Michelle Land is director of the Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies, a Pace University Center for Excellence.  She also directs the Environmental Consortium of Hudson Valley Colleges and Universities – a cooperation of 51 higher education institutions in the region.  She lectures regionally and nationally on environmental policy and ecosystem-based higher education.  Michelle is an adjunct associate professor in the graduate environmental science program at Pace, and teaches graduate environmental policy at New York University.

Michelle’s interdisciplinary, hands-on approach was first honed at the World Bird Sanctuary in St. Louis, Missouri, where she conducted field studies, managed education programs, and propagated, rehabilitated, and released endangered birds of prey. Her current areas of research interest include the intersection of nanotechnology regulation, environment and ethics as well as animal welfare and conservation policy.

She earned her Bachelor of Science degree with a specialty in wildlife biology from the Honours Program at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, and she has undertaken masters-level study in ecology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.  Michelle went on to graduate from Pace University School of Law where she earned a certificate in environmental law and was Editor-in-Chief of the Pace Environmental Law Review.

Michelle currently serves on the Westchester County Executive’s Climate Change Advisory Council, and is a member of the Council of Environmental Deans and Directors (National Council for Science and the Environment).

Residing in Pleasantville, NY, Michelle and her husband, Kevin Winn, spend much of their free time enjoying the outdoors with their 2-year old son and their 3-year old Golden Retriever.