Alyssa is a former Sustainability Intern with Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation.
Alyssa is a sustainability specialist at Burns & McDonnell, where she supports the development and delivery of sustainability services. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2019 with a BPhil in Political Science and International & Area Studies and obtained her MBA and Master of Sustainability degrees from Chatham University in 2023.
During her undergraduate studies, Alyssa served as the student sustainability coordinator for the Office of Business, Hospitality, and Auxiliary Services in addition to working as an intern for MCSI. She also participated in numerous student organizations, such as Take Back the Tap, the Fossil Free Pitt Coalition, and Students for Sensible Drug Policy. Her undergraduate thesis, titled An Exploration of System Justification in China: Public Opinion on Air Quality, investigated the global phenomenon of environmental degradation as a result of economic growth through interviews with residents in Shanghai.
As a graduate student at Chatham, Alyssa had the opportunity to work as a graduate fellow for the Pittsburgh Higher Education Climate Consortium (HECC) in support of the 2022-23 HECC strategic planning effort. Alyssa now specializes in the delivery of sustainability client services at an architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firm, which includes corporate sustainability reporting, materiality assessments, sustainability rating systems, goal setting, strategy development, and implementation of sustainability initiatives.