Mid-career specialist in urban sustainability or environmental justice and advocacy sought as a visiting practitioner at the Colin Powell Center. Deadline to apply: April 6, 2012

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The Colin L. Powell Center in Leadership and Service seeks a mid-career specialist in urban sustainability or environmental justice and advocacy to participate at the Center for the 2012–2013 academic year. Leaders in residence at the Center are professionals with subject matter expertise in one of the Center's key outreach areas (education, health/health care/ economic and community development, and the environment). Leaders in residence engage and mentor the Center's student fellows, and guide the professional development activities and applied research projects of the fellows in the Partners for Change program.

Candidates are requested to submit an application that focuses on, but is not limited to one of the following subject areas: sustainable and efficient energy technologies; sustainable transportation and urban infrastructure; sustainable urban design and planning; green collar and green energy workforce development training; education for sustainability (K-16); environmental entrepreneurship and sustainable business; environmental policy and planning; or environmental justice, advocacy and environmental public health. 

Applicants who hold full-time positions in the field are encouraged to apply; scheduling of activities can be flexible enough to accommodate individuals who are working full time.

Leaders in Residence for 2011–2012 are Dr. Alwyn Cohall, director of the Harlem Health Promotion Center, who is working in the area of health care in Harlem and Allison Palmer, director of the New Settlements College Access Center in the Bronx, who is working in the area of education, specifically improving college access and success.