CORE LEADERSHIP TEAM

Our group includes a broad range of U-M faculty and staff, a core group of whom are listed here.

SEAS = School for Environment and Sustainability
LSA = College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
PitE = Program in the Environment
CoE = College of Engineering

Kevin Self
CoE Alumni, former SVP Strategy, Business Development & Government Relations, Schneider Electric

Knute Nadelhoffer Professor Emeritus, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, LSA Director (retired) UM Biological Station 2003-2020

Larry Junck
Professor, Neurology, Medical School 

Tom Porter
Executive in Residence, Retired, Ross School of Business

Richard Rood
Professor Emeritus, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, CoE

Jane Vogel
LSA, retired Ford manager

Sara Soderstrom
SEAS Professor and Director of PitE

Mia Terek
VCN Communications Director, SEAS Grad Student

ORGANIZATION BACKGROUND AND CORE VALUES

The Voices for Carbon Neutrality (VCN ) was launched in April 2018 following the first Carbon Neutrality Conference held at the University of Michigan, which was organized by the Energy Institute and Professor Adam Simon with his “Clean Wolverine” students. The Greenhouse Gas benchmark data presented at the conference and a White Paper were then sent to President Schlissel and the Regents. Partnering with community stakeholders with common values, being relentlessly optimistic and persistent to get to ‘yes,’ driving decision making with best available science, representing the entire university community, and collaborating with mutual respect are VCN’s core values.

U-M STUDENT AFFILIATES

Our group works with student groups as well, who can be found here: