Zach Brown, BA 2013

Representative, House District 63, Montana Legislature

Now a 29-year-old Montanan, Zach first ran for a seat in the state House of Representatives at age 23. He is serving his third consecutive term representing Bozeman’s House District 63. His committee work focuses primarily on taxation, wildlife management, and he is the Chairman of the Water Policy Committee. He completed his EVST undergraduate degree in 2013, and he worked for many years with the nonprofit group, One Montana, until 2019. He is currently running for a seat on the Gallatin County Commission. He is happiest when fishing for cutthroat trout or whitefish somewhere in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem with his fiancée Alice and their two dogs, or hunting the badlands of eastern Montana with his brother and dad. Zach lives in Bozeman, MT.

Souta Calling Last, BA 2007

Founder & Executive Director of Indigenous Vision

Souta’s journey in preserving her environment-dependent Blackfoot culture and water quality started at nine, when she organized a stream clean-up after becoming concerned about pollution and trash behind her house in Heart Butte on the Blackfeet Reservation, Montana. Souta was hooked on the dirty work when she saw beaver pups playing on a recently cleaned mud-slide. In 2013, Souta founded, and now leads, an educational nonprofit called, Indigenous Vision, which she runs out of Phoenix, Arizona. Souta was just one of 20 people named as a Roddenberry Fellow, chosen as part of the inaugural cohort in 2018 and selected from more than 3,000 project applicants. She has a lifelong commitment to culture-conscious environmental stewardship, bringing her experience in groundwater monitoring, watershed health, and community participatory-based research. Her work in environmental and social justice mapping has seen her travel as a keynote speaker in environmental, cultural and justice gatherings around the country.

Mary Anne Hitt, MS 2002

Senior Director, Beyond Coal Campaign, Sierra Club

Mary Anne has been the Director of Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign since 2008, where she focuses her passion and skills on ending our reliance on fossil fuels and transitioning the country to 100% clean energy by 2030. Thanks to grassroots efforts that Mary Anne has helped coordinate, they have stopped 200 new coal plants from being built and retired 300 existing coal plants. Before her work at the Sierra Club, Mary Anne was Director of Appalachian Voices, where she worked to stop mountain top removal. She also served as the Director of the Ecology Center from 1999-2002 in Missoula, before returning home to Appalachia; she now lives in Shepherdstown, WV, with her husband and daughter.

Kiki Hubbard, MS 2006

Director of Advocacy & Communications, Organic Seed Alliance

Kristina “Kiki” Hubbard is the Director of Advocacy and Communications for Organic Seed Alliance. Kiki's work on seed policy spans nearly twenty years in the areas of antitrust, biotechnology, consolidation, intellectual property, and organic regulation. At OSA, Kiki leads efforts to promote policies and actions that ensure farmers have the best seed possible: for their farms, for the planet and our changing climate, and for the people they feed. She manages OSA's State of Organic Seed project and leads federal policy initiatives targeting Congress, federal agencies, and the National Organic Standards Board. Kiki lives in Missoula with her husband, Matt Frank (MS ’06), and their son.

Nicholas Triolo, MS 2016

Digital Editor and Content Strategist, Orion Magazine

Nicholas “Nick” Triolo is a writer, editor, educator, and long-distance mountain runner. During his time at the University of Montana, Triolo taught Writing Composition 101, was Senior Editor for Camas Magazine (2014-2015), and resident of the UM FLAT (2013-2015). He is Associate Director for the Todos Santos Writing Workshop and a board member for the Freeflow Wilderness Writing Institute. His writing, films, and photography have been featured in Orion, Terrain.org, Best American Poetry Blog, Juxtaprose, Trail Runner Magazine, Patagonia’s The Dirtbag Diaries, Wild and Scenic Film Festival, Whitefish Review, and others. Triolo currently lives in western Massachusetts, where he works as Digital Content Strategist for Orion and is working on his first book about walking in circles.

Sophie Wolfram, MS 2017

Director of Programs, Climate Action Campaign

Sophie’s experience fighting for environmental protection includes research and advocacy roles with the Yale Office of Sustainability, the Sustainable Endowments Institute, Californians for Pesticide Reform, and Missoula’s Community Food and Agriculture Coalition. Currently, she serves as Director of Programs for Climate Action Campaign in San Diego, where she leads campaigns to advance energy democracy, smart growth, and clean transportation in Southern California. Sophie earned an M.S. in Environmental Studies in 2017. Her thesis research addressed environmental justice in Southeast San Francisco and the Imperial Valley. She earned her B.A. in History from Yale University in 2010.