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McKenzie Kelley spent the semester interning as a research analyst for the University of Vermont’s Office of Sustainability. In this role, she has done both data collection and data analysis. She is a computer science and biology double major with a minor in statistics.
The primary projects she worked on are focused on making campus more walkable.
Abby Bleything, the Sustainable Transportation Program Manager at the Office of Sustainability, is McKenzie’s supervisor. In McKenzie’s internship, the day-to-day work looks like lots of spreadsheets and some fieldwork, especially if the weather is good. Her projects include analyzing the energy efficiency of university-owned vehicles.
Hannah Fleming is an intern on the Sustainable Transportation Vermont (STVT) communications team, where she co-manages the Instagram account, @SustainableVT, among other tasks. She is a junior at the University of Vermont, studying environmental studies in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources with minors in political science and business administration. She is passionate about environmental change and sustainability policy.
Krista Hasert is a car-lite Vermonter. While she hasn’t owned a car for some time, and her everyday activities are all carried out via foot, bicycle, or bus, Krista has found a creative way of ensuring that she has access to a vehicle in the moments when a car is what she really wants as a mode of travel: a CarShare Vermont membership.
When Ginny and Laura Brooke moved to Montpelier a few years ago, they had two old cars that were falling apart. They’d been discussing the possibility of downsizing to just one car in an effort to reduce their carbon footprint (as well as to reduce the amount of money they’d been spending on repairs), only to have one of the cars abruptly die.
