Jaimie P. Cloud is the founder and president of the Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education inNew York.As a pioneer in the field of Education for Sustainability (EfS) Jaimie is an international keynote speaker, author, thought leader and educational consultant. She is a leadership advisorand curriculum development coach to administrators, teachers and curriculum specialists in schools and school districts around the country and in other parts of the world. She writes and publishes extensively, and is currently working onResponse-able.a book project addressed to young people.

Jaimie is inspired by the potential of schools as learning organizations, children and young peopleas leaders, and schools and communities learning in partnership for a sustainable future. Through The Cloud Institute, Jaimie has developed exemplary curriculum units and full courses of study, and produced the Cloud Institute’s EfS Framework and EfS Standards and Performance Indicators that schools are using to design and innovate their own curricula to educate for sustainability. She is the curator, editor and a contributing author of Educating for a Sustainable Future: Benchmarks for Individual and Social Learning, released by The Journal of Sustainability Education. This 70 page account is authored by—and represents the current and best thinking of—forty-two scholars and practitioners of the field of Education for Sustainability. Most recently Jaimie served as the lead author of the award winning Oxford International Curriculum on Sustainability and the co-author of the International Baccalaureate Micro-Credentials and Micro-Learning Modules for Sustainability.

Jaimie is an advisory board member to:SustainableJersey for Schools and The Buckminster Fuller Institute and is an editorial board member for The Green Schools National Network’s Catalyst Journal. She is on the nomination committee for the U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools for the state of New Jersey and previously served on the Editorial Board of theInternational Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, was anadvisory board member of the Center for Green Schoolsat the U.S. Green Building Council and was a founder and principle partner with Peter Senge of the Society for Organizational Learning’s (SOL) Education Partnership

Jaimie has served as a mentor to doctoral students studying Sustainability Education at Prescott College, she was on the faculty of the MFA Design for Social Innovation program at the School of Visual Arts for seven years, and is a guest editor for the U.S. Journal of Education for Sustainability.  

Jaimie also owns Miracle Springs Farm in Gallatin, NY (Hudson Valley) where her team is cultivating regenerative farming practices. She serves on the Town of Gallatin’s Advisory Board for Conservation and the Environment.