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Jessica Haller: Alum, Climate Activist, and City Council Contender
The Environmental Science and Policy alum is running for New York City Council on a platform that emphasizes sustainability, resilience, and equity.
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Alumni Spotlight: Lili Gao, Energy Consultant
An Environmental Science and Policy graduate discusses how the program prepared her for the challenges ahead in her work helping electric and water utilities transform their business.
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Earth Institute Alumni Helped Launch Etsy Carbon Offset Initiative
The major e-commerce site is the first to offset 100% of its carbon emissions from shipping — and two Sustainability Management graduates helped to make it happen.
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Mah Sissoko: Integrating Sustainability with Finance
An alumna explains how the masters program in Sustainability Management has helped her career.
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Creating a Global and Unified Perspective on Infrastructure
Growing up in Africa, Catarina Carvalho was impressed by how people’s lifestyles transformed as infrastructure developed over time. She wanted to be a part of that phenomenon.
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Alum Spotlight: Applying Management, Strategic Communication and Policy Expertise to Human and Environmental Health
MPA in Environmental Science and Policy alum Julie Manoharan leverages her degree to help shape communications strategies and program development.
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Alum Helps Build the Business Case for Sustainability
Watson Millison’s degree in Sustainability Management has come in handy now that he’s a member of the corporate sustainability team at JetBlue Airways.
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With Fulbright Grant, Alum Will Study Arctic Ocean Protection
David Prieto, 2015 graduate of the Master of Science in Sustainability Management program, has been awarded a Fulbright-National Science Foundation Arctic Research Grant focused on interdisciplinary issues across the Arctic.
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Getting the Tools to Get Hired
Alan Burchell is the founder and principal of Urbanstrong, which he started shortly after graduating from Columbia’s Master of Science in Sustainability Management program in 2014. When choosing courses, Alan encourages MSSM students to fill up their tool belts. In his experience, “Knowledge is great, but tools get you hired.” Alan recommends to take classes…
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