Helen Weeks

FORMER WILDLIFE ARTS VOLUNTEER

Helen is an environmental educator and a new resident of Cambridge. She loves teaching and learning about the local animal species. Professionally, she works with a Wildflower School in East Cambridge, called Aster Montessori for students ages 3-6 years old. She has experience teaching school and camps on both coasts. She is a former Mass Audubon employee and enjoyed leading guided walks and interpreting the local environment for all ages. She is especially interested in water quality and water rights issues. Her favorite natural place to explore in Cambridge is Mount Auburn Cemetery, where she can be found nature journaling for hours!

Seanna Berry

FARM MANAGER

Seanna has worked with nonprofits and businesses focused on strengthening regional food systems and local food access. She's worked as a farmer and educator growing annual and perennial crops, promoted local food systems distribution networks through farmers markets and CSAs, and worked in the nonprofit sector doing project management, fundraising, education, and advocacy.

Jacob Cohen

INTERN

Jacob pursued a Masters in Sustainability and Environmental Management Program at the Harvard University Extension School. He holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Jacob’s primary interest in the field of sustainability lies in the power of narratives and messages to make a positive behavioral difference across cultures and backgrounds. This passion has led him to learn and teach languages, study literature, and pursue a career in communications and marketing around sustainability.

Michelle Nikfarjam

URBAN AGRICULTURE ADVISOR

Michelle worked as our urban agriculture advisor. She is a farmer-activist and scholar-in-training and obtained her B.S. in Sustainable Food and Farming from the UMass Amherst. Across three seasons, she worked as an organic production farmer and coordinated several food justice and agroecology projects in Amherst. She went on to receive her M.A in International Studies from the University of Oregon where she conducted research on climate, agrarian change, food sovereignty and agroecology in India. She is passionate about all things social and food justice and strives to connect communities to their food.

Alison Frisella

ADVOCACY ORGANIZER

Alison is at Lesley University, majoring in Political Science and Math Studies. They volunteered with us through the school's honors program. Coming from New Hampshire, they have volunteered for political campaigns since Obama's 2012 re-election. Most recently, they were a summer organizing fellow for Elizabeth Warren's Presidential Campaign in New Hampshire.

Anna Pierce-Silve

URBAN FARM COORDINATOR

Anna has gotten her hands dirty as the garden supervisor for Esalen’s Farm & Garden, at the University of California at Santa Cruz’s Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems and as an urban gardener at Green City Growers. She has run farmers markets in Boston and Cambridge, striving to bring local, colorful, beautiful and affordable food to the community while supporting farmers who treat the land, animals and farmworkers with deep respect. Her work blends a passion for plants with the urgency for social change to work towards more equitable and healing relationships between people and the land.

Primrose Yooprasert

INTERN

Primrose was Green Cambridge’s 2018 spring intern, focusing on creating and building the Energy Advocate Group. She received her Master’s degree in Management from Boston University in 2018. She hopes to combine her Environmental Science background with Business to address climate change and sustainability concerns on the community level to larger-scale business practices. ​

Traci Thoresen

URBAN FARM COORDINATOR

Traci ran our urban farm in East Cambridge. She grew up in Worthington, Iowa, a small farming community with a large garden and many pet dogs. She is a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa and holds a Permaculture Design Certificate. Since 2012, she has been involved with The Friends of the Riverbend Trust and the Seklar Play Lot. She loves teaching children how to grow plants, and helping them understand how our individual and collective actions effect our environment.

David Meshoulam

URBAN TREE CANOPY PROGRAM DEVELOPER

For the past 15 years David (pronounced DAH-veed) has been studying and working as a science educator, first at Brookline High and more recently at Newton North High (sandwiched around a PhD in Curriculum & Instruction from University of Wisconsin for good measure). He has expertise in curriculum design, with a focus on issues of the history of science and social justice in education. His foray into urban forestry and tree-issues includes a Teen Tree Stewardship Program in Watertown, MA and the creation of Speaks for the Trees, a tree advocacy group in the Boston area. At Green Cambridge he worked on a canopy study to measure tree cover in Cambridge and is also raising awareness and engagement in preserving trees in the city.

Christine White

STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR

Christine grew up loving the outdoors; after spending time in Australia and the Pacific Northwest, she developed a passion for sustainability to ensure the health and safety of our planet's ecosystems. As her day job, Christine works as a manager of acquisition marketing at HubSpot in Cambridge, MA. She has a passion for storytelling and the power it has to grow and convert an audience. In her free time, you can find Christine hiking, snowboarding, reading fiction, trying new recipes, watching documentaries, and playing with her family's three dogs.

Jenna Hall

INTERN/PROGRAM ASSISTANT

Jenna interned for summer 2017, working to run, grow, and intensify our programmatic areas. At this time, she was studying sociology and environmental studies at Connecticut College. She works on the student run garden, planting and selling produce to the college's dining halls. She is also deeply involved with local activist groups.

