Our leadership team is dedicated to driving our mission forward with expertise in education, sustainability, and global exchange. Together, our officers work to create transformative opportunities for students and educators worldwide.
Rob has been on the GATW Board of Directors for over one year. Rob worked at Essex High School from 1980 and retired in June, 2020. The first twenty-four years Rob was a teacher, athletic coach, and class advisor. The last sixteen years Rob was Principal.
Rob is currently serving as Treasurer on the One Credit Union Board of Directors. He has served in this role for twenty-one years. Rob traveled to South Korea in 2007, China in 2008, and Japan in 2014. Rob helped foster positive relations on numerous exchange programs at Essex High School, including Essex and Burlington High School students with Tottori Prefecture in Japan.
Rob and his wife Mary, have two adult children, Jeffrey and Amanda. Rob enjoys running, biking, hiking, and reading.
Andreas Nolte has been a part of GATW since 2012. He was born in Bremen, Germany, and has lived in the US for more than 30 years. As a business teacher at Burlington High School, Vermont, he has facilitated student exchanges with Tottori/Japan students.
Before becoming a teacher, Andreas has worked as a Financial Controller for multiple German-based companies in the US. Because of his international work assignments and travels, he has developed a strong appreciation for how important and beneficial it is to provide young people with opportunities to develop their cultural literacy and open-mindedness through student exchanges.
Andreas enjoys reading, writing, traveling, exercising, and relaxing with his wife, Lisa, by the shores of beautiful Lake Champlain.
July Sander is the owner of The Green Lily in Burlington, Vermont and has been a board member for over 5 years.
OUR BOARD MEMBERS
Our Board of Directors is a diverse group of leaders committed to guiding our mission and ensuring the success of our programs. With expertise in education, environmental sustainability, international relations, and nonprofit management, they provide strategic oversight and support. Their leadership helps us expand our impact, foster global connections, and create meaningful opportunities for students and educators worldwide.
Michael Krasnow joined the Board of GATW early in 2018. Michael earned combined degrees in Sociology, Urban Education, and African and African-American Studies from Brandeis and Tufts Universities.
He taught for 14 years in the Boston area, including 12 years at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, where he founded and directed the largest high school ski program in the country.
Michael has extensive experience with youth outdoor and environmental education both in and out of country.
For GATW, Michael works with the Director of International Outreach, Adama Ndiaye, with an eye toward post pandemic student trips to Senegal.
Michael, his wife, and 2 infant sons moved to Charlotte, Vermont, in 1989 where he is actively engaged in the community. Michael has served as Justice of the Peace, Chair of the Board of Civil Authority, Director of Charlotte Central School Ski + Ride, and he is on the Board of ThinkMD, a global health organization.
Michael enjoys people, basketball, skiing, tennis, hiking, kayaking, body-surfing, and gardening; and he most enjoys spending time playing with his 3 grandchildren and their parents.
Peter serves as the President and founding Executive Director of Green Across the World, Inc.
Peter is a biologist who taught science in both public and private high schools for two decades. While on a biology field trip to South China in 1996, Peter met with School Officials at the Affiliated High School of South China Normal University in Guangzhou, China, and it was decided to begin an exchange program. Highly successful travel and virtual exchanges based on Cultural and Environmental for Chinese, Japanese, Senegalese, Bhutanese and North American students.
Peter and his wife Jessica raised two now grown children at their home in Shoreham, Vermont. Peter enjoys cooking, gardening, carpentry, cycling, hiking, snow shoeing, and Nordic skiing as well as time in the field with students.
Rob has been on the GATW Board of Directors for over one year. Rob worked at Essex High School from 1980 and retired in June, 2020. The first twenty-four years Rob was a teacher, athletic coach, and class advisor. The last sixteen years Rob was Principal.
Rob is currently serving as Treasurer on the One Credit Union Board of Directors. He has served in this role for twenty-one years. Rob traveled to South Korea in 2007, China in 2008, and Japan in 2014. Rob helped foster positive relations on numerous exchange programs at Essex High School, including Essex and Burlington High School students with Tottori Prefecture in Japan.
Rob and his wife Mary, have two adult children, Jeffrey and Amanda. Rob enjoys running, biking, hiking, and reading.
Holly Prievo has recently joined the board and brings her eye for copy and content writing to GATW projects. With a master’s degree in Global Sustainability and a concentration in sustainable tourism, she founded The Guilty Granola, LLC, where she provides copywriting, communications, and marketing services and strategy to sustainable brands across a variety of sectors, from sustainable tourism, health and beauty, renewable energy, recycled materials, and other mission-driven businesses.
The Green Across the World vision and mission speaks directly to her passion for people, nature, and learning through exploration.
