
Sustainability Scholars
Our Sustainability Scholars have varying interests, majors and class years.
Each is placed with a private, public, or nonprofit community institution to focus on a discrete project during the summer, and we also meet as a group to discuss how individuals and institutions can move the needle at the community-scale on environmental issues, with a particular emphasis on climate change.
Learning Objectives
Through hands-on experience and dynamic group discussion, sustainability scholars gain unique knowledge and insight as well as applicable skills, including the following.
- Urgency and agency to make positive change for the environment
- Familiarity with systems thinking and several sustainability-related examples
- Knowledge of key climate change drivers, impacts, and policies
- Knowledge of Charlotte-area sustainability challenges, opportunities, and champions
- First-hand experience with alternative transportation modes
- Proficiency in specific tool(s) for measuring and/or engaging sustainability
- Ability to identify advantages and barriers to community-scale sustainability action from the perspectives of individuals, private-sector, public-sector and nonprofit organizations
2022 Sustainability Scholars
Students' minors, when applicable, have been listed in parenthesis next to their majors.
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Ella Williams '24Major: Biology Partner: Carolina Farm Stewardship Association |
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Claudia Craig '24Major: Environmental Studies Partner: Farm at Davidson College |
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Amanda Creek '25Major: Environmental Studies Partner: City of Charlotte Sustainability |
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Daisy Hoover '24Major: Biology Partner: Sustain Charlotte |
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Charlotte Joseph '23Major: Environmental Studies Partner: Crescent Communities |
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Gabriela Nahm '24Major: Environmental Studies Partner: Carolina Raptor Center |
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Katieanne Peterson '24Major: Environmental Studies, Political Science Partner: Harper General Contractors |
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Bailey Scarlett '25Major: Environmental Studies Partner: CleanAire NC |
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Alexandra Williamson '24Major: Environmental Studies Partner: Summit Coffee |