College of the Atlantic
Heather Albert-Knopp has been Dean of Admission at College of the Atlantic since June 2010. Prior to that, they served as Sustainable Food Systems Program Administrator, coordinating, administering and implementing a $1 million grant-funded project to link College of the Atlantic (COA) with two new transatlantic partners: the Organic Research Centre/Elm Farm (UK), and the University of Kassel's Faculty of Organic Agriculture (Germany). Heather also worked as Farm to School Coordinator for Healthy Acadia, developing and coordinating farm-to-school efforts in eastern Maine, focusing on building sustainable purchasing relationships between farms and schools/institutions.
Heather Albert-Knopp has a BA in Human Ecology and Agricultural Ecology from the College of the Atlantic, and also studied Spanish at Swarthmore College.
Their manager is Darron Collins, President. Some of their coworkers include Shawn Keeley - Dean of Institutional Advancement, Rob Levin - Director of Communications, and Sarah Luke - Dean of Student Life.
College of the Atlantic
College of the Atlantic enriches the liberal arts tradition through a distinctive educational philosophy — human ecology. A human ecological perspective integrates knowledge from all academic disciplines and from personal experience to investigate, and ultimately improve, the relationships between human beings and our social and natural communities.