Hi everyone!

There's been a slight change in this month's programming. We're happy to announce that Nurit Katz will now be the speaker for EcoTuesday in Los Angeles this month.

Please RSVP before the event on Tuesday, July 28th!

Here's some info on Nurit:

Nurit Katz is UCLA's first Sustainability Coordinator. In this position she is working to foster partnerships among academic, research, and operational departments and further the goals and initiatives of the campus sustainability program. Before starting in this position she founded the UCLA Sustainable Resource Center in 2005 to provide resources for the community on sustainability. As Director of the program she hosted numerous events that brought together leaders in the public and private sectors. She then served as President of the Graduate Students Association and helped Dr. Charles Corbett to develop a new interdisciplinary graduate certificate program- Leaders in Sustainability.  After graduation she helped launch the new UCLA Center for Corporate Environmental Performance. She has worked on a variety of sustainability projects including a project for the City of Los Angeles that focused on transit-oriented development along the Expo Light Rail Line. Her essay on the topic was published in the UCLA Anderson Forecast's "Solutions for Our City".  Nurit holds an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a Masters in Public Policy from the UCLA School of Public Affairs. She is Chapter Leader of the Los Angeles Professional Chapter of Net Impact, an international organization focused on using business to create a positive social impact, and sits on the Board of Advisors of Opportunity Green.

Nurit received her BA in Environmental Education at Humboldt State University and after college taught with a number of education programs including an innovative Farm-to-School program that provides a healthy lunch as part of an integrated curriculum that uses local food systems as a context for learning. She continued to work on nutrition and health issues with the UCLA Center for Research, Education, Training, and Strategic Communication on Minority Health Disparities. She traveled to Ghana in 2007 on a project to expand the UCLA Johnson & Johnson Management Development Institute, a program that provides management capacity building for HIV/AIDS service providers in Africa.