Workshop: Role of the EM in the Host Community
April 2, 2009 by Brian Butler | Filed under: In the host community [1, 4]
This workshop will be moderated by M. Ann Howard. The topics of discussion for this workshop will be:
• The expectations of the profession regarding the responsibilities of the environmental manager to the community that hosts his or her company?
• The appropriate role of the environmental manager in participating in guiding and directing his or her organization with respect to its obligation to the public good of the host community?
M. Ann Howard is professor in Public Policy and Science, Technology
and Society at Rochester Institute of Technology. She is the
Coordinator for RIT’s Science, Technology and Society program and a
member of the teaching faculty in RIT’s Environmental Science
program. She is the Coordinator for RIT’s Honors Colloquium on
Citizenship, and Democracy.
Professor Howard’s areas of interest include environmental law and
policy, sustainable communities and community development, and civic
engagement in community and environmental decision-making. In
addition to her work at RIT, she also serves as a community
involvement/civic engagement consultant for a number of public and
private sector organizations.
Professor Howard received a BS from Cornell University and a JD from
Rutgers University School of Law and is a member of the New York Bar.