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Impact Roadmap Peers

SongHa Hailey Lee

MBA (’26)
songha@umich.edu

Aaron Slater

MBA (’26)
ajslater@umich.edu

Winter Brooks

MBA (’26)
winbrook@umich.edu

Natalie Ricklefs

MBA (’26)
ncrick@umich.edu

Jocelyn May

MBA (’26)
jocemay@umich.edu

Dominique F. Gill

MBA (’26)
dfgill@umich.edu

Alexandra Maxwell

MBA (’26)
alexmax@umich.edu

Hanyu Zhao

MBA (’26)
hanyz@umich.edu

Naya Whang

MBA (’26)
nwhang@umich.edu

Soha Vaziri

MBA (’26)
sohavaz@umich.edu

Amidat Sonekan

MBA ('26)
amidat@umich.edu

Pei-Hua Yu

MBA ('26)
peihuayu@umich.edu

Sudhanvi Konuthula

MBA ('26)
sudhanvi@umich.edu

Felipe Sahb Furtado

(MBA ' 26)
ffurtado@umich.edu

Apil Sanyashi

(BBA '26)
sanyashi@umich.edu

Ariana Almas

Senior Program Manager of Incubation and Research, Microsoft
arianana@umich.edu

Karen Biddle Andres

Director, Inclusive Saving and Investing - Aspen Institute Financial Security Program
karenbiddleandres@gmail.com

Sam Ashley

Strategy Consulting - BCG San Francisco
swashley@umich.edu

Ava Damri

Human Capital Manager - Deloitte Dallas/Fort Worth
avadamri@umich.edu

Charlene Franke

Analyst - Capital Innovation Lab of LISC Strategic Investments
cfranke@umich.edu

Ginamarie Gianandrea

Director of Transformation - Optum
gmarieg@umich.edu

Lily Hamburger

Director of Business Support Network - Invest Detroit
lilyham@umich.edu

Matthew Muench

Head of Jobs and Skills - JPMorgan Chase
muench.matthew@gmail.com

Neesha Modi

Director of Programs and Social Investment - Kresge Foundation
nbmodi@umich.edu

Nate Rajpoot

Manager, Enterprise Strategy, IBM
nate.rajpoot@gmail.com

Paula Reinman

Franctional CMO - Marconi Society
preinman@impactful-marketing.com

Allie Schachter

Director of Development - The Flynn of Burlington, VT
schachtr@umich.edu

Ivy Wei

Manager of Sustainability and ESG Strategy - PwC
ivyfwei@gmail.com

Allan Afuah

Ross School of Business Professor of Strategy
afuah@umich.edu

Professor Allan Afuah has authored six books. His latest research focuses on how crowdsourcing, multi-sided platforms, and business model innovation can be used to explain how to create wealth, even in countries that have remained desperately poor despite being heavily endowed with natural resources.

Ravi Anupindi

Ross School of Business Colonel William G. and Ann C. Svetlich Professor of Operations Research and Management, Professor of Technology & Operations, Faculty Director, Center for Value Chain Innovation
anupindi@umich.edu

Professor Ravi Anupindi’s main research areas include supply chain management, strategic sourcing, supply chain risk, lean operations, supply chain sustainability, value chains for economic development and health care delivery in low and middle income countries. Under a USAID grant, he has assisted University of Johannesburg in South Africa develop a graduate degree program in Supply Chain Management.

Norm Bishara

Ross School of Business Associate Professor of Business Law and Business Ethics
nbishara@umich.edu

Norm Bishara teaches business law and business ethics at the Ross School, where his research is focused on human capital law and policy, corporate governance, and corruption issues. He has previously taught nonprofit management and presented on international nonprofit and social enterprise issues with the William Davidson Institute. Professor Bishara has coached the Ross BBA nonprofit case competition team and covered social entrepreneurship, base of the pyramid, CSR, and related issues in both his BBA and graduate-level business ethics classes. He volunteers with several local nonprofits, including Growing Hope, the Neutral Zone, and the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation.

Thomas Buchmueller

Ross School of Business Waldo O. Hildebrand Professor of Risk Management and Insurance, Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, Chair of Business Economics and Public Policy
tbuch@umich.edu

Professor Buchmueller is a health economist who is an expert on the economics of health insurance and related public policies. He has done extensive research on the link between health insurance and the labor market in the U.S., consumer demand for health insurance, the interaction between public policies and private insurance markets, and health care reform. He is an expert affiliate of Poverty Solutions, University of Michigan’s major initiative dedicated to the prevention and alleviation of poverty.

Paul Clyde

Ross School of Business President, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan, Tom Lantos Professor of Business Administration, Movses and Maija Kaldjian Collegiate Lecturer of Business Economics and Public Policy
pclyde@umich.edu

Professor Clyde’s recent work in emerging markets has focused on health care delivery to the poor in emerging markets. Over the past fifteen years he has advised or run 70 health-care projects in twelve different low or middle-income countries. He has worked with faculty from the Medical School, Nursing School and Law School in developing a financially self-sustainable health care business model that serves the poor.

David Hess

Ross School of Business Associate Professor of Business Law
dwhess@umich.edu

David Hess’ research and teaching are in the areas of corporate social responsibility, business ethics, and related corporate governance issues. He has conducted research on the governance of public pensions in the United States and in developing countries. In the near future, he plans to investigate the issues surrounding the new legal structures for hybrid organizations (e.g., low-profit, limited liability companies, etc).

Andrew J. Hoffman

Ross School of Business; School of Natural Resources & Environment Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise; Professor of Management & Organizations; Professor of Natural Resources; Director of Global Sustainable Enterprise
ajhoff@umich.edu

Dr. Andrew (Andy) Hoffman is the Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan; a position that holds joint appointments at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the School of Natural Resources & Environment. Professor Hoffman’s research uses a sociological perspective to understand the cultural and institutional aspects of environmental issues for organizations. In particular, he focuses on the processes by which environmental issues both emerge and evolve as social, political and managerial issues.

Aneel Karnani

Ross School of Business Professor of Strategy
akarnani@umich.edu

Professor Karnani’s interests are focused on three topics: strategies for growth, global competition, and the role of business in society. He is interested in global competition, particularly in the context of emerging economies. Karnani researches poverty reduction and the appropriate roles for the private sector, the state and civil society. He is interested in how society can strike the appropriate balance between private profits and public welfare in tackling major societal problems.

Gautam Kaul

Ross School of Business John C. and Sally S. Morley Professor of Finance
kaul@umich.edu

Dr. Gautam Kaul is the founding Managing Director of the Social Venture Fund (SvF) housed in the Samuel Zell and Robert H. Lurie Institute of Entrepreneurial Studies. He has published extensively in the top journals on topics covering a wide spectrum of finance and is a leader in developing Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on Coursera. He was awarded the Senior Faculty Research Award for sustained, exceptional, and continuing contributions to scholarly research in the field of business, and noteworthy contributions to building and maintaining a strong research environment at the Ross School of Business.

Aradhna Krishna

Ross School of Business Dwight F. Benton Professor of Marketing
aradhna@umich.edu

Professor Aradhna Krishna’s research focuses on how sensory inputs impact consumers’ perceptions, judgements and decisions. Dr. Krishna also studies how contextual factors and design interfaces affect behavior with a focus on food and health, corporation social responsibility and donation, and voting behaviors.

Jun Li

Ross School of Business Associate Professor of Technology and Operations, Michael R. and Mary Kay Hallman Fellow
junwli@umich.edu

Li conducts research in empirical operations management and business analytics spanning areas across revenue management and pricing, healthcare management, supply chain risks and corporate social responsibility, and public sector operations. Her current research centers around improving the wellbeing of children and young adults through better education and care.

Ted London

Ross School of Business Ford Motor company clinical professor of business administration; Senior research fellow, William davidson institute; area chair of business administration
tlondon@umich.edu

Ted London is the Ford Motor Company Clinical Professor and Area Chair of Business Administration at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and a senior research fellow at the William Davidson Institute. An internationally recognized expert on the intersection of business strategy and poverty alleviation, his research focuses on how organizations can achieve impact at scale, with a particular focus on building sustainable, scalable enterprises for low-income markets.

