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From Passion to Action! Explore Green Jobs with Clarissa Huffman.

Explore how professional credentials and graduate education can empower emerging environmental leaders to build impactful, future-ready careers in sustainability

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Course Length:
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Career Stage:
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Regular Price:
Free
Course Length:
1 Hour
Career Stage:
All Career Stages

EP PD Credits.

3

Not yet an EP Member?

Click here to learn more!

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Speaker: Geni Peters
Director of Research - ECO Canada

Geni Peters is an economist with a Ph.D. in Economics from Texas A&M University. As Director of Research at ECO Canada, she is responsible for the management, execution and delivery of environmental labour market information and national occupational standards projects, working with an army of professionals comprised of staff, consultants, strategic advisors and subject matter experts. Before joining ECO Canada, Geni applied her knowledge and skills in a wide range of roles and industries. She worked as a lecturer for 14 years, teaching a wide range of economics courses and supervising student research projects at UC San Diego and Penn State University. More recently, she managed labour market research initiatives including economic modelling and reporting at PetroLMI Division of Energy Safety Canada (formerly the Petroleum Human Resources Council) and conducted economic research and analysis at Brown Economic Consulting.
Speaker: Nancy Prévost-Maurice
Education Specialist & Event Coordinator - Royal Roads University

Nancy Prévost-Maurice is an Education Specialist and Event Coordinator at Royal Roads University, where she supports academic programming and event initiatives that foster experiential learning and community engagement.
Speaker: Clarissa Huffman
Manager, Climate Plan and Strategic Action - Government of Nova Scotia

Clarissa Huffman, LPP, MCIP, EPt is a Licensed Professional Planner with over eight years of interdisciplinary experience in environmental and climate change planning. She specializes in nature-positive solutions and climate-informed community development and currently serves in a leadership role at the Nova Scotia Department of Environment and Climate Change, where she designs and delivers tools and resources to support community access to funding for climate priorities.

Questions for our Panelists:

  • Tell us about yourself and your career
  • Why a career in the environmental workforce?
  • Why is building capacity for climate-informed decision-making important to you?
  • Why the Master in Environment and Management (MEM) program at Royal Roads University?
  • What value has that had for your career?
  • What difference has being an ECO Canada EP® made in your career?
  • What advice would you give students thinking of an environmental career?

Reconnaissance des terres

Dans un esprit de respect, de réciprocité et de vérité, nous honorons et reconnaissons Moh’kinsstis, le territoire traditionnel du Traité 7 et les pratiques orales de la confédération des Pieds-Noirs : Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, ainsi que les nations Îyâxe Nakoda et Tsuut’ina. Nous reconnaissons que ce territoire abrite la Nation métisse de l’Alberta, la région 3 au sein de la patrie historique des Métis du Nord-Ouest. Enfin, nous reconnaissons toutes les nations qui vivent, travaillent et se divertissent sur ce territoire, et qui l’honorent et le célèbrent.

Land Acknowledgment

In the spirit of respect, reciprocity and truth, we honour and acknowledge Moh’kinsstis and the traditional Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Blackfoot confederacy: Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, as well as the Îyâxe Nakoda and Tsuut’ina nations. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3, within the historical Northwest Métis homeland. Finally, we recognize all Nations who live, work and play on this land and honour and celebrate this territory.