Institute at Brown for Environment and Society

Leadership Team

IBES Leadership develops and implements the Institute’s ongoing research initiatives and educational programs, and provides intellectual guidance for its multidisciplinary community of affiliated scholars and students.

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Leadership Team

IBES Leadership develops and implements the Institute’s ongoing research initiatives and educational programs, and provides intellectual guidance for its multidisciplinary community of affiliated scholars and students.

IBES Leadership Team

  • Kim Cobb

    Kim Cobb

    Lawrence and Barbara Margolis Director of IBES, Professor of Environment and Society & Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
    Kim_Cobb@brown.edu
    Website
    Research Interests Tropical Pacific climate, Coral reefs, Global water cycle, Climate data-model intercomparison, Coastal climate resilience, Urban heat islands
  • Katie Silberman

    Katie Silberman

    Director of Strategic Operations
    katie_silberman@brown.edu
    Areas of Expertise Strategic initiatives, Communications, Public and alumni engagement, Advancement
  • Virgo

    Christina M. Virgo

    Associate Director of Administration and Finance
    christina_virgo@brown.edu
    Areas of Expertise Finance, Budget management, Faculty affairs, Sponsored research administration, HR operations
  • Daniel Ibarra

    Daniel Ibarra

    IBES Director of Early Career Development and Training, George H. Billings Assistant Professor of Environment and Society, Manning Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
    daniel_ibarra@brown.edu
    Website
    Research Interests Water cycle, Paleoclimate, Carbon cycle, Isotope geochemistry, Modeling, Climate change, Critical Zone, Weathering
  • Mindi Schneider

    Mindi Schneider

    IBES Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Teaching Professor in Environment and Society
    Mindi_Schneider@brown.edu
    Website
    Research Interests Agriculture, Agrarian change, Development sociology, Land, Land and environmental justice, Commodity studies, Historical sociology, Political ecology, Social reproduction and feminist political economy/ecology, Waste and discard studies
  • Rachel Wetts

    Rachel Wetts

    IBES Director of Research (Interim), Acacia Assistant Professor of Environment and Society & Sociology
    rachel_wetts@brown.edu
    Website
    Research Interests Political sociology, Environmental sociology, Race/Ethnicity, Sociology of culture, Social psychology, Organizational theory, Social theory, Computational methods, Experimental methods