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Sustainability Alumni Spotlight
Grace McGrath
1. What year did you graduate?
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2020
2. What was your major/minor?
Major - Business Administration, Minor - Education
3. What was your co-curricular and student organization involvement on campus?
Vice President of Women Excelling in Business (WEB), Public Relations Office/Digital Producer for UNA USA, Intern for Center for Leadership and Service, Sustainability Blogger for the Office of Sustainability, Associate Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Council Representative, and Vice Chair of Sustainability for UAlbany SA, Peer Advisor for Office of Career and Professional Development, and active member of Omicron Delta Kappa.
4. What are you doing now? Where do you live?
When I graduated in May 2020, I joined the AmeriCorps VISTA program and lived in Helena, MT, and worked for the Montana University System. After my service year ended, I got a job in Arlington, VA as a Program Assistant at Marymount University.
5. How have you applied your experience with the sustainability movement on campus and involvement with the Office of Sustainability into your post-college life and career?
My college experience with the office taught me how to advocate for issues in a way to effectuate change (i.e., plastic straws). So during the past year, I made sure I continued to educate myself on sustainability issues, but due to COVID-19, I was less involved in protests and such. But now, being in the DC area, I know I will be getting more involved in the sustainability movement by going to protests and pushing politicians to actually care about the planet. Overall, I learned from the office that the most important thing you can do to make sustainability change is to constantly learn and get to know other people who care because working as a unit can be very powerful. I would love to work for the EPA one day, and my work with sustainability in college is a huge reason why. I know we can all make a difference, so that is what I will continue to do. The Office of Sustainability is proud of the successes of our alumni! They were essential in the early stages of the sustainability movement at UAlbany and have shaped where it is now.
