Who We Are

Office of Sustainability

Myron Willson

Director, Office of Sustainability

myron.willson@sustainability.utah.edu

801.585.3173

Myron designs, plans, and coordinates the activities in the Office of Sustainability and across campus. He works with Campus Design, the Energy Efficiency group and Facilities Management to create efficiency standards and techniques to make all of our campus buildings more sustainable. Myron also works with faculty and administration to integrate sustainability into curriculum, research and operations.

Jen Colby

Sustainability Coordinator, Office of Sustainability

 jcolby@sustainability.utah.edu

 801.581.7505

Jen works closely with campus and community partners to foster organizational and individual behavior change. Her specific areas of focus include assessments and reporting of the University carbon footprint and STARS; food systems projects including the Edible Campus Gardens and Farmers Market; staff green team initiatives; transportation; behavior change and energy conservation; and air quality.

  Ayrel Clark

Outreach & Education Coordinator
Office of Sustainability

ayrel.clark@sustainability.utah.edu

801.581.7506

Ayrel manages communication and education outreach efforts. She also is the coordinator for sustainability oriented student groups on campus and helps to facilitate green purchasing and recycling initiatives. She previously worked as a graphic artist for a newspaper but decided to return to school to pursue a Master in Public Administration with a focus on environmental and sustainability issues. After graduating in 2011, she moved to India for a year where she worked on a zero-garbage initiative in the city of Pune.

   Rachel Sanders

SCIF Coordinator
Office of Sustainability

rachel.sanders@sustainability.utah.edu

801.581.7510

Rachel manages the Sustainable Campus Initiative Fund and coordinates its annual distribution with the SCIF Allocation Committee.  She networks with students, faculty, and staff to create, develop, and support sustainably-oriented projects across campus.  She also mentors students who are interested in becoming more involved in sustainability within their specific major or department, as well as helping them to align principles of sustainability with their personal interests or career goals.

Alexandra Parvaz

Edible Campus Gardens Coordinator, Office of Sustainability

alexandra.parvaz@sustainability.utah.edu

801.585.9352

Alexandra oversees the Edible Campus Gardens Project on campus. She collaborates with students, staff and faculty to integrate the gardens into curriculum across campus. Alexandra mentors student interns with projects that are dedicated to expanding the campus composting initiative, developing youth garden and nutrition education programs, and installing a bioretention system.

Energy Management

Jeff Wrigley

Program Manager, Energy Management

jeff.wrigley@fm.utah.edu

801.587.9556

Jeff’s role as energy manager is to reduce the University’s energy costs and promote energy efficiency across campus. Jeff leads a team that analyzes energy usage, identifies energy saving opportunities and oversees implementation of energy saving projects. Jeff and his team work closely with the Office of Sustainability, Campus Design and other University departments to promote energy efficient buildings, operations and practices.

Commuter Services

Chad Larsen

Shuttle Manager, Commuter Services

Marlin.larsen@utah.edu

801.585.7963

  Heidi Goedhart

Bicycle Coordinator

heidi.goedhart@utah.edu

Dining Services

Katie Hunt

Sustainability Coordinator, Dining Services

kphunt@gmail.com

704.654.0483

Katie joined University Dining Services in April 2011. As Sustainability Coordinator, Katie works to "green" the campus food system by sustaining partnerships, internships, outreach, and social programming. These include managing the compost program and other waste-management activities, overseeing the Real Food Calculator, and working on events like Social Soup and Earth Fest. Katie is especially passionate about getting students involved in campus food sustainability activities.

Recycling

  Joshua James

Waste Management Supervisor

josh.james@fm.utah.edu

801.581.5173

Purchasing

Glendon Mitchell

Associate Director, Purchasing Department

gmitchell@purchasing.utah.edu

801.587.3784

Glendon has worked in the public sector for both Salt Lake County and the State of Utah in their respective purchasing departments. He had the opportunity while at the state to serve on the Western States Contracting Alliance when Energy Star requirements were first put in the bid specifications for computer contracts and has continued to follow sustainability developments in his job at the University.

Grounds

Sue Pope

Grounds Supervisor

sue.pope@fm.utah.edu

801.581.5358

Sue is a certified landscape nurseryman, member of Sports Turf Association, member of Utah Nursery and landscape association and has served on the Utah Water Conservation Board. Since 2002, Sue has designed and introduced native and drought tolerant plants to our campus landscape and as funding becomes available, she continues to find ways to incorporate low water use plants and turf into the campus landscape.

Environmental Health and Safety

Environmental Health & Safety

http://ehs.utah.edu

801.581.6590

Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) interprets national, state and local regulations related to occupational and environmental health and safety. EHS provides guidance and support to University of Utah operations and advise Senior Administration on business aspects of environmental health and safety, emergency preparedness and disaster resilience.

Research and Curriculum

Steve Burian

Co-Director of Sustainability Curriculum Development

burian@eng.utah.edu

801.585.5721

Steve is the Co-Director of Sustainability Curriculum Development on campus and along with Dan McCool, his other Co-Director, is working to develop sustainability curriculum programs that are highly interdisciplinary, including an undergraduate certificate open to all majors and graduate certificates targetting specific areas. He also serves as Associate Director for the Global Change and Sustainability Center where he helps to coordinate GCSC research and education efforts in sustainability.

Dan McCool

Co-Director of Sustainability Curriculum Development

dan.mccool@poli-sci.utah.edu

801.585.6455

Daniel McCool is a professor of Political Science, Director of the Environmental & Sustainability Studies Program and Co-Director of Sustainability Curriculum Development. He earned a B.A from Purdue University and a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. His latest books are: River Republic: The Fall and Rise of America's Rivers (University of Columbia Press, 2012), and The Most Fundamental Right: Contrasting Perspectives on the Voting Rights Act (Indiana University Press, 2012).

Brenda Bowen

Associate Director, Global Change & Sustainability Center

brenda.bowen@utah.edu

801.587.3404

Stephen Goldsmith

University Professor for Campus Sustainability

goldsmith@arch.utah.edu

801.585.5147

Stephen Goldsmith is an Associate Professor in the Department of City & Metropolitan Planning. He has also served as the University Professor for Campus Sustainability, which has included such projects as working with the Honors College Students on an Honors Think Tank and Sustainability Scholars Program, working with ASUU and Facilities Planning to create and implement the Re-imagine the Plaza project on Marriott Plaza, and working with the Office of Undergraduate Studies to develop the Integrated Certificate in Sustainability. He is a former Director of Planning for Salt Lake City, the founder of Artspace, and was recently elected President of the Salzburg Congress for Urban Planning and Development in Salzburg, Austria.