The Sustainability Office has extended the deadline to join our first ever Employee Peer Educator Program on Sustainability!! New deadline to join is Oct 28, 2022. Nominate yourself and/or colleagues who want to enact change today!

We invite you to join a cohort of staff and faculty peer educators who serve as leaders for their area and build a wider sphere of influence on sustainability topics such as waste, energy, environmental justice, transportation, purchasing, & water, among others across campus!

Incentives for participants include $500 to be issued at the completion of the program/school year (taxable per payroll deductions such as medicare and personal withholdings; this will show up as taxable income on W2’s and will not be counted toward retirement calculations), a program sweatshirt or T-shirt, and a monthly catered lunch.

Peer educators will be expected to commit one hour per week minimum to the program via a combination of one-on-one consultation, training lectures, field trips, participation in workshops, focused time to create educational materials, green lunchtimes, implementation of educational material, and deployment of new ideas. Meeting times will be held on Fridays 11am- noon, with additional content offered (attendance optional) Wednesdays noon- 1pm. **The anticipated start date for this program is now November 4th, 2022. The full schedule of events and activities will be shared in the first session.** 

Applicants should submit their interest or nomination to Katie Koscielak, sustainability analyst, at kmk928@humboldt.edu no later than October 28, 2022 (please include "employee educators" in the subject line).

Letters of interest could include:

• Why do you want to become a sustainability employee peer educator?

• What are some potential opportunities for improvement you have observed in your department, office, or area of campus?

• What are some initial ideas you have for change within your peer group and/or office?

Department leads will need to approve a minimum of one hour of release time per week for this work. This approval may be submitted as a letter of support with the initial letter of interest or when not submitted in the initial application, the Sustainability Office will seek this approval before final decisions are made on the participant list. 

Learn more about the details of this program here and direct any questions to Katie Koscielak at kmk928@humboldt.edu. Please feel free to share this announcement with any Cal Poly Humboldt staff or faculty member who may be interested in applying to join the program. 

Thank for your time and consideration,

Cal Poly Sustainability Staff & Green Campus Student Assistants

Lead program coordinator: Katie Koscielak, kmk928@humboldt.edu