Tellus Staff

Orion Kriegman

Associate
okriegman@tellus.org

Orion Kriegman is an Associate at Tellus Institute, where he serves as the Great Transition Initiative (GTI) Organizer. The organizer position plays a key role in organizing, managing and helping to shape the GTI, a pioneering project in global social movement formation. In graduate school, he focused on ways to enhance meaningful community participation in the sustainable development of urban neighborhoods. He has coordinated the creation of the Urban Ecovillage Network (UEN), as part of the Global Ecovillage Network and the Ecovillage Network of the Americas; and was the Project Officer for Reflecting on Peace Practice (RPP), a practitioner's learning network gathering lessons learned about various peace-building efforts in internal armed conflicts. He also worked for two years in Guatemala with the Organization of American States to help government and civil society implement the policies outlined in the peace accords.

Mr. Kriegman received a Masters in Public Policy and Urban Planning at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard in 2004.