Greenpeace Student Board

Aleah Loney — Trainings Coordinator

Originally hailing from Canada's West Coast, I am now in my final year of a degree at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec - Canada's only province with a French speaking majority. I am currently completing a double major in Political Science and International Development Studies with a minor in Sociology.

I just spent a semester in San Francisco participating in the Fall 2008 Greenpeace Organizing Term. My life was totally changed by this experience and it really cemented my hopes to pursue a career in non-profit work. Before I became involved with environmental issues I was into the animal rights movement. I'm still vegan and I find that animal rights issues tend to intertwine quite nicely with the Environmental battles that we are all currently fighting. Other than that, I love music and dancing until the wee hours of the morning, I love traveling and hope to study in Sweden this coming January!

Max Bartholomai — GOT Alumni Coordinator

I am a student living in Lincoln, Nebraska. I'm currently at the community college, but soon to major in Environmental Sociology at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln.

I attended the Greenpeace Organizing Term in San Francisco in the Fall of 2008; this was my first experience with environmental activism! Throughout High School I worked with the Gay-Straight Alliance and helped organize rallies/marches and, with the help of a dear friend, started the GSA at our own high school. My hobbies include bicycling, hiking, camping, clubbing, music, my cat (trust and believe that he is the sweetest ever) and my friends!

Audry Mills — GOT Alumni Coordinator

I was born and raised in Virginia Beach, Virginia and have stayed on the East Coast ever since. I have been an environmental activist for as long as I can remember. I grew up on and in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Chesapeake bay, surfing, fishing, and swimming. I started working with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and Surfrider Foundation organizing beach clean-ups, protesting developers, power plants and over fishing.

I had an ethics professor my freshman year of college who encouraged me to continue the work I was doing which led me to Greenpeace and the GOT which I did in the fall of 2007. Since the GOT I have participated in Power Shift 2007 and 2009, Change It and Week Zero 2008, I drove the Rolling Sunlight through August and September of 2008 and I have served on the first Greenpeace Student Board as the GOT Alumni Coordinator. I have worked with and mentored local High School students from the Outer Banks of North Carolina to Richmond, Virginia on sustainability in their schools and lives and what role they can play in the movement. My current goal in life is to finally finish college with a degree in Political Science with a concentration in Environmental Policy and Photography. I enjoy surfing, yoga, painting, photography, and my dog.

Jess Serrante — Trainings Coordinator

I'm originally from New Jersey, but I am now living in Burlington VT and spending the summer working on an exciting and urgent campaign to shut down Vermont Yankee (a dirty, dangerous, & ancient nuclear plant in southern VT).

I worked on the Kleercut campaign in 2008, and in summer of '08 I did the GOT in San Francisco! This year I worked with the massive group of 200 UVM students who were organizing to get to PowerShift2009. I love yoga, hiking, reading (Endgame by Derrick Jensen is currently blowing my mind!), cooking new recipes, and campfires. Fun Facts? I have the same b-day as my dad and a birthmark shaped like NJ on my foot!

Max Blaushild — Days of Action Coordinator

I was born nineteen years ago in sunny Miami, but was whisked off to the wonderful…ish land of Cleveland before I could remember anything. I go to Miami University, probably one of the top 3 conservative universities in the country. Needless to say, I have quite a bit of fun there. ;) I am a tremendous nerd, so if you have a hobby that you are ashamed of, chances are that I share that same hobby and we can talk about it.

Besides the nerdy stuff, I love reading, writing, running, backpacking, watching movies that no one else has ever heard of, and oh yeah, activism. Speaking of activism, I wasn't really in a progressive mindset until I started going to college. I only have one semester of college under my belt, but during that semester I was the event coordinator for our campus' Power Vote campaign, the media officer/strategist for a divestment campaign targeting Cintas and filled a couple of small roles in a few niche programs around campus like Campus Sustainability Day. I attended the Greenpeace Organizing Term during last spring, and was the GOT intern in San Francisco last summer.

Connor Gibson — Days of Action Coordinator

I grew up in rural Vermont, surrounded by green scenery and fresh air. My parents raised me in a way that allowed me to subtly appreciate environmentalism and social justice, although I didn't really catch on until adulthood. I became involved in activism and democracy after attending a lecture delivered by Van Jones at the end of my first year at the University of Vermont. I changed my major to Environmental Studies and started learning as much as I could about environmental issues.

I became part of the UVM Forest Crimes unit after Power Shift 07 (which I missed) and helped run a wildly successful campaign on campus. In the summer of 2008, I helped train students for Greenpeace's Change It! '08 program, and then became a member of the Greenpeace Student Board as a Day of Action Coordinator. I then decided to enroll in the Greenpeace Organizing Term, which was an incredible and life-changing experience that I will fondly look back upon forever. Currently, I'm still doing work for the Student Board and am interning for the coordinators of the summer '09 GOT. I enjoy spending time with my friends and improving upon my ability to make meaningful connections with people. I also love playing the drums, skateboarding, stargazing, and watching lightning at night.