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
2023 Sustainability Scholars
Past Sustainability Scholars
2022 Scholars
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Ella Williams, Carolina Farm Stewardship Association
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Claudia Craig, Davidson College Farm
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Amanda Creek, City of Charlotte
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Daisy Hoover, Sustain Charlotte
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Charlotte Joseph, Crescent Communities
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Gabriela Nahm, Carolina Raptor Center
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Katieanne Peterson, Harper General Contractors
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Bailey Scarlett, CleanAIRE NC
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Alexandra Williamson, Summit Coffee
2021 Scholars
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Ty Cryan, Carolina Raptor Center
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Mira Gladstone, The Bulb
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Emily Kaminsky, Town of Davidson
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Beatrice Levy, Crescent Communities
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Kate Pottle, Sustain Charlotte
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Kat Soltany, CleanAIRE NC
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Caroline Wachino, Boomerang Water
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Hattie Rodriguez, Carolina Raptor Center
2020 Scholars
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Claire Brantley, CleanAIRE NC
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Chris Chao, Trees Charlotte
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Corey Cochran, Everblue Training
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Kelly Fitzgerald, BikeWalk NC
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Raul Galvan, Sustain Charlotte
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Will Soutendijk, City of Charlotte
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Paul Stouffer, Carolina Raptor Center
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Bryan Tran, Carolina Raptor Center
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Kendall Weinfeld, Livable Meck