Thomas Lyon

Ross School of Business Dow Professor of Sustainable Science, Technology and Commerce, Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, Professor of Natural Resources
tplyon@umich.edu

Professor Lyon is a leader in using economic analysis to understand corporate environmental strategy and how it is shaped by emerging government regulations, non-governmental organizations, and consumer demands. His current research focuses on corporate environmental information disclosure, greenwash, the causes and consequences of renewable energy policy, and voluntary programs for environmental improvement. His teaching experience includes energy economics and policy, environmental governance, non-market strategy, regulation, managerial economics, business and government, game theory, business strategy, and the management of innovation.

Dave Mayer

Ross School of Business Michael R. and Mary Kay Hallman Fellow, Associate Professor of Management and Organizations
dmmayer@umich.edu

Professor Mayer’s research interests concern social and ethical issues in organizations. Specifically, he conducts research in three major areas: (1) behavioral ethics, (2) organizational justice, and (3) workplace diversity. A hallmark of his research is a focus on the effects of the organizational context (e.g., leadership, coworkers, climate) on employees’ unethical and pro-social behavior.

Nigel Melville

Ross School of Business Associate Professor of Technology and Operation
npmelv@umich.edu

Professor Melville has over 20 years of experience researching, teaching, and consulting on the topic of organizational transformation enabled by digital information systems. His recent research examines how the information systems field could help society and business interests make the transition to a sustainable world.

Sarah Miller

Ross School of Business Assistant Professor, Business Economics and Public Policy
mille@umich.edu

Sarah Miller is an assistant professor of business economics and public policy at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Miller’s research interests are in health economics and, in particular, the short-term and long-term effects of public policies that expand health insurance coverage. In addition to her work on health economics, she is also a principal investigator in the Open Research Lab Guaranteed Income Randomized Controlled Trial.

Dana Muir

Ross School of Business Robert L. Dixon Collegiate Professor of Business, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Business Law, Area Chair of Business Law
dmuir@umich.edu

Professor Muir is a nationally recognized expert on fiduciary and remedial issues especially in the fields of investments, pension plan funding, plan investment selection and investment policies, and investment advice. She is a passionate supporter of Ross School research showing that business can play a positive role in society and the way law supports business in playing that role. Her research reaches extensively into her peer academic community (both domestically and internationally), the legal community at-large, as well as the legislative, judicial and executive branches of the U.S. government. Her work has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal courts. Professor Muir was the Editor-in-Chief of the annual supplements to Employee Benefits Law, the treatise for the employee benefits field and is a Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel as well as a member of the College’s Board of Governors.

Amiyatosh Purnanandam

Ross School of Business Professor of Finance
amiyatos@umich.edu

Dr. Purnanandam’s research covers a wide range of topics in financial intermediation and corporate finance. His recent research work is mostly related to banking, the subprime crisis, and mortgage finance. He is especially interested in studying the role of financial regulation and markets in promoting financial inclusion and growth in minority and low income areas. He is an expert affiliate of Poverty Solutions, University of Michigan’s major initiative dedicated to the prevention and alleviation of poverty.

Cindy Schipani

Ross School of Business Merwin H. Waterman Collegiate Professor of Business Administration, Professor of Business Law
schipani@umich.edu

Much of Professor Schipani’s research has focused on women in business leadership positions. Her research has also included analysis of directors’ duties utilizing tools of financial economics, consideration of specific issues confronting directors of financial institutions, analysis of the corporate fiduciary duties of care and loyalty, issues of liability for environmental violations and ethical links between corporate governance and sustainable peace.

Eric Schwartz

Ross School of Business Assistant Professor of Marketing
ericmsch@umich.edu

Professor Eric Schwartz’s expertise focuses on predicting customer behavior, understanding its drivers, and examining how firms actively manage their customer relationships through interactive marketing. His research in customer analytics stretches managerial applications, including online display advertising, email marketing, video consumption, and word-of-mouth. His work has taken him to Detroit and to Flint for work in the water crisis.

Jagadeesh Sivadasan

Ross School of Business Buzz and Judy Newton Professor of Business Administration, Area Chair, Business Economics and Public Policy, Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy
jagadees@umich.edu

Jagadeesh Sivadasan is the Buzz and Judy Newton Professor of Business Administration in the Business Economics and Public Policy group of the Ross School of Business, and a faculty associate at the Institute of Social Research, at the University of Michigan. His recent research is focused on understanding the drivers of firm growth and productivity, and worker performance and mobility. Ongoing and recent work include analysis of the effect of commute improvement on worker performance, review of the recent evolution of the retail sector in the US, analysis of firm growth patterns using a novel decomposition and data on the universe of US employers, evaluation of frictions from acquisitions-related legal doctrine on firm dynamics, and examination of the effect of non-compete laws on worker mobility.

Jim Walsh

Ross School of Business A.F. Thurnau Professor, Gerald and Esther Carey Professor of Business Administration, Professor of Management & Organizations, Professor of Strategy
jpwalsh@umich.edu

Walsh examines cross-level relationships: the influences between and among individuals, organizations, and society. Additionally, his work looks at how business leaders can make the world a better place. Broadly, how organizations enhance or undermine well-being is the study of corporate governance. His research explores the purpose, accountability, and control of the firm (and even more generally, business itself) in society.

Gwen Yu

Professor of Accounting, Michael and Joan Sakkinen Faculty Fellow, Accounting Faculty Doctoral Coordinator
gwyu@umich.edu

Gwen Yu is a professor of Accounting and Michael and Joan Sakkinen Faculty Fellow at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. Prior to joining Ross, she was an Associate Professor at Harvard Business School in the Accounting and Management unit. Her research focuses on how accounting information affects various real economic outcomes, especially in an international setting. Professor Yu’s work has been published in top peer-reviewed journals such as The Accounting Review, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and it has been cited and discussed in The New York Times, in The Financial Times, on CBS Money Watch, and in other outlets of the financial press.

Stefanie Barlow

Ross School of Business, Impact Career Services
slbarlow@umich.edu

Stefanie Barlow is an Associate Director of Career Coaching focused on guiding MBAs seeking career paths in Careers with Impact, General Management, Human Resources, Energy, and Off-Campus job search. She holds an MBA in Marketing from NYU Stern School of Business and a Bachelor’s degree in Spanish Language and Literature from SUNY Binghamton. Throughout her professional journey, Stefanie has gained valuable experience in marketing and finance roles at renowned entertainment giants such as Disney, Viacom, and Time Warner. Over the past ten years, she has been dedicated to coaching aspiring MBA candidates, assisting them with the admissions process.

Glenn Bugala

Associate Director of Marketing & Communications, Business+Impact
gbugala@umich.edu

Glenn manages the marketing and communications for the Center. He has worked with a variety of local and national nonprofits in member services, events and marketing roles. He worked for Michigan Ross in Executive Education and the Marketing Communications prior to coming to Business+Impact. His work with nonprofits like the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, Microsoft Healthcare Users Group, the Ann Arbor Symphony and Ann Arbor Civic Theatre has prepared him for the diverse offerings of the Center and the marketing channels utilized. Glenn has an MFA from Purdue and a BA from the University of Michigan.

Sarika Gupta

Managing Director, Zell Lurie Institute
sarikag@umich.edu

Sarika Gupta leads the development and execution of the Zell Lurie Institute’s student-oriented programs. In this role she also advises U-M student teams to help them advance their businesses. Sarika has extensive start-up experience as a manager, mentor, and coach. Sarika has extensive start-up experience as a manager, mentor, and coach. She served as President & CEO of Dance Telephone – a group party game, COO of V-teractive – an online gaming start-up, and Associate at MyBandStock.com – a site that delivers exclusive digital access to music fans. Additionally, she was a Senior Quantitative Research Associate at Cambridge Associates for 3 years.Sarika holds a BSE in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan College of Engineering and an MBA from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.

Dr. Neil C. Hawkins

B+I Executive-in-Residence, CEO & President, World Environment Center President, Michigan Sustainability Associates Research Advisor/Instructor, Harvard University

Neil Hawkins has spent a career collaborating to deﬁne a positive and impactful role for business in global sustainable development and public policy. For 31 years, he was a key leader at Dow, ultimately serving as Chief Sustainability Oﬃcer and CVP, Environment, Health, & Safety for the last twelve years – part of the top leadership of the company. After Dow, as President of Michigan’s Erb Family Foundation, a $350mm regional philanthropy, he focused over four years on improving regional arts, the Great Lakes ecosystem, promoting environmental justice, and founding the Sustainable Business Network of Detroit. Currently, he is interim CEO and President of the World Environment Center, a leading global sustainable business association in Washington, DC; President, Michigan Sustainability Associates; and Research Advisor/Instructor at Harvard University in the Master of Sustainability program. He graduated from Harvard University with a Doctor of Science in Public Health (Environmental Health Sciences) and is also an alumnus of Georgia Tech (Health Physics/Nuclear Engineering).

