… Chair on SOM student government, helping to advance sustainability initiatives and efforts at the institution. Before Yale, Katya worked as a Senior Product Manager at Amazon focused on Intellectual … painting, crochet, and spending time with her family and two dogs. Circularity Clean Energy Corporate Sustainability Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Katya Wendt …
… and equitable value chains and market systems. Her accumulated experiences, passion for sustainable and delicious food, and deepening sense of responsibility to tackle complex societal issues are what led to Forested. Prior Forested Foods, Ariana co-founded Common Farms, an indoor farm in Hong Kong, as well a North …
… of the Environment. Prior to graduate school, Grace worked as a Program Coordinator at Forest Trends, a conservation finance nonprofit. There, she researched innovative conservation finance mechanisms to help the United States Forest Service mitigate wildfire risk in priority regions across the West. She also … (i.e. insurance & recreation industries) to create cross sector collaboration with the Forest Service. Grace received her undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies at Colorado …
… investment and asset management firms and funds, private operating companies, and mission-forward institutions who want to build, realign and scale institutional-quality sustainable … sits on several Boards including Impax Asset Management Group, Pax World Funds, Onward Energy and the Seven Islands Land Company. Lindsey is the Co-Chair of the Advisory Board for the Yale Center for Business and Environment and is the US Ambassador for the 2041 …
… new products and business models. Since her time at Yale, Meaghan has worked for companies advancing innovative business models to scale more sustainable food production … partnerships and product development. During her time at Yale SOM/FES, Meaghan worked for Patagonia’s internal venture capital and corporate development group and on Sonen … Colorado at Boulder and received an MBA/MEM from Yale’s School of Management and School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in 2016. She lives in Idaho and spends her spare time …
… to help all stakeholders act on climate challenges. He's written journalism and research for the New York Times, the Atlantic, Bloomberg CityLab, the Urban Land Institute, the … high schools, Pratt Institute, NYU Stern School of Business, and in enrichment training for teachers in the New York City Department of Education. He was recently CBEY's News Editor, where he coached students writing stories for the Clean Energy Finance Forum and Conservation Finance Network websites. He lives in Lower Manhattan, …
… Uganda. Prior to that he worked in One Acre Fund's strategy team, developing joint ventures for seed production in Rwanda and identifying opportunities for smallholder farmers to access global crop markets, among other projects. Colin came to … Uganda. Prior to that he worked in One Acre Fund's strategy team, developing joint ventures for seed production in Rwanda and identifying opportunities for smallholder farmers to …
… Brooks Lamb is the author of Love for the Land : Lessons from Farmers Who Persist in Place (Yale Univ. Press, 2023), a book … to his work as a writer and author, Brooks is the Land Protection & Access Specialist at American Farmland Trust. In this role, he leads local, state, and national efforts to advance farmland protection, enhance access to land for new, beginning, and …
… the Environment studying collaborative solutions to protecting wildlife on working lands. Before coming to YSE, she worked for an environmental nonprofit, focusing on water and nutrient management on the Central Coast of California and stopping the sale of invasive horticultural plants. She also studied visitor use …
… Global. During her internship, she helped build innovation ecosystems in emerging markets for the TECA climate venture launcher and built a gallery of climate-smart financial … Global. During her internship, she helped build innovation ecosystems in emerging markets for the TECA climate venture launcher and built a gallery of climate-smart financial … Sustainable Finance and ESG Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Affiliations Forté MBA Fellow … Monica is a joint degree candidate at the Yale School of Management and …