Environment & Community

As a sustainability analyst at Cal Poly Humboldt, I work with a variety of campus stakeholders on projects relating to energy, waste, food, curriculum, water, transportation, social justice, and policy, among others. I mentor student groups, author technical reports, provide graphic design services, research new and trending ideas and programs throughout the field of sustainability, facilitate stakeholder collaboration, and help implement new initiatives and activities. Through my work on the Sustainability, Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (STARS), I develop and curate a wide variety of data about the campus in order to help identify gaps and make recommendations for how to make the campus a more sustainable place to live, work, and study.  

The two primary resulting outcomes from my E&C education that have helped me in my career are: 1) learning how to gather, organize, and defend data, and, 2) learning how to understand/unpack systems of power. These theoretical lenses have helped me enormously to focus my career objectives toward systems change, and to recognize and prioritize the intersections of justice and environmentalism. This language and academic foundation that foregrounds liberation and decolonization has furthermore opened my eyes and my behavior to robust new collaborative partnerships, creative and innovative solutions and strategies, and keeps me motivated to continue as a practitioner of/for sustainable communities.