Student Network Coordinators

Mary Nicol — Student Network Manager

Mary is the Greenpeace Student Network Manager working on the Global Warming campaign. Mary has worked on legislative and corporate campaigns on the local, state, and national levels.

In the fall of 2007, she was a key organizer for Power Shift 2007, working to recruit 6,000 students for the largest youth global warming summit ever held. Mary joined the Student PIRGs' staff as the Campus Climate Challenge Coordinator in August 2006. She worked with students on over 50 campuses across the country training them to run their campaigns most effectively. In the fall of 2005, she helped organize an Arctic Refuge Action Day, bringing 5,000 activists to Washington, D.C. to lobby their Congressmembers on behalf of Arctic protection.

Mary is a graduate of the Green Corps Class of 2006 and a 2005 graduate of Emory University.

Carling Sothoron — National Student Organizer

Carling Sothoron began her adventures with Greenpeace as the Student Network Fellow for the second half of 2008. As a fellow she organized the Student Network days of action including the National Day of Action Against Coal and worked with campus coordinators on the global warming campaign. Now as the National Student Organizer, Carling continues to work with students on the global warming campaign as well as advise the Student Board and recruit new activists to the Student Network.

She is a recent graduate of the College of Charleston earning a degree in Anthropology and minoring in Environmental Studies. In college Carling worked with her school’s student environmental group, was a member of the Sustainability Committee as well as the Co-Coordinator for the Coastal Conservation League’s Student Chapter.

Outside of the office, she enjoys traveling and partaking in such activities as bicycling, slacklining, volunteering, and potlucks.

David Pinsky - Student Network Fellow

David is the Greenpeace Student Network Fellow, working on the global warming campaign. As a Fellow, David is helping to grow the Student Network by recruiting and engaging students in Greenpeace campaigns, as well as working with students on campuses all across the country.

David's number one concern is climate change. After attending a Greenpeace student training camp in summer '08, David immediately went home, got involved in his campus environmental group, and rallied students and the community to demand bold climate change action through serveral days of actions and meetings with elected officials, and attending youth-led summits like Power Shift 2009.

David studied psychology, graduating from University of Kentucky in 2005 and receiving his master's from UNC Wilmington in 2009. He is a huge fan of TV classics like Seinfeld and LOST, bicycling, trying to make good vegetarian food, and traveling.