Michelle Hunt Bruner

Managing Director, Center for Positive Organizations
mhbruner@umich.edu

Michelle brings with her 21 years of professional service to the higher education community. Michelle earned her MA in Psychology from Wayne State University and a BA in Psychology with honors from Michigan State University. A frequent speaker on student success in higher education, she is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management, Executive Board Member of the Michigan American Council on Education (ACE) Women’s Network, Planning Committee Member of the Michigan ACE Senior-Level Leadership Shadow Program, a Member and Mentor of RISE Learning Community for Self-Identified Women of Color, and other roles.

Cat Johnson

Managing Director, Business+Impact
catjohn@umich.edu

In her role as managing director of the Business+Impact Initiative, Cat leads the team in their work across the school and the University to develop and support impact-related activities. Her career spans nonprofit, social enterprise, and higher education leadership, with a focus in workforce development. Prior to joining the Business+Impact team, Cat was Chief Operating Officer at Detroit-based social enterprise Empowerment Plan. She has also worked previously at the Ross School of Business on social enterprise and social innovation programming, and with social enterprises in the U.S. and around the world. Catherine earned a BA, MBA, and MSW from the University of Michigan.

Wendy Taylor

President and CEO, William Davidson Institute
wetaylor@umich.edu

Wendy Taylor is President and CEO of the William Davidson Institute, a non-profit affiliated with the University of Michigan dedicated to supporting businesses, entrepreneurship and market-based solutions in low- and middle-income countries. She is charged with leading the development of WDI’s strategy and steering the organization toward its next phase of growth. Taylor is an innovation leader and entrepreneur with over two decades of experience building and leading high-impact teams. Working at the intersection of public, private and not-for-profit sectors, she has founded multiple enterprises, catalyzed innovations to tackle some of the world’s toughest health challenges and leveraged market-based solutions for transformational impact. She received a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts from Duke University.

Melissa Zaksek

Managing Director, Erb Institute
mzaksek@umich.edu

As Managing Director of the Erb Institute at the University of Michigan, Melissa leads efforts to advance sustainable business practices and innovation through the institute’s education, research and engagement programming. With extensive experience in sustainability strategy, organizational leadership, and stakeholder engagement, Melissa plays a pivotal role in driving the Institute’s mission to create a sustainable world through the power of business.

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Peter Adriaens

Professor of Business, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Environment and Sustainability
adriaens@umich.edu

Peter Adriaens focuses on clean technology R&D, new business design/growth strategies, and green finance through his Program on Financial Technology for Sustainability (ProFiTS). With innovation experience in the academic and commercial space over the last 25 years, his interests include business water risk models focused on financial risk assessment, reverse innovation strategies for new mobility strategies, and the development of indexes and investment portfolios in emerging cleantech clusters. Bridging in the commercial space, he holds executive positions in three companies. He is CEO of Equarius Risk Analytics LLC, an angel-invested equity risk data and services firm.

Kenneth Alfano

Teaching Professor and Lecturer IV in Technical Communications and CoE Undergraduate Education, College of Engineering
kalfano@umich.edu

Professor Alfano regularly teaches both engineering design and technical communication in the College of Engineering, through its Undergraduate Education division. He is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in the State of Michigan. His engineering experience has focused on biomedical technology, and he has been an entrepreneur in that area. He is also educated in economics and in law, with interests in areas of intersection between technology and law, such as intellectual property and environmental sustainability.

Todd Allen

Glenn F. and Gladys H. Knoll Chair and Professor, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
traumich@umich.edu

Following active duty in the US navy, Todd earned a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering with specific focus on how radiation changes the physical properties of metals. Todd helped lead the Idaho National Laboratory as the Deputy Laboratory Director for Science & Technology. Since 2016 he has been a Visiting Senior Fellow with Clean Energy Program at Third Way, a Washington, DC-based think tank. Todd is the author of over 200 technical publications. He is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society.

Jacob Allgeier

Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
jeallg@umich.edu

My goal as an ecologist is to apply ecological theory to help solve real-world conservation issues. Specifically, I seek to identify the mechanisms by which behavioral, population, and community dynamics mediate nutrient and energy pathways. The objective is to improve our ability to predict ecological outcomes, and enhance conservation efficacy such as the sustainability of ecosystem services (e.g., fisheries).

Karen Alofs

Assistant Professor of Natural Resources, School for Environment and Sustainability
kmalofs@umich.edu

Dr. Alofs studies how ecological concepts can be used to address conservation concerns in freshwater environments. Her recent work, as a postdoctoral fellow with the National Science Foundation International Research Fellowship Program, focused on the impacts of climate-facilitated range expansions on lake fish communities. In addition to climate change, she is interested in understanding the effects of environmental stressors including invasive species, habitat fragmentation and habitat degradation on biodiversity and ecosystem sustainability.

Ravi Anupindi

Colonel William G and Ann C Svetlich Professor of Operations Research and Management and Professor of Technology and Operations, Stephen M Ross School of Business
anupindi@umich.edu

Ravi Anupindi is Colonel William G. and Ann C. Svetlich Professor of Operations Research and Management at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business; founding Faculty Director of the Center for Value Chain Innovation; co-Director of the Technology and Business Innovation Forum at Ross; Chair of (UM) President’s Advisory Committee on Labor Standards and Human Rights. His main research areas include value chain innovation, technology and business innovation, supply chain management, strategic sourcing, supply chain risk management, lean operations, supply chain sustainability, and health care delivery in low and middle-income countries.

María Arquero de Alarcón

Associate Professor of Architecture and Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, A Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
marquero@umich.edu

I am an associate professor of architecture and urbanism at the University of Michigan Taubman College. My work advances urban design strategies promoting cultural resilience and socioenvironmental sustainability. My recent projects are based in São Paulo and Detroit where I examine the processes of urban transformation related to insurgent urbanization and deindustrialization.

Andrew Ault

Professor of Chemistry, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
aulta@umich.edu

Andrew Ault is an expert in the field of environmental chemistry, using analytical and physical chemistry tools understand the sources and changes of important pollutants in the environment that impact climate, health, and sustainability. His research focuses on atmospheric aerosols, such as primary emissions and secondary chemistry, including organic aerosol, dust, sea spray, and microplastics. His group also studies surfaces, interfaces, and engineered nanoparticles. The Ault Lab uses a wide array of analytical instrumentation, including spectroscopy (Raman, photothermal infrared (PTIR)) microscopy (electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy (AFM), and optical microscopy), as well as mass spectrometry techniques.

Shalanda Baker

Vice Provost for Sustainability & Climate Action, Office of the Provost & Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
shalbake@umich.edu

Shalanda H. Baker is the University of Michigan’s first vice provost for sustainability and climate action. She joined the university after serving as the Director of the Office of Energy Justice and Equity at the U.S. Department of Energy. Prior to her appointment, she was a Professor of Law, Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University. She was the co-founder and co-director of the Initiative for Energy Justice, which provides technical law and policy support to communities on the front lines of climate change.

M'Lis Bartlett

Lecturer, Environmental Justice
mlis@umich.edu

M’Lis is passionate about environmental and place-based education that incorporates issues of social justice. With over 25 years of experience as an urban environmental educator, activist, artist, and researcher in communities including New York City, Detroit, and Flint, Michigan, she is dedicated to building supportive and ethical partnerships between communities and institutions. Her research interests include participatory design, environmental education, environmental justice, and community-based participatory research.

Jenna Bednar

Professor of Political Science, College of Literature, Science, and the Art
jbednar@umich.edu

Her research combines positive political theory and systems theory to study how formal institutions, such as laws, electoral rules, or constitutions, remain effective in complex environments. She considers institutions not in isolation but as part of a system, with a focus on three questions: (i) how institutions may complement one another to impove their functionality, (ii) how institutional features enable systemic response to perturbations and avoid failures, and (iii) how the interplay between culture and institutions contributes to the production of social goods.

