INOGO - Former Colleagues

Katherine Dennis

levic — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 19:19:46 +0000

Katherine

Dennis

Title and Credentials:

PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar in the Anthropology Dept.

Type:

Dr. Katherine Dennis is a postdoctoral scholar in the Anthropology Department and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. She works as a team member on the Iniciativa Osa y Golfito (INOGO) where she coordinates the Stanford Environmental Leadership and Language (SELAL) Program.

She has experience working in rural sustainable development, environmental education, and science outreach with underserved communities. Her research interests also include biodiversity conservation, natural resource management, smallholder farmers, and protected areas. For her dissertation, she studied the impacts of agroforestry development projects on smallholder farmers and the environment in the outskirts of a national park in Panama.

Katherine has a B.S. in Evolution and Ecology from the University of California, Davis, a M.S. in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology from the University of Maryland, and earned her Ph.D. in Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences from Texas A&M University.

Austin Cruz

austincr — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 21:23:54 +0000

Photo Credit:

Rob Jordan (Woods Institute)

Austin

Cruz

Title and Credentials:

Social Science Researcher

Type:

Former Colleagues

Austin Cruz is a Social Sciences Researcher for the Iniciativa Osa y Golfito (INOGO) at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. He is a Co-coordinator and Co-teacher for the Stanford Environmental Leadership and Language (SELAL) program and manages INOGO communication.

Austin received his Master’s in Latin American Studies from Stanford University. Prior to attending Stanford, he lived and traveled throughout South America and Spain. He is bilingual in Spanish and proficient in Portuguese, and his academic and professional interests include rural community sustainable development, environmental education, Neotropical flora, and plant systematics.

Samantha Selby

austincr — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 21:06:31 +0000

Photo Credit:

Rob Jordan (Woods Institute)

Samantha

Selby

Title and Credentials:

Stanford Graduate School of Education (M.A. Candidate '16); SELAL Researcher

Type:

Former Colleagues

Samantha Selby is a social sciences researcher for Professor William H. Durham in the Anthropology Department at Stanford and Co-coordinator/Co-teacher for the Stanford Environmental Leadership and Language (SELAL) program for INOGO.

Prior to working at Stanford, Samantha taught English for a year in Granada, Spain and taught math, science, and Spanish for two years at a non-profit, tuition free middle school in Tucson, Arizona. Samantha’s academic and research interests include international education, environmental education and sustainable development.

Samantha holds bachelor’s degrees in International Relations and Spanish from the University of Southern California.

Martin Carnoy

cmmenke — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:55:29 +0000

Martin

Carnoy

Title and Credentials:

Vida Jacks Professor of Education and Economics

Type:

Former Colleagues

School:

Education

Martin Carnoy is Vida Jacks Professor of Education and Economics at Stanford University. He writes on the economic value of education, on the underlying political economy of educational policy, and on the financing and resource allocation aspects of educational production. Much of his work is comparative and international and investigates the impact of global economic and social change on the way educational systems are organized. Examples of this are his books, Faded Dreams (1994), Sustaining the New Economy: Work, Family and Community in the Information Age (2000), The Charter School Dust-Up (co-author, 2005); Cuba's Academic Advantage(2007), and Vouchers and Public School Performance (2007). He and colleagues from South Africa and Botswana have recently published an innovative study on primary schooling in southern Africa, The Low Achievement Trap. and he is currently completing a book on higher educational change in the large developing countries-Brazil, Russia, India, and China-known as the BRICs. He has also done a recent analysis with colleagues at the Open University of Catalonia analyzing the relative success of adults attending virtual universities.

Maria Jose Rodriguez

cmmenke — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:51:02 +0000

Maria

Jose Rodriguez

Title and Credentials:

Local Coordinator

Type:

Former Colleagues

Bióloga graduada de la Universidad de Costa Rica, egresada de la Licenciatura en Interpretación Ambiental. Con experiencia en la Educación formal y No formal, así como en la Planificación del Turismo Rural Comunitario y la Educación Ambiental de la mano con comunidades. Actualmente es parte de la Maestría en Desarrollo Rural de la Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica donde se enfoca en el tema de Conservación y Desarrollo Rural.

Erick Vargas

maigari — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:33:42 +0000

Erick

Vargas

Title and Credentials:

National Coordinator

Type:

Former Colleagues

Consultor independiente. Presidente de empresa Sostenible por Naturaleza (www.sustainablebynaturecr.com). Cuenta con un B.A. de Louisiana state University, LSU y con una Maestría en Ecoturismo de ULACIT. Se desempeña como investigador en temas relevantes para el desarrollo sostenible. Tiene amplia experiencia en el trabajo directo con miembros de comunidades locales, personal de empresas privadas e integrantes de organizaciones comunitarias y cooperativas en procesos de consulta para diagnósticos y diseño de estrategias, con énfasis en asuntos de conservación y sostenibilidad. Posee amplia experiencia en el diseño e implementación de actividades de capacitación, incluyendo elaboración de manuales en temas de sostenibilidad, ambiente y turismo que respondan a las características y necesidades de los usuarios: funcionarios municipales, productores agropecuarios, áreas protegidas, miembros de cooperativas campesinas y empresarios turísticos. Actualmente incursiona en el campo de la Responsabilidad Social Empresarial.

Dr. Juan Carlos Vargas-Moreno

maigari — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:27:16 +0000

Dr. Juan Carlos

Vargas-Moreno

Title and Credentials:

Principal Partner, GeoAdaptive

Type:

Former Colleagues

Dr. Vargas, with his team at GeoAdaptive, is creating the alternative futures scenarios for the INOGO project. GeoAdaptive specializes in this strategic spatial planning and supporting technologies. Their work uses spatial analysis and scenario methods to help clients visualize alternative futures and their consequences. GeoAdaptive deploys a trans-disciplinary approach which engages key stakeholders and integrates best available science using geographic information systems.

