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Staff

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Ana Isabel Keilson, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director 

​Justin Reynolds, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director 

​Rowena Wilson-Olivo, Program Coordinator and Teaching Fellow

Board of Directors

Nicholas Tsang, President (Owner, High Line West, LLC)

Deborah Coen, Vice President (Professor, Department of History, Yale University)

Lauren Anderson, Student Alumni Representative (Gull Island Cohort '22, MSt Candidate, University of Oxford)

Aaron Greenberg (Deputy Director, Hospitality Training Academy)

Jessica Marshall (Adjunct Professor, Parsons School of Design and Pace University)

Ana Isabel Keilson (Gull Island Institute)

Justin Reynolds (Gull Island Institute)

Advisory Council

Michael Brown (Co-Founder, City Year, Principle, Public Purpose Strategies)

Elliott Chemberlin (Kanien'kehá:ka), (Gull Island Cohort ‘22, Harvard ‘23)

Samuel Clark (Gull Island Cohort ‘22, Deep Springs ‘19, Brown ‘23)

Eve Driver (Writer) 

Anna Feuer (Julian Steward Chair of Social Sciences, Deep Springs College)

Mara Freilich (Division of Applied Math and Department of Earth Sciences, Brown University)

Danielle Greendeer (Artist, Author, Instructor in Food Systems, UMass Amherst; Citizen, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe)

Roosevelt Montás (Core Curriculum and Department of American Studies, Columbia University)

Noah Rosenblum (Faculty of Law, New York University Law School)

Adam Sobel (Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University)

Faculty Alumni

Buzzards Bay Term 2024 Faculty Cohort

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Daniel Schillinger, Lecturer in the Humanities, Yale University

Hannah Mark, Postdoctoral Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Nitana Greendeer, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe / Brown University

Justine Quijada, Associate Professor, Department of Religion, Wesleyan University

Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart, Assistant Professor in Native and Indigenous Studies, Yale University

Amy Alemu, Assistant Professor of History, Howard University 

Simon Torracinta, Lecturer in the History of Science, Harvard University

Megan Gillen, PhD Candidate in Geology and Geophysics, WHOI/MIT Joint Program

Margiana Peterson-Rockney, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science, University of Montana

Erica Herrera, PhD Candidate in Chemical Oceanography, MIT/WHOI Joint Program

Juli Vanderhoop, Selectwoman and businessowner, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)

Aquaculture

Seth Garfield, Founder, Cuttyhunk Shellfish Farms

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Buzzards Bay Term (aka "Junemester") 2023 Faculty Cohort

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David Hayes, Professor in Greek Philosophy and Literature, Bard College Berlin

Megan Gillen, PhD Candidate in Geology and Geophysics, MIT/WHOI Joint Program

Danielle Hill Greendeer, Food sovereignty educator and businessowner, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe

Margiana Peterson-Rockney, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science, University of Montana

Juli Vanderhoop, Selectwoman and businessowner, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)

Alyssa Battistoni, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Barnard College

Max Jahns, PhD Candidate in Chemical and Biological Oceanography, MIT/WHOI Joint Program

Nitana Greendeer, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe / Brown University

Erica Herrera, PhD Candidate in Chemical Oceanography, MIT/WHOI Joint Program

Aquaculture

Seth Garfield, Founder, Cuttyhunk Shellfish Farms

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March 2022 Pilot Faculty Cohort

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Abram Kaplan, Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard University

Adam Sobel, Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University

Marit Larson, Chief of Natural Resources Group, New York City Parks

Mara Freilich, Postdoctoral Fellow, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Ana Isabel Keilson, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University

Margiana Peterson-Rockney, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley

Linda Coombs, Wampanoag Tribal Historian and Educator; Program Director, Aquinnah Cultural Center

Danielle Hill Greendeer, Artist, Author, Instructor in Food Systems, UMass Amherst; Citizen, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe

Justin Reynolds, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University

Sam Laney, Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Andrew Ashton, Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Christopher Clements, Grant Writer and Historian of Race and Power in the Modern US, Elevate

Aquaculture

Bill Mebane, Co-Founder, Equitorial Feeds LLC

David Bailey, Research Associate, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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