Lettie Cabot

SOCIAL MEDIA AND TREE INTERN

In the summer of 2017, Lettie helped coordinate and provide strategy for our social media program, and served as a program assistant for our Urban Tree Canopy program.

Micah Wilson

INTERN

​Micah served as Green Cambridge's 2017 Spring Intern, focusing primarily on our Neighborhood Farming project. He has background in sustainable farming and Permaculture and co-designed and managed the inception of our Hurley Street Neighborhood Farm. He worked at Lexington Community Farm.

Brian Johnson

ASSISTANT PROGRAM MANAGER

Brian worked with us as the Assistant Program Manager during his Senior Year at Northeastern University in 2016. He is finishing his degree in Economics and Environmental Studies, minoring in International Affairs. After graduation, he plans to live abroad to work with an NGO whose mission is poverty alleviation in a sustainable way. He joined us after studying economics and sustainability in Barcelona, at the Universitat de Pompeu Fabra. On campus at Northeastern, he served as the Philanthropy Coordinator for his fraternity Phi Delta Theta, benefitting organizations supporting ALS.

Erin Siver-Wheeler

TREE PROGRAM COORDINATOR / ASSISTANT PROGRAM MANAGER

​Erin worked with us during her second year at Northeastern University in 2016, while studying International Affairs and Global Social Entrepreneurship. She is interested in environmental advocacy and working with socially minded companies to enact social change. In her home state of Pennsylvania, Erin became passionate about environmental justice following her involvement in the states campaign against fracking. Erin worked as the Tree Program Coordinator and also as the Assistant Program Manager at Green Cambridge. Outside of work, she enjoys hiking trips, training with the Northeastern Triathlon Team, and baking.

Marley Kimelman

PROGRAM MANAGER

​Marley worked with Green Cambridge as a third year student at Northeastern University in 2016. He is interested in environmental and public health policy as well as addressing environmental justice especially in New England. Marley plans to continue on to law school after graduation and study to become an environmental lawyer working to bring justice from those affected by corporate pollution and environmental negligence.

Sarah Ruth

TREE PROGRAM COORDINATOR

Sarah did a co-op at Green Cambridge in 2016 as a second year student at Northeastern University. She served as our first Tree Program Coordinator and also worked with Southie Trees. ​

Emmy Michelfelder

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & YOUTH EDUCATION COORDINATOR

Emmy was a TerraCorps member for 2021-2022 with a focus on sustainable agriculture, food security, land equity/justice, and urban sustainability. She holds a B.A. in Environmental Science with a concentration in Conservation Biology from Clark University, and worked in the Foster Baker Lab studying the behavioral evolution of threespine stickleback in response to an increase in invasive pike in Alaska. She also researched the benefits of increasing species diversity in urban spaces and analyzed the rise in food insecurity on college campuses in response to the pandemic. Emmy is excited to explore urban sustainability and engage with the community during her time at Green Cambridge.

Austin Thoren

PROGRAM COORDINATOR

Austin ran our Canopy Crew Program for the 2022/2023 season. He has a bachelor's degree in Peace and Conflict Studies and a minor in Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change. He is passionate about creating opportunities for members of communities to get involved in shaping a better future for the planet. 

Matt Paul

SUMMER YOUTH COORDINATOR

Matt co-led our Mayor’s Summer Youth Program for the 2023 season. He has a B.A. in Environmental Studies with a minor in Human-Centered Design. Matt is passionate about restoring urban ecologies while creating a healthier and more resilient future for local community members.

Louie Pardo

INTERN

Louie worked to support the Green Cambridges office and summer programs. He is currently completing a B.A. at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University, focusing on ecology and design. Louie is passionate about making science more accessible to the public and reframing ecological data using design. 

Madelyn Kaplin

FARM COORDINATOR

Madelyn is a naturalist who is interested in wildlife conservation, environmental health and equity, and sustainable cities. She graduated with a B.S. in Biology from the UMass Amherst. Outside of Green Cambridge, she works in avian ecology and researched how songbirds refuel during their migration through the Connecticut River Valley. She also worked on multiple projects for the Migratory Birds Division of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service located in Hadley, MA. She loves everything bird-related and is excited to explore the urban wilds of Cambridge with a hammock and/or pair of binoculars.

Daisy Kettle

INTERN

Daisy interned with Green Cambridge for Summer 2023, and helped implement more GIS mapping into our East Cambridge Tree Planting Program. She is a senior at Bates College and is completing a degree in Environmental Studies with a minor in Digital and Computational Studies. She hopes to advocate for and engage groups most affected by environmental changes in climate-related policy discussions in order to work toward more equitable and effective climate solutions.

Mubarak Ware

URBAN FARM INTERN

Mubarak worked with Green Cambridge to assist in planning the Farm @ CRLS while he was a senior there, and is now studying at U Miami. He's interested in pursuing architecture and is passionate about the environment and giving back to the community. He hopes to implement the practice of sustainability and community engagement into his eventual area of study.