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OFS Director
Heather Henriksen is the Director of the Office for Sustainability at Harvard University. She holds a Master's in Public Administration with a focus on energy and environment from the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). While a student at HKS, Heather was a member of the Harvard University Task Force on Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions, commissioned by President Drew Faust to recommend a GHG reduction goal for the University. Heather is also a partner of Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), a national community of business people lobbying for environmental policies which protect the environment while building economic prosperity. Heather’s work with E2, since 2002, has brought her into closer partnership with the Natural Resources Defense Council. Before graduate school, Heather was Director of Corporate Marketing & Business Development at Time Warner. Prior to her nine year tenure at Time Warner she was an Assistant Director of Development at Stanford University Law School. She serves on the Board of Trustees of Phillips Brooks House Association, the undergraduate social service and social action organization at Harvard College. She holds a B.A. from Tulane University. -
OFS Assistant Director
Nathan Gauthier joined OFS in September 2004. He manages the Sustainable Design and Construction division of the Green Campus Building Service, offering green building consulting services to more than a dozen Harvard building projects. Prior to joining OFS, Nathan worked as a research assistant with the South Carolina Sustainable Universities Initiative where he helped implement Environmental Management Systems, lectured on sustainable living, and developed campus sustainability indicators. He has experience as an environmentally-friendly general contractor with "Energy Conscious Builders" and has worked as a fisheries biologist in Texas, Hawai'i and Washington and with the Peace Corps in Ecuador. Nathan is an editor of the "Power of One: College Students and Sustainability" video for the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition and the author of the Resource Guide by the same name. When Nathan isn't working, he can be found in the mountains, on a whitewater river, or at the beach. -
OFS Assistant Director
Jaclyn Olsen joined OFS team in January of 2005 as the Longwood Campus Coordinator. Jaclyn comes from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs where she spent three years as the Project Manager for the State Sustainability Program, a comprehensive “Greening the Government” effort to help reduce the ecological footprint of state agency operations. As Project Manager Jaclyn worked with state agencies on specific pilot projects, tracking and reporting of environmental impacts, developing guidance and outreach materials, and planning for sustainability. Prior to her experience with the State Sustainability Program Jaclyn worked briefly as the Sales/Marketing Coordinator for a startup software company. Jaclyn received a Bachelors Degree in Environmental Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1999. -
Coordinator, Longwood Green Program
Claire Berezowitz joined OFS in July, 2008. She received a B.S. in Environmental Science and Political Science from the University of Notre Dame in 2006, where she was active in campus sustainability initiatives and field research. Since then, Claire has worked as an environmental educator and outdoor education instructor for the Conserve School, a residential high school in northern Wisconsin, as well as at the Teton Science School in Kelly, Wyoming. Most recently, Claire obtained her Master's degree in Human Development and Psychology at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. She is particularly interested in how sustainability initiatives are able to effectively transform adult learning about sustainability into long-term behavioral change. In her free time, Claire can be found exploring the northeast by foot, bike, kayak, or skis - and cheering for her Fightin' Irish football team. Go Irish! -
Senior Project Coordinator, Green Building Services
Kevin Bright joined OFS Green Campus Building Service in May of 2008. Currently, he splits his time between implementing energy conservation measures and guiding existing Harvard buildings through the LEED process. Kevin received a B.A. in Environmental Geology from Middlebury College in 2006 where he wrote a thesis investigating the source of arsenic contamination in private wells in Stowe, Vermont. In January of 2008, he received a M.A. in Energy and Environmental Analysis from Boston University. During the summers of his undergraduate and graduate years, Kevin worked in a variety of environmental fields ranging from an internship at The Nature Conservancy in Albany, NY, to working as a Field Engineer for a consulting firm that decontaminated a radioactive US Weapons Stockpile Facility in Fort Wayne, IN. Needless to say after a lot of traveling, he is excited to be living in Boston and working at Harvard with the Office for Sustainability. -
Coordinator, Law School
Kate Cosgrove joined the Office for Sustainability in August 2010. She grew up in Boston and received a BA in English from Harvard College in 2007. Since graduation, she has taught English in China and worked in retail product management in Ohio. While a product manager, she also volunteered as a sustainability team member, working on company-wide facilities efficiency updates and awareness and behavior-change campaigns. Kate is excited to be returning to her old stomping grounds in Cambridge. At the Law School, she’ll be working on occupant engagement with the Facilities Team, Green Team, and Green Living Program. After work, you’ll find her baking, studying comic books, training for a marathon or planning her next trip to Southeast Asia. -
Manager, Sustainability Communications
Colin Durrant joined the Office of Sustainability and Harvard Public Affairs and Communications in July 2010. He has over a decade of experience in the non-profit and public sectors developing and implementing communications, public relations and community outreach initiatives. As Manager of Sustainability Communications he partners with Schools, academic, and administrative units across the University to coordinate communications and outreach related to ongoing sustainability efforts. He comes to Harvard from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation where he managed communications strategy and crisis communications, civic engagement, media relations, and new media projects. Prior to that he was Communications Director at the Conservation Law Foundation and served as Director of Communications Policy for State Senator Jarrett T. Barrios. When not working he can be found on the soccer pitch, on his bicycle or trying to find time to explore the mountains and hiking trails of New England. -
