Staff:
Kimberly Hagen joined the VEEP September 2007 as new Director to develop long term funding for VEEP and to manage the programs and five staffers. Kimberly is also a science educator and has worked with students from K through college level since 1990. From 1997 to 2005 she was director of AirVermont, a program that taught math and science literacy through the study and analysis of air quality.
Fran Barhydt has been teaching science to students of all ages for 40
years. She began by teaching elementary school and now teaches the teachers
of elementary, middle, and high school. Her distinguished career includes
recognition from the National Science Teachers Association as an outstanding
educator and from the University of Delaware's College of Education as
alumna of the year. She has also worked with the American Chemical Society
on its science teaching board, with Walt Disney pictures as the "star"
of an educational film, and as an author for Prentice Hall textbooks.
She has served as a consultant with school districts in Delaware, Vermont,
and New Hampshire, has taught science methods to school teachers and served
on the peer review board in Vermont. She has been VEEP's director since
1989 and in that role writes grant proposals, gives presentations in schools,
and conducts training workshops for teachers.
(802) 748-8917
With a B.A. in engineering from Brown University, Andy Shapiro, through his company Energy Balance, Inc, has been providing energy consulting and design services to a wide variety of clients since 1988. He works with homeowners, architects, engineers and builders, as well as towns, landlords, non-profit housing organizations, and electric utilities. Services range from house-doctoring to sustainable building design and include research projects as well as utility program design and impact evaluation. He is the author of The Homeowners Complete Guide to Add-On Solar Greenhouses and Sunspaces (Rodale Press, 1985). He became VEEP's energy scientist in 1994. Shapiro provides a level of technical expertise unusual in classrooms and along with Barhydt is helping to enhance science teaching in New England schools.
(802) 229-5676
Ben Luce is a professor of physics at Lyndon State College and is a long-time advocate for renewable energy. Ben served as president of the New Mexico Solar Energy Association (NMSEA) from 1999-2005, and as Co-chair and then Director of the New Mexico Coalition for Clean Affordable Energy from 1999-2007. He was centrally involved in advocating for a number of New Mexico clean energy laws, including the New Mexico Solar Tax Credit, a stronger solar rights law, and the state's Renewable Energy Standard. He developed extensive educational materials for the NMSEA, and has given hundreds of presentations at schools and to the general public. He is assisting VEEP in curriculum development and is VEEP's new webmaster.
(802) 279-7838