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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 HGCI, 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! -
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. -
Law School Sustainability Program
Cara Ferrentino joined OFS in December 2008 after graduating from Harvard with a degree in Environmental Science and Public Policy in June 2008. She completed her thesis on competing conceptions of sustainability in debates over genetic modification and biofuel feedstock development, a project she began while working for the Global Bioenergy Partnership at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome in 2007. As an undergraduate, Cara was involved with outdoor and music organizations, and in house and class community activities. When not contemplating the relationships between energy, land, culture, and the environment, Cara enjoys cooking, drawing, and learning languages. -
Manager, Green Building Services
Jesse Foote began work with the Office for Sustainability in August of 2005. He has worked for the organization in a number of capacities, and currently manages new construction services for the group’s Green Building Services. In this role, Jesse works with project teams to review designs, incorporate green features and manage the LEED certification process. Jesse is currently helping to implement a new set of University wide green building guidelines which require all building projects to follow certain minimum green design strategies. Jesse received his bachelors degree in 2001 in engineering and environmental studies from Dartmouth College, where he wrote a thesis encouraging the college to construct a new heating/power plant so that the fuel type could be switched from oil to wood chips. Before coming to Harvard, he helped form a non-profit organization named WinCycle that reused and recycled computers in the Dartmouth area. Jesse also worked for a Vermont based mentoring program, DREAM, where he purchased a 50-acre property and created a summer camp for the organization. -
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, FAS Green Labs Program
Philip Kreycik joined OFS in July, 2006 as the Undergraduate Resource Efficiency Program Coordinator. As of July 2008, however, he coordinates the FAS Green Labs Program. Philip graduated from the college in 2006 with an A.B. in Earth and Planetary Sciences. His thesis documented desertification in the Sahel region of Africa using a new geochemical tracer method to track atmospheric mineral dust. As an undergraduate Philip spent much of his free time working to revive the outdoors club at Harvard. Summer jobs and courses have taken him to Australia and Alaska, and he spent a summer working for an environmental engineering firm that supervised landfill construction in rural Virginia. When not at work, Philip bakes goodies for Adams house students and organizes hikes, bike rides, and other outdoors trips. -
Coordinator, Green Building Resource
Katherine Moxhet joined OFS in August 2007 as Coordinator for the High Performance Building Resource. She spent the previous 7 years at Union of Concerned Scientists supporting the organization’s Executive team, and working on communications and outreach projects on issues such as climate change, diesel school buses, and scientific integrity in policymaking. She holds a BS in Environmental Studies from the University of Vermont. In her spare time, Katherine enjoys gardening and photographing at night. -
FAS Green Office Coordinator & Green Teams Coordinator
Dara Olmsted graduated with honors from Harvard in 2000 with a degree in anthropology. She was a teaching fellow at Harvard for four years and taught abroad in Cyprus. She received her Master's degree from Tufts University in 2005 in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning. She has worked on several research projects for OFS, including sustainable purchasing and green cleaning. She is a resident tutor in Environmental Studies in Mather House. -
Coordinator, Green Building Services
Jessica Parks joined OFS in September 2008 as a Project Coordinator for Green Building Services. 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. When not helping Harvard go GREEN, Jessica works on her photography and exploring New England. -
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 teaching neighborhood Baha'i children's classes. -
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. -
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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