Episode 33: Changing the Climate for Women - Abena Sackey Ojetayo

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Abena Sackey Ojetayo, Chief Resilience Officer and Director, City of Tallahassee

Abena Sackey Ojetayo, Chief Resilience Officer and Director, City of Tallahassee

Guest: Abena Sackey Ojetayo
Chief Resilience Officer and Director, City of Tallahassee

Host: Kaia Findlay
Production Assistant, Campus Energy and Sustainability Podcast

This is the fourth and final episode in our “Changing the Climate for Women” series, which focuses on women’s experiences in sustainability, energy and facilities. Short series is hosted by Kaia Findlay, podcast production assistant, and special guest hosts.

In this episode, Kaia talks with Abena Sackey Ojetayo, chief resilience officer and director for the City of Tallahassee, Florida. We talked about her childhood in Ghana and her sustainability projects in Florida. We also discussed code-switching and the ways that age, race and gender can place pressure on people in the workforce.

In her role with the City of Tallahassee, Abena brings together a number of departments including sustainability, resilience, code enforcement, and housing and human services to produce creative solutions for the people they serve. She has also worked in Ghana and at Cornell University, where she studied engineering.

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Episode 31: Changing the Climate for Women - Krista Murphy

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Krista Murphy, Principal, Affiliated Engineers, Inc.

Krista Murphy, Principal, Affiliated Engineers, Inc.

Guest: Krista Murphy
Principal, Affiliated Engineers, Inc.

Host: Kaia Findlay
Production Assistant, Campus Energy and Sustainability Podcast

Welcome to the Campus Energy and Sustainability Podcasts’ first short-episode series! Each month, we’ll release a half-hour episode based on a pertinent theme in the sustainability sphere, collecting a variety of opinions and viewpoints on important issues throughout the series. Our first theme is “Changing the Climate for Women,” and will focus on women’s experiences in sustainability, energy and facilities. Short series will be hosted by Kaia Findlay, podcast production assistant, and special guest hosts.

Krista Murphy has long had a passion for engineering. She studied architectural engineering in school, honed her skills in project management and now works as a principal at Affiliated Engineers, Inc., in San Francisco. Her experience as a leader in the engineering field led her to take on leadership in another aspect of her life, one where she speaks up for other women in the workplace. 

In this episode, host Kaia Findlay and Krista talk about the challenges that women and other minorities face in engineering, how to deal with the uncomfortable situations that arise because of those challenges, and how mentors that advocate for their mentees can play a crucial role in keeping women in the field. 

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Episode 29: Changing the Climate for Women - Kayla Dawson

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Kayla Dawson, Professional Engineer

Kayla Dawson, Professional Engineer

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Kayla Dawson
Professional Engineer

Host: Sarah Barr
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Welcome to the Campus Energy and Sustainability Podcasts’ first short-episode series! Each month, we’ll release a half-hour episode based on a pertinent theme in the sustainability sphere, collecting a variety of opinions and viewpoints on important issues throughout the series. Our first theme is “Changing the Climate for Women,” and will focus on women’s experiences in sustainability, energy and facilities. Short series will be hosted by Kaia Findlay, podcast manager, and special guest hosts.

As an engineer, there’s nothing Kayla Dawson finds more frustrating than seeing a problem and being unable to solve it. But in environments where biases - whether they be regarding gender, leadership styles, or communication preferences - influence behavior, she sees this happening all too often. 

In this episode, Kayla and host Sarah Barrr discuss how dominant, “status quo” leadership and mentorship styles favor certain groups of people, and how breaking down that status quo can pave the way for women and other minorities to relax and feel comfortable in the workplace and leading the change necessary to address climate change. Kayla also talks about embracing personal limitations and using them to strengthen communication and collaboration with a work team instead of letting them turn into liabilities.. In this second episode of our ‘Changing the Climate for Women’ series, Kayla gives the insight that it’s not only diversity that matters at the workplace table -- it’s making sure diverse voices are heard, accepted and uplifted.

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Episode 28: Twenty Years of Sustainability with Anne Eskridge at the University of Washington

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Anne Eskridge, Director of Transportation Services, University of Washington

Anne Eskridge, Director of Transportation Services, University of Washington

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Anne Eskridge
Director of Transportation Services, University of Washington

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Dave Karlsgodt
Principal, Fovea, LLC

If you travel by car to visit the University of Washington, your transportation choice will be a minority of those on campus. About 81 percent of the university community travels by transit, by foot, by bike and by carpooling. Even with a high number of people taking sustainable transportation, director of transportation services Anne Eskridge has big hopes for an even more sustainable future at the university. 

In this episode, host Dave Karlsgodt interviews Anne about her more than twenty years of sustainability experience. Anne reflects on waste, water, electric vehicles, electric bikes and regional transportation partnerships. She discusses how to benefit both the planet and the pocketbook and gives advice to future sustainability leaders. She shares not only her sustainability knowledge, but entertaining and powerful anecdotes about her father’s experiences with salmon fishing in the Puget Sound, the role of psychology in the field of sustainability and her background as an auctioneer (listen all the way to the end of the episode to get a sample of her auctioneering talent).

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Episode 26: Changing the Climate for Women - Bonny Bentzin

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Bonny Bentzin, Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer at UCLA

Bonny Bentzin, Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer at UCLA

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Bonny Bentzin
Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer, UCLA

Host: Sarah Barr
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Welcome to the Campus Energy and Sustainability Podcasts’ first short-episode series! Each month, we’ll release a half-hour episode based on a pertinent theme in the sustainability sphere, collecting a variety of opinions and viewpoints on important issues throughout the series. Our first theme is “Changing the Climate for Women,” and will focus on women’s experiences in sustainability, energy and facilities. Short series will be hosted by Kaia Findlay, podcast manager, and special guest hosts.

What if, to get ahead at work, you were told that you not only had to work hard and show up to your desk on time, but that you also had to wear pastels and not stand in doorways?

This is some of the strange advice Bonny Bentzin, deputy chief of sustainability at UCLA, has received as a woman working in her field. In this episode, Bonny discusses her experiences and her observations of gender at play in the workplace with host Sarah Barr. Their conversation sheds light on the challenges and triumphs women experience in teamwork, communication and leadership.

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