Keynote Speaker Rocky Rohwedder

One of our keynote speakers for the 2001 Spring Statewide Conference is Rocky Rohwedder of Sonoma State University. Rocky will keynote and will present a workshop as well. Additional information about Rocky will appear here, so please check back as the conference approaches.

W.J. "Rocky" Rohwedder is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies and Planning at Sonoma State University. He has been teaching full time at SSU since 1981. His primary teaching and research areas are environmental education, environmental technology, and computer-aided communications. Rocky has a B.A. in Social Ecology (UC Irvine), an M.S. in Resource Policy and Management (The University of Michigan), and a Ph.D. in Environmental Planning (UC Berkeley). He has been an educational consultant for numerous organizations, including the World Resources Institute, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. Peace Corps, President's Council on Sustainable Development, The Energy Foundation, and the California Department of Education. Recently he served as a consultant to the Middle East Peace Process. He was a founder of EcoNet (an international computer network) and was also a Visiting Scholar at the George Lucas Educational Foundation. He is currently a member of the North American Commission on Environmental Education Research and on the Advisory Board of E2: Environment and Education.

For information about the Rocky and Sonoma State, please see his website at http://www.sonoma.edu/ENSP/Rocky/.