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Sean Vormwald, president and founder of Sustainable Transitions Inc., has worked on organizational sustainability projects for over nine years, beginning as an environmental intern with the Ithaca College Resource and Environmental Management Program.

Since then, Sean has worked as a professional organizer with the Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group, the Fund for Public Interest Research, and the New York Public Interest Research Group, where he successfully managed dozens of sustainability-focused public outreach campaigns. These included public policy campaigns related to increasing renewable energy, promoting recycling, addressing power plant pollution, and other environmental issues.

Sean has been involved with many sustainability-related non-profits including Sustainable Tompkins, the Green Resource Hub of the Finger Lakes, the Lime Hollow Center for Environment and Culture, and Ten Thousand Villages. He also currently serves on the City of Ithaca Local Action Plan Committee, where he assists municipal officials with implementing the city's greenhouse gas reduction plan.

In addition to receiving an undergraduate degree in environmental studies, Sean earned a master's degree in communications from Ithaca College, where his coursework focused on sustainability-related public relations, social marketing, and educational outreach. He also worked as an associate director in the office of alumni relations at Ithaca College, where he was responsible for planning and implementing many of the college's donor events. Sean also served as the Ithaca College liaison to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the international body that oversees the Kyoto Protocol, during his time at the college. In fall 2008 he taught an international climate change policy class at Ithaca College.

Sean is currently Director of Sustainability at Onondaga Community College and a PhD student in the environmental communication and participatory processes program at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

Sean Vormwald attending the United Nations
Climate Conference at the UN Office in Nairobi, Kenya.
Photo taken by Garry Thomas.

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