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Waste Minimization

Intern

Dickinson College Center for Sustainability Education, Carlisle, PA

2015-2018

  • Educate peers, faculty, and staff about campus waste management system.

  • Collaborate with other offices and departments to improve waste management.

  • Compiled and presented five years of campus landfill trash, single stream recycling, and compost data using MS Excel.

  • Set college target of 65% landfill diversion by 2020.

  • Created a Green Office Checklist and implemented it by performing sustainability audits with college staff.

Dickinson Free Xchange

Co-founder, Executive Director

Spring 2018

  • Wrote a strategic vision and business plan

  • Ran 7-week campus clothing drive and collected 600+ garments

  • Supported by 6 campus organizations/groups for clothing drive and swap shop

  • Launched Instagram Account

  • Planned and lead 4 team planning meetings

  • Planned and ran free Clothing Swap Shop

Research in Nepal

Student

Dickinson College Global Mosaic Climate Change and Human Security in Nepal, Carlisle, PA/Nepal

Fall 2017

  • Four semester-long courses and three weeks of field research in hills of Nepal

  • Designed, conducted, and shared community-based ethnographic study

  • Collaborated with Nepali graduate students to conduct semi-structured interviews and convene focus groups

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Download the article below for a more detailed account of my experience in Nepal.

DIS Copenhagen

Student

Danish Institute for Study Abroad Copenhagen, Denmark

Spring 2017

(Sustainable Development, Applied LCA, Waste Management Systems)

  • Gained understanding of life cycle assessment methodology and applications.

  • Experienced waste management systems of Northern Europe and toured waste-to-energy facilities.

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