Rosina Bierbaum

Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy
rbierbau@umich.edu

Professor and Dean Emerita Bierbaum, PhD, focuses her research on the interface of science and policy--principally on issues related to climate change adaptation and mitigation at the national and international levels. She also holds an appointment in the School of Public Health at Michigan, and in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. Her experience extends from climate science into foreign relations and international development.

Craig Borum

Professor of Architecture, A Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
cborum@umich.edu

Craig Borum is a Professor at the University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and the founding principal at Ply Architecture in Ann Arbor, MI. His professional practice and design research have garnered considerable accolades for their overall quality of design and for research that engages climate and building technology related to architectural construction and sustainability.

Nina Brooks

Professor of Sustainability and Development
ninarb@umich.edu

Nina Brooks is an Assistant Professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. Her research seeks to document how climate change and air pollution threaten human health and well-being in the Global South and identify real-world, actionable climate mitigation and adaptation strategies. She is an interdisciplinary scholar and draws on methodological approaches from economics, epidemiology, demography, data science, and geography to investigate relationships between the environment and human health and well-being.

Bilal Butt

Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainability, School for Environment and Sustainability
bilalb@umich.edu

Bilal Butt is a Professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. He is a faculty affiliate of the Center for Global Health Equity, the African Studies Center, the Science, Technology and Society Program, and the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program at the University of Michigan. He is also a visiting research scientist at Aga Khan University in Nairobi, Kenya.

Angela Calabrese Barton

Director Academic Program, Educational Studies and Professor of Education, Marsal Family School of Education
angiecb@umich.edu

Angela Calabrese Barton is professor of science education and the learning sciences and chair of the Educational Studies at the University of Michigan. She studies approaches to teaching and learning in school and community settings that disrupt/transform systemic injustices in science learning environments serving minoritized youth and that promote justice-oriented outcomes, including what matters to people in the here-and-now and towards imagined social futures

John Callewaert

CoE Director of Strategic Projects, College of Engineering
jcallew@umich.edu

As the Director of Strategic Projects in the Office of the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education, U-M College of Engineering, John works to promote a wide range of academic innovation and experiential learning initiatives. John is also a co-principal investigator for the Sustainability Cultural Indicators Program – a longitudinal study in collaboration with U-M Institute for Social Research that assesses sustainability knowledge, behaviors, and attitudes across U-M students, faculty, and staff to inform educational programs and campus operations.

Scott Campbell

Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, A Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
sdcamp@umich.edu

Scott Campbell's research interests include planning theory, environmental aspects of planning, quantitative methods, and planning history. Articles of note include “Green Cities, Growing Cities, Just Cities? Urban Planning and the Contradiction of Sustainable Development”, which focuses on the definition of sustainability as it relates to development and urban planning.

David Chock

Visiting Research Scientist, Transportation Research Institute
dchock@umich.edu

David P. Chock is a visiting research scientist at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. Prior to joining the University of Michigan, he was the Senior Technical Leader in Environmental Sciences and Sustainability at Ford Research and Advanced Engineering. He is also a member of the US EPA CASAC’s Ozone Review Panel. His areas of research include modeling pollutants in the atmosphere, environmental epidemiology, and climate science and sustainability.

Mosharaf Chowdhury

Associate Professor
mosharaf@umich.edu

John Clark

Associate Chief Pharmacy Officer, College of Pharmacy
johnclar@umich.edu

Focus on pharmaceutical waste disposal and its relationship to sustainability.

Michael Craig

Professor of Sustainable Systems
mtcraig@umich.edu

Michael is an Assistant Professor jointly appointed between the School for Environment and Sustainability and the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. His ASSET Lab researches how to decarbonize energy systems while making those systems robust to climate change. He has received funding from several federal agencies, including an NSF CAREER Award.

Bill Currie

Associate Dean for Research and Engagement, Professor of Environment and Sustainability, School for Environment and Sustainability
wcurrie@umich.edu

Bill Currie's research focuses on biogeochemistry and ecosystem modeling including carbon and nutrient cycling in forests and wetlands and water quality, watersheds, and coastal ecosystems. He also serves as the Co-Director of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and African Faculty Fellows Program. He teaches an undergraduate course titled Sustainability Issues in the Great Lakes region.

Heather Dawson

Professor, U-M Flint
hdawson@umich.edu

Sustainability has been the focus of my research and community engagement. I am at UM-Flint and since my original training is in fisheries, my students and I have focused on the Flint River. The Flint River is undergoing a major renovation/naturalization project including removal of a century-old dam, and the river itself has an undeserved reputation. My students and I have collected data on fish and macroinvertebrate populations, habitat, water chemistry and environmental contaminants. Another project I am working on is bring the idea of community solar to the Flint community.

Gregory Dick

Director of the Cooperative Institute of Great Lakes Research
gdick@umich.edu

Dr. Gregory Dick is the Director of the Cooperative Institute of Great Lakes Research (CIGLR) and an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability and the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. He also holds affiliations in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, the Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, and the Chemical Biology Graduate Program. Professor Dick's research focuses on the role of microorganisms in shaping environmental processes, water quality, and biogeochemistry.

Melissa Duhaime

Assoicate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
duhaimem@umich.edu

The Duhaime Lab uses ecological principles to study multiple dimensions of water sustainability, such as through plastic-toxin-microbe interactions that underlie the fate of plastic pollution. These insights guide larger system-level research around material ecology and its intersection with climate, sustainability, and social and environmental justice.

Karthik Duraisamy

Professor, Aerospace Engineering
kdur@umich.edu

Professor Duraisamy’s research spans a broad spectrum of Computational Science & Engineering including new modeling approaches for complex physical systems, numerical methods, algorithms and uncertainty quantification. An overarching theme in his research involves the use of computational methods to answer scientific and engineering questions at the desired level of sophistication with an understanding of the effect of modeling uncertainties on the predicted results.

Kira Edwards

IES Program Manager
kirade@umich.edu

Kira Edwards is the Program Manager for IES. She works to facilitate energy research and coordination amongst the University of Michigan. Kira completed her Bachelor's of Science in Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University. She worked in environmental consulting for a few years, working on investigations, remediation, permitting, and compliance. She then completed her Master's of Engineering in Energy Systems Engineering at University of Michigan.

Brian Ellis

Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
brellis@umich.edu

My research interests cover topics related to the sustainable and safe development of emerging energy technologies. Included among these activities are geologic storage of CO2 and large-scale hydraulic fracturing of unconventional oil/gas reservoirs. We examine important water-rock interactions that occur in these subsurface systems through a combination of experimental studies (bench-scale high-pressure flow-through and batch reactors), imaging techniques (computed micro-tomography, SEM, XRF, XANES), and geochemical modeling.

Brandon Marc Finn

Assistant Research Scientist, Environment and Sustainability, Adjunct Lecturer in Environment and Sustainability, School for Environment and Sustainability
brafinn@umich.edu

Dr. Brandon Marc Finn is a faculty member at the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. Finn received his PhD in Urban Planning from Harvard University in 2022. He leads The Informal Sustainability Lab at the University of Michigan and researches mining and urbanization. Finn is also a member of the Urban Sustainability Research Group.

Paige Fischer

Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainability, School for Environment and Sustainability
apfisch@umich.edu

My research group focuses on human dimensions of environmental change in forest ecosystems. The primary goal of my research is to increase scientific understanding of human behavior as it relates to the sustainability of socio-ecological systems. I investigate factors that enable and constrain human adaptation to environmental change including natural hazards and climate-related changes. I am particularly interested in understanding the capacity of individuals and organizations to adapt to environmental change through individual and collective natural resource management and environmental conservation actions.

Marc Gaden

Adjunct Assistant Professor in Environmental Policy and Planning
mgaden@umich.edu

Marc Gaden is the Executive Secretary of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, a binational, treaty-based organization that works to improve and perpetuate the fishery that Canada and the United States share. Dr. Gaden's research interests include the human dimensions of natural resource management; cross-border conflict; governance, agreements, regimes, and institutions to address conflict; collaborative management; natural resource politics and policy; and environmental history.

