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Please feel free to contact Campus Ecology with any questions, comments or concerns you may have.

Campus Ecology
National Wildlife Federation
11100 Wildlife Center Drive
Reston, VA 20190
703-438-6000
campus@nwf.org

Courtney Cochran
703-438-6265
cochranc@nwf.org

Courtney supports the Campus Ecology Fellowship program, coordinates the Internship program, is involved in special media projects and tracks and engages NWF alumni. Courtney recently graduated from Warren Wilson College in Asheville North Carolina with a BA in Political Science and an even deeper appreciation for the beautiful Swannanoa Valley and the power of community. While at Warren Wilson, Courtney served for four years on the Environmental Leadership Center (ELC) work crew in the role of Publications Assistant. Based largely on her work at the ELC Courtney received the Upper French Broad River Defense Association Outstanding Achievement Award as well as the Roosevelt-Ashe Society Award for Outstanding Youth in Conservation. In her free time, Courtney enjoys long hikes and live music.

Praween Dayananda
512-610-7761
dayanandap@nwf.org

Praween is the Campus Field Coordinator based in Austin, Texas, for the Campus Ecology Program. As campus field coordinator, Praween helps colleges and universities develop plans to reduce emissions on campus to confront global warming and to educate the campus community on the benefits of and the need to reduce their carbon footprint. Before coming to NWF, Praween was co-coordinator of the Pomona Campus Climate Challenge group and a student representative on the President's Advisory Committee on Sustainability at Pomona College in Claremont, California. With the group, Praween co-wrote a report on Pomona's greenhouse gas emissions and strategies for mitigation, A First Step Toward a Climate Neutral Pomona College: Greenhouse gas emissions inventory and strategies for mitigating emissions. Praween planned and directed Pomona's first comprehensive Dorm Energy Conservation Challenge in November 2006 which achieved an 8% reduction in electricity consumption compared to November 2005 and led to the college purchasing its first renewable energy. With the group, Praween also helped encourage the president of the college to sign on to the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, screen and organize a global warming film series and Step it Up. As a member of the President's Advisory Committee on Sustainability, Praween prepared a proposal for developing an action plan on making the campus climate neutral and helped draft a year-end report to the President. Praween graduated in 2007 with a B.A. in Economics from Pomona.

Jennifer Fournelle
703-438-6002
fournellej@nwf.org

Jen is the Campus Ecology Coordinator for National Wildlife Federation's Campus Ecology Program. Jen organizes and engages members in Chill Out: Campus Solutions to Global Warming, Campus Ecology's nationwide competition for solutions to global warming. She also works with our Campus Fellows and NWF's interns. Before coming to NWF, Jen worked for Wildlife Encounters in New Hampshire and Leesburg Animal Park in Virginia, educating children (and their parents and teachers) about wildlife and the environment in a hands-on setting. During college, Jen studied abroad in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador for a semester. The students lived in grass huts and did research on frogs and spectacled bears. Jen was lucky enough to be present as they released a spectacled bear into the wild and took part in the tracking of it after its release. Jen graduated in 2005 with a B.S. in Wildlife Management from the University of New Hampshire.

Juliana Goodlaw-Morris
734-887-7115
goodlawmorrisj@nwf.org

Juliana is the Campus Field Coordinator for the National Wildlife Federation’s Campus Ecology program. Based out of the Great Lakes Regional Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Juli works throughout the Midwest region assisting college campuses with sustainability initiatives, such as helping to develop campus climate or sustainability plans, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and working with students, faculty, and staff to cultivate campus-wide efforts to bring sustainability to the forefront of all campus activities. In addition, Juli is working to help coordinate regional sustainability networks, where campuses can come together and discuss issues and solutions to campus sustainability. Before coming to NWF, Juli spent many years abroad in Jamaica, working with the US Peace Corps and in the sustainable farming/agriculture sector. Juli has a MA degree in Sustainable Development with a concentration in Community Development and Social Action Training from SIT Graduate Institute and a BA in Environmental Studies from UC Santa Cruz. When Juli is not working on sustainability issues, she enjoys new adventures, traveling to far off lands, reading, listening to music, and knitting.

Xarissa Holdaway
703-438-6318
holdawayx@nwf.org

Xarissa is the e-news Coordinator for National Wildlife Federation's Campus Ecology program. She coordinates the program e-newsletter ClimateEdu and writes articles for the e-newsletter and the Campus Ecology blog focusing on global warming solutions such as energy, land use, construction, agriculture and sustainability issues at colleges and universities. Before coming to NWF, she worked at an architecture magazine doing editorial work, including focusing on as many reclaimed and sustainable items as the publisher would allow. At last count, Xarissa has lived in eight states and four countries and comes by her interest in sustainability issues by way of the inimitable French pastry. She has an English degree from Brigham Young University, where she also worked as a peer mentor for incoming freshmen and held a facilitation position at the study abroad office.

Kristy Jones
703-438-6262
jonesk@nwf.org

Kristy is the manager of campus climate education and action in National Wildlife Federation's (NWF) Campus Ecology program. She manages campus team memberships, resources such as web conferences and climate solutions fellowships, internships, key partnerships, and has co-authored Higher Education in a Warming World – The Business Case for Climate Leadership on Campus. Before joining NWF, Kristy worked at the Foundation for Environmental Security and Sustainability as an office/research coordinator. Kristy also spent six years working for the Center for Field Studies at George Mason University (GMU). One of her largest projects at GMU was managing The Bahamas Environmental Research Center on Andros Island. Kristy has led several field studies to The Bahamas and Costa Rica. She graduated in 1996 with a B.A. in Anthropology and received her master's degree in 2000 in Environmental Studies.

Julian Keniry
703-438-6322
keniry@nwf.org

For more than two decades, Ms. Keniry has helped build the movement for sustainability in higher education. She co-founded the National Wildlife Federation’s Cool-It! Program in 1989 (re-named Campus Ecology in 1993). She and her team co-founded the Energy Action Coalition, comprised of more than 30 campus and youth organizations advocating for leadership to confront global warming, and organized meetings that lead to the formation of the Higher Education Associations’ Sustainability Consortium (HEASC). Ms. Keniry has been recognized for numerous landmark initiatives, including the national Chill Out Competition on campus solutions to global warming, the nation’s first and largest national report cards on higher education sustainability performance, a fellowship program, webinar series, videos, webcasts and publications. She wrote Ecodemia: Campus Environmental Stewardship at the Turn of the 21st Century (1995) and co-authored Green Investment, Green Return: How Practical Conservation Projects Save Millions on America’s Campuses (1998), Higher Education in a Warming World: The Business Case for Climate Leadership on Campus (2008) and numerous other articles and publications. She earned undergraduate degrees in international relations and German from Agnes Scott College and a Master’s degree in environmental science and policy from Johns Hopkins University.

Lisa Madry
512-610-7755
madry@nwf.org

Lisa is the Campus Field Director for the Campus Ecology program. Lisa leads the field team working with campuses to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mobilizing support for federal climate action. She has been with NWF for more than six years, transitioning to Campus Ecology from the role as Regional Representative position where she worked with NWF's state affiliates in the Lower Mississippi area. Lisa has worked in the public service arena for going on 20 years. She co-founded and directed SCALE (Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education), a national organization mobilizing student involvement in literacy efforts, for which she was awarded President Bush's Point of Light Award in 1990. She also served as a community organizer for six years for the Industrial Areas Foundation network in San Antonio and Houston. Lisa holds a degree in public policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.