biosketches of authors
Biosketches of Authors
Bradford S. Gentry is the Director of the Center for Business and the Environment, as
well as a Professor in the Practice at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.
Trained as a biologist and a lawyer, his work focuses on strengthening the links between
private investment and improved environmental performance. He is a member of Working
Lands Investment Partners, on the board of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and
the President of the Adirondack League Club. He has also served as an advisor to GE, Suez
Environnement, Baker & McKenzie, the UN Climate Secretariat, as well as other private and
public organizations working on environmental investments. Mr. Gentry received his B.A.
from Swarthmore College (Phi Beta Kappa) in 1977 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School
(Magna Cum Laude) in 1981.
Jonathan Loevner is a second year Master of Forestry/Master of Business Administration
candidate at Yale University with an interest in timberland investment, forest management,
and collaborative restoration. Jon spent the summer of 2012 working with the Forest Guild
on collaborative restoration projects in the piñon-juniper, ponderosa, and mixed conifer
forests of northern New Mexico. He is a Wyss Conservation Scholar and a member of the
Society of American Foresters. Prior to graduate school, Jon served as a policy advisor to Rep.
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (SD – at large) on natural resource, energy, financial services,
and economic policy. He is a former Forest Service wilderness ranger, avid fly fisherman,
skier and mountain biker.
Luke J. McKay is a Master of Forestry candidate and Berkley Conservation Scholar at the Yale
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. He is currently an Assistant Forest Manager
for the Yale School Forests, which owns over 10,000 acres of working and research forestland in Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Prior to coming to Yale, he worked as
an environmental consultant for Stantec Consulting in Denver, CO and as a land steward
for the Maine Chapter of The Nature Conservancy in Brunswick, ME. He graduated with
honors from Bowdoin College in 2007 with a B.A. in Environmental Studies and History.
At Yale, he is focused on working lands planning and management and devising strategies
that sustain and support rural natural resource economies.
Michael Parks received his Master of Environmental Management from the Yale School of
Forestry & Environmental Studies in 2013. In recent years, he has worked with the National
Forest Foundation to develop a business plan for restoring Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie
and helped to launch an online investment marketplace for clean energy as a Summer Fellow
at Solar Mosaic. In addition to his former role as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Sage Magazine,
Michael has written for publications such as Sierra Magazine, Grist, and The Atlantic Online,
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and has been the recipient of both a Fulbright Fellowship to Mongolia and an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Mass Media Fellowship. Michael graduated
Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis.
Aaron Reuben is a conservation and environmental health policy professional. He currently
works as an ocean conservation coordinator for The Nature Conservancy and the Northeast
Sea Grant Consortium, and is a Research Associate at the Yale Center for Environmental
Law & Policy, where he studies the policy impacts of environmental health indicators, particularly for air quality. He earned a Masters of Environmental Management from the Yale
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies in 2012 and holds a B.A. in English Literature
and Neuroscience & Behavior from Wesleyan University in Connecticut. He is a founding
editor of the literary journal Armchair/Shotgun, former Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Yale journal
Sage Magazine, and a contributing writer to online environmental journals including Grist,
Sierra Magazine, and The Atlantic.
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