Rajiv Ghimire

Lecturer III in Environment and Sustainability, School for Environment and Sustainability
rajivgh@umich.edu

Rajiv Ghimire is a faculty member in the School for Environment and Sustainability focusing on Sustainability and Development. His teaching and research are centered on global development, climate and energy, adaptation and resilience, sustainable food system, public policy, and the social studies of science, technology, innovation, and futures. Rajiv holds MS and BS degrees in Environmental Science from Tribhuvan University, Nepal, and a Ph.D. in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology from Arizona State University.

Chris Giebink

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering
ngiebink@umich.edu

My research focuses broadly on optoelectronic and photonic devices based on semiconductor materials, with sustainability-related applications in solar energy conversion, photovoltaic devices, and energy-efficient solid-state lighting.

Benjamin Goldstein

Assistant Professor in Sustainable Systems
benjgo@umich.edu

Benjamin Goldstein is Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability and head of the Sustainable Urban-Rural Futures (SURF) Lab. He develops methods and tools to quantify the scale of these changes and the locations where they occur using life cycle assessment, input-output analysis, geospatial data, and approaches from data science. Benjamin is particularly interested in combining quantitative methods with theory rooted in social science to explore multiple dimensions of sustainability and address issues of distributive justice.

Richard Gonzalez

Amos N Tversky Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Statistics, Professor of Psychology, Professor of Statistics, College of Literature, Science, and the Art
gonzo@umich.edu

My research interests are in judgment and decision making broadly defined. I study both normative and descriptive decision making using a variety of techniques including mathematical modeling, surveys, field observations, and experimental lab studies. I've recently extended my decision making research to applied settings in product design, medical decision making, transportation and sustainability. I also do research in applied statistics, which can be construed as a form of decision making.

Seth Guikema

Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
sguikema@umich.edu

Dr. Guikema's research is highly interdisciplinary. Much of his group's recent work is focused on the problems of urban and infrastructure resilience and sustainability in a changing climate, though areas of application are broad. His work is grounded in risk analysis, particularly data-drive risk analysis and complex systems simulation. Another growing research thrust in the group is using modern simulation methods to more fully understand the role of human behavior in the evaluation of sustainability, vulnerability, and risk in hazard-prone regions. This work is a combination of theory and practice, spanning from new methods development, testing, and validation to close interactions with utilities to develop and implement new methods for estimating performance and risk to infrastructure systems from disasters.

L. Jay Guo

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
guo@umich.edu

His group’s research is in the area of sustainability include organic and hybrid solar cells for building integrated photovoltaics, printed OLED lighting, nanophotonics for energy efficient displays, structural colors to replace chemical pigments in a number of applications; and roll to roll nanomanufacturing technologies

Heidi Hausermann

Associate Professor in Environmental Justice
heidibak@umich.edu

Trained as a geographer and political ecologist, Heidi Hausermann, PhD, uses interdisciplinary approaches and mixed methods to understand landscape change, disease dynamics, contamination, and food systems. Current projects examine the local fate of mercury vaporized from small-scale gold mining in Ghana and edible insects and coffee agroecosystems in Veracruz, Mexico.

Catherine Hausman

Associate Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
chausman@umich.edu

Catie Hausman is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her work focuses on environmental and energy economics. Recent projects have looked at energy transitions; electricity markets and climate change; inequality in pollution exposure; and the natural gas sector's role in methane leaks.

Jennifer Haverkamp

Graham Family Director, Graham Sustainability Institute
mkphelps@umich.edu

Jennifer Haverkamp, the Graham Family Director of the Graham Sustainability Institute, is an internationally-recognized expert on climate change, international trade, and global environmental policy and negotiations. As director, she is charged with facilitating sustainability-focused collaborations between faculty and students from many disciplines across campus with external stakeholders including communities, non-governmental organizations, government agencies, foundations, professional organizations, and the private sector.

Geoffrey Henderson

Assistant Professor in Environmental Policy and Planning
geoffhen@umich.edu

Geoffrey Henderson is an assistant professor in the Environmental Policy and Planning specialization. His work considers how civic organizations and social movements stimulate political participation and form coalitions, with a focus on the climate justice movement. He has studied efforts to engage people in small-dollar campaign finance and environmental activism, how environmental attitudes affect behavior, and how members of Congress learn their constituents’ opinions.

David Hess

Everett E Berg Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Business Law, Stephen M Ross School of Business
dwhess@umich.edu

David Hess an Associate Professor of Business Law and Business Ethics at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He is also the Faculty Director of the Nonprofit and Public Management Center, which is partnership between the University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy, the School of Social Work, and the Ross School of Business. Professor Hess’s research focuses primarily on the role of the law in ensuring corporate accountability.

Andrew Hoffman

Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, Ross School of Business
ajhoff@umich.edu

Andrew (Andy) Hoffman is the Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan; a position that holds joint appointments in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the School for Environment and Sustainability. He has published over 100 articles/book chapters, as well as 18 books, and he focuses on the processes by which environmental issues both emerge and evolve as social, political and managerial issues.

Drew Horning

Institute Managing Director and Adjunct Lecturer in Curriculum Support, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
ahorning@umich.edu

Over the past two decades, Drew has been committed to helping the University of Michigan become a leader in the field of sustainability. This includes conceptualizing, building, and managing programs that engage, empower, and support faculty and students from all U-M units, and helping to integrate this talent with external stakeholders to foster collaborative sustainability solutions at all scales. Drew works across all Graham Sustainability Institute initiatives to apply a systems perspective and ensure strategic alignment across all activities.

Allan Hruska

Lecturer in Sustainability and Development
ajhruska@umich.edu

Allan is an expert in international development, with over thirty years of global experience leading, researching, teaching, and advising at universities, the United Nations, NGOs, civil society, and funding organizations, including USAID. He has lived and worked in eight countries for over thirty years. He has led major programs, including being the founding Director of Global IDEAS at Michigan State University, the Principal Technical Coordinator for the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization Global Program on Fall Armyworm, and the founding Director of NicaSauld in Nicaragua.

Pamela Jagger

Professor of Environment and Sustainability
pjagger@umich.edu

Pam Jagger is a global leader in interdisciplinary population and environment research. She is an applied political economist whose research focuses on the dynamics of poverty and environment interactions in low-income countries. She leads the interdisciplinary Forest Use, Energy, and Livelihoods (FUEL) Lab, and is the Director of the National Science Foundation funded Energy Poverty PIRE in Southern Africa (EPPSA), a 5-year collaborative program to support research and training on the topic of energy access in Southern Africa.

Meha Jain

Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainability, School for Environment and Sustainability
mehajain@umich.edu

I am an Assistant Professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan and am part of the Sustainable Food Systems Initiative. My research examines the impacts of environmental change on agricultural production, and strategies that farmers adopt to reduce negative impacts. I do this by combining remote sensing and geospatial analyses with household-level and census datasets to examine farmer decision-making and behavior across large spatial and temporal scales.

Ruiwei Jiang

Associate Professor
ruiwei@umich.edu

Stanton Jones

Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainability, School for Environment and Sustainability
stanj@umich.edu

My work focuses upon the issues of inclusive design and social justice and how they impact both design processes and the physical places we help to create. Through my teaching, research and writing, I work to clarify how issues pertaining to landscape construction, technology, sustainability, process and form can and should be impacted by a deeper understanding of how the decisions we make as design and planning professionals impact the ability of people to take part in the life of vibrant, healthy landscapes, be they urban, rural, or wild.

Jenna Jorns

GLISA Director, School for Environment and Sustainability
jljorns@umich.edu

Dr. Jorns is the Director for GLISA at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability. GLISA is NOAA's Climate Adaptation Partnerships (CAP, formerly RISA) team for the Great Lakes region. In this role, Dr. Jorns oversees all GLISA’s day-to-day operations and long-term planning and strategic leadership of GLISA to make key decisions and represent the program to sponsors, partners, the media, and elected officials.

Vineet Kamat

John L Tishman Family Professor of Construction Management and Sustainability, College of Engineering
vkamat@umich.edu

Kamat's research laboratory has significant expertise and experience in visual simulation, virtual and augmented reality, indoor and outdoor positioning systems, mobile computing, automation and robotics, and their applications in construction, civil engineering, manufacturing, transportation, and other engineering domains. The laboratory's research in recent years has specifically focused on exploring automation and robotics to improve the human experience in the built environment, to improve the sustainability of engineering processes, and to reduce ability-based inequalities in physically-demanding work and life activities.

