ERI consults with faculty and practitioners who are innovators and visionaries in their fields. Their ideas guide ERI's programming and cultivate new pathways to help Hoosier communities contend with environmental change.
Steering committee
Paige Andersson
As the senior assistant vice provost for experiential learning, Andersson promotes opportunities where students can learn in real-world and applied contexts.
Eduardo Brondizio
A distinguished professor in anthropology and director of the Center for the Analysis of Social-Ecological Landscapes, Brondizio's expertise relates to several working groups.
Guangqing Chi
Chi is Provost Professor of Geography at IU Bloomington where he works on the complex environmental, social, and policy challenges confronting our world today.
Nathan Cook
An assistant professor at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Cook seeks to understand how policy reforms can alleviate environmental inequalities.
Aaron Deslatte
An assistant professor at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affair, Deslatte researches local governance, policy analysis, and public management.
Ash Enrici
Enrici is an assistant professor at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and a McKinney Family Fellow of Environmental Resilience and Philanthropy. Her current research investigates how donors contribute more equitably, effectively and justly to climate and conservation work.
Dana Habeeb
An assistant professor at the Luddy School of Informatics, Habeeb studies how climate responsive design can help mitigate climate change and address environmental challenges.
Sharon Kandris
Kandris is the Executive Director of the Polis Center and Director of Community Informatics at IU Indianapolis. She has more than 25 years of experience helping organizations use data and GIS to better understand their communities.
David Konisky
A professor at the O'Neill Schoold of Public and Environmental Affairs, Konisky researches environmental and energy policy, governance and public Law, policy analysis, sustainability and sustainable development.
Ben Kravitz
An associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, Kravitz's work focuses on climate models and climate engineering.
Rachael Jones McAfee
McAfee, executive director for community engagement, is focused on strengthening IU’s relationships with civic and business leaders, elected officials, and other key stakeholders.
Scott Michaels
Michaels, a professor of biology at IU Bloomington, also serves as Indiana University’s assistant vice president for centrally administered centers and core facilities in IU Research.
Travis O'Brien
An assistant professor of earth and atmospheric Sciences, O'Brien focuses on understanding what controls weather and climate phenomena that impact human and natural systems.
Sarah Osterhoudt
Osterhoudt is director of the IU Bloomington Environment, Society, and Sustainability Institute and an associate professor of anthropology.
Cory J. Rutz
Executive director for corporate and foundation relations at IU, Rutz is helping ERI establish a philanthropic network to support its future.
Zachary Schrank
An associate professor of sociology at IU South Bend and director of the Center for a Sustainable Future, Schrank's expertise relates to consumerism and the anthropocene.
J. Adam Scribner
Scribner is director of STEM education initatives at the IU Blooomington School of Education and principal investigator of Educating for Environmental Change.
Scott Shackelford
As associate vice president and vice chancellor for research at IU Bloomington, Shackelford fosters large-scale interdisciplinary research and facilitates collaboration with faculty, academic leaders, and external partners.
Landon Yoder
An assistant professor at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Yoder studies how farmers, government, and society cooperate to navigate tradeoffs between agricultural production and conservation, with a focus on water quality.
Advisory board
Denise Abdul-Rahman
Abdul-Rahman is the founder and chief equity officer of Black Sun Light Sustainability.
Jim Carpenter
Carpenter is the CEO of Wild Birds Unlimited.
Joel Clement
Clement is director of climate action with The Lemelson Foundation and a former senior fellow with the Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Rita Colwell
Colwell is a distinguished university professor at the University of Maryland in Applied Environmental Health (MIAEH) focusing on global infectious diseases.
Jeffery Dukes
Dukes is a senior staff scientist in the Department of Global Ecology at Carnegie Science.
Katharine Hayhoe
Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist, chief scientist at The Nature Conservancy, and distinguished professor at Texas Tech University.
David Hillman
Hillman is the former senior program manager for the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust.
Matthew Huber
Huber is a professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University.
Stephanie Goodrid Lawson
Lawson is the executive director of the McKinney Family Foundation.
Peter Marra
Marra is the is the Dean of the Earth Commons—Georgetown's Institute for the Environment and Sustainability—and a researcher focused on animal migrations.
Brian Mormino
Mormino is the executive director of technical and environmental systems at Cummins Inc.
Carrie Newcomer
Newcomer is a songwriter and performer.
Dana Reed Wise
Wise is the environmental health bureau chief for the Marion County Public Health Department.
