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People The Group is run on an egalitarian basis with very fluid roles and all major decisions made by consensus. Want to help out? Talk to one of the folks below... Mary Ellen Kustin (seminar organizer) is a second year masters student in the CONS (Sustainable Development & Conservation Biology) and Environmental Policy programs. She received her BS in math from the University of South Carolina (go gamecocks!) before moving up to Maryland to study policy inside the beltway. Her career will most likely focus on environmental issues on the community level in some way. Mary Ellen helps to organize the Graduate Women in Public Policy (GWiPP) group in addition to her work with EESG. She is currently a graduate research assistant for the Center for Integrative Environmental Research. During the rare hours when she's not on campus, she enjoys camping, cycling, and generally being outdoors. Rodrigo G. Pinto (seminar organizer) studies International Relations, and Environmental and Resource Politics in the Ph.D. program of the UMD Dept. of Government and Politics. He is writing a dissertation on the transnational governing of biodiversity and bioenergy. Rodrigo has taught "Politics and Policy of Sustainable Development" at UMD. He was an academic advisor with the Politics & Policy concentration of the UMD Environmental Science and Policy (ENSP) major, and a Graduate Fellow of the United Nations Association with the Biofuels Program at the Worldwatch Institute. Prior to coming to UMD, he studied Tropical Coastal Management at UFPE (Grad. Certificate) (Brazil), and Political Science and Economics at the University of Richmond (B.A.). Iván D. Valencia (seminar organizer) ...
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