Bio
If the High School for Environmental Studies, a powerful force for “green” curriculum development, has a poster-child, it is Marissa Bellino. Starting with her efforts to reorganize the school’s entire science facility and culminating with student field trips to Japan, Bellino has taken the school’s already strong program to new heights. “She creates opportunities for the kids that they wouldn’t have otherwise,” said a colleague, who co-taught a research class with her until last summer.Case in point: the Japan trips, in which she and six students joined teachers and teens from high schools in Japan, Thailand, and Poland. They met with environmental experts to discuss how the global community can halve CO2 emissions by 2050 and came up with real-life ideas for energy sustainability.Offering students new opportunities, creating a cutting-edge curriculum, and working on solving the most pressing issues in the field of environmental science has led Bellino’s students to pursue careers in environmental science. A
