Meet Our Students! PATRICK KELLEY JEREMY PRICE Focus: Environmental Quality Focus: Renewable Energy and Efficient Design I completed my undergraduate degree at Hampshire College with a concentration in environmental After completing his undergraduate studies at UMass,(B.S. Sustainable Community Development), and wildlife science. My thesis explored the usage of bird feathers as bioindicators of environmental Jeremy sought to strengthen his ability to effectively facilitate change, and enrolled in the Department ANGELICA CAREY contamination using mass spectrometry in the Cape Cod area. I love the environment and everything of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning’s (LARP) Master of Regional Planning Program. Jeremy Focus: Urban Sustainability that comes with it- wildlife, sunshine, hiking, swimming, and most of all, the beautiful, encouraging is the Peer Undergraduate Advisor/Mentor within LARP and also holds a Graduate Certificate in Climate A native from Lynn, Massachusetts, I attended UMass Amherst for my undergraduate degree in feeling of curiosity that it bestows. I like to think of the environment as the canvas to humankind’s Change and Green infrastructure Planning. Anthropology and Civic Environmentalism, a self-designed major from the BDIC program. After epic masterpiece. To put it simply, there’s really no way to paint without it, and that’s sort of where Looking to further explore the intersection between the environment, planning, and energy, he was graduating in 2012, I was accepted to teach K-5 General Music and 6-8 Choir with Teach for America, sustainability and environmental quality interests me. admitted to the MS3 program where he will concentrate in Renewable Energy and Efficient Design; in the small town of Palestine, Arkansas. In 2014, I was accepted into the Dual Degree program of currently Jeremy works with the UMass Clean Energy Extension. Regional Planning and Sustainability Science at UMass. I’m happy to be back in the valley, and also SHANNON LARGEY feel very privileged to be able to participate in a graduate degree that will benefit me in knowledge Focus: Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems SAMANTHA ROCK and real-life practice. My upbringing in Massachusetts, as well as my time in the South, have I am a Massachusetts native with a long-time passion for food, health, and the environment. I Focus: Water Sustainability and Climate Change provided me great experiences to see firsthand public health, environment, planning and policy obtained a BBA in Marketing from the Isenberg School of Management at UMass and a Certificate in I am a graduate of Juniata College, where I received my Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Environmental issues along with different methods of addressing them successfully. Sustainable Food and Farming from Stockbridge in May of 2017. Coming from a childhood on a farm Biology. I studied abroad in Southern India working on erosion management and marine system and a background in business, I have always been fascinated by the role business plays in agriculture. management. Recently I finished my ecological restoration internship at New England Environmental a BARBARA CHAMBERLAIN This fascination is especially true as business acts as a catalyst for change especially in regards to division of SWCA. Currently I am working with Todd Biels identifying and inventorying campus trees. I am Focus: Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems organic, regenerative agriculture and Fair Trade. I am truly inspired to take care of the soils and the excited to continue my education with the Sustainability Sciences program, my main focus being water For the past ten years, I have worked at UMass Amherst in the IT department, managing the imaging souls which produce our food. management and climate change. software that helps departments on campus that want to go paperless, and also saves some trees in the process. I enjoy what I do and love being part of this community. I also live an environmentally- SYLVAIN (KOBY) LORNG conscious, animal-friendly lifestyle. So the Sustainability Science degree program seems like a Focus: Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems MICHAEL ROSSI natural extension/progression of both my home and work life. I chose the “Sustainable Agriculture Born and raised in Ivory Coast, I grew up in the capital city, Abidjan. After receiving my Bachelor’s Focus: Environmental Quality and Food Systems” concentration because I’m passionate about where food comes from and what degree in Finance and Accounting, I worked at a bank for 10 years managing the international I am from Methuen, Massachusetts. I got my undergraduate degree at Unity College, an institution in happens to it before it reaches our plate. I’ve always been a firm believer that you are what you eat. operations division and the relationship with large corporations. In addition, I built a small farm of 10 Maine with the educational framework of sustainability science, in Environmental Policy, Law, and Society Food matters. It can hurt us or heal us. I am