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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

Jolea Bryant
404-876-8733
bryantj@nwf.org

Jolea is the Southeast Campus Field Coordinator for National Wildlife Federation's Campus Ecology program. Based out of NWF's Southeast Natural Resource Center in Atlanta, Georgia, Jolea works to raise awareness of the importance of reducing carbon emissions on campuses throughout the Southeast. She also helps colleges and universities develop innovative, cost-friendly ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on their campuses. Before becoming a campus field coordinator, she worked as Assistant Director of Environmental Education for a local, community-based, environmental group based in Southwest Atlanta where she was a key organizer for the first outdoor activity club at a local Atlanta high school. Jolea also served as program assistant for the Atlanta Earth Tomorrow program, where she helped to coordinate activities for teen leaders that foster environmental stewardship and community service through leadership training, civic engagement and career development. Jolea received her Masters of Science in Public Policy from the Georgia Institute of Technology in August 2007. When she is not cultivating climate champions, Jolea enjoys going on nature hikes, working with community groups to promote environmental stewardship, listening to live music, going to the movies, trying new foods and dancing in the mirror.

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 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.

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 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
703-438-6322
keniry@nwf.org

Julian is the senior director of the National Wildlife Federation'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).

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

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.