds a Ph.D. in Strategic Management, has done post-doctoral work in ecopsychology, and her career has included international and U.S. postings in both the private sector where she focused on strategy and human resources, and academia.  Her publications focus on the development of core competencies, and organization learning processes.
She was co-developer of an innovative Master’s degree in Mission-Driven Organizations at the School for International Training in Vermont, and has taught Strategic Management, Social Accountability in Organizations, Management of Innovation and Technology, International Management and Human Resources Management.  She has been on the faculties of The European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, Baldwin-Wallace College, Vrije Universiteit – Brussel, and Boston University – Brussels. Beverly assisted in the creation of the Cleveland World Trade Center and was a founding member of the Board of the Sustainable Business Network of Washington DC.

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