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Ecological Policy and Planning After COA

Fifty-five percent of COA graduates enter graduate or professional school within five years of graduating. The following is a list of some recent graduates who focus in Ecological Policy and Planning:

• Marty Anderson (1994) is the Executive Director of the Great Auk Land Trust.

• Carrie Banks (2001) is the Coordinator/team organizer for the Westfield River Basin, National Park Service Rivers and Trails and Massachusetts Riverways Programs.

• Mike Blair (1995) is the President of Blair Technologies (Infosystems/GIS Consulting).

• Oliver Carley (1996) is a land use policy analyst for 1,000 Friends of Pennsylvania.

• Scott Dickerson (1995 MPhil) is the Executive Director of Coastal Mountains Land Trust.

• Laurel Harris (1999) specializes in land use planning for affordable housing and habitat protection in Oregon.

• Erin Heacock (2004) is an environmental planner for Keyspan Energy based in MA.

• Tanya Higgins (2000) is a city planner for San Francisco and is currently pursuing a masters degree in Environmental Planning from the University of California Berkeley.

• Justin Huston (1999) is the Coastal Zone Coordinator for the Nova Scotia Agriculture & Fisheries Department.

• Sue Inches (1979) is the Deputy Director of the Maine State Planning Office.

• Tora Johnson (2003 MPhil) is the director of the GIS center at University of Maine at Machias.

• Leslie Jones (1991) received a JD from Vermont Law School and is lead Staff Attorney for The Wilderness Society.

• Joe Kiernan (2001) is the Volunteer Coordinator for Scenic Hudson, Inc.

• David Lamon (1991) is the Director of the Somes-Meynell Wildlife Sanctuary.

• Andrea Lani (1995) is an Environmental Specialist with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.

• George Meservey (1987) is the Town Planner for the Town of Wareham, Massachusetts.

• Jeff Miller (1992) is the Founder and Executive Director of the Bicycle Coalition of Maine.

• Greg Milne (1991) is a Town Councilor for the Town of Barnstable, Massachusetts.

• Justin Mortensen (2001) is at UC Berkeley in the Department of City and Regional Planning focusing on urban design and   planning.  He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Panama.

• Colleen O'Brien (1993) is a Forest Recreation Planner with the Inyo National Forest in California. .

• Briana Press (2002) is the GIS Business Analyst for GeoDecisions, a company specializing in GIS application development.

• Jasmine Tanguay (1998) is a Community Involvement Specialist with the Conservation Law Foundation.

• Amanda Walker (1998) is a Planning & Design Associate at Kent Associates in Gardiner, Maine.

• Hua Wang (2004) is pursuing a Masters Degree in Urban Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

• Patrick Watson (1993) is a Project Manager with Maine Coast Heritage Trust.


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