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Senior Fellows
The Second Nature Senior Fellows program brings together senior leaders from the higher education sector – presidents, provosts, business officers, and trustees – as well as seasoned sustainability professionals to engage in meaningful and exciting work in support of Second Nature’s mission.
Senior Fellows serve for one-year terms with options for renewal and work part time to promote education for sustainability by networking with colleagues, presenting at meetings and conferences, publishing articles and opinion pieces, and engaging with businesses and other sectors.
Second Nature Senior Fellows are available for speaking engagements as their schedules permit. Please contact Georges Dyer at gdyer@secondnature.org for more information.
Peter Bardaglio, PhD
 Dr. Peter Bardaglio is the co-author of Boldly Sustainable: Hope and Opportunity for Higher Education in the Age of Climate Change (2009) and coordinator of the Tompkins County Climate Protection Initiative, a multisector effort in the Ithaca, NY area to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. In addition, he serves as board vice chair of the New Roots Charter High School, an innovative secondary school that integrates sustainability and social justice across the curriculum, and on the executive committee of the Groundswell Center for Local Food and Farming.
Dr. Bardaglio was the provost and vice president of academic affairs from 2002 to 2007 at Ithaca College, where he helped to launch the college’s nationally recognized sustainability initiative. Interim vice president and academic dean at Goucher College in Baltimore, MD from 2000 to 2002, he was a member of the Goucher history department for 19 years. A Jessie Ball duPont Fellow at the National Humanities Center in 1999-2000, Dr. Bardaglio has also taught at the University of Maryland at College Park and University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. He is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Historical Association, and was awarded the 1996 James Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians for the best book published on the history of U.S. race relations for Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex, and the Law in the 19th-Century South. His numerous articles, book chapters, conference papers, and invited lectures cover a wide range of topics, including sustainability on campus, social entrepreneurship, race and gender in the 19th-century American South, family public policy, and new approaches to liberal education.
Dr. Bardaglio is a member of the Senior Council of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education and the editorial board of Sustainability: The Journal of Record, and is a Higher Education Sustainability Fellow with the Society for College and University Planning. In addition, he serves on the boards of the Cayuga Medical Center, the EcoVillage Center at Ithaca, and the History Center in Tompkins County. Dr. Bardaglio received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in History from Stanford University and his A.B. degree in History and English from Brown University.
Richard J. Cook, PhD
 With over thirty-five years of higher education experience, Richard Cook has devoted his entire professional career to the independent college sector. After sixteen years of service as a chemistry professor, division chair, and faculty leader, Dr. Cook became provost of Kalamazoo College (MI) in 1989. He was named president of Allegheny College (PA) in 1996, presiding over significant growth in enrollment, program innovation, and national institutional recognition. He served successfully in that capacity for twelve years prior to stepping down to pursue independent consulting and environmental advocacy.
Dr. Cook is an honors graduate of the University of Michigan and holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He was conferred an honorary doctorate and the title president emeritus by Allegheny College and is the recipient of numerous other awards and recognitions in education and civic service. He is currently a principal of Lahti Search Consultants and is an inaugural 2009-10 Senior Fellow of Second Nature, Inc.
Dr. Cook’s professional experience includes leadership roles in the Great Lakes Colleges Association, Council of Independent Colleges, Annapolis Group, North Coast Athletic Conference, Bonner Foundation, and other organizations and initiatives. He is well known and respected nationally within the independent higher education community in a wide variety of contexts, including civic engagement, campus sustainability, international study, undergraduate research, enrollment management, and institutional positioning. He has visited numerous campuses nationally and internationally in a variety of capacities, including administrative and academic review, program development, accreditation, and sustainability.
Long engaged in the combination of environmental science and policy, Dr. Cook held gubernatorial appointments to the Michigan Toxic Substance Control Commission and the Environmental Science Advisory Board of the State of Michigan. He was an independent reviewer of technical studies in connection with the Love Canal Hazardous Waste Site in Niagara Falls, a case that led to the adoption of the Federal Superfund Act. Cook has traveled extensively domestically and internationally, consulting on issues of hazardous and municipal waste.
Steven Goldfinger, PhD
 Dr. Steven Goldfinger is an independent environmental educator and consultant. Formerly with Natural Strategies, a sustainability consulting firm, he worked with corporate, municipal and academic clients. More recently, Steve has worked with the Global Footprint Network providing strategic direction and quality assurance for projects, and helped to build coalitions to develop new applications of the Ecological Footprint. He helped establish The Natural Step US, an NGO focused on socio-ecological sustainability, and served as its Director of Education. Steve also worked with Second Nature in the 1990s, where he co-authored recommendations to the President’s Council on Sustainable Development on the incorporation of sustainability principles and practices in higher education.
Steve’s doctorate in psychology at Cornell University emphasized an ecological approach to perception and cognition. His interest and writing centers on the sense of alienation from nature that is pervasive in modern society and that contributes to our continuing degradation of the environment. He has also conducted research in the areas of physiological optics, states of consciousness, and medical psychology, and has consulted to industry on human factors/ergonomics problems. In his spare time, Steve can often be found flowing across the solid water surfaces of nature on skis, or the liquid water surfaces on a windsurfer.
Edward A. Johnson, JD PhD
 Dr. Edward A. Johnson is the inaugural President of the The San Juan Colleges, a California nonprofit organization created in 2009 to recruit one or more independent colleges and universities for a proposed shared residential, liberal arts campus in San Juan Capistrano, California. Dr. Johnson’s 30-year higher education career includes leadership positions in both public and independent higher education. He served as president of the Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies, the world’s largest and oldest provider of field station-based environmental stewardship educational courses to faith-based colleges and universities. From 1997-2003, he served as President of Sterling College (Kansas), a liberal arts college affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA).
Previously, Dr. Johnson served as Executive Director of the Arizona Commission for Postsecondary Education, and as a senior executive to the Arizona Board of Regents from 1986-1991.
Dr. Johnson began his service to the Arizona higher education community as the Director of Community Relations for the ASU College of Law. Dr. Johnson holds a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration and a Juris Doctor degree from Creighton University. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in History and Political Science from Morningside College (Sioux City, Iowa).
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