The Center is pleased to introduce team projects and changemakers from across campus who have been selected for the 2025-26 academic year. While Scheller serves as the program’s home, the organizers welcome students from all academic areas. After all, sustainable changes at a global scale will require participation and innovation from people of all backgrounds.
This year’s team projects include:
Clover Returns Management Solutions – Enhancing Clover’s market positioning through “sustainability-as-a-service” product offerings that differentiate from competitors and generate meaningful revenue streams aligned with sustainability goals.
- Kamaya Brantley, Fellow, MSEEM
- Brittany Cornejo, Ambassador, industrial engineering major
- Grace Jiang, Ambassador, civil engineering major
- Patrick Wickson, Fellow, MSEEM
Girl + Environment: Tracking Metrics – Helping Girl + Environment to increase their scope of donations and funding, enabling it to grow and succeed as a nationwide nonprofit.
- Caroline Fortune, Ambassador, environmental science major
- Abigail Mathews, Ambassador, public policy major
- Danielle Zember, Ambassador, industrial engineering major
InVeris – Implementing a data-driven sustainability and ROI framework to demonstrate measurable benefits of InVeris’s virtual training solutions – strengthening their value proposition and differentiating them in competitive markets.
- Sofia Mujica, Ambassador, mechanical engineering major
- Demetrius Odom, Fellow, Executive MBA
- Saif Sarfani, Fellow, Evening MBA
- Sanika Sawant, Fellow, Full-time MBA
ECGO: University Partnership Development – Increasing student adoption and engagement of the ECGO recycling platform across multiple target universities.
- Veronica Gilliard, Fellow, Executive MBA
- Rotem Kanny, Ambassador, public policy major
- Kesiah Munyaruganda, Ambassador, industrial design major
Jexim – Supporting commercialization strategy by preparing materials for customer and investor engagement for a startup developing permeable interlocking concrete paving blocks.
- Joel Lee, Ambassador, civil engineering major
- Mary Williams, Ambassador, environmental science major
Salas O’Brien GHG and Climate Risk Software – Creating a feasibility analysis report to determine whether building in-house GHG and climate risk software is better than using existing SaaS tools.
- Ting Chen, Fellow, Evening MBA
- Ilisha Gupta, Ambassador, computer science major
- Raghav Gupta, Fellow, Evening MBA
- Jeremiah Wright, Fellow, MSEEM
SUSTAIN-X and MemoMir – Developing MemoMir, a smart mirror prototype for sustainable digital messaging, while documenting and evaluating the SUSTAIN-X Scale Lab process through firsthand participation.
- Quinn Burns, Ambassador, industrial design major
- Rustin Jalali, Ambassador, business administration major
Unearthing Kitchen: Local Produce Procurement Research – Implementing an automated messaging and data collection system to improve the vendor and volunteer experience for an urban farmers market.
- Akshaya Mahesh Kumar, Fellow, Executive MBA
- Hafsa Mir, Ambassador, business administration major
- Erin Murphy, Fellow, MSEEM
- Rudraksha Vyas, Ambassador, business administration major
WunderGrubs – Implementing an IoT system pilot for WunderGrubs’ farm partner that monitors and quantifies conditions for optimized mealworm growth, aiming to validate the approach for larger-scale deployment.
- Lavine Chuol, Ambassador, civil engineering major
- June Kang, Ambassador, business administration major
- Myer Khan, Ambassador, neuroscience science major
- Jaya Shah, Ambassador, civil engineering major
A couple months into their projects, participants are already reaping the benefits while contributing to projects with impact. “This program uniquely allows me to apply and deepen my knowledge of sustainability while collaborating with like-minded peers and giving back through community work,” reflected Undergraduate Ambassador Caroline Fortune. “Unlike traditional courses or extracurriculars, it offers hands-on experience at the intersection of sustainability, business, philanthropy, education, and community.” Fortune, who interned last summer at BMW Group as part of the environmental management and compliance team, intends to pursue a career as a sustainability consultant upon graduation.
Graduate Fellow Demetrius Odom, who entered the Executive MBA Program with a decade of experience in cyber/cloud security and project management, has found a meaningful way to connect his personal experiences with his project. He explained, “My work as a Fellow combines real-world impact with personal purpose. Working with InVeris on operator health and sustainability directly connects to my experience as a veteran with hearing loss, allowing me to contribute lived insight beyond theory.”
Beyond their project responsibilities, participants are encouraged to take full advantage of the Center’s offerings. For example, students are invited to attend talks by visiting speakers and connect with professionals at symposia. After completing the program, Fellows and Ambassadors join the Center's alumni network. The Center sustains strong relationships with former participants, many of whom continue their involvement through roles such as serving on the Advisory Board, presenting at career discussion panels, and sponsoring projects for future cohorts of the program.
The Center is pleased to share profiles of this year’s Fellows and Ambassadors.
Written by Jennifer Holley Lux
