| LLOYD E. WORNER AWARD RECIPIENT 2008 |
 Ed Goldstein '79
Some people thrive in the bustling environment of Washington, D.C. Ed Goldstein is one of those people.
A native of Denver, Ed headed east not long after graduation. He attended graduate school at Harvard and was soon after given the opportunity work for for the domestic policy staff of President George H.W. Bush. Ensuing years would find him working for the Wilderness Society and Nature Conservancy, teaching environmental politics and policy courses, and completing a Ph.D. in public administration.
The White House was exciting. Ed was a manager for implementing the federal government’s response to an agreement between the White House and the Western Governors’ Association to develop innovative technologies to help speed the cleanup of contaminated federal facilities in the western states.” He was also a member of the administration’s task force on wetlands, and was engaged in endangered species policy and international environmental policy.
In 2002, he landed at his current job, as lead writer for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). “I’ve had an interest in space since childhood, Ed says. “This was a great opportunity.”
But this job at also offered his “the biggest professional challenge.” On Feb. 1, 2003, when the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated during re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere killing seven, Ed worked very hard “to help our leadership deal in a dignified and responsible way with the loss of the Columbia crew.”
This year, he was busy with events relating to NASA’s 50th anniversary, including the Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
Ed met the Prince of Bhutan, and also interviewed former Presidents Bush and Clinton and Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Mather for a NASA documentary.
When Ed isn’t working, he documents his trips around the world with photographs. This year, he traveled to Beijing to photograph the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
Ed has been always active as an alumni volunteer. He served as president of the Alumni Association Board (AAB) from 1999 to 2001. He is proud that during his term, developing the “CC Cares Coast to Coast” day of community service and expanding its outreach to alumni abroad. He served on the CC Board of Trustees, and on the CC Athletic Hall of Fame Committee.
Ed believes his education at CC has helped guide him along his career path. “I think that CC encourages its students to learn new things and apply them in what you do,” he says. “At CC, I took to the idea of liberal arts – acquiring knowledge to improve one’s understanding of the world.”
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