ETHICAL LEADERSHIP
WORKING TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE SER EN HOMER ’17 THOUGHT she knew the campus of Guilford College like the back of her hand. Like every student who has spent four years studying at Guilford, she had walked the common areas to class and meals a million times, and wandered off the beaten path in search of a little solitude. Seren even worked on the college’s farm for her work study job, taking her to a part of the campus some students rarely see. But in the summer of 2018, the alum got to come back to Guilford and explore the campus in an entirely new way. “After graduation I took a job with Pilot Environmental, Inc., out of Kernersville, a company that provides environmental consulting on everything from indoor air quality to stream and wetland management,” Seren says. “When I saw the Guilford College softball project on the list of upcoming jobs, I put in a bid to work it. I thought it would be really cool to go back and work at Guilford.” Seren was part of the group from Pilot Environmental that mapped out the streams and wetlands in and around the area of the proposed softball stadium. As part of the natural resources and environmental team at Pilot Environmental, a lot of what Seren does in the scope of her work is similar to the softball field project for Guilford. Her job is a combination of field work, getting 1 8 | W W W. G U I L F O R D . E D U
SEREN HOMER ’17
