Cindy Thomashow

Seattle

Cynthia Thomashow was the Founding Director and is now the Academic Director of the graduate program in Urban Environmental Education at IslandWood and Antioch University Seattle. https://islandwood.org/graduate-programs/urban-environmental-education-maed-seattleCindy served as the Education Manager for the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) from 2010-13. She directed the Masters program in Environmental Education at Antioch University New England (Keene, NH) from 1983 to 2007 and at the same time, directed the Center for Environmental Education…an online teacher resource center in environmental and sustainability education. Cindy developed and managed the Educational Program for NPR’s Living on Earth, worked with the Chicago Zoological Society developing the Hammill Family Play Zoo, and worked as a consultant to National Wildlife Federation and US Green Building Council. Cindy served as an adjunct professor at Unity College from 2007 – 2010 where she worked to bring the Arts, Humanities and Sciences together in interdisciplinary curriculum design. She helped design the zero-carbon LEED Platinum College President’s residence on Unity College campus where she lived for 5 years with her husband Mitchell.