2020-2024
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A National Leader in Sustainability...

2015-2019
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Transforming Our Campus...

2010-2014

Major Sustainability Milestones...

  • UMass Amherst wins the prestigious 2014 Second Nature Climate Leadership Award in the "Doctorate Granting Institution" category.
  • Becomes the largest food-service provider in the nation to sign on to the Real Food Campus Commitment, which requires the universities’ food budgets to move away from industrial farms and junk food and towards local/community-based, fair, ecologically sound and humane food sources by 2020.
  • The Franklin Permaculture garden, a thesis projected led by student Ryan Harb (2008 – B.B.A. Business Management & 2010 – MS Green Building, Permaculture, Sustainability) wins the White House Campus Champions of Change Challenge and is honored at the White House.
  • The first Climate Action Plan is published, which identifies strategies that will help the campus reach carbon neutrality.
Pre-2010
UMass Amherst is a signatory of the Second Nature Carbon Commitment

Early Student Leadership and Institutional Commitments...

  • Student Josh Stoffel (2011 – M.Ed.) develops and launches the Eco-Rep Program, a peer-to-peer education program designed to promote student facilitated learning focused on sustainable issues.
  • UMass System President Jack M. Wilson signs the five UMass campuses onto the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC), now called the Second Nature Presidents’ Climate Leadership Commitments.
  • To fulfill the requirements outlined in the ACUPCC, UMass Amherst Chancellor Thomas Cole forms the Environmental Performance Advisory Committee (EPAC), now called the Chancellor's Sustainability Advisory Committee (CSAC).

Meet our Facilities Management Sustainability Team

The Facilities Management Sustainability team is here to help the campus integrate sustainability solutions within all aspects of campus operations and serve as a resource for faculty and staff who are looking to use the campus as a learning living laboratory.  We work with UMass Dining Sustainability and the School of Earth & Sustainability to advance sustainability across campus.

Campus Sustainability Manager esmall@umass.edu

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Ask me about: Renewable Energy, UMass Carbon Zero, Valley Bike, CSAC
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Assistant Campus Sustainability Manager l.simmons@umass.edu

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Ask me about: New2U and Zero Waste, Sustainability Fellowship Program
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Sustainability Fellow

Junior, Class of 2026
Major: Sustainable Community Development

ebergloff@umass.edu

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As a SCD Major, I've investigated and studied various areas on the UMass Campus. After seeing the recent efforts to revitalize Hampden DC, I would like to start my Sustainability Fellowship journey there, and work alongside staff to reinvigorate that space. Another reason I want to focus on Hampden is the recent addition of the brick & mortar home for New2U. As a SCD major, one aspect of community development that I find essential is circularity, and New2U is going to bring a new definition of circularity to the UMass Campus, and it is one that I would love to assist. I have a lot of experience with second hand reselling and storefront management, so I want to put a lot of my attention on the New2U program and how it is a big part of reinvigorating Hampden DC.
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Sustainability Fellow

Senior, Class of 2025 
Major: Plant and Soil Sciences, English 
 

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Hannah is passionate about making UMass a sustainable and conscious university in the wake of the current climate crisis. She is excited to inspire hope and accountability during her time at UMass through engaging with campus policy and working with Sustainable UMass on a variety of issues. As she gets closer to graduation, Hannah is excited to engage with peers and faculty in order to cultivate new ways of living, working, and studying in our environment.
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Sustainability Fellow

Senior, Class of 2025 
Major: Operations/Information Management (OIM) with a minor in Geography
 

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I am interested in exploring various facets of sustainability, ranging from corporate sustainability to the earth sciences. This fall, I aim to work on renewable energy projects and/or sustainability initiatives at UMass Dining!
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Chancellor's Sustainability Advisory Committee (CSAC)

This committee includes UMass Amherst sustainability experts and representatives of the major sustainability constituencies from across campus.  For questions regarding CSAC including meeting attendance requests, please contact campus sustainability manager, Ezra Small by emailing esmall@umass.edu.

CSAC Membership 2024-2025

Members of CSAC include Committee Chair, administrative & sustainability staff, academic faculty including a rotating Dean, and student representatives including  Student Government Association (SGA) and Graduate Student Senate (GSS).

Campus Sustainability Manager esmall@umass.edu

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Ask me about: Renewable Energy, UMass Carbon Zero, Valley Bike, CSAC
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Assistant Campus Sustainability Manager l.simmons@umass.edu

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Ask me about: New2U and Zero Waste, Sustainability Fellowship Program
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Dining Sustainability Director kwicks@umass.edu

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Kathy oversees all sustainability initiatives for Auxiliary Enterprises. She focuses on including sustainability in everyday decision making for the division, aligning efforts with the campus-wide sustainability priorities, and building diverse partnerships. Kathy has extensive experience in building multi-sector collaborations, leading community engagement strategies, and strategic planning for a variety of food systems initiatives. She has a Master of Public Health from UMass Amherst and a Bachelor's Degree from Smith College as an Ada Comstock Scholar. Kathy enjoys gathering family and friends to cook together using local ingredients year-round. She also enjoys practicing mindfulness meditation and supporting local music.
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Executive Director of Facilities Management rjackson@facil.umass.edu

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Ray Jackson is the Executive Director of Facilities Management for Facilities & Campus Services.
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Senior Campus Planner and Architect lpavlova@cp.umass.edu

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Ludmilla Pavlova, AIA, LEED A.P. BD&C is an architect, planner and project manager with over 30 years of professional experience, two decades of which was dedicated to the University of Massachusetts community. She has contributed to and managed a wide spectrum of complex, multi-million-dollar projects, including master plans and feasibility studies, as well as the design and construction management of corporate, municipal, and academic facilities for science, the humanities and student life.

