Sustainability Office Staff

Wes is the current Director of Sustainability for the college. He is a 1992 Amherst alumnus who returned to the college after having been a professor of Earth, Environmental, and Sustainability Sciences for twenty years at Furman University and UMass Boston. Wes has been building out the office’s faculty, staff, and student programs and working to integrate sustainability across the college's curriculum, co-curriculum, and operations.

Anna Hogarth is a recent graduate ('23) of Amherst College with a major in Environmental Studies. When she was a student, Anna involved herself with sustainability activities as an eco-rep, student-farmer at Book and Plow, and later as a Food Systems Fellow for the Office of Sustainability. Outside of Amherst, Anna was a recruitment intern for Greenpeace, an opportunity funded by a Charles Hamilton Houston Loeb Center award. She also interned for CitySeed, a food accessibility non-profit located in New Haven, CT. Anna hopes to increase underrepresented voices and engagement in sustainability, especially after completing a diversity in conservation summer program through Yale School of the Environment's Justice, Equity, and Diversity in Sustainability Initiative (JEDSI). In her free time, Anna likes all things plants (gardening, house plants, planting herself under a tree with a good book), and visual arts.