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Staff

George Scarlett
Editor

George is Editor of Tomorrow’s Earth Stewards. He is also a Sr. Lecturer in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development and a Tisch Sr. Fellow at Tufts University, on the executive committee of the Tufts Environmental Studies Program, a core member of the advocacy group - Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, and a researcher at the New England Aquarium’s youth programs.

Eva Heaps
Artistic Director and Website Designer

Eva is the Artistic Director and designer of the Tomorrow’s Earth Stewards website. Eva is a graphic designer and graduate of the BFA program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Eva is a multi-disciplinary artist focusing in video and installation art, much of which deals with the systemic problems in American culture which fuel climate change.

Nick Woolf
Director of Strategic Projects

Nick is a social-emotional learning advocate from Boston who serves as the communications coordinator for Tomorrow's Earth Stewards. Nick is a recent graduate of the master's program at the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University. He currently works at Panorama Education and also directs Inside SEL, a blog and email newsletter focused on education research and policy.

Freedom Baird
Educational Technology Advisor

Freedom is an educational technology specialist in Tufts Educational Technology Services, which is a sub-set of TTS. She supports faculty in their use of educational technologies, and helps faculty improve their approaches to teaching. She is also an artist whose work centers around the intersection of humans and nature as agents, objects, and constructs.

Ellen Dubreuil
Article Illustrator

Ellen Dubreuil is an artist who lives in Somerville, MA. She grew up in Massachusetts and California and went to school in Colorado, Massachusetts and Manhattan. She currently teaches in the Illustration & Visual Narrative Department at Lesley Art + Design in Cambridge. She’s available for freelance work and commissions at ellen@ellendubreuil.com.

Leah Harrigan
Staff Writer

Leah is passionate about creating inclusive and engaging spaces to learn, work, and play. She is an advocate for social and emotional development and received her MA from the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University. Leah now oversees programming for youth impacted by foster care as a program manager at Silver Lining Mentoring. 

Ashley Lin
Staff Writer

Ashley is an environmental activist from Union High School in Vancouver, WA. She is also the Founder & Executive Director of Project Exchange, a youth-led, 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to increasing access to cross-cultural learning experiences and exploring climate issues through digital programs for middle & high school students around the world.

Advisors

Marion Reynolds
Children's Literature Advisor

Marion is a long-time early childhood educator and expert in children’s literature. For the past several decades she has taught the children’s literature course in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Studies and Human Development at Tufts University and published reviews of children’s books in major publications.

David Sobel
Education Advisor

David is a Professor Emeritus at Antioch University New England. He consults and speaks widely on place-based education and on nature-based early childhood education. He has authored nine books and more than 70 articles focused on children and nature and served on the editorial boards of Encounter, Community Works Journal, Orion Afield, and Green Schools Catalyst Quarterly..

Raymond Barnett
Science Advisor

For over three decades, Ray taught Field Ecology and Mammalogy at California State University, Chico, where he spearheaded a drive to found The Gateway Science Museum which opened in 2008 and now lists Ray as the official "Father of the Museum".  Ray has authored numerous articles in scientific journals, written books on John Muir and Taoism, and authored several Sherlock Holmes novels. 

Alberto Medina
Communications Advisor

Alberto is the Communications Specialist at Tufts University’s Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life. In that role, he oversees a wide range of communications tasks. Alberto has been a freelance writer and editor, and has previously worked at national newspapers in his native Puerto Rico and at multinational publishing houses.