Maddie Dolan joined FirstCarbon Solutions (FCS) as an Environmental Services Intern in May 2019. She is a rising senior at the University of California, Berkeley, double majoring in Environmental Economics & Policy and Society & Environment. Before interning at FirstCarbon Solutions, she worked for Bay Area Green Tours and Global Green Economic Forum in Singapore. She currently holds positions as UC Berkeley Panhellenic Vice President of Sustainability and Co-President of “Greening the Greeks.” Maddie is particularly passionate about Environmental Justice issues and hopes to continue her education with a Master’s in Public Policy or a related field.
Planting Seeds for Culture Change: Greek Life at UC Berkeley
Posted by Madelyn Dolan on Jul 23, 2019 10:00:00 AM
MOREAs a member of a sorority at UC Berkeley, I notice that institutional barriers cause inaction across several issues that pervade the Greek* system, including the issue of sustainability. In an effort to disrupt this stagnation and attack issues of waste generation, food security, lack of sustainability education, etc., I revamped a long lost club called “Greening the Greeks.” Our mission is to make sweeping cultural, infrastructural, and educational change within fraternities and sororities at UC Berkeley in ways that improve our treatment of the environment.