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Through ESPP's new Environmental Research Initiative, Maya is working to bring together those interested in connecting business and environment issues in research and curricula at MSU. The initiative is a new project directed by Dr. Tom Dietz and funded by the Office of the Vice President for Research. It will provide settings and resources for those interested in these issues to explore them further and pursue joint initiatives.
Maya recently received her Ph.D. from the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan; she also worked with faculty from the Business School. She examined ways that companies can be socially and environmentally – as well as economically – sustainable. Maya approaches these issues through the lens of organizational change, looking specifically at the role of employees in organizational environmental action and at factors which support and impede their efforts. Her dissertation examined the environmental role of middle managers at electricity companies.
Most recently, Maya was Ethicist-in-Residence at Eastern Michigan University’s College of Business. She has also held jobs and internships with Ford Motor Company (Office of Corporate Governance), the Environmental Protection Agency, Greenpeace, and the U.S. Peace Corps. Maya spent a year studying fisheries management at University of the South Pacific, in Fiji. She received her B.A. from Harvard University in Social Studies; her undergraduate thesis examined the experience of women leaders of grassroots toxics groups. She is particularly interested in the potential of individuals to affect issues they care about. |
