Date & time
Thursday, March 16, 2023
3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Workshops & seminars, Conferences & lectures
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Careers in sustainability
Speaker(s)
Hawa Keita, Justine Carlone, and Arrien Weeks
Cost
This event is free and open to the public (offered in person only)
Organization
Loyola Sustainability Research Centre & Loyola College for Diversity & Sustainability
Contact
Where
John Molson Building
1450 Guy
Concordia Conference Centre, 9th Floor
Wheel chair accessible
Yes
Hawa Keita
Are you considering a career in sustainability? Come meet our panelists and learn about their journeys, what they do, how they got to where they are, and what they recommend to people just starting out.
About the speakers
After three years as Director of CEED, a fee-levee organization and non-profit operating in Montreal and Gulu, Uganda with additional projects throughout Africa and Latin America that provide community development and hands-on educational opportunities to students, Hawa Keita is now the lead of Concordia's Africa Initiative.
A graduate of ESCP Business School (Berlin and Paris), Sophie Cardinal-Roy is Senior Consultant, Sustainability at KPMG Canada.
Arrien Weeks is Sustainability Technician with Concordia's Centre for Creative Reuse. With a BFA in Design and a Masters in Art Education from Concordia, he has extensive experience in this field at Concordia and beyond.
This event is part of:
Research that matters: Sustainability, biodiversity, and justice is brought to you by the Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability and the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre in collaboration with 4TH SPACE, with the support of the Office of the Vice-President, Research and Graduate Studies; the Leadership in Environmental and Digital innovation for Sustainability (LEADS) NSERC CREATE program; the School of Community and Public Affairs and First Peoples Studies; the Science College; and the Departments of Biology; Communication Studies; Geography, Planning and Environment; Political Science and Sociology and Anthropology; and the Sustainability Action Fund at Concordia University.
This event will contribute to the Sustainability in Research section of Concordia's Sustainability Action Plan by increasing the visibility of sustainability research at Concordia.