Dr. Kelly Cain, Director
Kelly is Director of the St. Croix Institute for Sustainable Community Development at the University of Wisconsin – River Falls, where he is also a Professor in Environmental Science & Management.
Kelly also co-coordinates the Masters Degree program in Sustainable Community Development launched in May of 2005. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses primarily in sustainability-based planning and management.
Integral to his teaching and administrative duties, Kelly is actively involved in community outreach and service learning in the St. Croix region, speaking and consulting on green design, business models, and community development, as well as sustainability-based lifestyles. Kelly has served on a variety of municipal, town, and county boards and committees, including 6 years as a Town Supervisor. His work in international projects ranges from China’s Tibetan Plateau to Nicaragua.
Kelly lives with his wife (Ruth), 2 dogs, 3 cats, 40,000 bees, 20 chickens, the spirit of “Rex, The Rooster From Hell”, and various other critters on a 5-acre subsistence farm, in an 80-acre intentional community outside of River Falls. He and Ruth have three children: Sarah, Noah, and Simon, and a son-in-law, Ben.
Besides his family, his other passions are gardening, woodworking, hunting, fishing, reading, walking, and just plain breathing.
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Carol Wilcox, Program Assistant
Carol is a 1981 UWRF graduate with an agriculture / horticulture background. She began working for the Institute as a program assistant in January 2008.
She had previously known Kelly Cain while serving on the Publicity Committee of the Kinnickinnic River Land Trust. After many years in the graphic design field, she finds the work at the Institute increasingly rewarding, as she plays a part in educating the campus, local and regional communities about the urgency and importance of living sustainably.
Having lived most of her life in rural settings, she is a nature lover at heart and through lifestyle choices, tries to be a good earth steward.
Carol, her husband Dan, and their dog Badger live on about 84 acres of land southeast of River Falls that is protected forever from development through a conservation easement. Much of that land hosts restored prairie which is enjoyed by a variety of wildlife as well as the three of them, hunters and hikers.
In her leisure time, she enjoys birdwatching, gardening, reading, cooking, fishing, traveling and spending time with friends.
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