Date: Tuesday, March 10th from 5 - 6:30 pm
Location: University Career Center - Resource Room (Located in Hornbake Library South)
*Open to students and alumni*
Join us for an engaging panel featuring UMD alumni working across diverse sustainability and environmental fields. Gain valuable insights into their career journeys, backgrounds, and current roles in areas such as policy, environmental planning, science, and consulting. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from their experiences and explore potential career paths!
This year’s panelists are Menyae Christopher, a Policy Associate at Sol Systems; Kate Kopp, an Environmental Analyst at Potomac-Hudson Engineering, Inc.; and Maurice Richardson, the Founder of Diaspora Honey.
Food will be provided! This event is in collaboration with the Office of Sustainability, University Career Center, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, College of Arts and Humanities, and the Alumni Association.
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Panelist Biographies
Menyae Christopher is a Policy Associate at Sol Systems, an independent power producer headquartered in Washington, DC. In this role, he focuses on power market policy, renewable energy deployment, and regulatory strategy. Prior to joining Sol Systems, Menyae worked as a communications consultant for energy companies and trade associations, primarily in the oil and gas sector. Over the course of his career, he has developed deep expertise in interconnected power markets, renewable energy policy, and energy market analysis.
Menyae earned a Bachelor of Arts in Government & Politics with a double major in Germanic Studies from the University of Maryland in 2016. During his time living in Germany, he began his career in energy by conducting research on the natural gas trade between Russia and Germany in 2018, at the height of the Nord Stream II debate. Committed to continued learning, Menyae is currently a student in Yale University’s Financing and Deploying Clean Energy certificate program and is an alumnus of the Clean Energy Leadership Institute (CELI).
Kate Kopp is an Environmental Analyst at Potomac Hudson Engineering, Inc. with 3 years of experience in NEPA and compliance projects throughout the continental US. PHE works in federal and private environmental compliance, management, documentation, and site analysis. Kate’s subject matter expertise includes air quality and GHGs, land use, and solid waste. She graduated from University of Maryland with a B.S. in ENSP Land Use in 2023.
Maurice Richardson is an urban beekeeper, sustainability educator, and U.S. Air Force veteran. He is the founder of Diaspora Honey, where he manages apiaries across the DC–Baltimore region and leads hands-on workshops on pollinator health and urban agriculture. Maurice earned a B.S. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Maryland, with a minor in Sustainable Studies.