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Mark Lichtenstein is the executive operating officer, chief sustainability officer, and an Environmental Studies adjunct professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF). He’s a faculty associate in the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration at Syracuse University’s (SU) Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
Lichtenstein has been engaged with sustainability and regenerative community engagements throughout the United States including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Belize, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. He focuses his efforts on post-disaster efforts in the Caribbean, testifying to the U.S. Congress in 2017 about the region’s post-hurricane response, and co-founding and advising ESF’s “Acorns2Action,” a student-led disaster response group. He was an active member of the Vieques Sustainability Task Force established by President Barack Obama, and an initiative of the White House Task Force on Puerto Rico. He is a member of the SUNY Puerto Rico Task Force and New York State Stands with Puerto Rico initiative. He is vice president and board member for Island Green Living Association, treasurer and board member for ViequesLove, and an Island Innovation Ambassador. He co-founded the Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands Recycling Partnerships.
Lichtenstein served eight terms as president, is an honorary board member, and lifetime achievement award winner of the National Recycling Coalition; co-led the formation of national and regional recycling organizations in the U.S.; and, conceived of, and is principal investigator for the New York State Center for Sustainable Materials Management, the first of its kind in the U.S. He is an advisory council member of Beyond Plastics based at Bennington College. He co-founded and led the first national sustainable materials management summit held at the University of Maryland, and developed and directed a regional sustainable materials management program in upstate New York, and marketed the first-ever recyclables traded through the Chicago Board of Trade.
Lichtenstein is a select member of the National Roster of Environmental Conflict Resolution Professionals administered by the U.S. government through the John S. McCain III National Center for Environmental Conflict Resolution. He is an advisory council member for Planet Forward hosted by George Washington University, led sustainability centers at SU, and served as an expert witness to the U.S. Environmental Finance Advisory Board. He is the founder of Embrace Impatience Associates, and the principal of Lichtenstein Consulting, providing training and consultation on board development, circular economy, communications, conflict management, environmental finance, facilitation, leadership, negotiation, recycling, resiliency, and sustainability.
He has a Master of Arts in Public Administration, and a Graduate Certificate of Advanced Studies in Conflict Resolution, both from SU’s Maxwell School, and graduate training in environmental science and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies from ESF. He has certified mediator training, an interest-based negotiator and process facilitator, and a certified public participation specialist.
 

Dr Martina Jordaan is the Head: Community engagement research and postgraduate students at the Mamelodi campus of the University of Pretoria. She was previously a senior lector at the Faculty Engineering, Built Environment and IT at the University of Pretoria, responsible for the compulsory Community Engagement Module.
Previously she was head of the Education Museum in Pretoria. Thereafter she was responsible for the development of pre-schools in the informal settlements next to Pretoria and skills development of staff of various schools in Pretoria in the Gauteng Department of Education.
She received the University of Pretoria’s Community Engagement Award for 2015. The module received recognition via the Education Innovation Awards (2006) as a finalist of the MacJannet Prize (2010) and won the Marketing Advancement & Communication in Education (MACE) Excellence Award in the Category: Integrated campaigns/projects and Subcategory: Social Responsibility Citizenship Development in 2014. Dr Jordaan received the University of Pretoria’s Community Engagement Award in 2015 and the University Education for Transformative Leadership in Africa (UETLA) (Talloires Network) in 2016, and a special award for teaching in Learning from the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and IT in 2019.
In 2022 she received the Talloires Engaged Scholarship Grant for her project with the Historical Society of Mamelodi. In 2023 she was a finalist for the 2022/2023 NSTF-South32 Awards – Science Communication award and received the International Award for Excellence for an article in Organizational Cultures: An International Journal with her co-authors.

Dr. Kristin Tully is an anthropologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is Associate Faculty at Ariadne Labs, which is a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Additionally, she Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. Her expertise is engaging perinatal patients, family members, and clinicians to understand and address their health needs. Broadly, this work advances health equity by strengthening systems of care to address what individuals need to know, feel, and have happen over time to be safe and well.
Dr. Tully’s program of research leverages community engagement, mixed methods, and human factors engineering to iteratively shape understanding of healthcare strengths/problems and co-develop solutions for effectiveness, sustainability, and spread. She led development of a patented medical device for use with mother-newborn couplets during inpatient postpartum care, the Couplet Care Bassinet. Currently, Dr. Tully represents the UNC Collaborative for Maternal and Infant Health at the National Quality Forum.
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