Live Green! Leadership Team
We are excited to introduce the 2024-2025 Live Green! Leadership Team. Together, we are committed to providing education, engagement and empowerment opportunities to make Iowa State University as green and sustainable as possible for all students, faculty and staff. Please contact us with your ideas and questions, or sign up for our e-mail list to stay in the loop with announcements, volunteer opportunities and more. We look forward to working with you!
E-mail: livegreen@iastate.edu
Director of Sustainability
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Merry RankinAlumna Class of 1987 and 1998Hometown: Attica, IAFavorite Sustainability Quote:“It always seems impossible until it is done.” Nelson MandelaContact:Merry Rankin, Director of Sustainability |
Sustainability Coordinators
 | Madison FellerGraduate Student in ArchitectureHometown: Minneapolis, MNFavorite Sustainability Quote:“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” Native American ProverbContact:Madison Feller, Sustainability Coordinator |
 | Noah WeberGraduate Student in Architecture and Real Estate DevelopmentHometown: Brandon, SDFavorite Sustainability Quote:“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” Dr. SeussContact:Noah Weber, Sustainability Coordinator |
Sustainability Benchmarking and Reporting Graduate Assistant
 | Elizabeth SmithGraduate Student in Community & Regional Planning and Sustainable AgricultureFavorite Sustainability Quote:“Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.” Jean-Paul Richter |
Student Intern Leadership Team
 | Julia BiehlCampus and Community Engagement InternJunior, Agricultural CommunicationFavorite Sustainability Quote:“We must plant the seeds of change, and nurture them daily through our actions and choices.” Kari Martinez |
 | Madelynn DakeMarketing and Communications InternJunior, Graphic DesignFavorite Sustainability Quote:“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.” Robert Swan |
 | Ella EhlersMarketing and Communications InternSenior, JournalismFavorite Sustainability Quote:“The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.” Ross Perot |
 | Sarah LusterCampus and Community Engagement InternSenior, Environmental ScienceFavorite Sustainability Quote:“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” Edmund Burke |
 | Grace RoweSocial Media Engagement InternSenior, Public RelationsFavorite Sustainability Quote: |