Partners, Advisors & Supporters

Our partners

We greatly appreciate the collaboration between U.Mass. Lowell and the City of Lowell (especially the Departments of Neighborhood Services and Public Works); and with many youth, neighborhood, environmental and regional organizations in the Merrimack Valley. Several of those organizations are represented by the advisors listed below.

Our advisors

• Mark Byrne, Department of Public Works, City of Lowell
• Janet Clark, Toxics Use Reduction Institute, UMass. Lowell; and Lowell Center for Sustainable Production
• Suzanne deLesdernier, Acre Youth Center, Lowell YWCA
• Cindy Fonseca. Green Teens
• Mark Goldman, Lowell Council on Aging
• Lee Keteelsen, Clrean Water Action
• Curt Laffin, Merrimack River Watershed Council
• Liz Marshall, Merrimack Valley Project
• Ed Meagher, Merrimack Valley Environmental Coalition
• Raul Raudales, Mesoamerican Development Institute
• Anne Reynolds, Lucent Technologies and Northeast Business Environmental Network
• ChatPier Sath, Gain Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs [GEAR-UP], UMass. Lowell
• Sayon Soeun, Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association
• Tiffany Scogstrom, Merrimack Valley Environmental Coalition
• Linda Silka, Dept. of Regional Economic & Social Development, and Center for Family, Work & Community, UMass. Lowell
• Joanne Sunshower, Sustainable Step New England
• George Tucker, GEAR-UP, UMass. Lowell
• David Turcotte, Center for Family Work & Community, U.Mass. Lowell
• Anne Welcome, Pawtucket Citizens Council

In 1997-98 our work was supported in part by a grant from the Committee for Industrial Theory and Assessment, U.Mass. Lowell—for more details go to www.uml.edu/com/CITA

Since 1996 we have received invaluable help from many people, in preparing this website, organizing events and writing reports. Special thanks are due to Shawn Barry, Suzanne Bradley, Nancy Hodge, Sarah LeBlanc, Eric Martin, Xiaodong Pu, Rupinder Seehra, Renee Vincent, Michael Walters and Ina Williams.