Career Q&A

Are you a student interested in sustainability? Do you have questions about what direction to take after graduation? There are many opportunities and career paths available.

The Mitchell Center is offering a 30-minute career-focused Q&A session for graduate and undergraduate students following several of its sustainability talks this semester. Each career session will give students like you the chance to speak with featured professionals about how their sustainability-career has evolved over time. Students can attend either in-person or virtually. Registration for each event is required.

The goal of these Career Q&As is to give students the opportunity to find out more about the speaker, what they do, how they got there, what they like or don’t like about their work, what advice they might have, etc. These are informal sessions facilitated by students — we are aiming for honesty to enable the most learning!

Questions for each speaker can be submitted ahead of time on the registration form, and we will also take live questions if there is time.

Career Q&As for Spring 2022

February 28, 4:00PM-4:30PM
Suzanne MacDonald, Chief Community Development Officer, Island Institute
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March 7, 4:00-4:30PM
Sam Roy, Natural Hazards Planner, Maine Emergency Management Agency
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March 21, 4:00PM-4:30PM
Jessica Scott, Senior Climate Advisor, Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future
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March 28, 4:00-4:30PM
Allison Gardner, Assistant Professor, Biology & Ecology, UMaine
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April 11, 4:00PM-4:30PM
John Daigle, Professor, Forest Recreation Management, UMaine
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