
ALUMNI
Alumni Spotlights

6/14/17
SUMA Alumna Travels A Different Sustainability Path in Brooklyn
Agustina Besada (’15) serves as executive director of Sure We Can, a nonprofit recycling facility, community center, and a grassroots sustainability testbed wrapped into one. Some 500 canners work at Sure We Can, recycling an average of 40,000 containers each day.

6/1/17
Getting the Tools to Get Hired
Alan Burchell (’14) is the founder and principal of Urbanstrong, which markets and sells design-build-maintenance services for various green building technology systems, including green roofs, living wall gardens, solar-integrated-green roofs, and traditional rooftop solar electric.

3/9/17
Resiliency Strategies to Sustain Businesses and Livelihoods
Sustainability Management alum Krista Eichenbaum (’16) has an undergraduate degree in Urban Planning and works in urban sustainability. In 2005, after witnessing how natural disasters were affecting cities, she started questioning how we should plan to address resiliency challenges moving forward