Meet the 2009 Switzer Fellows
The 2009 Switzer Fellows are here! Please read more about this outstanding group of environmental scientists, scholars and activists by following the link below. We are honored and excited to welcome this group of Fellows to the Switzer Fellowship Network.
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Spring 2009 Newsletter Available
The Switzer Foundation Spring 2009 Newsletter is now available here on the web site. Follow the link below to view the newsletter in PDF. NOTE: due to space constraints, some contributed newsletter articles will be published on the web site only. See Fellows in the News (to the right) for a link to those articles.
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Spring 2009 Leadership Grants
The spring 2009 cycle of Switzer Leadership Grants was extremely competitive. Grant awards were made at the May annual board meeting, where four Leadership projects were funded. Announcements will be made in early June.

Switzer Fellows Discuss Climate Change - watch the video!
Five of our California Fellows (Elizabeth Soderstrom, Steve Rothert, Healy Hamilton, Amy Luers, and Katrina Schneider) took part in a panel discussion back in January at the Wild and Scenic Film Festival sponsored by the South Yuba River Citizens League in California. For a link to the video:
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Leadership Exchange postings
For Fellows interested in partnering with an organization on developing a Switzer Leadership Grant proposal, remember to periodically check the Leadership Exchange section of the website - new postings are coming in regularly.
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Patrick McCarthy (1990), Senior Conservation Fellow with The Nature Conservancy Africa, describes his work with TNC on restoring natural flows to the Zambezi River
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Rachel Morello-Frosch, 1995 Fellow and Associate Professor at UC Berkeley , has co-authored a report entitled, "The Climate Gap: Inequalities in How Climate Change Hurts Americans and How to Close the Gap."
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Joshua Wickerham, 2008 Fellow based in China, has just completed a research project for his firm, AccountAbility. This research was completed with the Chinese State Council's Development Research Center as part of China's sustainable trade strategy.
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