Tom Sabo, Executive Director

Who We Are

Sabo is an award-winning high school teacher, leading sustainability educator, prominent local food activist, and most recently the founding executive director of the Center for Sustainable Systems.  He is a chief architect of a model of service learning that integrates curriculum through a school greenhouse and gardens that provide food for the school system’s lunch program, using soil derived from the cafeteria food scraps.

Sabo is a past member of the state-wide Farm To Plate Education and Workforce Development Group, and has served on the Vermont State Standards Advisory Board for science.  He was a founding member of the Steering Committee of the Central Vermont Food Systems Council and co-chaired the Food Education Committee.  He is a 2009 recipient of the Milken National Educator Award and a 2011 Rowland Foundation Fellow.  He has taught biology and environmental science at Montpelier High School for the past 25 years and holds an M.S. from the University of Massachusetts at Boston.

Board of Directors

Tom Leahy, Chair

Molly McFaun, 4H Educator

Matthew McLane, Director of Flexible Pathways, Montpelier High School

Nicole Meier, Hunter Education and Outreach, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department

Emma Paradis, Policy and Program Coordinator, Common Good Vermont

Emma Schoenberg, Climate Disobedience Center