Work defines us. One of the first “get-to-know-you” questions people will ask is, “What do you do?” An individual’s social status is determined largely by factors stemming from his or her career success, and our entire educational system is built around making us contributing members of society. And while a great career can be financially […]
Monique Cribbs – career exploration and development manager, Metropolitan Community College (www.mccneb.edu) What are the best resources locally and online for our local workforce to advance their careers? We partner with the Nebraska Department of Labor, and we utilize their NE Works website (neworks.nebraska.gov). The reason we do so is because first of all, the […]
Patrick Leahy – director of planning, research & innovation – healthcare studio & strategy team at Holland Basham Architects What drew you to your particular field? When I was young, in college, and I found out more about it, what I liked about it is that it was always changing, the multiple skill sets, and […]
Buf Reynolds – fashion designer What drew you to your particular field? It was something I always appreciated. I loved shopping, I loved looking at clothes and style and how things were worn. I remember seeing a fashion show in kindergarten, and I couldn’t look away from it; it was just the coolest thing. When […]
Jed Moulton – urban design manager for the City of Omaha What drew you to your particular field? I’ve always been drawn to very large, messy, complicated problems. Because I’m ultimately an optimist, I feel that through applying yourself to any problem we can come up with solution…I’m equally fascinated with the political process and […]
Drew Davies – owner/design director of Oxide Design Co. and national co-president of AIGA What drew you to your particular field? I didn’t know graphic design existed as an actual thing until my sophomore year in college. But looking back, even as a young child I was always fascinated by icons, symbols, logos, and the […]
Jeff Day – Omaha-based principal of Min | Day architecture practice and MOD furniture company; director of the architecture program at University of Nebraska-Lincoln What drew you to your particular field? It really goes back to when I was really young. I used to make things, I used to draw quite a lot; it was […]
Jane Kleeb – founder and executive director of Bold Nebraska (boldnebraska.org) What role do you and your organization play in sustainability? At Bold, we see ourselves as bringing citizen participation to sustainability; democracy and citizen participation is at the core of everything Bold does, making sure there is a more diverse and independent voice in […]
Larry Hopp – director of the Creighton University Energy Technology program (creighton.edu/ccas/energytechnologyprogram), and a civil engineer with 40 years of industry experience What role do you and your organization play in sustainability? I would like to start with the definition of sustainability. From my perspective, “sustainability” is a little bit like “green”, and there are […]
W. Cecil Steward – founder, president and CEO of the Joslyn Institute for Sustainable Communities (ecospheres.com) What role do you and your organization play in sustainability? I founded the nonprofit in 1996 when I was still dean of architecture at UNL and I founded it out of a perception that unless there was a steady […]
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