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CDAE Alum Offers Advice to Build Networks for Career Success

David Conner and Emma Arian standing in front of a class of CDAE 168 students taking a group selfie.

CDAE Professor David Conner’s CDAE 168 (Marketing for Community Entrepreneurs) class welcomed back former student and course Teaching Assistant (TA) Emma Arian as a guest speaker on December 6, 2022. Emma is currently the marketing and promotions manager for three local organizations: Vermont Brewers Association, Vermont Fresh Network and DigInVT. She took the class in Fall 2018 and was the TA in Fall 2019, before graduating with a degree in community entrepreneurship in 2020. Emma discussed her current job responsibilities, including grant writing and fulfillment, event planning, social media campaigns, newsletter writing and blogging. Continue reading “CDAE Alum Offers Advice to Build Networks for Career Success”

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Centering Agroecology in the Conservation of Biodiversity at COP15

Three photos showing a frog, a leaf vein and an overhead view of a river basin.
Photo source: UN Biodiversity Conference: COP15 in Montreal

Between December 5 and 9 of 2022, a coalition of organizations including UVM’s Agroecology & Livelihoods Collaborative (soon to be the Institute for Agroecology) headed to Montreal to participate in the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15, for short). Continue reading “Centering Agroecology in the Conservation of Biodiversity at COP15”