Greg Keoleian

Peter M. Wege Endowed Professor of Sustainable Systems; Co-Director, Center for Sustainable Systems; Co-Director, MI Hydrogen
gregak@umich.edu

Dr. Keoleian co-founded and serves as co-director of both the Center for Sustainable Systems and the MI Hydrogen initiative at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the development and application of life cycle models and metrics to enhance the sustainability of products and technology. He has pioneered new methods in life cycle design, life cycle optimization of product replacement, life cycle cost analysis and life cycle based sustainability assessments ranging from energy analysis and carbon footprints to social indicators.

Alexandra Klass

James G. Degnan Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
aklass@umich.edu

Alexandra B. Klass is the James G. Degnan Professor of Law at Michigan Law. She teaches and writes in the areas of energy law, environmental law, natural resources law, tort law, and property law. From April 2022 to July 2023, she served in the Biden-Harris administration as deputy general counsel for energy efficiency and clean energy demonstrations at the US Department of Energy.

Anthony Kolenic

Director of Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum
akolenic@umich.edu

Passionate about the natural world and our roles within it, Kolenic is particularly interested human health outcomes through specific nature-based interventions, translating research and emergent best practices across Sustainability domains into public experiences, and working with community to create new models of power through land-relations both traditional and emergent.

Raed Al Kontar

Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial & Operations Engineering
alkontar@umich.edu

Dr. Raed Al Kontar is an assistant professor in the Industrial & Operations Engineering department. He is also an affiliate with both the Michigan Institutes for Data Science and Computational Discovery and Engineering. Dr. Al Kontar leads the “Data Science Lab,” which focuses on data science using probabilistic models, with an emphasis on precision/personalized data science where knowledge from diverse data sources is effectively integrated. Dr. Al Kontar's research has been highly recognized, with his group winning 12 best paper awards since 2022.

Michael Kost

Lecturer in Ecosystem Science and Management
michkost@umich.edu

Mike serves as Associate Curator at Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum, and formerly he served as Lead Ecologist and Senior Conservation Scientist for Michigan Natural Features Inventory at Michigan State University. Through his teaching, curation, and research, he seeks to convey information helpful for advancing biodiversity conservation. His research interests include conservation planning, ecological restoration, fire ecology, oak regeneration, and rare species.

Richard Laine

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
talsdad@umich.edu

We have several research projects related to Sustainability. We are developing direct routes from sand, biogenic silica to silicon containing fine chemicals and to silicon metal itself escaping multiple high energy processes.

Larissa Larsen

Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, A Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
larissal@umich.edu

Larissa Larsen is an associate professor in the Urban and Regional Planning Program (URP) at the University of Michigan. She teaches graduate classes in environmental planning, land use planning, and physical planning and design. She regularly oversees graduate community-based capstone projects in Detroit neighborhoods. Larissa is the Physical Planning and Design Concentration Coordinator for the Master of Urban Planning Program. Larissa holds an appointment in the School of Natural Resources and Environment.

Andrej Lenert

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
alenert@umich.edu

Susan Hautaniemi Leonard

Associate Research Scientist Emerita
hautanie@umich.edu

Dr. Leonard's work focuses on the relationship between human populations and their environments. Her research interests include historical epidemiology and mortality in emergent industrial cities of the Northeast United States, household dynamics and farm sustainability in grasslands settlement, and population dynamics and sustainability in the U.S. Great Plains.

Jonathan Levine

Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, A Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
jnthnlvn@umich.edu

Jonathan Levine's research centers on the potential and rationales for policy reform in transportation and land use. His current work focuses on the transformation of the transportation and land-use planning paradigm from a mobility to an accessibility basis an includes a number of funded projects and a book in preparation jointly with Professor Joe Grengs. He is also interested in the design of institutions for emerging transportation systems – which may be based in large measure on autonomous electric vehicles – to serve metropolitan-accessibility goals.

Geoffrey Lewis

Research Area Specialist Lead and Adjunct Lecturer in Sustainable Systems and Climate+Energy
glewis@umich.edu

Mr. Lewis is an adjunct lecturer at SEAS and runs the Center for Sustainable Systems for the University. The author of many publications, Geoffrey focuses on greenhouse gases, carbon emissions, battery management, and radiology sustainability, among other things. Mr. Lewis has a Ph.D. in Landscape Architecture and MS degrees in Architecture and Natural Resources from the University of Michigan, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Xiaoxia (Nina) Lin

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering
ninalin@umich.edu

Professor Lin’s research aims to unearth fundamental mechanisms underlying the diverse and complex functions of biological networks, and to engineer them for developing biotechnologies, through integrated mathematical modeling, computer simulation and wet-lab experiments.

Hang Lu

Assistant Professor of Communication and Media, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
hanglu@umich.edu

My research focuses on investigating how to design messages to improve environmental, science and health communication. Specifically, I examine what message factors can influence the psychological mechanisms that promote and hinder individual behaviors and policy support in different contexts, including climate change, emerging energy technology development, environmental inequality, and infectious diseases. The ultimate goal of this line of research is to promote sustainability in various ways.

Tom Lyon

Dow Professor of Sustainable Science, Technology, and Commerce
tplyon@umich.edu

Tom Lyon is the Dow Professor of Sustainable Science, Technology and Commerce. His research and teaching interests include environmental information disclosure and greenwash; corporate environmental strategy; environmental NGOs; voluntary environmental agreements; government regulation of business; industrial organization; and energy and the environment.

Jen Maigret

Professor of Architecture, A Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
maigretj@umich.edu

Maigret is a licensed architect in the State of Michigan and holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Michigan, a Master of Science in Ecology, Evolutionary and Organismal Biology from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Art in Biology from Hartwick College. Maigret currently holds a position as an Associate Professor of Architecture at Taubman College at the University of Michigan where she teaches core courses in sustainable design and design studios.

Robert W. Marans

Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Urban Planning, A Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
marans@umich.edu

Robert W. Marans is a research professor at the Institute for Social Research and a professor emeritus of architecture and urban planning in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. During his tenure at U-M, Dr. Marans has conducted evaluative studies and research dealing with various aspects of communities, neighborhoods, housing, and parks and recreation and recreational facilities. His research has focused on user requirements and the manner in which attributes of the physical and sociocultural environments influence individual and group behavior and the quality of community life.

E Neil Marsh

Professor of Chemistry, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
nmarsh@umich.edu

Our laboratory is interested in enzymology and protein design. Our research is inherently inter-disciplinary in nature and draws on a synergistic combination of bio-organic, bio-inorganic and bio-physical chemistry. We are fortunate to enjoy various productive collaborations with other research groups at Michigan. Our research in the area of sustainability is currently focused on the development of biosynthetic routes to commodity chemicals and biological routes for carbon capture that go beyond carbon neutrality.

Michelle Martinez

Lecturer and Inaugural Director of the Tishman Center for Social Justice and the Environment
mamz@umich.edu

Michelle Martinez is the inaugural director of the Tishman Center for Social Justice and the Environment at SEAS. She has 15 years of experience of practicing environmental justice in her hometown of Detroit. Most recently she served as Executive Director of the Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition; she is a founding member of the Coalition and continues to serve on the board.

Johanna Mathieu

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
jlmath@umich.edu

Prof. Mathieu’s research focuses on ways to reduce the environmental impact, cost, and inefficiency of electric power systems via new operational and control strategies. She is particularly interested in developing new methods to actively engage distributed flexible resources such as energy storage, electric loads, and distributed renewable resources in power system operation.

Brian McCullough

Program Chair of Sport Management, School of Kinesiology
brianpmc@umich.edu

Dr. McCullough's research agenda has focused on the bidirectional relationship between sport and the natural environment, a subdiscipline of sport management that he coined sport ecology. He examines sport ecology from three interrelated focal points through his research laboratory: 1) assessing the environmental impact of sport-related behaviors; 2) understanding the decision-making processes to implement environmental strategies; and 3) examining the effectiveness of stakeholder engagement campaigns related to environmental sustainability.

