Molly White

Molly White leads curriculum and global training development and delivery at the Institute. She also oversees the Registrar’s Office, ensuring learner enrollment and support across the Institute’s extensive online course curriculum. She provides knowledge management and monitoring and evaluation expertise for several of the Institute’s capacity-development initiatives and services, and regularly develops GHG MRV curriculum, frameworks, and indicators to improve climate change interventions.

Molly is an experienced climate change and forestry expert. She has developed carbon offset projects, compiled private-sector GHG inventories, and trained national GHG inventory teams. Highlights during her tenure at the Institute include co-leading the development of the Forest and Agriculture policy GHG impact assessment guidance for the Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT), collaborating with the Caribbean Cooperative MRV Hub in helping to build regional climate MRV capacity across the Caribbean, and partnering with the U.S. Forest Service’s International Program to train early-career women in Central Africa.

For over 20 years, she has facilitated climate change mitigation development with a variety of federal, state, and non-governmental organizations, as well as local stakeholder groups and universities. She is a highly skilled facilitator who approaches every convening with intention, designing sessions that go beyond the standard agenda to create real dialogue, build trust among participants, and turn even routine meetings into meaningful, purposeful experiences. She has been an invited guest lecturer at the University of Montana Honors College, the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and is a regular lecturer at Yale University. Molly holds an M.S. in Forest Management from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where her research focused on ecosystem and industrial carbon budget analysis. She has lent her expertise to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; the editorial office of the peer-reviewed journal Carbon Management; and the Wild Rockies Field Institute board of directors, where she served as vice president. She currently serves on the Education Committee of the Zootown Arts Community Center’s board of directors. Molly has been recognized for her work by the U.S. EPA, the City of Missoula Mayor’s Office, New Leaders Council, and Women’s Voices for the Earth.