Friday, Oct. 11 @ 11:30 AM | Global Environmental Careers Panel

Global Environmental Careers Panel

 FRIDAY, October 11 @ 11:30am-1:00pm

Room 1040, Dana Building

Panel: 11:30am-12:30pm

Meet with panelists one-on-one from 12:30-1pm  

Participants will hear from panelists who are engaged in global environmental careers.  Panelists will provide tips and advice for students interested in pursuing either a U.S. based career focused on global environmental issues or an internationally-based career working abroad on environmental issues.  

This event is part of a larger U-M International Career Pathways series and also SNRE's Career Week events.

• Amy Braun, Sustainability Manager, Kellogg Company (SNRE MS, 2011)
• Chris Nordstrom, Landscape Architect (formerly with Tegn3 AS in Trondheim, Norway) (SNRE MLA, 2010)
  
• Brieland Jones, Intern, USAID (Monrovia, Liberia) (SNRE MS/MSE student)

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Amy Braun

Amy Braun is the Sustainability Manager at Kellogg Company, a $14 Billion global leader in cereals and snacks. Her responsibilities include embedding and reinforcing sustainability commitments in Kellogg's supply chain for their ingredients, packaging and services. She also supports the Environmental Health and Safety team to engage Kellogg's employees for the 65 global manufacturing plants on improving practices to reduce local impacts and assess risk. Sustainability projects at Kellogg are as local as Frankenmuth, Michigan, and as far away as Cote D’Ivoire and Bolivia. Amy’s previous work experience includes performing environmental law compliance at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency, a professional internship at Ford Motor Company and educating staff on waste reduction at the University of Michigan. Amy has a B.S. in the Program in the Environment and an M.S. in Environmental Policy and Planning from SNRE, both from the University of Michigan.

Chris Nordstrom

Chris Nordstrom is a landscape architect currently based in Chicago. He has practiced independently in Ann Arbor and with the firm tegn_3 in Trondheim, Norway.  During his 2.5 years working abroad, Chris worked on numerous municipal, institutional, and commercial projects including several school designs, large scale residential projects, and a redesign of several rail stations near Oslo to incorporate universal access standards. Chris received his MLA in 2010 from the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources and the Environment.

Brieland Jones

Brieland is a third year dual degree student with SNRE and Environmental Engineering focused on Sustainable Energy Systems.  He has a Bachelor of Science in Biology.  Brieland conducted his Master's thesis on the social and environmental impacts of charcoal production in Liberia, where he was able to connect with a number of aid organizations, including USAID and UNDP.  

About Brieland's Internship:

The University of Michigan is a sub-contractor for a five-year education program in Liberia focused on capacity building in engineering and agricultural disciplines, called "Excellence in Higher Education for Liberian Development (EHELD)".  For the past two years, Brieland has been a part of a group of UM graduate students who designed and delivered innovative, hands on curriculum to university students while engaging with multiple stakeholders and managing logistics in a developing country.  This past summer, he directed the program and was responsible for a number of further successes including paper-based GIS applications for resource poor areas and the first EHELD Career Fair, where companies including Firestone, Arcelor Mittal and USAID were attending employers engaging students in professional development.  

**Pizza will be provided

**RSVP's requested (but not mandatory) to: yeeha@umich.edu (with name, degree, department) to help us plan on food numbers

**Co-sponsored by U-M School of Natural Resources and Environment with support from the U-M International Institute

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Lisa Yee-Litzenberg, Coordinator of Student Career Services
University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources and Environment
E-mail: yeeha@umich.edu, Phone: 734-615-1633
SNRE Career Services: http://www.snre.umich.edu/current_students/career_services