Kit Krankel McCullough

Teaching Professor and Lecturer IV in Architecture and Urban Planning, A Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
kitmcc@umich.edu

In her consulting practice Ms. McCullough has developed strategies toward economic and environmental sustainability at a range of scales, from individual properties to entire regions; and for a range of clients, including cities, institutions, developers, and neighborhood groups. She has also participated on Sustainable Design Assistance Teams around the country for the American Institute of Architects.

Thomas McKenney

Clinical Associate Professor of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, College of Engineering
tmckenne@umich.edu

Thomas McKenney is currently an Associate Professor of Engineering Practice in the Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. He teaches introductory and advanced ship design courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level. His research interests includes maritime decarbonization, sustainability, and passenger vessel design and operation.

Nigel Melville

Associate Professor of Technology and Operations, Stephen M Ross School of Business
npmelv@umich.edu

Nigel Patrick Melville is an American sociotechnical scientist, an Associate Professor of Information Systems at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, and the Design Science Program Chair. His primary focus areas include digital transformation, energy informatics, and AI affordances. Professor Melville’s significant contributions to the information systems field revolve around technology-enabled change, in particular, how organizations leverage digital technologies to improve operations and achieve strategic goals.

Sarah Mills

Director, Center for EmPowering Communities, Clinical Associate Professor of Practice of Urban Planning, A Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
sbmills@umich.edu

Sarah Mills is an associate professor of practice in the Urban & Regional Planning Program in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, as well as the director of the Center for EmPowering Communities at UM’s Graham Sustainability Institute. She conducts research and teaching at the intersection of energy policy and land use planning–especially in rural communities.

Pravansu Mohanty

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
pmohanty@umich.edu

Professor Mohanty’s research interests include additive manufacturing, solid state Li-ion batteries, biomaterials and atmospheric plasma. He directs the CECS Sustainability Center. Prof. Mohanty is also the founder of Ambient Biosciences Inc., which develops technologies to eliminate cold chain logistics for biologics.

Lauren Mullenbach

Assistant Research Scientist in Environmental Justice
lemullen@umich.edu

Dr. Lauren Mullenbach is an Assistant Research Scientist and the Research Program Manager of Michigan Sea Grant. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability at the University of Oklahoma. Her work covers urban environmental justice, with foci on climate adaptation, green space development, gentrification, and wellbeing. Current projects examine equitable green space planning; city climate change adaptation planning; and homelessness.

Joan Nassauer

Professor of Landscape Architecture, School for Environment and Sustainability
nassauer@umich.edu

Joan Iverson Nassauer is Professor of Landscape Architecture in the School of Natural Resources and Environment. Her work focusing on the relationship between aesthetics and ecology has offered strategies for basing ecological design on strong science and interdisciplinary collaboration, and these strategies have been applied internationally.

Joshua Newell

Professor of Environment and Sustainability, School for Environment and Sustainability
jpnewell@umich.edu

Joshua Newell is a professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. He is a broadly trained human-environment geographer, whose research focuses on questions related to urban sustainability, resource consumption, and environmental and social justice. He also leads a year-long interdisciplinary PhD student workshop that grapples with theories and concepts of urbanism, sustainability, and resilience.

Jonathan Overpeck

Samuel A. Graham Dean; William B. Stapp Collegiate Professor of Environmental Education, School for Environment and Sustainability
seas-dean@umich.edu

An interdisciplinary climate scientist, Overpeck is an expert on climate change, climate-vegetation interactions, earth history, environmental science and sustainability. He has authored or co-authored over 230 publications that have been cited over 60,000 times. He has been part of multiple efforts aimed at improving understanding of climate science in society and in legal decision-making.

Ivette Perfecto

Bunyan Bryant Collegiate Professor of Environmental Justice
perfecto@umich.edu

Ivette Perfecto is an interdisciplinary scholar that works in agroecology with a focus on the intersection between biodiversity, agriculture, and food sovereignty. Her research examines arthropod-mediated ecosystem services in agricultural and agroforestry systems with an emphasis on understanding ecological interactions that result in autonomous pest control and reduction of pesticide use. She also works on the spatial ecology of the coffee agroecosystem and is interested more broadly in the links between small-scale sustainable agriculture, biodiversity, and food sovereignty in Latin America.

Thomas Princen

Associate Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning, School for Environment and Sustainability
tprincen@umich.edu

Thomas Princen, PhD, explores ecological and economic sustainability at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Treading Softly: Paths to Ecological Order and The Logic of Sufficiency(both published by the MIT Press).

Tony Reames

Tishman Professor of Environmental Justice; Director SEAS Detroit Sustainability Clinic, School for Environment and Sustainability
treames@umich.edu

Dr. Reames founded the Urban Energy Justice Lab and the Energy Equity Project and currently serves as Director of the U-M SEAS Detroit Sustainability Clinic. From 2021 to 2023, Dr. Reames was a Presidential appointee in the Biden-Harris Administration, serving in several senior roles within the U.S. Department of Energy.

Sara Rivera

Research Lab Specialist Senior and Lecturer I in Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
sarariv@umich.edu

I am a UM Sustainability Champion focused on increasing sustainability and accessibility within laboratory spaces.

Justin Schott

Lecturer in Environmental Justice, Climate+Energy
jbschott@umich.edu

Justin Schott serves as Director of the Energy Equity Project and served as Executive Director of EcoWorks, a Detroit non-profit, a position I held from June 2015 to November 2020. In recognition of the success of the Energy Equity Project, Schott received an appointment as a lecturer in the School for Environment and Sustainability in 2022, where he teaches an interdisciplinary graduate level course on energy justice, advises masters projects focused on community-led energy equity, and is expanding applied, lab-based courses on inclusive history and energy justice.

Michelle Segar

Associate Research Scientist, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
fitness@umich.edu

Michelle Segar, PhD, MPH creates systems and protocols that lead to the sustainable motivation and consistent decision making that underlie fitness, health, and well-being. She is a University of Michigan behavioral sustainability and motivation scientist, the Director of the Sport, Health, and Activity Research and Policy Center, Faculty Associate at the Center for Positive Organizations at the Ross School of Business, and was a 2013 Health Policy Fellow at the Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation.

Siqian Shen

Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
siqian@umich.edu

I am a faculty member in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. My primary research is in Operations Research and Mathematical Programming. With my theoretical expertise in Stochastic Optimization, Integer Programming, and Network Optimization, I am interested in applying the developed models and algorithms to energy and sustainability related problems in practice.

Mike Shriberg

Professor of Practice and Engagement; Director of University of Michigan Water Center, School for Environment & Sustainability
mshriber@umich.edu

Mike Shriberg’s (MS ’00, PhD ’02) work focuses on Great Lakes water policy and institutions, local and state energy policy, campus sustainability/carbon neutrality and sustainability leadership. Prior to coming to SEAS, he was the Great Lakes regional executive director at the National Wildlife Federation. Major initiatives included advocacy for federal Great Lakes restoration; ensuring water affordability and access; preventing the introduction of aquatic invasive species; reforming Great Lakes water management; building Great Lakes resilience; combating environmental injustice; and engaging urban youth.

Jason Siegel

Research Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
siegeljb@umich.edu

Steve Skerlos

Arthur F Thurnau Professor, College of Engineering
skerlos@umich.edu

Professor Steven J. Skerlos is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan. He is a tenured faculty member in Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering. He also serves as a UM Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Sustainability.

Marc Smith

Lecturer Environmental Policy and Planning, Water Conservation and Restoration
marcsmi@umich.edu

Marc Smith is a government relations and public affairs professional with 28 years of experience in federal, state, and nonprofit sectors, specializing in water, wildlife, and conservation policy. As Policy Director for the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), Marc leads water and wildlife conservation programs from the Great Lakes office in Ann Arbor.

Sara Soderstrom

Associate Professor of Organizational Studies and Program in the Environment; Director of Program in the Environment; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
capasb@umich.edu

Professor Soderstrom was a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Erb Institute at the University of Michigan. She completed her PhD at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. She studies how individuals within organizations mobilize others, develop coalitions, and access key decision makers when they are trying to implement sustainability initiatives.

Howard Stein

Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
howstein@umich.edu

Howard Stein is a Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan. He is a development economist educated in Canada, the US and the UK who has taught in both Asia and Africa. His research on Africa included focus areas of foreign aid, finance, and structural adjustment and neoliberalism.

