People

Caroline Gerdes is the social media specialist at Cascade Public Media and a New Orleanian living in Seattle. She was also a National Geographic Young Explorer — which is totally a real job title. She recently published her first book, An Oral History of the New Orleans Ninth Ward.

Caroline Howe supports the District Government's plan to make the District of Columbia the most sustainable city in the country. This is one of the most innovative, ambitious sustainability plans in the country, balancing environmental, economic, and social needs of the District of Columbia today as well as the needs of the next generation.

Caroline Hoxby, Professor of Economics, is Director of the Economics of Education Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the National Board for Education Sciences. She is one of the nation's foremost experts on school choice, teacher pay, teacher quality, financing public schools, the costs and benefits of college, and methods for scientific, quantitative evaluation of educational policies. Hoxby has a PhD in economics from MIT and studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. She is the editor of The Economics of School Choice (2003) and College Choices: The Economics of Where to Go, When to Go, and How to Pay for It (2004).

Caroline Kennedy is an attorney and the editor of *the New York Times* best selling *A Family Christmas*; *A Patriot's Handbook*; *The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis*; *A Family of Poems - My Favorite Poetry for Children*; and *Profiles in Courage for Our Time*, and the co-author of *The Right to Privacy and In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action*. From 2002-2004, Ms. Kennedy served as chief executive for the Office of Strategic Partnerships for the New York City Department of Education where she helped raise more than $65 million in private support for the city's public schools. She currently serves as the Vice Chair of The Fund for Public Schools. Ms. Kennedy is also the President of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and a member of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award Committee. She is a Director of the Commission on Presidential Debates, and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and serves as Honorary Chairman of the American Ballet Theatre. Ms. Kennedy was born on November 27, 1957. She is a graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Law School. She lives in New York City with her husband Edwin Arthur Schlossberg, president of Edwin Schlossberg Inc., a multi-disciplinary design company that specializes in interactive exhibit design and museum master-planning. Kennedy and Schlossberg were married on July 19, 1986. They have three children.

Caroline Lester is an Associate Producer for Innovation Hub.

Caroline Moorehead is the author of Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life and Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees. Caroline Moorehead wrote a column on human rights first for The Times and then for the Independent (1980-91) and made a series of TV programmes on human rights for the BBC (1990-2000). She has written the history of the International Committee of the Red Cross (1998); and has helped to set up a Legal Advice Centre for refugees in Cairo, where she has also started schools and a nursery. Currently she works as a volunteer on the legal team for the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture.

Caroline Weber received her Ph.D. in French literature from Yale University (1998) and her BA in Literature from Harvard University (1991). Before coming to Barnard/Columbia, she taught for seven years at the University of Pennsylvania. A specialist in eighteenth-century French literature and culture, with particular emphasis on the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, she is the author of *Terror and its Discontents: Suspect Words and the French Revolution* (2003), and the co-editor of a special issue of Yale French Studies, *Fragments of Revolution* (2001). She has published articles on eighteenth-century authors such as Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, Sade, Charrire, and La Chausse, and on contemporary thinkers like Lacan and Lyotard. She recently published *Queen of Fashion: What Marie-Antoinette Wore to the French Revolution* (2006), and is at work on a study of ideology and the drame bourgeois. Additional research and teaching interests include eighteenth-century fiction and philosophy; psychoanalysis and critical theory; and gender studies.

Dr. Caroly A. Shumway serves as Principal Investigator in Aquatic Biodiversity, Departments of Conservation and Research. Dr. Shumway is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biology at Boston University. Her program in Aquatic Biodiversity includes the creation of Living Links: Choices for Survival; development of Scientists Without Borders, a program to link young scientists with communities in need of biodiversity research; Changing Hearts and Minds, a values-based approach to environmental stewardship in the South Pacific; and assistance with freshwater biodiversity conservation and livelihood security in the Congo on a USAID-funded project. She also writes and conducts research on conservation policy, the use of behavior in conservation, and the evolution of brain and behavior. Dr. Shumway has eleven years of experience in international conservation ranging from governmental policy (USAID) to grassroots work (The Nature Conservancy).

