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Lindsay Saxby (C12) can trace her career at PG&E back to a single journal entry on an ordinary day of class. “I was in Nils [Moe]’s class and expressed that I was looking for a new career,” she remembers. “Nils had heard about a solar permitting project in the East Bay that was offering an …

Presidio Presents:  Women in Tech featured some incredible women panelists, including Yahoo’s Global Director of Energy and Sustainability Strategy, Christina Page, VMWare’s Foundation Director, Nicola Acutt (former Associate Dean and Faculty Member at Presidio), and Citrix’s Startup Accelerator Marketing, Community, and Events Manager, Casey Shultz (C17).  They spoke before an audience on Thursday, November 5th …

Why do we do what we do as sustainable practitioners? It’s a question that comes up again and again in circles of sustainability. People like myself who do this work at institutions like Presidio want to know where did the motivations come from that give people the well of strength to be sustainable business leaders? …

 Name: Lyrica McTiernan Cohort: C11 Company: Facebook Title: Sustainability Manager Interview by Dany Warman (C19/PA5) I had the opportunity to attend Facebook’s Sustainability @Scale 2015 event this Summer. The event overall was very inspiring, and I got to meet Alyssa Holt and Lyrica McTiernan, the two alumni leading sustainability changes at Facebook. After playing phone and …

Published in: Santa Cruz Sentinel Business Alumnus Ned LeBlond (C15) enters the startup world as a social entrepreneur with his new venture EquityStone (@EquityStone). A social non-profit public-private partnership connecting homeowners to ideal renters to help pay their mortgages. Ned is tackling the affordable housing shortage by meeting the needs of homeowners struggling to pay their …

Published in CSR News   Renewable Choice Energy announced today that Erin Decker (C10) has joined their team as a Senior Director of Business Development to oversee their growing Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) division. Previously, Erin was at Salesforce who lead their global sustainability team by setting a 100% renewable energy commitment and strategy. Decker earned her …

During a short visit to Boulder, CO for a friend’s wedding, I had the opportunity to connect with alumnus Scott Bright (C17) – a.k.a. ‘ScottieB‘- and learn about how Presidio Graduate School prepared him for his dream job. Alumnus: Scott Bright (aka ScottieB) C17 Location: Boulder, CO Company: Mondo Robot – Creative Digital Agency Title: Digital Strategist …

The driving forces of Summer Meyer’s life can be summed up by two words:  love and adventure. If you know Summer (you might have met her as Karin, her former name), you know that both shine through unmistakably in her life. She exudes an appreciation for challenges, nature, community, people, and self. Together with her …

Why Brocade’s Senior Director of Corporate Affairs Came to PGS When making decisions about graduate school, a mentor had this sage advice, “If you’re going to spend tens of thousands of dollars and consume two years—or more, as it would happen—of your life with time away from your family, wouldn’t you want to at least …

Over the last year, I have watched an idea that was hatched over pizza and a glass of wine with a friend turn into a thriving business. It has been one of the most challenging years of my life, but also one of the most rewarding, culminating in Conscious Company Magazine—the first nationally distributed, print …