Josh Ellsworth

Joshua Ellsworth is a forester and international development practitioner with over 25 years of experience in the fields of sustainable development, ecological restoration, and social change and innovation education. He is particularly interested in how to plan and implement social, organizational, and environmental change in complex multi-stakeholder systems. He brings this focus to the field of ecological and watershed restoration in Mexico and the U.S. He also provides support to non-profit organizations, start-up businesses, and social-innovation teams with mapping the problems they seek to solve and solutions they hope to implement. In addition to serving as a fellow in Master of Arts in Peacebuilding program at Hartford International University, Josh is a lecturer at Harvard DCE’s Global Development Practice and Sustainability masters programs. He serves on the Advisory Board of African Diaspora Engaging Africa (ADEA) and has served as a judge on the Tufts 100k challenge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) IDEAS Global competition. He holds an MA in sustainable international development from Brandeis University, an MS in forestry from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a BS in fish and wildlife management from Montana State University.

Background

• Brandeis University, MA
• University of Massachusetts, MS
• Montana State University, BS

Areas of Study

• Sustainable development
• Project management
• Complex interventions for social change