Samuel Stolper

Associate Professor Environmental Policy and Planning
sstolper@umich.edu

Sam Stolper is an environmental and energy economist. His research, teaching, and writing are aimed at the design of equitable and efficient environmental, energy, and climate policy. He teaches courses on this subject to graduate students at SEAS as well as undergraduates in the Program in the Environment (PitE). He also serves as a member of the Governor of Michigan's Council on Climate Solutions.

Sita Syal

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
syalsm@umich.edu

Sita Syal is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and directs EMBERlab at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on studying human influence and embedding equity in sustainable energy and transportation systems. She uses human-centered design methods, builds quantitative models, and engages with communities to co-create a more just and sustainable future.

Geoffrey Thun

Professor of Architecture, A Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
gthun@umich.edu

Thün’s current work examines systems-based GeoDesign approaches to large scale regional landscape infrastructures, industrial ecology and the design of prefabricated high performance housing and site design strategies. The US Department of Energy (DOE) / National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Canada Council for the Arts, National Research Council of Canada (NRC), Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) and The Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute at the University of Michigan currently fund this work.

Joseph Trumpey

Professor of Art, Penny W Stamps School of Art and Design
jtrumpey@umich.edu

Joe Trumpey is a Farmer, Sustainable Designer, Science Illustrator and Educator. As an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, he holds appointments at the Stamps School of Art & Design, Program in the Environment, and School for the Environment and Sustainability. He directs the University’s Sustainable Living Experience. As a freelance illustrator, he founded and directs, Michigan Science Art, one of North America’s largest groups of science illustrators. He is also the recipient of the University of Michigan’s Undergraduate Teaching Award.

Shakara Tyler

Lecturer in Environmental Justice and Food Systems
shakarat@umich.edu

Shakara Tyler is a returning-generation farmer, educator and organizer who engages in Black agrarianism, agroecology, food sovereignty and environmental justice as commitments of abolition and decolonization. She obtained her PhD at Michigan State University in Community Sustainability (CSUS) and she serves as Board President at the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN), board member of the Detroit People’s Food Co-op (DPFC) and co-founder of the Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund (DBFLF) and a member of the Black Dirt Farm Collective (BDFC).

Amanda Ullman

IES Research Specialist
amandanu@umich.edu

Amanda completed her Master of Environmental Management at Duke University (Energy Concentration) and her PhD in Energy Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her doctoral research used life cycle assessment and ethnographic field work to evaluate the environmental and social impacts of policies for sustainable and just energy transitions, with a specific focus on impacts in low- and middle-income countries. Her recent postdoctoral work has assessed the local impacts of repurposing abandoned oil and gas wells for geothermal heat extraction.

Parth Vaishnav

Assistant Professor of Sustainable Systems, Climate, and Energy
parthtv@umich.edu

Parth Vaishnav's research aims to understand how technology can help solve social problems. Much of his work focuses on the environmental and human health consequences of energy production and use. He employs quantitative decision analysis, buttressed by qualitative insight, to understand how economic, political, and operational realities constrain technology deployment.

Ricardo Vinuesa

Associate Professor, College of Engineering
rvinuesa@umich.edu

Interested in AI applied to sustainability and grand challenges. Led the highly influential work on "The role of AI on the SDGs": https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-14108-y

Noah Webster

Associate Research Scientist in Environmental Justice
njwebs@umich.edu

Noah J. Webster, Ph.D. is an Associate Research Scientist in the Life Course Development Program at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. Dr. Webster’s research focuses on the interrelated themes of: 1) the bidirectional influences of health, health-related behaviors and social relationships; and 2) the role of environmental and social contexts in shaping health disparities across the life course. He has a Ph.D. in Sociology from Case Western Reserve University with specializations in Medical Sociology and Research Methods.

Julia Wondolleck

Associate Professor Emerita of Natural Resources, School for Environment and Sustainability
juliaw@umich.edu

Julia Wondolleck’s research and teaching is focused on the collaborative dimension of marine, coastal and terrestrial ecosystem management. She is interested in the structure of policy and administrative processes that promote the sustainability of ecological and human systems in the face of diverse yet legitimate interests, scientific complexity, and often conflicting and ambiguous legal direction.

Andy White

Professor of Practice and Engagement in Environmental Justice
andywh@umich.edu

Andy leads a class on Indigenous and Community Rights, Conservation and Climate Action at SEAS. He also serves as an advisor to the Department of Natural Resources of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to assist their land return and co-stewardship initiatives with federal agencies, and as the convenor for the Pathways Alliance for Change and Transformation (PACT), a new international network of indigenous-led research institutions and their allies.

Jalonne White-Newsome

Associate Professor in Environmental Justice
jalonne@umich.edu

Dr. Jalonne L. White-Newsome is an Associate Professor in the Environmental Justice Specialization. Building on her multi-faceted, multi-sectoral and diverse areas of passion, practice, service and scholarship, Dr. White-Newsome’s areas of research include: environmental and climate justice policy and practice; finding solutions to address the social, economic and public health impacts of climate change – specifically, extreme heat, extreme flooding, and specific health impacts on the elderly and children; examining how to integrate justice, equity and corporate social responsibility; and advancing justice-centered leadership across the environmental sector.

Kyle Whyte

George Willis Pack Professor; University Diversity & Social Transformation Professor
kwhyte@umich.edu

Kyle is a faculty member at Michigan where he is George Willis Pack Professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability and University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor. On campus, Kyle teaches in and coordinates the School’s environmental justice graduate specialization. He is founding Faculty Director of the Tishman Center for Social Justice and the Environment, Principal Investigator of the new Environmental Justice + Humanities Hub, co-Principal Investigator of the Global Center for Climate Change and Transboundary Waters, Faculty Associate of Native American Studies, Convener of the Secretariat for the Pathways Alliance for Change and Transformation, STRIDE Committee member, affiliate Professor of Philosophy, and Senior Fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows.

Margaret Wooldridge

Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Professor of Aerospace Engineering
mswool@umich.edu

Professor Wooldridge received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford in 1995. Since her appointment at the University of Michigan in 1998, she has received numerous awards for both achievements in engineering and education. She is the director of the Wooldridge Combustion Laboratory at the University of Michigan, which focuses on high-temperature chemically reacting systems which are critical to widespread applications, including power and propulsion and chemical processing. Professor Wooldridge’s research program spans these diverse areas and focuses on experimental studies to enable major developments in materials, fuel chemistry, and combustion devices.

Steven Yaffee

Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning
yaffee@umich.edu

Professor Yaffee's research focuses on collaborative decision making on complex environmental and sustainability choices, including the ways that traditional political processes and organizations function, and how new collaborative structures can be developed to encourage more effective decision making. He is committed to professional education at SEAS and teaches skill-building courses in political and institutional analysis, negotiation and mediation.

Yafeng Yin

Donald Cleveland Collegiate Professor of Engineering, College of Engineering
yafeng@umich.edu

Analysis, modeling, design and optimization of transportation systems towards achieving sustainability and economic efficiency.

Charlene Zietsma

Max McGraw Professor of Sustainable Enterprise; Erb Institute Director, School for Environment and Sustainability
czietsma@umich.edu

Professor Zietsma’s research focuses on social innovation: the individual, organizational and collective efforts to make (and resist) significant, large-scale change in the context of sustainability and social justice issues. She held a Chair of Excellence at Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, as well as visiting appointments at the University Technology Sydney, University of Sydney, Queensland University, Queensland University of Technology, Nottingham University in Ningbo, China, Hebrew University, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Liverpool.

Michaela Zint

Arthur F Thurnau Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability
zintmich@umich.edu

Michaela Zint's research and teaching primarily addresses the question of how educators and communicators can foster environmentally responsible behaviors and thus, contribute toward sustainability. Professor Zint also has expertise in program evaluation and conducts most of her research within the context of climate change, watershed, (Great Lakes) fisheries, and enviromental risk education. A recent project explores how campus sustainability can be advanced by drawing on a range of social science insights.

Lei Zuo

Professor of Naval Engineering
leizuo@umich.edu

Lei Zuo is the Herbert C. Sadler Collegiate Professor of Engineering in the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering and Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He recently established the NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) GO Blue, for Growing Ocean Energy Technologies and the Blue Economy. Lei Zuo completed his BS (07/1997) from Tsinghua University and his MS (02/2002) and Ph.D. (02/2005) from MIT.

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