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 Jeffrey Langholz, Monterey Institute Professor,
CLP Academic Coordinator
Professor Jeffrey Langholz spent five years designing and implementing environmental policy for the US Environmental Protection Agency in Washington DC , where he focused on developing strategies for increasing citizen involvement in agency decision-making. While pursuing his Ph.D. at Cornell, he coordinated a Sustainable Farming Systems seminar series that compared farming systems in nine developing countries across Latin America , Africa , and Asia.
Dr. Langholz is a trained mediator with experience in two - and multi-party disputes on environmental and other topics. He has served as a consultant in Latin America and Europe for the Institute for International Mediation and Conflict Resolution. His background also includes working as a fisheries technician in Prince William Sound , Alaska , and a two-year assignment with the U.S. Peace Corps in Sierra Leone , West Africa . His research focuses on biodiversity conservation and sustainable development, and much of his work takes place in and around protected natural areas, especially in the tropics. His passion is identifying and evaluating land use options that are ecologically, economically, and socially viable. His publications appear in a wide variety of transdisciplinary journals, including Conservation Biology, Society and Natural Resources, Ecological Economics, and Bioscience.
Richard Margoluis, Co-Director Foundations of Success
Richard is co-founder and co-director of Foundations of Success. Richard's work in FOS has focused on assisting partner organizations develop adaptive management systems, evaluating conservation projects and programs, managing applied research related to M&E, organizing learning networks, and facilitating cross-site and cross-institutional learning, including co-facilitation of the Conservation Measures Partnership.
Prior to working with FOS, Richard was the director of two programs at the Biodiversity Support Program (BSP): the Analysis and Adaptive Management Program, and the Latin America and Caribbean Program. Before going to BSP, Richard worked primarily for local non-governmental organizations in Latin America and Africa . In Guatemala, he served as the assistant director of the Sierra de las Minas Biosphere Reserve for Defensores de la Naturaleza and worked with WWF and TNC representatives to evaluate the impacts of community conservation and development projects in the Reserve. While in Guatemala , Richard also co-founded and directed two local health, conservation, and development organizations, and directed a multi-year disaster relief and rehabilitation project. In Africa , Richard worked for USAID through Tulane University on the Famine Early Warning System (FEWS) project for which he managed evaluations of food-security related projects and developed a community-based famine monitoring system. For a 14-month period while in Africa , Richard evaluated the relationship between human health and conservation in and around national parks from Sudan to South Africa . Richard holds a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Tulane University. He also completed a Master's of Public Health degree in International Health, with a concentration in Planning, and Evaluation at Tulane. Richard graduated from Northwestern University with a BA in Latin American Studies and is fluent in Spanish.
 Mark Silberstein, Executive Director,
Elkhorn Slough Foundation
Trained as a marine zoologist, Dr. Mark Silberstein has worked on the study and conservation of coastal wetlands for three decades. Working with a group of community volunteers, Mark developed the land trust function of the Foundation, which is aggressively working to conserve and restore the Elkhorn Slough, one of the last remaining estuarine wetlands on the central coast. Mark was on a team of conservationists that developed a watershed conservation plan for the Elkhorn watershed that led to significant funding for land acquisitions here.
 Bill Leahy, Executive Director,
Big Sur Land Trust
Bill Leahy is leading the BSLT team in developing an expanded vision for the Trust as it broadens its works and mission in the region. With over 11 years of experience at The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Bill is well versed in conservation transactions and related policy issues. Bill worked most recently as project director for Monterey County and as the key liaison with The Big Sur Land Trust on behalf of the Conservancy. Bill received his Bachelor's degree in Economics from Vanderbilt University. After spending eight years in commercial real estate, he decided to redirect his expertise toward a more fulfilling mission and joined The Nature Conservancy as the director of land protection in Missouri . At TNC, Bill successfully carried out several landscape scale conservation plans in southern California , negotiated more than $20 million in land acquisitions in California , and managed staff in acquiring over $14 million in critical properties. He is known for his ability to develop effective partnerships and alliances and for testing innovative approaches to land protection. Over the years he has served on numerous environmental and community-oriented steering committees and planning groups in the communities where he has lived.
 Richard Bangs
Richard Bangs has oft been called the father of modern adventure travel and the pioneer in travel that makes a difference, travel with a purpose. He has spent 30 years as an explorer and communicator, and along the way led first descents of 35 rivers around the globe, including the Yangtze in China and the Zambezi in Southern Africa.
Richard has published more than 1000 magazine articles, 16 books, a score of documentaries and several CD-ROMs; and has lectured at the Smithsonian, the National Geographic Society, the Explorers Club and many other notable venues. He writes a semi-regular feature with the NY Times. He was founder and editor-in-chief of Mungo Park, a pioneering Microsoft travel publishing effort. He also founded www.terra-quest.com. He was part of the founding executive team of Expedia.com, and served as its Editor-at-Large. He was creator and publisher of Expedia Travels Magazine (published in partnership with Ziff-Davis), and executive producer of Expedia Radio, and founder and executive director of Expedia Cafes. He also served as president of Outward Bound; Founded Well-Traveled.com for Slate, and was founding editor and executive producer of Great Escapes, another Microsoft Travel initiative. He also ran and founded First and Best for MSN , and founded Sobek Expeditions, which in the early 1990s merged with Mountain Travel to become Mountain Travel Sobek. He recently co-directed the IMAX Film, Mystery of the Nile, and co-authored the Putnam book of the same name. His recent book, The Lost River: A Memoir of Life, Death and the Transformation of Wild Water, won the National Outdoor Book Award in the literature category. For the past 18 months Richard has served as executive producer of Richard Bangs Adventures on Yahoo. He is currently producing and hosting the new American Public Television series, Richard Bangs' Adventures with Purpose and his next book is Adventures with Purpose (summer, '07), to coincide with the launch of the first APT special.
Deanna Gergich
CLP Program Coordinator
clpprogram@miis.edu
831-647-6641
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