Global Environmental Careers Panel
FRIDAY, October 11 @ 11:30am-1:00pm
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.
- 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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