Sustainability Alumni Spotlight

Lynne Neveu

1. What year did you graduate?

2010

2. What was your major/minor?

Public Policy

3. What was your co-curricular and student organization involvement on campus?

NYPIRG, UAlbany Students for Sustainability, WCDB Albany (note: Lynne was the first President of USS)

4. What are you doing now? Where do you live?

I live in Niagara Falls and am working for Planned Parenthood managing the education programs in Niagara County. I am also getting my Masters Degree from Niagara University in Secondary Education

5. How have you applied your experience with the sustainability movement on campus and involvement with the Office of Sustainability into your post-college life and career?

I initially went into local government and integrated my knowledge and passion for sustainability into my work there. Five years ago I switched careers and started working in education at Planned Parenthood, which includes managing a teen center in Niagara Falls. It's been fun to integrate more sustainable behaviors into the center and to work with the teens who go there after school on projects on learning more about sustainability. We switched to reusable plates and cutlery, have started composting and gardening and are always working on beautification in the community. Most recently we had a lot of expired condoms (due to being closed for COVID for so long and not being able to give them away) and are working on a fun "project runway" style project to work with the teens to reuse them and turn them into fashion!

The Office of Sustainability is proud of the successes of our alumni! They were essential in the early stages of the sustainability movement at UAlbany and have shaped where it is now.