Chat with the Sustainability Director

11:00 am - 12:00pm

Heller Lounge, 2nd Floor

Meet UC Berkeley’s first Sustainability Director and hear her sustainability vision for the campus. Share your concerns, make suggestions, and ask questions.

Speakers:

Lisa McNeilly:

Lisa McNeilly, Director of Sustainability for UC-Berkeley, has over a decade of experience addressing various aspects of sustainability.  Prior to her arrival at University of California, she served as regional program director for the Nature Conservancy, managed sustainability and compliance for facilities at the Grand Canyon, directed international programs at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, and served as special assistant to the White House Climate Change Task Force.  She holds a Master`s degree in Public Policy from Princeton and an undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Davidson College. She has written on equity considerations for climate change and food policy in developing countries.

Dana Riley:

Dana Riley is a fourth year undergraduate student majoring in Environmental Sciences.  At UC Berkeley, Dana served for a year as a Project Coordinator and State Board member for CalPIRG, where she mobilized support for renewable energy policies on- and off-campus. Currently, Dana is a member of the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Sustainability and the Cal Climate Action Partnership, a program to reduce UC Berkeley’s greenhouse gas emissions.  She is also working on a senior research thesis to investigate the accuracy of a simple and inexpensive greenhouse gas inventory model.  After graduation, she hopes to pursue a career in environmental policy.