Coordinator, Undergraduate REP
Brandon Geller joined OFS in July 2008, taking over the role of Undergraduate Resource Efficiency Program Coordinator just after graduating from Harvard with a B.A. in Biochemistry. During his undergraduate career, he spent a majority of his time organizing big events and representing the student body for Pforzheimer House as the House Committee Co-Chair. However, he still found time to do scientific research, an endeavor that took him to both to Germany and the Dominican Republic. For his senior thesis, he generated genetic data and developed a novel evolutionary tree for the Longhorned family of beetles. Though always somewhat involved with REP as an undergrad, it wasn't until doing research for his thesis that his eyes became open to many environmental issues. Now he is excited to be sticking around Harvard and doing the two things he loves most- working with undergrads and reducing environmental impact! -
Coordinator, HBS and HUDS
Carol Healy joined OFS in August 2009 and is excited to be working on the HBS Green Living Program and the Harvard University Dining Services Green Skillet competition. Prior to the OFS, Carol was at the Harvard Business School planning and delivering Executive Education programs while being actively involved in the HBS Green Team. Carol grew up in Gloucester and, after attending Penn State University, she returned to her roots and has been a Bostonian ever since. She is currently enrolled in the Environmental Management program at Harvard Extension School and is a LEED Accredited Professional. She loves coffee, traveling and any activity that is outdoors, but she is particularly fond of spending time on the Cape Ann beaches and coastline in the summer and snowboarding in the winter. -
Coordinator, Green Building Services
Ben Myers joined OFS in June 2010. Ben has earned a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2005 and is currently a candidate for a M.A. in Urban Environmental Leadership at Lesley University in Cambridge. Ben’s professional experience is informed by the practice of construction management, where he has most recently been serving as project manager for commercial interior projects in the Boston metropolitan area. He has also performed the roles of field engineer and assistant project manager during the construction phases of large-scale multi-family housing developments. Ben enjoys the dynamics of working with project teams to resolve complex technical challenges. In his free time, Ben is a music producer, rugby player and coach. -
Senior Project Coordinator, Green Building Services
Jessica Parks joined OFS in September 2008 as a Project Coordinator for Green Building Services. In 2010, she became Senior Project Coordinator. Jessica graduated from Bennington College in 2000 with a B.A. in Environmental Studies and Architecture and received her Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Michigan in 2003. Prior to working for Harvard, Jessica ran the Brownfield Redevelopment Program for Washtenaw County, MI, by facilitating the remediation and redevelopment of brownfield sites. Since returning to the East Coast, Jessica has been a consultant to the City of Boston's Department of Neighborhood Development, assisting with the management and implementation of their EPA grants. -
Web Developer
Lev Rickards joined OFS in February 2008 with a background in content management systems and information architecture. He studied ecology at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, and graduated with a Masters of Information Science from the University of Michigan School of Information in 2007. While at Michigan, he studied the overlap between information systems and the built environment. Working for OFS allows Lev to combine his interest in institutional environmental change with information architecture and standards-based, semantic web design. On the weekends he can be found working with a program that empowers junior youth. -
Manager, Green Building Services
Andrea Ruedy Trimble joined OFS in February 2006 after receiving a Master of Science in Historic Preservation from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Architecture from Virginia Tech. Both of her thesis projects focused on recycling existing buildings and integrating them into the surrounding landscape to maximize and promote environmental responsibility. During school she held various advocacy internships, including studying residents' recycling practices to improve the Town of Blacksburg's programs, and preservation advocacy with New York's Municipal Art Society to encourage reusing buildings. Most recently, she worked as a preservation architect for a Boston architecture firm, and currently teaches drawing courses at local architecture schools. -
Coordinator, Green Building Services
Jay Sisam joined OFS in March 2010 as a Project Coordinator for Green Building Services. He comes to Harvard with a background in implementing campus energy conservation measures, having previously worked as the Energy Manager for the University of Utah, where he helped to realize the first campus solar project. Jay received his undergraduate degree in Architecture in 2008 from the University of Utah and is currently pursuing his Masters in Architecture here in Boston. While working for institutional sustainability at Harvard, Jay is implementing sustainable design practices in his own residential development projects. He is currently designing a Net-Zero energy residence to be constructed at the Cape, focusing on the positive effects vernacular design can have on sustainability. -
FAS Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program
Gosia Sklodowska joined OFS in July 2005. She manages the FAS Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program, developing strategies for energy conservation through occupant engagement and infrastructural upgrades. She also offers LEED-EB consulting services to FAS building operations groups. Her team runs educational programs in lab and office buildings and develops FAS-wide sustainable policies. Gosia is currently enrolled in the Environmental Management Program at the Harvard Extension School, but her initial academic background is in education and sociology (MA in French, Warsaw University; MS in Sociology of Religion/Gender Studies, EHESS, Paris) When not at work, Gosia can be found traveling through South Asia, sailing on the Charles or having coffee at Darwin's.
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