Contact the Career Development Office
Sage Hall
205 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511-2189, U.S.A.
Phone: 203 432-8920 Fax: 203 432-7297
E-MAIL: fescareers@yale.edu
205 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511-2189, U.S.A.
Phone: 203 432-8920 Fax: 203 432-7297
E-MAIL: fescareers@yale.edu
Peter Otis, Director
Sage Hall, Room 6 (203) 432-8920
peter.otis@yale.edu
Kathy Douglas, Associate Director
Sage Hall, Room 10 (203) 436-4830
kathryn.douglas@yale.edu
Mariann Adams, Administrative Assistant
Sage Hall, Room 9 (203) 432-5100
mariann.adams@yale.edu
Abigail Adams, Student Assistant and GeO expert, abigail.adams@yale.edu
Audrey Davenport, Peer Career Advisor, audrey.davenport@yale.edu
Shyla Raghav, Program Assistant, shyla.raghav@yale.edu
Beth Scherer, Professional Skills Modules Coordinator, elizabeth.a.scherer@yale.edu
Tien Shiao, Student Assistant and GeO expert, tien.shiao@yale.edu
Meredith Trainor, Peer Career Advisor, meredith.trainor@yale.edu
Fengyuan Wang, Program Assistant, fengyuan.wang@yale.edu
Jack Yeh, Professional Skills Modules Coordinator, jack.yeh@yale.edu
Sage Hall, Room 6 (203) 432-8920
peter.otis@yale.edu
Kathy Douglas, Associate Director
Sage Hall, Room 10 (203) 436-4830
kathryn.douglas@yale.edu
Mariann Adams, Administrative Assistant
Sage Hall, Room 9 (203) 432-5100
mariann.adams@yale.edu
Abigail Adams, Student Assistant and GeO expert, abigail.adams@yale.edu
Audrey Davenport, Peer Career Advisor, audrey.davenport@yale.edu
Shyla Raghav, Program Assistant, shyla.raghav@yale.edu
Beth Scherer, Professional Skills Modules Coordinator, elizabeth.a.scherer@yale.edu
Tien Shiao, Student Assistant and GeO expert, tien.shiao@yale.edu
Meredith Trainor, Peer Career Advisor, meredith.trainor@yale.edu
Fengyuan Wang, Program Assistant, fengyuan.wang@yale.edu
Jack Yeh, Professional Skills Modules Coordinator, jack.yeh@yale.edu
Meet Our Student Staff!
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams is a first year candidate for a Master of Environmental Management. Born and raised in Montana, she spent all of the summers of her life in Glacier National Park where her father is a seasonal bear management ranger. This experience honed her passion for wilderness management and the protection of biodiversity. She received her B.A. from Dartmouth College, majoring in Evolutionary and Environmental Biology. Prior to coming to Yale, she worked as a research assistant at the Arctic Studies Institute at Dartmouth College, assisting with research at the LTER site in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. She then joined Teach for America and taught 9th grade physical science at Leilehua High School in O'ahu, Hawai'i. At Yale, she hopes to pursue her interest in protected areas management; specifically looking at the relationship between landscape ecology and large-scale conservation management. She also hopes to incorporate environmental education in disadvantaged communities into her future work.
Abigail is is helping CDO with general support as well as maintenance of the GeO database and will offer training in its use.
Abigail is is helping CDO with general support as well as maintenance of the GeO database and will offer training in its use.
Audrey Davenport
Audrey Davenport is a third year student focusing on environmental strategy and finance. Prior to coming to Yale, she spent several years working for The Nature Conservancy’s Science & Planning Team in San Francisco on global conservation initiatives. In 2006, she completed a Fulbright Fellowship in Malaysia studying the management effectiveness of marine protected areas. She has also conducted extensive research in Tanzania on conservation and ecotourism. Most recently, she spent the summer of 2007 working for Google’s Corporate Environmental Team and the summer of 2008 working for Redstone Strategy Group on conservation and development consulting projects. Audrey is a native of Colorado and earned a BA with honors in Anthropological Sciences from Stanford University.
Audrey is conducting resume and cover letter reviews as a peer career advisor.
Audrey is conducting resume and cover letter reviews as a peer career advisor.
Shyla Raghav is a second-year MEM candidate focusing on international environmental policy. She is particularly interested in the complexities of climate change policy, the ways in which sound science can inform policy decisions, and the intersection of development and environmental policy. Shyla holds a B.S. In Applied Ecology and a B.A. In International Studies from the University of California, Irvine. As part of her undergraduate education she explored the biofuel industry in Brazil and the resulting implications for climate change mitigation. She also worked extensively on promoting sustainability on her campus through the award-winning “Green Campus Program.”
Shyla is coordinating and developing programs for CDO as well as managing the creation of the 2008-2009 resume book.
Shyla is coordinating and developing programs for CDO as well as managing the creation of the 2008-2009 resume book.
