Officer Biographies

Alex Bedig		Becky Gallagher
Carrie Jones		Kyle Maxwell
Emma Shields		Jesse Gossett
Caroline Wick		Mara Gittleman

Note: If you want to contact the officers about something that you think might be relevant to ECO, send an e-mail to eco-officers(at)googlegroups.com

Officers

Alex Bedig

Hailing from the sunny Happy Valley of California's Eastern San Francisco Bay Area, Alex Bedig is an Engineering Science and Geology major in the Class of 2008. Although it was concern for the purity of future sushi meats that initially drew Alex to environmental activism, he has since developed an interest in the field of alternative energy sources, a path he intends to follow after graduation. Aside from working with ECO, Alex has been involved with the CALPIRG organization Environment California, with which he spent a summer as a field manager for the Berkeley office's fundraising efforts. In his spare time, Alex enjoys cooking with whatever's around and playing for the Tufts Men's Soccer team.

Becky Gallagher

Home Town: Hopewell, NJ
Year: 2010
Major: Environmental Studies and IR
Interests: I'm psyched for ECO to start, and to work on alternative energy, food and farming, and go to the loj to play three toed sloth.

Carrie Jones

Carrie is a senior majoring in Biology and Environmental Studies. She hails from Farmington, CT and has been interested in the natural world since a young age, exploring tide pools with her Aunt in Oregon and camping and hiking with her family in the Northeast. In the summer of 2006, she worked with NYC youth at the Manice Education Center in Florida, MA to teach them leadership skills, outdoor skills and about how to be environmentally conscious. She hopes to continue raising awareness in youth in order to impress upon them the importance of environmental care in their lives. In the Spring of 2007 she studied in Australia on the SIT program "Sustainability and the Environment," where she conducted an independent research project relating a community's affect on individuals' sense of place. She is interested in sustainable building practices, permaculture, and the local foods movement. Carrie enjoys singing, reading, traveling and exploring.

Kyle Maxwell


Home Town: Ithaca, NY
Year: 2008
Major: Computer Science
Reason for Interest in the Environment: I believe Earth is a resource that should be cherished, not squandered.
Web Page: http://www.eecs.tufts.edu/~kmaxwe01/

Emma Shields


Home town: Raleigh, North Carolina
Year: 2008
Major: clinical psychology
Other hobbies include: Running, tennis, music, violin, friends, modern art, going to the beach, dancing, Psychology Society, reading, bad jokes, and vegetarianism.
Party trick: I can fit my entire fist in my mouth

Jesse Gossett


Home town: Conway, WA
Year: Now
Major: Environmental Studies and History
Sign: Libra
Interests: Energy, efficiency, sustainability, food-miles, dolphins, environmental organizations, saving the world one cute little bunny at a time, food, you and your cute friend, and cheese with wine.

Caroline Wick


Home town: Arlington, VA
Year: 2008
Major: International Relations and Environmental Studies
Interests within ECO: Fair Trade, locally grown produce, apple picking, and pot lucks!
Favorite abroad experience: Riding in a Chilean trash truck.

Mara Gittleman


Home town: South Brunswick, NJ
Year: 2009
Blurb: I have a deep fascination with how our society works and what to do to improve it for future generations. The foundation of it all is the environment. I'm especially interested in how, where, and from whom we get our food, transportation systems, and green buildings. I'll be abroad in Costa Rica during the spring semester of 2008 studying sustainable development, and I hope to come back with a sense of what that means for nations that are already "developed."
other interests: scrabble, tea, coffee, super novas, language, you, me, love, brains