ENVS Alumni Career Panel
Event sponsored by the Brandeis University Hiatt Career Center and Environmental Studies.
2-3 p.m. March 4, 2022
About the Event
ENVS and Hiatt Career Center held an exciting career conversation with Brandeis ENVS alumni who shared their unique journeys after graduation and how their major ultimately influenced their career paths. Watch the recording of the online event here:
Meet the Panel:
Phoebe Dolan '20 — Director, Maine Youth Power
Phoebe Dolan is a graduate of the class of 2020, she majored in environmental studies and minored in social justice social policy. She organized Brandeis Labor Coalition when she was on campus and helped win the Graduate Student Workers Union. She wrote an honors thesis in Environmental Studies on representation of frontline communities in the youth climate movement. She currently lives in rural Maine and is the director of Maine Youth Power, a youth movement to build power and make change for rural young Mainers.
Harrison Goldspiel '13 — PhD Student, University of Maine
Harrison grew up in Queens, New York, and spent much of his childhood exploring urban forests and farms throughout New York City. At Brandeis, he majored in environmental studies and became drawn to wildlife ecology and conservation biology while abroad in Ecuador and on campus with the Environmental Field Semester. His interests in ecology have brought him to Florida, California and the Galapagos, where he's worked on conservation programs for threatened wildlife, including vernal pool amphibians and Galapagos tortoises. He has also done research on human dimensions of conservation, studying nature-based recreation in the northeastern United States and social-ecological systems in central Eurasia.
He obtained a master's in ecology at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in 2018 and is currently a PhD student at the University of Maine, where he studies the landscape ecology and conservation of vernal pool systems, focusing on blue-spotted and unisexual salamanders.
Philip Lu '11 — Fish and Wildlife Biologist Training Specialist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Phil Lu is currently a fish and wildlife biologist training specialist in the Applied Conservation and Policy Branch at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) National Conservation Training Center (NCTC). He focuses on producing courses related to conservation policy and regulations, land and wildlife management, communications, and partnership building.
Previously at Defenders of Wildlife, he implemented projects related to wildlife conservation on federal lands, low-impact renewable energy development, and climate adaptation. He has also served as a USFWS Directorate Resource Assistant Fellow (DFP) where he worked on urban affairs in the National Wildlife Refuge System.
He holds a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University, a Master in Public Policy from the National University of Singapore, and a BA in environmental studies from Brandeis University. He is currently in the Federal Asian Pacific American Council's (FAPAC) National Leadership Training Program.
Allison Marill '17 — ESG Research Analyst, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Allison graduated from Brandeis with majors in environmental studies and economics. As a junior, she studied abroad on the DIS/ Copenhagen program. As a student, she was a co-founder of the Brandeis Rooftop Farm and the president of the Farmers Club. She was also a co-founder of the undergraduate Net Impact chapter and participated in the Environmental Health and Justice JBS program.
Since graduating from Brandeis, Allison spent a year interning at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies in Israel, and since returning began her work as an ESG analyst at Institutional Shareholder Services, where she assesses companies' non-financial performance on material social and environmental challenges.