Welcome to the Environmental Studies Alumni webpage. This website serves to connect alumni who pursued environmental studies while at Bowdoin with current students, faculty, and staff. We are currently redeveloping the site to further enhance this communication. In order to make this website fully functional, we need information from you! Please take a moment to complete our online survey. This survey helps us keep track of the variety of careers, academic paths, and locations of our diverse alums.
The majority of alumni have continued their academic pursuit in Environmental Studies by applying it directly to their career. Those who have chosen not to pursue an ES related career comment, nonetheless, that their experience with the program had an impact on how they perceive the world.
Alumni Profiles
Definitely be open minded in terms of what might be out there, you may not find the perfect internship, but what you learn and the skills you develop are pretty similar across the board in any internship or entry level position. Even though it might not be the perfect internship, it can help you get your foot in the door in the field you’re interested in.
Aside from being the Director of Business Development for Pepin Associates, a small advanced composites company, and former town manager of Greenville, Maine, John Simko is also a Bowdoin alum. He graduated with the class of 1992 …
What was your path from Bowdoin to your current position?
I actually got my current job while I was still at Bowdoin, I went to a Career Planning networking event in Boston and met someone who knew Meghan Tanguay at my company who was a Bowdoin grad (2007). Initially I just wanted to get a sense of what the environmental consulting industry was like and learn what kind of skills would be useful in the industry. Two months later Megan called me to inform me that a position had opened up and invited me to apply; I ended up getting the job.
If you walk into Nick Cohen’s living room, you will find a framed photo of ticks. To an outsider, a framed photo of blood-sucking parasites may seem like a strange decoration to have in the living room …
Brooks Winner ’10 had his fellowship with the City of Bath in 2008. During his time as a fellow, Brooks worked on community organizing, carbon accounting and inventorying, and sustainability planning …
Adam Ureneck, a 2004 Bowdoin graduate who majored in Environmental Studies and History, has worked in Peru for over nine years, both as a student and organizer for Solidaridad en Marcha, an international organization dedicated to working with the poorest of the poor. Based on his experience in Lima's shantytowns as well as his development work in Peru's High Andes, Adam came to Bowdoin to talk about the problems he sees in relying soley on technical solutions to the challenges facing Peru's highland region. Adam's interest in justice began while he was at Bowdoin …
Julia has been named a recipient of the Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation Environmental Fellowship for 2011. One of the nation’s most prestigious environmental policy recognitions, Switzer has been supporting emerging leaders committed to solving real world environmental problems since 1986. Julia has been the Sustainability Coordinator for Massachusetts Institute of Technology since graduating from Bowdoin in 2008 with a B.A. in Environmental Science, History and a minor in Biology …
Beginning in the fall of 2012, Teona Williams ’12 will travel to India, South Africa, Trinidad, Tobago, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic and Brazil, studying the connections between people and nature. She has won a prestigious Watson Fellowship, which gives talented graduating seniors $25,000 and a mandate not to step foot in the United States for one year. Follow Teona on her jouney by way of her Bangor Daily News blog- The Places we go Williams is organizing her Watson year around an environmental theme — partly for intellectual reasons and partly from personal ones …
Invited by the student group Green Global Initiatives, Auden Schendler ’92 returned to Bowdoin to give a Common Hour talk entitled, “Great Hope, Great Fear: Climate Change and the Search for Meaning, from Neanderthals to Extreme Skiers.” He is author of Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution and is vice president of sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company in Colorado. Besides giving an inspirational yet down-to-earth talk about how to approach climate change, Schendler was frank and funny about the seeming irony in his professional role. “I’m an environmental guy working at a ski resort,” he said …
Whitney Hogan is the coordinator of health education at Bowdoin. As the coordinator of health education, she advises Peer Health and assists with designing, implementing, and evaluating health programs that are available for students. She is also a member of Bowdoin’s graduating class of 2007 …
In celebration of the Environmental Studies Department 40th anniversary, alumni who majored in ES are telling their stories of how the major affected their Bowdoin experience and life after college. Ryan Ann Davis graduated from Bowdoin in 2004 with a major in Environmental Studies and History. While at Bowdoin, Davis was an employee of Sustainable Bowdoin, a new organization at the time and worked under the current director, Keisha Payson …
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