MBA/MS, Class of 2017 Before joining the Erb Institute, Taylor was an aviation officer in the U.S. Army for eight years. In that capacity, he served as a UH-60L Blackhawk pilot and deployed to Afghanistan twice. While deployed to Afghanistan in 2010, Taylor held the...
MBA/MS, Class of 1998 Dan joined the CCALT team in 2022 and in his role as Conservation Manager he works diligently to forge lasting partnerships with landowners who choose to conserve their land and preserve their legacies with CCALT. Dan earned an MBA and an MS in...
Bama Athreya has more than twenty years’ experience on international labor issues, gender and social inclusion, and business and human rights. She is currently a Fellow at Open Society Foundations and an advisor to Laudes Foundation. Most recently she worked for the...
MBA/MS, Class of 2012 Todd graduated from Michigan Tech University with B.S. degrees in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. Afterward, Todd served as an Air Force Officer and project manager in Boston, Dallas, and Balad, Iraq. He worked as an engineer at Nissan and...
MBA/MS, Class of 2017 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...
I lived in China for several years, and by the time I left in 2014, I had witnessed astounding economic growth. As a student at the Erb Institute, I was eager to understand the impact of China’s rapid expansion and consequent search for natural resources from the...
Prior to my 2015 internship at Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), I had preconceived thoughts on the activities and effectiveness of think tanks. Perhaps more than I should admit, I had the image of a group of smart people contemplating some of the most daunting problems...
By Kelsea Ballantyne When I joined the U of M Presidents Committee for Labor Standards and Human Rights last year, I had no idea how much it would open my mind to the power universities have to transform global supply-chains. Helping to organize the Symposium on...
The Elgar Companion to Sustainable Cities: Strategies, Methods and Outlook, edited by Hilda Blanco and former SNRE Dean, Dan Mazmanian, provides social, economic, political and environmental policy strategies for cities striving to advance in sustainability. Included...
Local food initiatives have taken off across the country in recent years. Registered farmers markets, for example, expanded nationally from around 3,000 in 2000 to over 8,000 in 2012, and urban farming has exploded across neighborhoods, at schools and in healthcare...