Dr. Vargas is a principal partner at GeoAdaptive and a Lecturer and Research Scientist at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is an urban designer and landscape planner and is responsible for management and project operations at GeoAdaptive. Dr. Vargas specializes in a variety of project types, including master planning, scenario planning, simulation modeling, visual assessment, resort planning, and open space planning. At MIT he serves as a research scientist and manages projects on rapid urban and rural change, climate change, and ecosystem conservation. He has served as the Assistant Director of MIT-USGS Science Impact Collaborative and as a Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the University of Costa Rica. Dr. Vargas holds a Diploma in Architecture and Urban Design from University of Costa Rica, a Master in Design Studies and a Doctor of Design, in Landscape Planning and Ecology, degrees from Harvard University.

Claire Menke

maigari — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:13:33 +0000

Claire

Menke

Title and Credentials:

Researcher

Type:

Former Colleagues

School:

Humanities and Sciences

Department:

Anthropology

Claire Menke is the User Research and Community Manager for Versal.com, an online publishing platform created to house educational content. She previously worked as a social sciences researcher for Stanford's Department of Anthropology and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment conducting fieldwork, writing reports, and managing web content for the Osa-Golfito Initiative (INOGO).

Throughout her studies, her academic and research pursuits have focused on finding a viable intersection between economic development and conservation, primarily in Latin America. In 2011, Menke received and M.S. in Earth Systems from Stanford, with a concentration on the political economy of sustainable development and conservation. Her undergraduate honors thesis for Stanford's Department of Anthropology and the Goldman Honors Program in Environmental Science, Technology and Policy focused on the effect of tour group composition on animal behavior during Peruvian Amazon eco-tours. More recent intellectual pursuits are focused on determining the long-term viability of education technology as a means to effectively globalize education.

Emily Arnold

maigari — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:55:15 +0000

Emily

Arnold Mest

Title and Credentials:

Associate Director

Type:

Former Colleagues

Emily Arnold is currently the Associate Director of the Osa and Golfito Initiative (INOGO) at Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment. Prior her work with INOGO, Arnold worked for Prize Capital, a company that develops innovative financial mechanisms to address environmental challenges. While at Prize Capital, Mest engaged in the initial research and development efforts that eventually led to the NRG Cosia Carbon X Prize. She also led efforts focused on urban farming, REDD+, and private conservation strategy. At Prize Capital Mest was part of a multi-year effort to engage with stakeholders to address increasing challenges in the Osa and Golfito region of Costa Rica, an effort that ultimately led to the creation of INOGO.

Arnold began her work in Costa Rica with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), serving as the Costa Rica sole in-country representative while pursing a master's degree. NRDC’s focus on investigating strategies to make Costa Rica fossil fuel free in the energy and transportation sectors caused her to frequently interact directly with high-level government officials.

Arnold initially built a foundation in cmmunity development and conservation working with small NGOs in Greece and Mexico, after which she worked in Paris at France Nature Environment, a network of over 3,000 organizations lobbying to influence French, European and international environmental policy. She then worked in Washington, DC at the Earth Policy Institute, led by Worldwatch Institute founder Lester Brown, where she contributed to Brown's book Plan B 2.0 and authored an Eco-Economy Update on the negative impacts of bottled water on the environment.

Ms. Arnold first discovered her passion for for-profit environmental ventures while working at Canopy Development, a start-up company exploring a sustainable tourism-based model for conservation and economic development. At Canopy Development she ran the internal sustainability efforts of the company, as well as serving as project manager for the first Canopy Development branded resort.

Ms. Arnold holds two masters degrees: one in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development from the United Nations Mandated University for Peace in San Jose, Costa Rica and another in International Affairs from American University in Washington, DC. She received her BA from Smith College in Sociology and French.

Lynne Gaffikin

maigari — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:33:39 +0000

Lynne

Gaffikin

Title and Credentials:

Dr. Public Health; Adjunct Professor, Division of Family Planning Services and Research/Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Affiliate, Department of Primary Care and Population Health, Affiliate Fellow, Center for Innovation in Global Health

Type:

Former Colleagues

School:

Medicine

Lynne Gaffikin has worked for over 35 years helping to improve maternal and child health in low resource settings. For the past 20 years her work has also extended to the interface between human, wildlife and ecosystem health- most recently including planetary health. She received her doctorate of public health in community health and epidemiology in 1988. Her thesis focused on factors affecting the uptake of family planning in Niamey, Niger. Subsequently, she worked as senior advisor to the Kenya Ministry of Health on a USAID-funded family planning information system project. Starting in 1991, she served as Director of Research and Evaluation at JHPIEGO, a Johns Hopkins University affiliate, focusing initially on family planning training and then, post-Cairo, on broader women’s reproductive health issues. In 1996 she founded her own research and evaluation organization, EARTH Inc., to provide technical assistance to broader ecosystem health initiatives. In this capacity, she has worked closely with numerous conservation organizations (e.g. Conservation through Public Health, Wildlife Conservation Society, Jane Goodall Institute) as a public health and/or research and evaluation advisor. She continues to provide similar technical assistance to NGOs aiming to strengthen human health and environmental conservation linkages. Between 2011-2018, Dr. Gaffikin provided support to INOGO as their health and metrics advisor, undertaking a comprehensive health assessment of the region’s health status, needs and resources and[LG1] advising on strategic planning and results measurement. Currently, she is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Affiliate Fellow in the Center for Innovation in Global Health, School of Medicine.