Halli Bovia, Sustainability Program Manager
Criza Belle Gutierrez, Sustainability Program Assistant
Sydney Morical, Sustainability Office Staff
Sydney is a senior majoring in Environmental Studies and Gender Studies. A passionate innovator, her interest in people and the environments that they live in allow her to cross-pollinate the many projects she is involved in. She started working with the Office of Sustainability in January 2009, assisting in the development and expansion of the Green Office Certification Program and serving as the primary point of contact between the Office and student organizations. Currently, Sydney coordinates all programing in the USC community garden, bringing the USC and local communities together in a space that encourages learning and empowerment. For the second year running, she is organizing Earth Week at USC, a campus-wide celebration of environmental consciousness. Sydney has also been working on the creation of a Green Fund that would allocate monies to student-proposed, sustainable projects on campus.
Nina Gordon-Kirsch
Nina is a senior majoring in Environmental Science and minoring in Marketing. She hails from Berkeley, California and works as the PR and Marketing representative for the USC Office of Sustainability. Nina also helps organize school-wide green initiatives such as the Dorm Energy Competition, the Campus Sustainability Walking Tour, Earth Week, and My Actions (a student competition to increase sustainable lifestyle practices).
Elliott Lavi
Elliott is a junior at the University of Southern California majoring in Architecture. Born and raised in Los Angeles, he aspires to one-day practice sustainable design all over the world. Elliott serves as the Green Office Certification Program student liaison, leading university offices through training sessions on how to implement sustainable practices in the workplace. By teaching university workers how to reduce waste and save energy, Elliott and his sustainability team hope they will make this campus a greener place one office at a time!
