What is the role of schools of education in the face of global environmental challenges?
The Teachers College Initiative for Sustainability Futures (formerly the Teachers College Working Group on Environmental and Sustainability Education) aims to address this question through research, professional development, and public engagement. Launched in 2015, with support from the Provost’s Investment Fund, the Initiative for Sustainability Futures serves as a social infrastructure that connects community members - faculty, students, and staff from across the College who are interested in sustainability - and bind them together. We champion people’s right to have access to Environmental and Sustainability Education, an interdisciplinary pedagogical movement that examines the interactions between environmental, social, health, and economic issues that together promote the long-term health of complex living systems.
Addressing global sustainability challenges, such as climate change, requires 'all-hands-on-deck’ approach. Our governance and leadership structure ensure that we engage different stakeholders within and outside Teachers College.
Faculty Affiliates include Teachers College professors who already engage with sustainability or who are committed to promote the issue through research, teaching, and service. We invite faculty members to apply for an Affiliate status for two years.
Sustainability Liaisons include Teachers College community members who are committed to promote the sustainability in their respective unit.
Claire Sisiski
OreOluwa Badaki
Dafna Gan (2021/2023)
Leire Agirreazkuenaga (Spring 2020)
Thabile Zondi (Spring 2020)
Mustafa Öztürk (2016/2017)
Mariana Caselatto, Zankel Fellow, 2020/2021
Lauren Decunto Zankel Fellow, 2022/2023
Lyndsay Gehring, Zankel Fellow, 2021/2022
Michael Gruenling, Zankel Fellow, 2019/2020
Lamar Holmes, Zankel Fellow, 2020/2021
Maria Huertas-Trujill, Zankel Fellow 2022/2023
Sebastian Jindra-Cotilla, Zankel Fellow, 2021/2022
Andrea Kennedy, Zankel Fellow, 2020/2021
Erika Kessler, Zankel Fellow, 2017/2018, 2021/2022
Sarah Lewis, Zankel Fellow, 2022/2023
Mac Mann-Wood, Zankel Fellow, 2022/2023
Melissa Mitchem, Zankel Fellow, 2018/2019
Sabrina Ian Lok Song, Zankel Fellow, 2020/2021
Christina Torres, Zankel Fellow, 2020/2021,2021/2022
Raquel Vigil, Zankel Fellow, 2018/2019
Natalie Wright, Zankel Fellow, 2022/2023
Xin Rong Yeo, Zankel Fellow, 2021-2022, 2022-2023
Ivan Asin
Gareth Alexis Brinkworth
Rashawn Khamari Merchant
Darren Rabinowitz
Shreya Sanjeev
Rory Varrato
Mariana Casellato
Isabel Correa
Alexandra Da Dalt
Yijin Du
Rosa Fernández
Lyndsay Gehring
Victoria Hamilton
Ye Huang
Jorge Jimenez
Erika Kessler
Jessica Michel Ostrow
Samantha Rachmil
Raksha Vasudevan
Carine Verschueren
Qinzhe Zhang