Meet the Staff
Lance C. Boyd (Lead Instructor) is an environmental educator with a background in interdisciplinary learning and extensive professional experience at the K12 and tertiary levels in North America. Mr. Boyd’s experience in Asia includes two Fulbright Fellowships in Japan and Singapore, service as a USAID environmental education consultant for ASEAN, and Earthwatch funded research on insectivorous bats in peninsular Malaysia. In Europe, Mr. Boyd studied as an undergraduate in Austria, completed his MA at the International School for Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam, and completed a Goethe Institute funded study of the environmental movement in Germany. While working for the University of Colorado’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science he earned an MA in Education Foundations. He currently lives in Hawai‘i and works as an Instructor for the East-West Center’s Environmental Leadership Institutes (SUSI).
Christina Monroe (Leadership Education Specialist) designs and delivers a suite of Leadership Programs at the East-West Center with a focus on leadership capacity building at the individual and organizational levels. Programs include the U.S. State Department-funded Study of the U.S. Institute on Global Environmental Issues for emerging leaders from the Middle East, Europe, Latin America and Asia; the Asia Pacific Leadership Program; MARA Executive Leadership Program of Malaysia; and ProSPER.Net - United Nations University Sustainable Development Leadership Program for Researchers. She served as co-chair of the Center’s three-year Sustainability Task Force. Prior to joining EWC, Ms. Monroe was Director of the Service Learning Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She completed a graduate certificate in Asia Pacific Leadership from the East-West Center and University of Hawaii, an MA in social sciences from the University of Amsterdam and BA in sociology (Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of Tulsa. She is a recent graduate of the Organizational Consulting and Change Leadership program at Georgetown University.
Mr. Joe Larsen (Program Officer) is a Program Officer in the Research department of the East-West Center. Prior to working at the East-West Center, Mr. Larsen worked in the External Affairs department of the APEC Climate Center in Busan, South Korea, and at the Pacific Northwest Economic Region in Seattle, WA, where he worked on cross-border issues between the United States and Canada. Mr. Larsen received his master’s degree from Western Washington University and his BA from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
Contact Us
For more information, please contact:
Christina Monroe
Leadership Education Specialist
East-West Center
MonroeC@EastWestCenter.org
+ 1-808-944-7645
Official East-West Center website: www.eastwestcenter.org/susi
Christina Monroe
Leadership Education Specialist
East-West Center
MonroeC@EastWestCenter.org
+ 1-808-944-7645
Official East-West Center website: www.eastwestcenter.org/susi
