Brian Kasher is the Manager of Environmental Health and Safety for the Charlotte Mecklenburg School District, with 20.1 million square feet of occupied space, 630 buildings and 1250 mobile units...
Champions of Change: Greening Our Cities And Towns
The White House honors nine individuals as Champions of Change who are using innovative approaches to promote energy efficiency, revitalize outdoor spaces and waterways, and adopt transportation solutions that conserve natural resources, improve walkability and improve other quality of life aspect of our towns and cities.
Cynthia Solomon Barber is the Director of the City of Tallahassee’s Environmental Policy and Energy Resources (EPER) Department. EPER is responsible for ensuring environmental regulatory...
Deborah Scott, Executive Director of STAND-UP, a “Think and Act Tank for Working Communities,” and founder of TRADE-UP, a model prep-apprenticeship and workforce development program, is a leading...
J. Eric Mathis is the founder and director of The JOBS Project. His organization has been at the forefront of initiatives to bridge the gap between the fossil fuel and renewable energy industries...
Since 1982, Jeff Shoemaker has been the Executive Director of The Greenway Foundation, the non-profit organization that initiated the reclamation of the Denver’s South Platte River and its...
Lindsay Baxter is a Project Manager for the Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC). In this role she works with communities ranging in population from 75 to over 300,000, to implement...
Marian Robidas has been the principal of Jonestown Elementary School in the Northern Lebanon School District since 2005. Throughout her twenty-two years in education, she has been a strong...
Steve Montle is a Project Manager with the Center for Community Progress in Flint, Michigan. His work there centers on complex urban redevelopment projects and the leveraging of governmental and...
Dr. Jackie Cole, a Veterinarian, lead dedicated volunteers in Galveston to start reforesting after Hurricane Ike, which in 2008 flooded more than 75% of the buildings and killed nearly 40,000...