Lindsey oversees academic services for Tempe-campus graduate programs, manages graduate student hiring and funding, and supports the School of Sustainability academic advising team.

Lesley supports research projects and manages operations for CSTEPS. She has over ten years of experience working on policy, sustainability, and environmental protection in the public sector.

Emily Mertz is a biological anthropologist interested in aligning conservation and social justice through sustainable leadership.

Goebel's work focuses on the ways that education can be conceptualized beyond the human and explores how relationships among humans and the more-than-human world matter in how we approach sustaining life on Earth.

York pushes forward our understanding of governance dynamics by investigating how changes in policies affect the social, environmental, and community conditions and in turn how changes in social, environmental, and community

Biographical note – Professor Jay Cooper Beeks is an instructor at Arizona State University (ASU) in the School of Sustainability, undergraduate SOS program and the Masters in Sustainable Leadership (MSL) program.