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The Erb Institute offers students a unique opportunity to develop a set of integrated skills for confronting the complex challenges of sustainability. To be successful, a student must have strong analytic skills and the ability to communicate effectively across traditional academic, political and industrial boundaries. Erb Institute students come from diverse backgrounds, and represent decades of unique experience in a wide range of countries, sectors and industries. This diversity provides a critical educational resource for students, and enhances our ability to develop leaders who are prepared to tackle sustainable development in any sector of society.

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Deb Heed – Resume

MBA/MS Program 2013

Deb returned to graduate school at the age of 40 to support the launch of her next career – integrating sustainable resource use into solid business practices. Enthused by her experience living abroad in Germany from 2006-2007, Deb embarked on this new career path as a project manager at the Clean Energy Coalition in 2009. In seeing the impact she was able to encourage with homeowners, multiplied to a much greater degree with small businesses, Deb knew that in order to take her career to a level where she could make impacts on a global level, she needed to return to school to earn a master’s degree. With the world-renowned Erb Institute in her own backyard, Deb launched into the dual-degree program, gaining the experience and skill sets to allow her to make an impact on a global level. Studying supply chain dynamics through her SNRE master’s project with Dow Chemical, her internship with Carhartt, and her sustainability strategy coursework, Deb is looking forward to launching her career in the Detroit area’s automotive industry. By helping to develop the systems and collaboration necessary to engage the automotive industry’s global supply chain, Deb’s goal is to support the responsible use of natural resources, chemicals, and human capital in order to create a more robust, resilient, and future-thinking international supplier base.

Daphne Medina – Resume

MBA/MS Program 2014

Daphne comes to the University of Michigan and the Erb Institute after four years working at Environmental Defense Fund. Her time at EDF, working on green business practices in the Corporate Partnerships Program and on catch shares fishery management in the Oceans Program, informed her decision to pursue a career in market-based sustainability initiatives focused on the developing world. She is particularly interested in working in corporate strategy to incorporate sustainability into all aspects of business planning in order to create a greener and more equitable global economy. During Summer 2012, she worked on a project with fairtrade coffee and tea company, Cafedirect and their non-profit Producers' Foundation in London to develop recommendations for potential carbon credit and social enterprise projects to finance climate change adaptation initiatives within the organizationʹs network of 39 smallholder tea producer partners in East Africa. Hailing from Boston, she attended Boston University, graduating with BA in Political Science. In her spare time she enjoys traveling the world, reading a good book, cooking a delicious meal and hoping that someday she will be coordinated enough to learn to surf.

Ben Hamm – Resume

MBA/MS Program 2015

Prior to joining the Erb Institue, Ben served as a nonprofit marketing and communications specialist for several nonprofits, most recently as Institutional Giving Manager for The Trust for Public Land. His current focus is sustainable mobility and the emissions impacts of vehicle automation. Ben graduated from Haverford College with a Bachelor's in Sociology, where he focused on competition policy and Islamic jurisprudence. He has lived and worked internationally on several occasions including as a teacher of sociology in Islamabad, Pakistan. Ben enjoys describing himself in the third person.