Live Green! Leadership Team

We are excited to introduce the 2023-2024 Live Green! Leadership Team. Together, we are committed to providing education, engagement and empowerment opportunities to make Iowa State University as green and sustainable as possible for all students, faculty and staff. Please contact us with your ideas and questions, or sign up for our e-mail list to stay in the loop with announcements, volunteer opportunities and more. We look forward to working with you!

E-mail: livegreen@iastate.edu

 

Director of Sustainability

Merry Rankin

Alumna Class of 1987 and 1998
Hometown: Attica, IA
Favorite Sustainability Quote:
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.” Aldo Leopold

Contact:

Merry Rankin, Director of Sustainability
Iowa State University
700 Wallace Road
108 General Services Building
Ames, IA 50011-4013
515-294-5052 Office
515-294-4593 Fax
mrankin@iastate.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sustainability Coordinator

Noah Weber

Graduate Student in Architecture and Real Estate Development
Hometown: Brandon, SD
Favorite Sustainability Quote:
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi

Contact:

Noah Weber, Sustainability Coordinator
Iowa State University
700 Wallace Road
108 General Services Building
Ames, IA 50011-4013
nrweber@iastate.edu

 

 

Student Intern Leadership Team

Grayson Adickes

Campus and Community Engagement Intern
Senior, Environmental Science
Hometown: San Diego, CA
Email: gadickes@iastate.edu
Favorite Sustainability Quote:
“Every individual has a place to fill in this world and is important in some respect whether they choose to be so or not” Nathaniel Hawthorne

Saumya Balaji

Campus and Community Engagement Intern
Sophomore, Environmental Science and Global Resource Systems 
Hometown: Johnston, IA
Email: sbalaji@iastate.edu
Favorite Sustainability Quote:
“In nature’s economy, currency is not money-  it is life” Dr. Vandana Shiva

Grant Buresh

Smart Business Challenge Intern
Senior, Global Resource Systems and Environmental Studies
Hometown: Clive, IA
Email: grburesh@iastate.edu
Favorite Sustainability Quote:
“The best way to predict the future is to design it” Buckminster Fuller

 

Madeline Judas

Marketing and Communications Intern
Senior, Advertising with a minor in Psychology
Hometown: Johnston, IA
Email: mpjudas@iastate.edu
Favorite Sustainability Quote:
“We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to.” Terry Swearingen

Angela Lorenz

Social Media Engagement Intern
Senior, Advertising
Hometown: Park Ridge, IL
Email: amlorenz@iastate.edu
Favorite Sustainability Quote:
“We can’t just consume our way into a more sustainable world.”

Shelby Nechkash

Smart Business Challenge Intern
Senior, Agricultural Studies
Hometown: Highland, WI
Email: nechkash@iastate.edu
Favorite Sustainability Quote:
“Only the mountian has lived long enough to listen objectivly to the howl of the wolf” Aldo Leopold

Leah Zuber

Marketing and Communications Intern
Senior, Graphic Design
Hometown: Marengo, IA
Email: lkzuber@iastate.edu
Favorite Sustainability Quote:
“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.” Robert Swan