Jean MacGregor

Jean MacGregor: I am a Senior Scholar at the Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education at The Evergreen State College, where I also teach and supervise theses in the Masters of Environmental Studies Program.  I direct the Curriculum for the Bioregion Initiative, whose mission is to prepare undergraduates to live in a world where the complex issues of sustainability—environmental quality, community health and wellbeing, and environmental justice are paramount. This faculty and curriculum development project has involved over 1,000 college and university faculty at 50 colleges and universities in  Washington and northern Oregon.

In my “citizen life,” I’m active in bird conservation and strategies for reducing of toxic chemicals in the environment. With others, I helped rewrite the pesticide policy for Thurston County, Washington in order to reduce or eliminate the use of pesticides in all county roads, lakes, and parks.