People Involved for All-Consuming: Conversations on Oil and Water

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    Steering Committee

    Irving Birkner
    Lecturer, Graham School
    University of Chicago

    Rachel Bronson, PhD
    Vice President, Programs and Studies
    The Chicago Council on Global Affairs

    Josh Ellis
    Community Development Associate
    Metropolitan Planning Council

    Geoff Emberling, PhD
    Museum Director
    Oriental Institute, University of Chicago

    Martin Felsen
    Director
    Archeworks
    Urban Lab

    Jill Geiger
    Director of Communications and Marketing
    Environmental Law and Policy Center

    Jacky Grimshaw
    Vice President for Policy, Transportation, and Community Development
    Center for Neighborhood Technology

    Paul Heltne
    Director
    Center for Humans and Nature

    Henry Henderson
    Director, Midwest
    National Resources Defense Council

    Jennifer Hirsch, PhD
    The Field Museum
    Research and Operations Director, Cultural Understanding and Change,
    Division of Environment, Culture, and Conservation (ECCo)

    Tiffany Holmes
    Associate Professor, Chair
    Department of Art and Technology Studies
    The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

    Brian Hosmer, PhD
    Associate Professor
    Department of History
    University of Illinois at Chicago

    Robert Lipman
    Senior Counsel
    Lipman Hearne

    Joyce O'Keefe
    Deputy Director
    Openlands

    Kelvin S. Rodolfo, PhD
    Professor Emeritus
    Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
    University of Illinois at Chicago

    David M. Solzman, PhD
    Associate Professor Emeritus
    Department of Anthropology-Program in Geography, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Friends of the Chicago River Board Member

    Peter Taub
    Director of Performance Programs
    Museum of Contemporary Art

    David Thigpen
    Vice President
    Chicago Urban League

     

    Southern Illinois Planning Committee

    Jill Baldwin
    Nonprofit consultant

    Robert Beck, PhD
    Law Professor Emeritus
    Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

    Ben Dziegielewski, PhD
    Department of Geography and Environmental Resources
    Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

    Candis Isberner
    Executive Director
    WSIU Broadcasting Service

    John Jackson
    Paul Simon Public Policy Institute
    Southern Illinois University - Carbondale

    Christa Johnson, PhD
    Associate Dean for Graduate Student Research
    Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville

    Christopher Lant, PhD
    Professor of Geography and Environmental Resources
    Department of Geography
    Southern Illinois University - Carbondale

    Gayl S. Pyatt
    Retired Attorney at Law

    Patti Simon
    Paul Simon Public Policy Institute

    Western Illinois Planning Committee

    Bob Frazee
    Natural Resources Educator
    University of Illinois Extension
    East Peoria Extension Center

    Chris Merrett, PhD
    Illinois Institute For Rural Affairs
    Western Illinois University

    Norman Moline, PhD
    Hamming Professor of Geography
    Department of Geography
    Augustana College

    Mary Pirkl
    Center for American Archeology

    Robert Seibert, PhD
    Murphy Professor of Political Science and International Relations
    Co-Director, Center for Global Studies
    Knox College

    Central and Eastern Illinois Planning Committee

    Kim Erndt
    Interim Executive Director
    Prairie Rivers Network

    Colin Flint, PhD
    Associate Professor of Geography
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    Zsuzsa Gille, PhD
    Associate Professor of Sociology
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    Lew Hopkins, PhD
    Professor Emeritus
    Department of Urban and Regional Planning

    Robert Kuhn McGregor, PhD
    Professor of History
    University of Illinois at Springfield

    Jim Nelson
    Association of Illinois Soil & Water
    Conservation Districts

    Barry Pearson, PhD
    Director, Kirkland Dean
    College of Fine Arts
    Milllikin University

    Dick Westfall
    Manager, Greenways and Trails Section
    Illinois Department of Natural Resources

    Northern Illinois Planning Committee

    Dennis Anthony
    Soil Scientist
    Winnebago County Soil and Water Conservation District

    Alan Brown
    President
    Burpee Museum of Natural History

    John Church
    Extension Educator, Natural Resources Management
    University of Illinois Extension Center

    Bob Evans
    Professor of Economics and Political Science
    Rockford College

    Rolf A. Thienemann
    Vice President
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