She is Senior Campus Planner at UMass Amherst where she conducts sustainability and campus master planning, space utilization studies, facilities programming and planning, and capital project management. Prior to coming to UMass Amherst she worked for design firms in New York City, most notably for John M.Y. Lee/Michael Timchula Associates on the Shenzhen City Center Urban Design and City Hall, and the Curtis/Balkan Factory in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Pavlova-Gillham has a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and European Cultural Studies from Princeton University and a Masters of Architecture from Columbia University. She sits on the Society of College and University Planners’ North Atlantic Regional Council and on the Board of Directors of the Western Massachusetts Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and AIA Massachusetts.
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Capital Project Manager tmendoza@facil.umass.edu

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Ted Mendoza is a Capital Project Manager for Design & Construction Management in Facilities Management.
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Executive Director of EH&S and Emergency Management jhescock@ehs.umass.edu

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Jeff Hescock as the Executive Director for Environmental Health and Safety and Emergency Management.
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Associate Budget Director jrbrown@admin.umass.edu

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Jack Brown handles revenue and expense forecasts, operating budgets and peer analysis. Jack's office is located in 340K.
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Director of Operational Services dbond@umass.edu

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Dawn is the Director of Operational Services for Facilities Management.
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Executive Director of Auxiliary Enterprises ktoong@umass.edu

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Ken Toong is the Executive Director of Auxiliary Enterprises, which is comprised of UMass Dining, Hotel UMass, UMass Conference Services, Licensing, UMass Catering, The Commonwealth Restaurant and UMass Store. Auxiliary Enterprises provides the core service that support the academic and extracurricular goals of the university. Ken always puts customer service first and is committed to going beyond simply providing services by creating a unique experience for all customers and visitors. An avid supporter of student health and regional food system, Ken places a strong focus on sustainability, nutrition and community. In his free time, Ken enjoys jogging, reading, traveling, walking the dog, and rooting on the Dallas Cowboys and UMass Minutemen.
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Executive Director of Marketing Strategy pmackenzie@umass.edu 

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Tricia is the Director of Marketing Strategy for University Relations MarCom Group
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 Vice President of Advancement, UMass Amherst Foundation kdumpson@uma-foundation.org

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Kim is the Vice President of Advancement for the UMass Amherst Foundation
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Deputy Chancellor for Institutional Effectiveness nsmani@umass.edu 

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Nandita Mani is the Deputy Chancellor for Institutional Effectiveness. In this position, Nandita will continually oversee and enhance the overall effectiveness and efficiency of institutional programs and initiatives and oversee the assessment and progress of the strategic plan on campus.
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Associate Vice Chancellor of Campus Life & Wellbeing ecracco@umass.edu 

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Elizabeth Cracco is the Assistant Vice Chancellor, Campus Life and Wellbeing and Directs the Okanagan Wellness Collective
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Lecturer, Environmental Conservation craign@eco.umass.edu

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I study the sustainability of ecological-social system, addressing questions of how ecosystems change through time and how people interact with natural resources. After working on Arctic system science for 15 years, I now work primarily in two domains: sustainable urban systems (Boston), and water resource management (New England and Africa). In both cases I collaborate with teams of scientists and stakeholders to develop holistic understandings of complex system dynamics. My contribution to projects usually involves intellectual synthesis and often includes the development of dynamic computer simulation models using rule-based approaches and/or quantitative ecological analyses.
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Professor, Architecture rkmann@umass.edu 

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Educated at Harvard-Radcliffe (B.A. Environmental Design) and The Harvard Graduate School of Design (M. Arch I), Professor Ray Kinoshita Mann has been teaching at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst since 1995, and was awarded tenure in 2001. Her award-winning projects include the Women’s Rights National Historical Park, the MIT Media Lab ‘Brain Opera’ and Salamander Restaurant in Boston. As principal of RK Studio Architecture she received a Progressive Architecture Young Architects Award in 1993 for the innovative nature of her practice, and she continues to work with a variety of new materials and unusual design applications. Over the years she has taught a variety of courses from architecture and interior design studios to building physics, universal design and research theory, and she has been an active participant in a Mellon-funded Five College Bridging Grant to bring together Liberal Arts and professional architectural pedagogies. She has served on a variety of local and national boards.
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Robert Deconto, Professor, Director of School of Earth & Sustainability deconto@umass.edu 

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Rob studies polar climate change, the response of ice sheets to a warming climate, and coastal impacts of sea-level rise. Rob serves on international science advisory boards and is a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Previously, he held research positions at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Melanie Radik, Science & Engineering Librarian mradik@umass.edu 

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Melanie is a Science and Engineering Librarian for the University Libraries
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Secretary of Sustainability, SGA sgasustainability@umass.edu 

Carol is excited to be SGA's Secretary of Sustainability, and this year intends to focus on establishing the Student Sustainability Coalition. Aside from SGA, Carol is a UMass Women into Leadership board member and UMass extension Climate Outreach intern.

Carol DeRose
Class of 2025, Dual Degree in Political Science and Natural Resources Conservation
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