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Catriona Day
(MCS ’08)
Catriona Day has been fascinated by the ocean ever since she can remember. After getting a marine biology degree and working at various biology and marine conservation jobs on beaches, aboard ships, and in labs, she graduated from rigorous police training in 2010 to become a federal Fishery Officer with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Officer Day has been working in the south coast of BC since January 2011. In her spare time, she enjoys playing the cello in a variety of contexts. Read…
David Anderson
(MCS ’02)
For the past three years, David Anderson has been working with A Rocha, an international Christian conservation organization, serving as director of Brooksdale Environmental Centre in Surrey, BC. The work at the Centre involves integrating conservation biology, sustainable farming, environmental education, and spiritual formation in the context of a residential community. Before joining A Rocha, David had the privilege of pastoring for several years at Cates Hill Chapel on Bowen Island. Read…
Celia Deane-Drummond
(DipCS ’83)
Celia Deane-Drummond is Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame with a concurrent appointment in the College of Science and a Fellow of the Eck Institute for Global Health and the John Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values at the University of Notre Dame. She was Chair of the European Forum for the Study of Religion and Environment from 2011–2013. She is also co-editor of a new journal to be launched in 2014 called Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences. Read…
Justin Pritchett
(MCS, current student)
Justin Pritchett grew up in suburban Virginia making annual pilgrimages to the fringes of the civilized world—Wyoming. He completed his undergraduate degree in philosophy and moved West to work for the Bureau of Land Management. A fanatical fly fisherman, Justin is currently in his fourth year at Regent and completing a thesis towards a phenomenology of wilderness spirituality. Read…
Esther Pawley
(DipCS, current student)
Esther Pawley has a degree in ecology and a master’s in conservation biology. She has worked in the voluntary, private, and public spheres, including two British National Park Authorities. She spent four gloriously windswept years in the Orkney Isles working for Scottish Natural Heritage. She is the former Director of Science and Conservation for A Rocha Portugal. In April 2013, she started a seasonal post as site manager of Hermaness National Nature Reserve in Shetland, Scotland. Read…
John L. Anderson
(DipCS '75)
After completing a DipCS at Regent College in 1975, John Anderson obtained an MS in botany from Arizona State University. He worked as a botanist for the US Bureau of Land Management and Fish and Wildlife Service for thirty-five years, the last twenty in Arizona (where he still lives). His primary duties were conducting inventory and managing rare and endangered plants, and providing plant identification on projects. During his work, he discovered several treasures and new rare plant species. Read…
Winnie Cheng
(DipCS '12)
For years, Winnie Cheng’s work has been inseparable from the environment. She has managed environmental contaminants in water, air, and soil; she has studied the effects of environmental pollutants on people in order to develop waste management and pollution control strategies; and she has studied economic and social systems to help solve challenges related to people’s use of natural resources and to minimize the impact of human activities on the environment. Read…
Rahel Liechti
(Former Student)
Rahel Liechti grew up in the countryside of Bern in Switzerland and did her undergraduate degree in Environmental Sciences in Basel, before studying theology for one semester at Regent College. She is currently doing her Master’s in Environmental Science degree at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Besides being active in a lot of sports, she is a team member of IFES in Zurich, and has been leading the youth group at her church for more than eight years. Read…