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Steven Nutter, AICP
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Staff
Seanna Berry
Seanna is our farm manager for the Hurley Street Neighborhood Farm. She's worked with nonprofits and businesses focused on strengthening regional food systems and local food access. She's worked as a farmer and educator growing annual and perennial crops, promoted local food systems distribution networks through farmers markets and CSAs, and worked in the nonprofit sector doing project management, fundraising, education, and advocacy.
Julie Croston
Julie founded our Wildlife Puppety Program and continues to advise the work as well as coordinate and volunteer at events. She is an artist and communications professional, with a demonstrated history of success in strategic communications, writing, social media, fundraising, program development, and coordination.
Alumni Volunteers, Interns, & Staff
Anna Pierce-Silve
Anna ran our urban farm in East Cambridge. Anna has gotten her hands dirty as the garden supervisor for Esalen’s Farm & Garden, at the University of California at Santa Cruz’s Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems and as a urban gardener at Green City Growers. She has run farmers markets in Boston and Cambridge, striving to bring local, colorful, beautiful and affordable food to the community while supporting farmers who treat the land, animals and farmworkers with deep respect. Her work blends a passion for plants with the urgency for social change to work towards more equitable and healing relationships between people and the land.
Traci Thoresen
Traci ran our urban farm in East Cambridge. She grew up in Worthington, Iowa, a small farming community with a large garden and many pet dogs. She is a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa and holds a Permaculture Design Certificate. Since 2012, she has been involved with The Friends of the Riverbend Trust and the Seklar Play Lot. She loves teaching children how to grow plants, and help them understand how our individual and collective actions effect our environment.
Primrose Yooprasert
Primrose was Green Cambridge’s 2018 spring intern, focusing on creating and building the Energy Advocate Group. She received her Master’s degree in Management from Boston University in 2018. She hopes to combine her Environmental Science background with Business to address climate change and sustainability concerns on the community level to larger-scale business practices.
David Meshoulam
David was instrumental in helping us develop the urban tree canopy program. For the past 15 years David (pronounced DAH-veed) has been studying and working as a science educator, first at Brookline High and more recently at Newton North High (sandwiched around a PhD in Curriculum & Instruction from University of Wisconsin for good measure). He has expertise in curriculum design, with a focus on issues of the history of science and social justice in education. His foray into urban forestry and tree-issues includes a Teen Tree Stewardship Program in Watertown, MA and the creation of Speaks for the Trees, a tree advocacy group in the Boston area. At Green Cambridge he is working on a canopy study to measure tree cover in Cambridge and is also raising awareness and engagement in preserving trees in the city.
Christine White
Christine helped us with clarifying a strategic communications plan. She grew up loving the outdoors; after spending time in Australia and the Pacific Northwest, she developed a passion for sustainability to ensure the health and safety of our planet's ecosystems. As her day job, Christine works as a manager of acquisition marketing at HubSpot in Cambridge, MA. She has a passion for storytelling and the power it has to grow and convert an audience. In her free time, you can find Christine hiking, snowboarding, reading fiction, trying new recipes, watching documentaries, and playing with her family's three dogs.
Jenna Hall
Jenna was our Intern Program Assistant for summer 2017 working to run, grow, and intensify our programmatic areas while at Connecticut College studying sociology and environmental studies. She works on the student run garden, planting and selling produce to the college's dining halls. She is also deeply involved with local activist groups.
Lettie Cabot
Lettie was our summer 2017 Social Media and Tree Intern. She is helping to coordinate and provide strategy for our social media program, and as program assistant for our Urban Tree Canopy program. During the school year she attends Windsor School in Boston.
Micah Wilson
Micah served as Green Cambridge's 2017 Spring Intern, focusing primarily on our recent Neighborhood Farming project. He continues to be engaged in a volunteer role. He has background in sustainable farming and Permaculture and co-designed and managed the inception of our Hurley Street Neighborhood Farm. He currently works at Lexington Community Farm.
Brian Johnson
Brian worked with us as the Assistant Program Manager during his Senior Year at Northeastern University in 2016. He is finishing his degree in Economics and Environmental Studies, minoring in International Affairs. After graduation, he plans to live abroad to work with an NGO whose mission is poverty alleviation in a sustainable way. He joined us after studying economics and sustainability in Barcelona, at the Universitat de Pompeu Fabra. On campus at Northeastern, he served as the Philanthropy Coordinator for his fraternity Phi Delta Theta, benefitting organizations supporting ALS.
Erin Silver-Wheeler
Erin worked with us during her second year at Northeastern University in 2016, while studying International Affairs and Global Social Entrepreneurship. She is interested in environmental advocacy and working with socially minded companies to enact social change. In her home state of Pennsylvania, Erin became passionate about environmental justice following her involvement in the states campaign against fracking. Erin worked as the Tree Program Coordinator and also as the Assistant Program Manager at Green Cambridge. Outside of work, she enjoys hiking trips, training with the Northeastern Triathlon Team, and baking.
Marley Kimelman
Marley served as Green Cambridge's Assistant Program Manager as a third year student at Northeastern University in 2016. He is interested in environmental and public health policy as well as addressing environmental justice especially in New England. Marley plans to continue on to law school after graduation and study to become an environmental lawyer working to bring justice from those affected by corporate pollution and environmental negligence.
Sarah Ruth
Sarah did a co-op at Green Cambridge in 2016 as a second year student at Northeastern University. She served as our first Tree Program Coordinator and also worked with Southie Trees.