![]() ![]() ![]() This drove him to seek opportunities to affect change outside the classroom. Throughout his six years in the classroom, Matt observed how his young students and their families confronted inequalities in the education, health, and immigration systems. Upon graduating college, he began his career as a preschool teacher with Chicago Public Schools. As a first generation college graduate, Matt was committed to improving educational outcomes for others. ![]() Matt is from Chicago, IL, and graduated from Northwestern University in 2013 with a BA in Political Science and International Studies. Outside of work, Jesse loves cooking, playing with his cat, and generally goofing off. He hopes to use his law degree to represent indigent clients as a public defender. Jesse spent his 1L summer at the Hennepin County Public Defender in Minneapolis and his 2L summer at the Bronx Defenders in the Criminal Defense Practice. Witnessing the dehumanization of poor and Black people in Alabama’s criminal system made Jesse passionate about the need to abandon our culture of punishment, abolish police and prisons, and build solidarity and power in our communities. After college, Jesse spent two years at the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, where he investigated violence in Alabama prisons and spoke with incarcerated people around the country seeking legal assistance. At Bowdoin, his growing interest in racial and economic injustice in the criminal system led him to volunteer with The Volunteer Lawyers Project of Maine and to conduct research on prison privatization and the history of indigent defense services in the United States. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 2018, where he majored in Environmental Studies and Economics. We have teams from and proposals addressing sustainability issues across the U.S., Australia, Burundi, China, India, Philippines, U.K.Jesse grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Arlington, Virginia. This is a great opportunity to network with other professionals around the world and to meet our next generation of sustainability leaders! Our judges will determine which teams will be rewarded. We are seeking judges from various professions in #sustainability, finance and investment to debate the most innovative #blendedfinance and #impactinvesting solutions addressing #SustainableDevelopmentGoals around the world. We would love to have you sign up to be a judge for our upcoming #LIFT Challenge sponsored by Bank of America. I want to share a fun way to be re-inspired in the new year, while helping students around the world hone their skills. I hope everyone has started relaxing for a happy and healthy holiday season. We hope you can join us! Tickets can be purchased here: #sustainability #leadership #innovation #impact #initiative Director of Sustainability Analytics at Nike, and John Hwang, CEO of PLANLED. The showcase also takes place on April 28th in the same location, from 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM. We will announce the winners live at the event, and will also recognize our MBA sustainable enterprise graduates as well as the student winners of the 2023 Susanna Schick and Net Impact awards.Īs part of the celebration, you are also invited to our Student-Athlete Sustainability Initiative showcase featuring speakers working at the intersection of sustainability and sports including Bennett Wetch, Sr. Join us April 28th for this year's UNC Sustainability Awards where we recognize leadership and best practice for three winners: A North Carolina company that demonstrates innovation, initiative and impact in sustainability, and (new this year) an entrepreneurial business that also demonstrates excellence in sustainability, as well as a Distinguished UNC Alumnus in Sustainability. ![]()
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