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Savannah Holt

Oct 9, 2026

2:31
So to start, uh, if you guys could just kind of take us through some of the background of your Office of Sustainability program, um, like how long you have existed, where are you housed specifically at UMD, and then how many full-time staff you have and interns.
2:47
So right now we have seven full-time staff members.
2:50
But when our office was first founded, it was founded in 2007 by our current director, Scott Lupin.
2:56
Uh, and it was just Scott, and eventually he hired a GA and we...
3:00
A graduate assistant, and we've been slowly expanding from there.
3:03
So seven is the most full-time staff we've ever had.
3:06
We're hosted under the Department of Environmental Safety, Sustainability and Risk, also known as ESSER, which is in the Division of Administration.

10 MINS LATER

13:14
So could you just kind of walk us through what each of those roles entails and their involvement on campus?

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