MSLS 2005: Archie Kasnet, President
Archie uses systems thinking to drive market-based solutions for sustainability. He is an entrepreneur and “doer” integrating cost effective solutions. He is the Vice President of Sustainability at Altenex, LLC, a renewable energy marketplace. Archie wrote a systems perspective position paper on energy security for Vice President Joseph Biden’s presidential bid and was contributing author on Healthy Solutions for the Low Carbon Economy published through Harvard Medical School. He serves on the Young Patrons membership committee for the Wildlife Conservation Society, Trustee of Intentional Endowment Network and is President of StratLeade Sustainability Education. He holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies and Latin American Studies from Gettysburg College.
Archie uses systems thinking to drive market-based solutions for sustainability. He is an entrepreneur and “doer” integrating cost effective solutions. He is the Vice President of Sustainability at Altenex, LLC, a renewable energy marketplace. Archie wrote a systems perspective position paper on energy security for Vice President Joseph Biden’s presidential bid and was contributing author on Healthy Solutions for the Low Carbon Economy published through Harvard Medical School. He serves on the Young Patrons membership committee for the Wildlife Conservation Society, Trustee of Intentional Endowment Network and is President of StratLeade Sustainability Education. He holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies and Latin American Studies from Gettysburg College.
MSLS 2007: Steve Muzzy, Treasurer and Secretary
Steve is the Senior Manager of Membership Programs at Second Nature, a non-profit focused on accelerating the movement toward a sustainable future by serving and supporting senior college and university leaders. Steve spent two years as the Green Schools Program Manager with the Massachusetts Chapter of the US Green Building Council. In this role he worked with K-12 schools, colleges and universities and sustainability education organizations to advance healthy, sustainability school infrastructure and support curriculum development of sustainability literacy. Previously Steve was instrumental creating Second Nature's keystone program, the American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment (ACUPCC). Steve is a LEED Green Associate, and serves as a National Chair for USGBC's Student Groups.
Steve is the Senior Manager of Membership Programs at Second Nature, a non-profit focused on accelerating the movement toward a sustainable future by serving and supporting senior college and university leaders. Steve spent two years as the Green Schools Program Manager with the Massachusetts Chapter of the US Green Building Council. In this role he worked with K-12 schools, colleges and universities and sustainability education organizations to advance healthy, sustainability school infrastructure and support curriculum development of sustainability literacy. Previously Steve was instrumental creating Second Nature's keystone program, the American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment (ACUPCC). Steve is a LEED Green Associate, and serves as a National Chair for USGBC's Student Groups.
MSLS 2016: Omar Roquet, Marketing and Communications
Omar is one of the marketing strategists the future is needing today. He has forged a unique skill set for transmitting vision to reality, mission into action, and philosophy into practice. The focus of his work is to empower brands for the opportunities brought by the era of sustained value creation. Stemming from the power of marketing to change the world, he started a pioneering practice on evolving concepts such as green marketing and purpose branding. That led him to represent agencies with an impact-amplification approach. In the last couple of years, he has played an instrumental role in starting up a media-tech company designed to amplify the impact of carbon finance. He holds a BA in Marketing Management from Universidad Panamericana, an MBA from IPADE Business School and an MSc in Strategic Sustainability from Blekinge Institute of Technology.
Omar is one of the marketing strategists the future is needing today. He has forged a unique skill set for transmitting vision to reality, mission into action, and philosophy into practice. The focus of his work is to empower brands for the opportunities brought by the era of sustained value creation. Stemming from the power of marketing to change the world, he started a pioneering practice on evolving concepts such as green marketing and purpose branding. That led him to represent agencies with an impact-amplification approach. In the last couple of years, he has played an instrumental role in starting up a media-tech company designed to amplify the impact of carbon finance. He holds a BA in Marketing Management from Universidad Panamericana, an MBA from IPADE Business School and an MSc in Strategic Sustainability from Blekinge Institute of Technology.
MSLS 2012: Melinda Varfi
Melinda Varfi brings a host of experience from her customer centric roles in public, private, and NGO sector work. She has worked for a telecom startup, consulting group where she established an entrepreneurship academy, and through trade development for biotech at the Hungarian Ministry of Economics. She cofounded Resonanz to transform working culture. She is actively involved in leading edge projects exploring transformative education, resilience for communities (Impact Hub Budapest), and entrepreneurship for a new paradigm.
Melinda Varfi brings a host of experience from her customer centric roles in public, private, and NGO sector work. She has worked for a telecom startup, consulting group where she established an entrepreneurship academy, and through trade development for biotech at the Hungarian Ministry of Economics. She cofounded Resonanz to transform working culture. She is actively involved in leading edge projects exploring transformative education, resilience for communities (Impact Hub Budapest), and entrepreneurship for a new paradigm.
MSLS 2017: Jessica Conrad
Jessica Conrad is the Strategic Communications Manager at the Garfield Foundation and works to document and share the story of the foundation’s grantmaking. She also contributes to the foundation’s learning, evaluation and capacity building practices. Inspired by a strong belief that another future is possible, Jessica brings experience with both systems change theory and practice. Prior to joining the Garfield Foundation, Jessica served as a program facilitator at the Blekinge Institute of Technology, where she delivered graduate-level courses on leadership and sustainable development, and as a community manager at the RE-AMP Network, where she supported member organizations in accelerating the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy. She holds an M.Sc. in Strategic Leadership toward Sustainability from the Blekinge Institute of Technology and a B.A. in Environmental Humanities from Whitman College.
Jessica Conrad is the Strategic Communications Manager at the Garfield Foundation and works to document and share the story of the foundation’s grantmaking. She also contributes to the foundation’s learning, evaluation and capacity building practices. Inspired by a strong belief that another future is possible, Jessica brings experience with both systems change theory and practice. Prior to joining the Garfield Foundation, Jessica served as a program facilitator at the Blekinge Institute of Technology, where she delivered graduate-level courses on leadership and sustainable development, and as a community manager at the RE-AMP Network, where she supported member organizations in accelerating the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy. She holds an M.Sc. in Strategic Leadership toward Sustainability from the Blekinge Institute of Technology and a B.A. in Environmental Humanities from Whitman College.
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