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The Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment offers graduate degrees and certificate programs that combine progressive theory and influential research with real-world experiences. The program hosts a variety of events that showcase and feature guests and faculty of renowned scholars and experts are deeply engaged in social, economic, and environmental issues and works actively to solve the major social and organizational challenges of our time.
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The Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment offers graduate degrees that combine progressive theory and influential research with real-world experiences. Based in New York City, Milano is a graduate school designed for pragmatic idealists who want to leverage their passion for positive social change to become transformative leaders. Our faculty of renowned scholars and experts are deeply engaged in social, economic, and environmental issues and works actively to solve the major social and organizational challenges of our time.
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Ana María Peredo, PhD, is Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of
Victoria, Canada. Prior to that, she was Professor in the School of Business (2000-
2016) and Director of the Centre for Co-operative and Community-Based Economy
(2008-2014) at UVic. She is a critical management scholar, focusing on community
alternatives, social economy, social justice and participatory action research, particularly
among Indigenous peoples and disadvantaged communities. She has published in the
areas of community-based entrepreneurship, poverty alleviation, commons and
resistance movements. Ana María has published her research in top management and
organizational journals and received numerous research, teaching and community
engagement awards.
Professor Foldy is an Associate Professor of Public and Nonprofit Management at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. She is affiliated Faculty with the Center for Gender in Organizations at the Simmons School of Management in Boston. Erica’s research addresses the question: What enables and inhibits collaboration and learning across potential divisions? She explores a variety of influences including identities, frames, learning behaviors, power dynamics, and leadership.
Erica has conducted research in a wide range of organizations, from large public agencies and community nonprofits to Fortune 500 companies, boutique firms, and health care settings. She is co-author of the book The Color Bind: Talking (and not Talking) about Race at Work and co-editor of the Reader in Gender and Organizations. In addition, she has more than forty papers in a variety of outlets, including management, public administration, psychology and medical journals, and various handbooks, encyclopedias and edited volumes.
Prior to her PhD program, Professor Foldy worked for 15 years with nonprofit organizations addressing foreign policy, women’s rights, and occupational health and safety. She has consulted on strategic planning, organization development, and diversity and inclusion to a range of groups and agencies. Erica holds a BA from Harvard College and a PhD from Boston College and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard Business School and a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.
Elizabeth Yeampierre is an internationally recognized Puerto Rican environmental/climate justice leader of African and Indigenous ancestry, born and raised in New York City. Elizabeth is co-chair of the Climate Justice Alliance, a national frontline led organization and Executive Director of UPROSE, Brooklyn's oldest Latino community-based organization. Elizabeth was the 1st Latina Chair of the USEPA National Environmental Justice Advisory Council and opening speaker for the first White House Council on Environmental Quality Forum on Environmental Justice under Obama and recently featured in NY Times as a visionary paving the path to Climate Justice. She recently was named by Apolitical as Climate 100: The World’s Most Influential People in Climate Policy and a recipient of the Frederick Douglass Abolitionist Award FD200.
