How Carbon Credits Can Benefit Communities and Landscape Architects - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Erin Kelly, ASLA, AICP, PLA, is a collaborative leader with expertise prototyping inclusive and cross-sector solutions to urban revitalization. She currently serves as the Director of Sustainability & Innovation for Wayne County (MI).

Erin’s mission is to lead and spur collaborative innovation in planning and design for impact. She seeks to prototype and launch beautiful, data-driven, participatory, and narrative-rich solutions to deep urban challenges that improve the quality of life for people in the cities of today and tomorrow.

Erin lives with her family and too many bicycles on Detroit’s east side.

Mark Kenber is Executive Director of VCMI and has worked for nearly three decades on market-based instruments for environmental protection, with a particular focus on carbon markets. 

His previous roles include positions at Fundación Natura in Ecuador, WWF’s International Climate Change Program, The Climate Group, Mongoose Energy Ltd, and Climate Advisers. He has also served as Climate Change Advisor to the Ecuadorian Government. Mark is a board member of ICVCM, C:C Brighton and Brighton and Hove Energy Services Cooperative.

Bryan Van Stippen is Program Director for National Indian Carbon Coalition, an initiative of the Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) that provides education, training, and technical assistance to American Indian tribes, Alaska Native Villages & Corporations, Native Hawaiian organizations and First Nations in Canada on the development of carbon credit and renewable energy projects on tribal land. A member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, Van Stippen previously served for seven years as Tribal Attorney for the Ho-Chunk Nation Department of Justice in Wisconsin where he was responsible for land acquisition and other land-related issues. He earned a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration and a Masters in Computer Information Systems from Tarleton State University in Texas. Van Stippen is a graduate of the University of North Dakota School of Law (J.D.); the University of Tulsa College of Law (LL.M. in American Indian and Indigenous Law); and the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law (S.J.D in Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy). He lives with his wife and two children in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Bryan is a representative on the 1t.org US Stakeholder Council, a representative on the Voluntary Carbon Market Initiative Expert Advisory Group, a Legacy Member of the Ecosystem Service Marketplace Consortium, and a representative on the Bipartisan Policy Center Farm and Forest Carbon Solutions Task Force.

Stephen Taglieri is the Marketing Director at the National Indian Carbon Coalition (NICC). Working in the carbon and climate space for more than half a decade, Stephen focusses on telling stories of conservation success and creating impact through the empowerment of underrepresented voices.

Outside of NICC, Stephen is the CEO and Creative Director of Kingdom Multimedia, a creative marketing agency that specializes in the development of communications strategy. Through end-to-end content development, collaborating from the design phase to marketing implementation, Stephen has crafted unique climate messaging meeting his clients’ goals. Previously, he has produced documentaries, written articles, and been the lead photographer for organizations such as the Smithsonian Institute, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and the American Forest Foundation.