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

Praween Dayananda
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 BA in Economics from Pomona.

Jennifer Fournelle
Jen is the Campus Events and Research Assistant 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. 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.

Kristy Jones
Kristy is the manager of campus climate education and action in National Wildlife Federation's (NWF) Campus Ecology program. She manages memberships, resources, and key partnerships. Before joining the staff of 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, The Bahamas. 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
Julian is the senior director of the National Wildlife Federation's (NWF's) Youth and Campus Programs, is a cofounder of NWF's Campus Ecology Program. Since 1989, she has lectured to campus and other audiences across the United States and abroad on sustainability in higher education. She wrote Ecodemia: Campus Environmental Stewardship at the Turn of the 21st Century (1995), co-authored Green Investment, Green Return: How Practical Conservation Projects Save Million on America's Campuses (Eagan and Keniry 1998), and spearheaded the State of the Campus Environment: A National Report Card on Environmental Performance and Sustainability in Higher Education (McIntosh et al. 2001). She currently serves on the board of the Institute for Conservation Leadership and as a member of an ad hoc sustainability committee of the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP).

Kristin Kranendonk

Kristin joined NWF in February of 2006 and works as the national coordinator on the campus team. She directs the fellowship program and coordinates all of NWF's interns. Kristin also works on special events, including NWF's participation with Focus the Nation, and she helps develop member resources. Prior to joining the NWF team, Kristin lived in Juneau, Alaska, where she worked at the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD) and coordinated community and outreach events for the local PBS station, KTOO. She originally moved to Juneau for a position with AmeriCorps where she worked in an adult education center running a mentor program. Kristin grew up in Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee in 2003.

Lisa Madry
Lisa is the Campus Field Director for the Campus Ecology program. Lisa works with champion campuses committed to reducing net emissions. She has been with NWF for four years, transitioning to Campus Ecology from another regional representative position within the organization where she worked with affiliates such as the Arkansas Wildlife Federation and the Conservation Federation of Missouri on national conservation issues.
Lisa has worked in the public service arena for the last 15 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 won President Bush's Point of Light Award in 1990. She also served as a representative for the Industrial Areas Foundation, an organization working with churches and schools to train and empower community leaders to improve services for their communities. Lisa holds a degree in public policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Justin Schott
Justin is a campus field coordinator in National Wildlife Federation's Campus Ecology program. Based out of NWF's Great Lakes Natural Resource Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, he works with students, staff, faculty, and administrators to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on college and university campuses. Justin began his career as an environmental educator, working as an instructor for Cornell Outdoor Education and leading youth corps in the mountains of Colorado.  After college, he served two years with Americorps at an environmentally-focused high school in Eugene, Oregon, teaching field science courses and leading student conservation projects. More recently, Justin has worked with several churches to develop environmental programs and reduce energy consumption; he now serves on the board of an interfaith environmental group. Justin has been in Ann Arbor since 2004, where he completed a masters in environmental psychology at the University of Michigan. 

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