Some dream careers are simply figments of the imagination—until they’re not.
A few years ago, Hannah Erickson (M.S. ’13), hadn’t heard of biochar. Today, she is pyrolyzing food scraps into a soil amenity for Haitian farmers. Jennifer McLaughlin (M.S. ’10) went from the Air Force to running her own solar design company. And Mimi Mather (M.S. ’02) recently left her senior post at an international design firm to start her own studio.
Every year, a handful of entrepreneurial SNRE students and graduates write their own job descriptions. Here are a few.