Jessi Gordon
Jessi Gordon – Volunteer Coordinator
Jessi is a second year graduate student working towards a masters in agricultural education with an emphasis on sustainable food production. She provides Mizzou students with service-learning opportunities in sustainability-related positions in the Columbia community, like PedNet’s Walking School Bus. Jessi also helps to oversee SPROUT, a peer education program for students who wish to learn about various sustainability topics and teach other students about these topics.
After getting her Masters, Jessi would like to work at an extension or non-profit agency. Jessi’s hobbies include crocheting, nurturing her herb garden and tending to dairy goats and the world’s cutest donkey.
Emmie Harcourt
Emmie Harcourt – Environmental Leadership Office Representative
Emmie is a junior studying anthropology. She works alongside Amy on all things bike-related and is also the Environmental Leadership Office historian. She co-coordinates the Bike Resource Center and the Bike Mechanics College all while keeping our files, documents and projects neatly organized.
Emmie hopes to find a way to incorporate her academic interest in anthropology with her love of sustainability and social justice through work in applied anthropology that benefits both human communities and the environment. That, and a lot more school! She fills her free time with vegan baking, yoga, knitting and experimental cooking.
Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill-Environmental Leadership Office Representative
Jessica is a junior studying sustainable agriculture. She is currently in training to be our office’s new “food guru” where she will address food issues on campus and strive to make a more sustainable food system here. She presently is learning how to farm with Tigers for Community Agriculture where she is growing some food that will be sold to campus dining and some also donated to the new Tiger Pantry.
Jessica’s dream is to someday help set up sustainable, self-sufficient community food systems across Missouri and teach people how to live less wastefully. She also hopes to attain some land where she can do some sustainable farming herself. In her free time she enjoys listening to NPR and KOPN talk shows, playing the violin, and improving her cooking.
Former Staff
Rose Eppensteiner
Rose Eppensteiner – Environmental Leadership Office Representative
Rose graduated in May 2012 with a bachelor of journalism, a minor in political science and a certificate in multicultural studies. Rose managed the Environmental Leadership Office website and Twitter account. She also sent out a weekly newsletter to keep Mizzou students updated on sustainability happenings at MU and in the Columbia community.
While she isn’t quite sure what the future holds, Rose would eventually like to work in public relations at an environmental nonprofit or get her law degree. In her free time, Rose enjoys traveling to far-off places, going to live music shows and reading everything from blogs to novels.
After graduating, Rose moved to Houston to serve as a Teach for America corps member where she hopes to instill her love of the environment in her middle school students.
Monica Everett
Monica Everett – Environmental Leadership Office Representative
Monica graduated in December 2012 with a degree in sustainable agriculture and a minor in rural sociology. She focused on food issues while on the Mizzou campus and has worked with multiple MU entities like Campus Dining Facilities and the Wellness Resource Center. Monica collaborated with CDS to reduce waste in the dining halls and joined forces with the Wellness Resource Center for campus farmer’s markets and Wellness Wednesdays.
Amy Eultgen
Amy Eultgen – Environmental Leadership Office Representative
Amy is in her fourth year of undergraduate studies working towards a B.S. in human environmental sciences with an emphasis in nutrition and fitness. Her work with the Environmental Leadership Office focuses on peer education about the rules, regulations and safety of bicycle transportation. These key points are demonstrated through the Bike Resource Center and the Bike Mechanics College.
Though her path ahead is currently undefined, Amy hopes the future holds an opportunity related to health education or a profession focused in physical therapy. When she’s not educating others about bicycles, she motivates young girls to achieve physical activity through running as a coach for Girls on the Run. Amy is also a TigerX yoga instructor and a research assistant for the project Playgrounds without Borders.
