Linsey DeBell was a High Schools Group leader from 1993 to 1996. She helped organize the Enviro Zest Fest in 1994 and the subsequently-renamed Deep Green Global Training in 1995 and ’96.

For Earth Day 1994 she was one of two Schools Group representatives at the Youth Environmental Summit at Foothill College. For Earth Day 1995 she was a Site Leader for the San Francisquito Creek clean-up.  In 1996 Linsey was instrumental in organizing Environmental Awareness Week, in which Schools Group members from various high schools organized events at their schools.

She co-founded SAGE (Student Advocates for a Green Earth) an effort to build a Bay Area-wide network of high school environmental clubs and other youth environmental activists.

Linsey also served as a student member on the BAA Council from 1995 to 1996.

In 2003 Linsey wrote of BAA:

“Well what can I say? The Schools Group still makes it onto my resume, and I’ve been employed in some shape or form since I was 14, so it’s not due to a lack of other experiences. Since I chose to attend Foothill College instead of Menlo-Atherton after my freshman year, the Schools Group was my primary social network, and I still count alumni among my closest friends. Since my days at BAA, I spent a couple of years living in Santa Barbara where I earned my BA in Creative Studies Biology at UCSB and learned how to race outrigger canoes. My partner (now husband) Colin and I then moved to New Hampshire where we pursued our MS degrees in Earth Science. I’ve spent the last three years studying the role of long range transport of natural aerosols and their impact on the New England region. My first paper, which tracked an Asian dust storm and other pollutants to New England, is in press, and my second paper on the impact of a large forest fire in Quebec on air quality along the East Coast is nearly ready for submission. We have recently moved to Fort Collins Colorado where I am a researcher at Colorado State University. I will be working for the Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) network doing data management and quality assurance work as well as continuing with my research efforts.”

Post BAA

Linsey received a BA in Oceanography from UC Santa Barbara and an MS, Earth Science, Geochemical Systems from University of New Hampshire. She lives in Colorado.