Beth Scherer is a first year student year student pursuing a Masters of Environmental Management focusing on economics and policy. Before arriving at Yale, she worked as an environmental consultant with Stratus Consulting, Inc. in Washington, DC. In this roll she conducted regulatory impact analyses and technical feasibility studies for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Stratospheric Protection Division. In addition, she helped to develop EPA's GreenChill Partnership for advanced supermarket refrigeration technology, assessed Web site usability for EPA's Office of Environmental Information, and provided logistical support for the Coastal Elevations and Sea Level Rise Federal Advisory Committee. Beth is a native of Connecticut. She holds a BA from Colby College in Economics with a minor in Environmental Studies.
Beth is beginning her first year as Professional Skills Modules coordinator.
Beth is beginning her first year as Professional Skills Modules coordinator.
Tien Shiao
Tien Shiao is a first-year Master of Environmental Management candidate focusing on international environmental law and policy and water resources. After obtaining a B.S.E. in Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and a M.S. in Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University, she worked for four years at Battelle, a research technology firm, in the Environmental Restoration Department evaluating drinking water treatment technologies for the EPA. Other notable projects included investigating and preparing an impact assessment dealing with climate change effects on naval facilities and investigating the chemical interaction of ammonia and hydrogen sulfide during carbon sequestration. After working at Battelle, she recognized that most of her projects were the direct result of policies and regulations and she needed to gain interdisciplinary knowledge in order to meaningfully identify and address environmental problems. Her current interest lies with whether specific policy solutions can be applied to help mitigate water issues/problems arising from climate change.
Tien is helping CDO with general support as well as maintenance of the GeO database and will offer training in its use.
Tien is helping CDO with general support as well as maintenance of the GeO database and will offer training in its use.
Meredith Trainor
Meredith Trainor is a first-year Master of Environmental Science candidate doing research on the potential for application of an ecosystem services approach to land use and natural resource management in rural communities. Prior to Yale Meredith worked in the non-profit sector, first as Project Coordinator for the National Geographic Society’s Center for Sustainable Destinations, and more recently as the Partnership and University Program Coordinator for the Changemakers initiative at Ashoka: Innovators for the Public. With National Geographic Meredith worked on developing the Society’s sustainable tourism program and materials, coordinated new initiatives and projects, and had the opportunity to speak nationally and internationally on behalf of the sustainable tourism program. Working with Ashoka, she focused on developing Partnership and University programming, outreach, and relationships in support of Changemakers, a web-based international collaborative competition designed to surface and support social entrepreneurs. Meredith holds twin Bachelor of Arts degrees in Environmental Studies and Political Science from Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
Meredith is conducting resume and cover letter reviews as a peer career advisor.
Meredith is conducting resume and cover letter reviews as a peer career advisor.
Fengyuan Wang
Fengyuan Wang is a second-year Masters of Environmental Management candidate focusing on corporate environmental management and sustainable industrial development. Prior to coming to Yale, he worked for the Environmental Protection Bureau in Beijing, China for three years, focused on managing international environmental cooperation projects, including the pollution control in Shichahai Lake, sustainable public transportation in Beijing, wind & sands control in Inner Mongolia, and solar energy in the 2008 Beijing Olympic village. This summer, Fengyuan interned at GE’s Corporate Environmental Program, working on ecowater benchmarking and climate risk disclosure.
Fengyuan is coordinating and developing programs for CDO with a special focus on programs for international students.
Fengyuan is coordinating and developing programs for CDO with a special focus on programs for international students.
Jack Yeh
Jack Yeh is a second year student focusing on corporate environmental strategy and energy. Prior to coming to Yale, he spent several years working in import/export and manufacturing. Jack worked in Wal-mart's Global Procurement headquarters in China, where he managed the furniture import business for the US and Canadian retail markets. At Wal-mart he also helped to pilot the "Right-Sizing" packaging campaign and the sustainable materials campaign. Most recently, he spent the summer of 2008 working with the island of Utila in Honduras and the Utila Centre for Marine Ecology, where he worked with residents and businesses to conduct energy assessments and renewable energy feasibility studies. Jack is a native of Virginia and earned a BA in Economics from Oberlin College.
Jack is beginning his second year as Professional Skills Modules coordinator.
Jack is beginning his second year as Professional Skills Modules coordinator.
Staff Bios
Stanton "Peter" Otis, Jr. - peter.otis@yale.edu
Peter Otis is the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies' first full-time Director of Career Development. The overall goal of the School's Career Development Office is to assist master's and doctoral students in charting courses that will lead them to careers fitting their interests, skills and abilities in harmony with their values. He has worked at Yale since 1994.
He has a bachelor's degree from Trinity College, Hartford, CT and a master's in counseling education from the University of New Hampshire. He served in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone as an agricultural extension agent.