excited to begin this MS3 journey. ha (24 acres) of rubber trees, 3 ha (7 acres) of palm oil and 2 ha (5acres) of cocoa trees. At that point, with a minor in Psychology. I am very interested in grassroots environmental advocacy, and have worked I realized that I could better help my community by getting a degree in sustainable agriculture. with the Environmental League of Massachusetts Action Fund on political campaigns throughout the EMILY CHIARA I moved to the U.S. and obtained certificates in sustainability management and solar energy at state helping to elect and defend environmental champions. I am an Eagle Scout which serves as my Focus: Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Bunker Hills Community College and Roxbury Community College respectively. I enrolled in the MS3 motivation for my work in the environmental field. I am a Western MA native and excited to return to the area after living, studying, and farming in program at UMASS Amherst to further expand my portfolio of knowledge in sustainable agriculture. Arkansas, North Carolina, India and Guatemala over the past 9 years. I received my bachelor’s CHRISTOS SALEDAS degree in Global Studies from Warren Wilson College in 2012 and have worked as an elementary Focus: Environmental Quality SAVANNAH MCCARTHY school garden educator in NC as an Americorps volunteer and in Western MA through School I completed my undergraduate degree at UMass Amherst in Environmental Science in 2017. During Focus: Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Sprouts Educational Gardens. I am interested in using food and garden spaces as catalysts for my final year at UMass I had the opportunity to go abroad at the School for Field Studies in Costa Rica, I am from California and recently graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.S. in Society and Environment community development, social justice, and cultural preservation and look forward to working studying and researching sustainable development. In my free time I love to do anything that gets me from the College of Natural Resources and a minor in Political Economy. During my time at UC Berkeley with likeminded students and faculty. outdoors especially running, hiking, and playing soccer. I am very excited to return to UMass as a part of I became interested in a wide range of issues from rangeland conservation to water rights to global LAUREN DE LA PARRA the MS3 program with a concentration in environmental quality! Focus: Urban Sustainability environmental governance. However, my true passions lie in agrarian reform and sustainable agriculture I am a Canadian hailing from Montreal, Quebec. A chance encounter with the magical world - looking at both agro-ecological practices at the micro level as well as policy decisions at the macro of permaculture sparked a chain reaction resulting in my recent transplantation to Western level as potential solutions to the myriad of problems facing our world’s people and resources today. At LAURIE SIMMONS Massachusetts, where winters are mild (relatively) and everything is green (literally and figuratively). UMass I would like to continue to learn more about all of these issues while moving towards a solution Focus: Water Sustainability and Climate Change My academic interests span multiple disciplines including environmental psychology, urban food to agrarian problems around the world. I look forward to everything this program has to offer! I am a sustainability educator and the Sustainability Coordinator for Residential Life here at UMass. I arrived systems, regenerative design, and marketing for sustainability. When I am not engaging with these in the MS3 program with a background in animal science, six years of real world experience, and a few topics and their champions somehow, you’ll find me fermenting things and getting outdoors. SHANNON MULKERN years on campus within academic affairs. My academic interests have evolved over time and I am now most Focus: Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems interested in understanding and promoting sustainable decision-making and behavior at the individual and DANNY DILLON I graduated from UMass in 2015 with a Bachelor’s in Psychology, and am unbelievably excited to be organizational levels, particularly within the context of higher education. I aim to help students define what Focus: Environmental Quality returning for my Master’s in Sustainability Science. I’ve spent the past two years out of school dabbling sustainable living means in their own lives, encourage them to recognize and engage with sustainability I come from a background in engineering and have worked in the aerospace industry for nearly 5 in a little bit of everything – working in special education, traveling, volunteering at a nonprofit farm, issues on campus, and inspire them to take the knowledge and skills they develop here on to their future years. My deep passion for the outdoors is a result of many hours spent skiing, hiking and surfing about and waitressing. UMass is where my interest in sustainability began, from the dining halls to the green lives & careers.