**Carolyn Beeler** covers the environment for The World, where she focuses on stories about people and places impacted by climate change. She has reported from all seven continents and won national and regional awards for her breaking news and in-depth feature reporting. Before joining The World, she helped pilot the weekly health and science show The Pulse at WHYY in Philadelphia, and reported from Berlin for a year as a Robert Bosch Foundation fellow. She studied journalism at Northwestern University and got her start in radio as a Kroc fellow at NPR.

Carolyn is a photographer and writer in the Boston area with a penchant for covering just about everything. She holds an MS-and-a-half in two different kinds of journalism from Boston University (still in the process of submitting that final project). She is neither a foodie, nor great at writing about herself – she actually thinks it’s really weird. Still, she likes a good vegan pizza, and adores som tum salad (hold the shrimp and fish sauce). And definitely no lutefisk, please. Her mother served it for dinner one night, when she was younger. A hazmat team was rushed in, and the family ended up ordering pizza.

Having survived breast cancer, Carolyn Buttram combines an knowledge base with innovative, uplifting, and entertaining presentation skills to encourage spiritual celebration and growth. For over 10 years, she has been inspiring and informing her audiences about living their best and most joyful life, while changing the world in the process. She consistently challenges old belief patterns and inspires her audiences to greater involvement in their own lives. She also is a talented landscape and portrait photographer.

Carolyn Porco is a planetary scientist and the leader of the imaging science team on the Cassini mission presently in orbit around Saturn. In 1999, she was selected by The London Sunday Times as one of 18 scientific leaders of the 21st century, and by Industrial Week as one of 50 Stars to Watch.

Carolyn Finney, PhD is a storyteller, author and a cultural geographer who is grounded in both artistic and intellectual ways of knowing - she pursued an acting career for eleven years, but five years of backpacking trips through Africa and Asia, and living in Nepal changed the course of her life. Motivated by these experiences, Carolyn returned to school after a 15-year absence to complete a B.A., M.A. (gender and environmental issues in Kenya and Nepal), and a Ph.D. in Geography at Clark University (where she was a Fulbright and a Canon National Science Scholar Fellow). Along with public speaking (nationally & internationally), writing, media engagements, consulting & teaching (she has held positions at Wellesley College, the University of California, Berkeley & the University of Kentucky), she served on the U.S. National Parks Advisory Board for eight years. Her first book, _Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors_ was released in 2014. Recent publications include _Self-Evident: Reflections on the Invisibility of Black Bodies in Environmental Histories_ (BESIDE Magazine, Montreal Spring 2020), _The Perils of Being Black in Public: We are all Christian Cooper and George Floyd_ (The Guardian, June 3rd 2020), and _Who Gets Left Out of the Great Outdoors Story? _(The NY Times November 4 2021). Upcoming essays include “J_oy isa Revelation_” in _Nature Swagger: Stories and Visions of Black Joy in the Outdoors_ (edited by Rue Mapp, Chronicle Books, Oct. 2022) and “_Memory Divine_” in the upcoming anthology, _A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars_ (edited by Erin Sharkey, Milkweed Press, Feb. 2023). She is currently working on her new book (creative non-fiction) that takes a more personal journey into the very complicated relationship between race, land & belonging in the United States, and a performance piece entitled The N Word: Nature Revisited as part of an Andrew W. Mellon residency at the New York Botanical Gardens Humanities Institute. Along with being the new columnist at the Earth Island Journal, she was recently awarded the Alexander and Ilse Melamid Medal from the American Geographical Society and is a scholar-in-residence in the Franklin Environmental Center at Middlebury College. You can find out more about Carolyn at carolynfinney.com. Credit Photo : Nicholas Nichols