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The People
- Joel Hilchey
- Kate Whalen
- Steering Committee
Joel Hilchey is an educator, leadership expert, and the founder of The Beanstalk Project. He speaks at events across North America, creating social change by juggling, storytelling, and playing with mousetraps.
With a master's degree in environmental engineering from University of Toronto, Joel is an experienced problem solver, but his career has been primarily as an educator, allowing him to focus on cultivating creativity and empowering meaningful contributions. Joel is the instructor for both The Sustainable Future Project, and a fourth year course: Engineering and Social Responsibility. He continues to be an in-demand educational consultant.
You can find his illustrated book, The Time to Climb, at thetimetoclimb.com, or learn more at joelhilchey.com.
Kate Whalen
Senior Manager, University Sustainability
In her role as Senior Manager, University Sustainability , Kate collaborates and facilitates the strategic direction, communication, implementation, and management of various aspects of University sustainability, including providing the overall direction for the Sustainability Internship Program. Kate is also the Director of the Sustainable Future Project, where she directs the development and operation of the Project through building and fostering relationships and forming collaborations with staff, students, faculty and members of the broader Hamilton community.
In her role, Kate encourages staff, faculty and students and community members to join in to help create a sustainable culture at McMaster and within the broader community.
Website: Sustainability.McMaster.ca
Ashish Pujari, School of Business
Ashish has more than 15 years of experience in researching and teaching sustainability in business schools in both Canada and the United Kingdom. He has taught in around 10 countries in three continents. His key research interests are integrating innovation and sustainability and understanding the impact of corporate responsibility and has won several awards. His research is funded among others by SSHRC-SRG, SSHRC-IOF, Ontario Research and Development Challenge Fund (ORDCF), Ontario Research Fund-Research Excellence (ORF-RE) and private sector. He has published in leading journals in his field. Most recently, he developed and taught a new course, “Sustainability and CSR” for MBAs at DeGroote School of Business (DSB). He was nominated as one of the best and most influential professors by the 2012 class of MBAs as well for the Basu Teaching Award in DSB
Website: business.mcmaster.ca/mktg/pujarid
Gail Krantzberg
Dr. Krantzberg is the Director of the Centre for Engineering and Public Policy at McMaster University, training engineers and scientist in sustainability and public policy. Gail completed her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto as an ecotoxicologist. She worked for the Ontario Ministry of Environment from 1988 to 2001 as Great Lakes Senior Policy Analyst then served four years as Director of the Great Lakes Regional Office of the IJC in 2005 before becoming a Professor at McMaster University.
Websites:
msep.mcmaster.ca/epp
eng.mcmaster.ca/civil/facultypages/krantzberg
Jim Quinn, Faculty of Science
Dr. James S. Quinn is a professor of biology who studies the behavioural ecology of birds with complex social systems. He teaches a first year biology course “Biodiversity, evolution, and humanity” and forth year level courses in Behavioural Ecology or Conservation Biology. In his spare time, he is engaged in environmental activism and has connections with Environment Hamilton, Hamilton350 and other local environmental groups.
Website: http://www.biology.mcmaster.ca/faculty/quinn/quinn.htm
Marie Vander Kloet, Centre for Leadership and Learning
Marie is an Educational Consultant at the Centre for Leadership and Learning. Her work there includes supporting projects associated with sustainability and social justice, writing instruction, graduate student development and broader teaching and learning work at the university. Her research focuses on masculinity and whiteness in outdoor physical culutre, Canadian nationalism and wilderness discourse with a particular focus on qualitative and genealogical textual analysis.
Michael Egan, Faculty of Humanities
Michael is an Associate Professor of History, with teaching and research interests in the histories of science, technology, environment, and the future. He is the series editor of History for a Sustainable Future, a new book series at the MIT Press, and currently at work on a short history of the sustainability of idea and practice.
Website: eganhistory.com
Minha Ha, Faculty of Engineering
As the Student Learning and Development Officer, Minha works closely with students involved in leadership activities on campus. She brings her experiential and team learning design expertise to the committee.
Website: eng.mcmaster.ca/select/index
Suzanne Mills, Faculty of Social Science
Suzanne is cross appointed in the School of Labour Studies and the School of Geography and Earth Sciences. Her research and teaching interests include the political economy of natural resources, labour and the environment and equity in resource-related employment. She is presently conducting research on Aboriginal employment in the construction of northern resource development projects and municipal green jobs policies.
Steering Committee Terms of Reference
