Craig Downs is the founder and Executive Director of Haereticus Environmental Laboratory, a non-profit organization dedicated to developing technologies and scientific methods that address environmental health concerns. This concept was inspired by his experience as CEO of EnVirtue Biotechnologies, Inc., which provided pro bono financial and technological services to organizations, communities, and governments facing environmental problems. Craig Downs has almost 40 peer-reviewed scientific publications and leads scientific research and environmental assessment efforts at a number of universities, including University of Hawaii and Tel Aviv University.
Peter Goldmark directs the Climate and Air program at Environmental Defense. He has had exceptional careers in the public and private sectors, including chairman and CEO of the International Herald Tribune, president of the Rockefeller Foundation and executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Gabe Nugent is an attorney with Hiscock & Barclay in Syracuse, New York. Gabe is providing legal advice and other guidance to The Canary Project.
Wendy Wheeler Smith is currently a candidate for a masters degree in Real Estate Development at New York University; her focus is sustainable building and development. Previously, she curated various exhibitions including "Future Ec(h)os" a sustainable design exhibit, which was part of the larger Renewable Brooklyn day-long festival. Smith has also worked in photography as an editor, studio director and producer in New York and Los Angeles.
Amy Smith is co-founder and director of Philadelphia's Headlong Dance Theater, a non-profit contemporary dance company. She also sits on the boards of Dance / USA, Dance / Philadelphia and Philadelphia Dance Projects.
Paul R. Epstein, MD, MPH is Associate Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School and has worked with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the National Academy of Sciences, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to assess the health impacts of climate change and develop health applications of climate forecasting and remote sensing. Paul coordinated the project Climate Change Futures: Health, Ecological and Economic Dimensions, in collaboration with Swiss Re and the UNDP. Paul is helping The Canary Project coordinate with appropriate scientists and consulting on a variety of issues, including connections between given impacts and locations.
Jon Santos received his BFA (2000) from the California College of Arts and Crafts in San Francisco and is the founder of Common Space. Jon's love of music and his resulting ability to visualize sound influences all his work. He has exhibited recently at IHeart (New York, NY), White Box (New York, NY), the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA) and AndA (Tokyo, Japan). He has also done projects for a wide array of fashion and music clients, including Coachella, Diesel, Lacoste, Armani Exchange, MTV, The Rapture, Kid606, ~Scape Music, Arkitip, Surface to Air and NikeLab. He is collaborating with The Canary Project on finding alternative strategies to straight photography for exhibiting the images in art venues and public spaces.
We are in the process of recruiting writers, scientists, politicians, farmers and others to lend their voices to a book we ultimately will publish with Canary Project images.
Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Field Notes for a Catastrophe, and the New Yorker articles that inspired this project, has agreed to provide content for the book.
Sarah Morris is a content developer, researcher, and copywriter. Interpretive exhibits are her specialty. Past projects include a visitor center in Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin, an exhibit about animal research at the Buffalo Zoo, and a web site about rhythm and dance. She lends content guidance and an editorial eye to The Canary Project.
Rachel Criscitiello received her BA from Cornell University and has since worked as the Executive Director of an HIV/AIDS vaccine advocacy non-profit organization in Providence, RI. Rachel has worked as a grant writer and development director for several social service agencies and non-profits, and currently lives and works in Portland, Maine.
Chris Dierks is a non-profit development and design education consultant. He is a program coordinator for the Micropaleontology Project where he manages fundraising and content for a public science education project on climate change. He is also a development manager for HowStuffisMade, a web-based visual encyclopedia that documents the manufacturing processes, labor conditions and environmental costs involved in the production of contemporary goods. He was formerly the development coordinator for Storefront for Art and Architecture, a non-profit arts organization dedicated to advancing innovative art, architecture and design. He graduated with a B.A. in architecture from Princeton University.
Thomas Lee is a writer and corporate attorney based in San Francisco. He has worked at Davis, Polk & Wardwell and Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP. He is assisting The Canary Project with fundraising and development.
Rey Kim comes from mutimedia art and statistics background and has been producing on- and off-line projects both in art and design for over 10 years. Her exceptional designs and creativitity have been adopted by clients ranging from Credit Suisse, Standard & Poor's, La Praire, London Fog, to the legendary Jazz musician Ornette Coleman. Her work can be viewed at webokraft.com
Studio MNK is design team Min Kim and John McLord. Kim is a graduate of the Communication Design program at Parsons the New School for Design and currently works at The Imagination Group in New York. McLord is a designer and graduate of Parsons the New School for Design. He is an information designer for Parsons Institute for Information Mapping, a think tank whose mission is to improve comprehension and analysis of complex data and ideas.
Dmitri Siegel is a designer and writer. He is an Art Director for the Sundance Channel, and creative director for Anathema. He is an adjunct faculty member of the Art Center College of Design and publishes Ante, a journal of visual culture.
Ali Criscitiello is a PhD Candidate in Polar Climate Studies at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
Justin Nobel is an Earth and Environmental Science Journalism masters student at Columbia University.
Kyveli Vezani studied Cognitive Science and Photography at Yale University. She will be attending NYU's Interactive Telecommunitations Program this fall.
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