Positions in higher education that he has held have included Director of Career Development at Lyndon State College in VT and Plymouth State College in NH. During his nearly 20 years at Plymouth State College, Peter also served as Personnel Director and Director of New Student Orientation and Director of International Student Affairs. In 1986 he created the first one year administrative exchange from the University System of NH that allowed him and his family to live in coastal, northern California while Peter worked at Humboldt State University in its Career Development Center.
He recently received an award for Environmental Career Counselor of the Twentieth Century, given by the Environmental Career Center of Hampton, VA.
The primary and most satisfying focus of Peter's career has been the advising and counseling of students and alumni/ae and the linking of these persons with others with mutual interests. A piece of paper attached to Peter's office door says, "If you love what you do, you get to play for the rest of your life." He believes he has been blessed with this opportunity to get paid for playing while assisting others.
Mariann Adams
Mariann Adams has been providing administrative support for CDO for ten years and has been at F&ES since 1996. She is very interested in environmentalism and the work of F&ES. Mariann is a native of Connecticut, and lives in East Haven with her husband Brian.
Kathy Douglas
Kathy Douglas has over five years of experience working in Masters and PhD-level student career services and student services at Yale, and has substantial communications, technology, design, career and professional development programming, job search coaching, and employer/alumni relations experience.
Before coming to F&ES, Kathy served as Assistant Director of the McDougal Center at Yale Graduate School, bringing nonacademic career opportunities to graduate students through Graduate Career Services; developing programs to support career development, academic writing, mentoring and professional development; and serving as advisor for the multi-media/multi-disciplinary publication, Palimpsest: Yale Literary & Arts Magazine.
Kathy holds two MFAs, one in Museum Studies from Syracuse University and one in Creative Writing and Literature from Bennington College. She has lived in New Haven for 16 years and was one of the community organizers for the Nash Street park which was created in collaboration with URI and New Haven's Livable Cities Initiative. After receiving her first MFA, she served as curator of Sagamore Lodge, and had the privilege of living in the heart of Adirondack wilderness for a year. She is still very much interested in Buckminster Fuller's call for humans to use our incredible intelligence for 'livingry' rather than weaponry, and is extremely interested in ecologically intelligent designs and strategies of all kinds.
Stanton "Peter" Otis, Jr. - peter.otis@yale.edu
Peter Otis is the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies' first full-time Director of Career Development. The overall goal of the School's Career Development Office is to assist master's and doctoral students in charting courses that will lead them to careers fitting their interests, skills and abilities in harmony with their values. He has worked at Yale since 1994.
He has a bachelor's degree from Trinity College, Hartford, CT and a master's in counseling education from the University of New Hampshire. He served in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone as an agricultural extension agent.
Positions in higher education that he has held have included Director of Career Development at Lyndon State College in VT and Plymouth State College in NH. During his nearly 20 years at Plymouth State College, Peter also served as Personnel Director and Director of New Student Orientation and Director of International Student Affairs. In 1986 he created the first one year administrative exchange from the University System of NH that allowed him and his family to live in coastal, northern California while Peter worked at Humboldt State University in its Career Development Center.
He recently received an award for Environmental Career Counselor of the Twentieth Century, given by the Environmental Career Center of Hampton, VA.
The primary and most satisfying focus of Peter's career has been the advising and counseling of students and alumni/ae and the linking of these persons with others with mutual interests. A piece of paper attached to Peter's office door says, "If you love what you do, you get to play for the rest of your life." He believes he has been blessed with this opportunity to get paid for playing while assisting others.
Mariann Adams
Mariann Adams has been providing administrative support for CDO for ten years and has been at F&ES since 1996. She is very interested in environmentalism and the work of F&ES. Mariann is a native of Connecticut, and lives in East Haven with her husband Brian.
Kathy Douglas
Kathy Douglas has over five years of experience working in Masters and PhD-level student career services and student services at Yale, and has substantial communications, technology, design, career and professional development programming, job search coaching, and employer/alumni relations experience.
Before coming to F&ES, Kathy served as Assistant Director of the McDougal Center at Yale Graduate School, bringing nonacademic career opportunities to graduate students through Graduate Career Services; developing programs to support career development, academic writing, mentoring and professional development; and serving as advisor for the multi-media/multi-disciplinary publication, Palimpsest: Yale Literary & Arts Magazine.
Kathy holds two MFAs, one in Museum Studies from Syracuse University and one in Creative Writing and Literature from Bennington College. She has lived in New Haven for 16 years and was one of the community organizers for the Nash Street park which was created in collaboration with URI and New Haven's Livable Cities Initiative. After receiving her first MFA, she served as curator of Sagamore Lodge, and had the privilege of living in the heart of Adirondack wilderness for a year. She is still very much interested in Buckminster Fuller's call for humans to use our incredible intelligence for 'livingry' rather than weaponry, and is extremely interested in ecologically intelligent designs and strategies of all kinds.
