Jeff is currently Director of Project Origination at Clean Focus Renewables, a financier and developer of large-scale solar photovoltaic systems. Prior to joining Clean Focus, Jeff was Senior Director of Sales at SunShare where he led customer acquisition activities...
Allison is the Erb Institute’s Writer. Her career as a writer and editor spans various publications and nonprofit organizations, on topics ranging from the environment to education to the law. As a freelance writer, her work has been published by the Sierra Club, the...
Marian Chertow is a professor of industrial environmental management at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Her research and teaching focus on industrial ecology, business/environment issues, waste management, circular economy, and urban industrial...
Becca is currently the Associate Field Manager for the Bureau of Land Management’s Bakersfield Field Office, covering 650,000 acres of public land and over 1 million acres of Federal mineral estate across 8 counties in central California. In that capacity she manages...
Doug Wein leads the independent consulting and coaching company Manifest, as an expert sustainability strategist and professional coach. Manifest guides sustainability-minded professionals and businesses to clarify and achieve their most critical goals. Doug provides...
Neesha Modi is a Senior Program Officer with The Kresge Foundation’s Detroit program. Before joining Kresge, Neesha worked at Deloitte Consulting in Detroit, where she led talent strategy and culture transformation work, in addition to helping lead that office’s...
While at the University of Michigan, Ian studied entrepreneurship, finance, and climate change adaptation. He conducted research for Great Lakes Integrated Sciences Assessment on how organizations in the Great Lakes use climate data. He also researched sustainable...
Aaron James is currently the VP of Network Partnerships at EnergySage, an online marketplace for solar energy, where he manages the company’s national installer network and marketplace customer service. With the support of two SunShot awards from the US Department of...
Dr. Lauren Bigelow has served as the CEO of the Growth Capital Network since 2010. Lauren’s team manages programs for the philanthropic, health care and innovation community providing strategic, project management, research, analytic, and evaluative services. Lauren...
Brian currently serves as a Senior Product Manager at Walmart Labs. As an Erb student, Brian focused on exploring how the principles of design thinking can be applied to solving systemic sustainability challenges. In his second summer Brian interned as an Innovation...