CESR Undergraduate Stories
- Last month, students in the SRE Certificate program at Leeds spent a morning preparing meals for our unhoused neighbors and delivering them, along with other essentials, to people living along Boulder Creek. This event was CESR
- Amy Halvorson (MGMT, ’10) has worked on sustainability for large companies like Cargill and Starbucks for almost a decade. She credits her education from Leeds, including classes like Leadership Challenges (CESR 4000), and
- Zhenghua “Z” Yang (Fin, SRE ’14) is the Founder and CEO of Serenity Forge, a values-driven video game development company based in Boulder. He was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2020. His games have saved lives, helped kids learn rocket science
- Sarah Reice (Fin, SRE'18) is the Sustainability Manager for Anthropologie and was named to the 2024 GreenBiz 30 Under 30 list. We recently spoke with her about how the Social Responsibility and Ethics (SRE) Certificate shaped her career,
- Before I joined Leeds, I was a high school teacher. Whenever I told people my profession, they looked at me like I was missing some brain cells — you willingly hang out with teenagers!? Yep! I have always loved spending time with
- For the third year running, CESR has announced the 2024 winners of the Impact Business Buff Awards, a student and faculty driven award that recognizes the members of the Leeds community who inspire excellence in sustainability and social
- Featured on the 2023 edition of GreenBiz’s 30 under 30 list is Leeds School of Business alum and Sustainability Manager for The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated, Lauren Morrell Kotze. GreenBiz, a prominent media and events platform that emphasizes
- Lorna Christoff, Undergraduate Faculty Impact Business Buff Award Winner Lorna Christoff (Intl Bus ‘98), assistant teaching professor in the Social Responsibility
- Shiao June Yuan, Undergraduate Impact Business Buff Award Winner June Yuan (Fin., Ops. Mgmt., SRE ‘23) is one of this year’s Impact Business Buff Award winners. Her peers nominated and selected Yuan because her
- Sena Kavi (Mktg., '26) is a CESR Student worker who wrote this piece to illustrate her own experience with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEI & B), and how, based on her personal story, she views it as a powerful tool in the