- Description
- Suzanne Flaum is a Hudson Valley native who recently graduated with her Masters in Environmental Policy from Bard College, where she focused on food systems and food insecurity. She previously worked in New York residential energy efficiency programs in addition to working for a nonprofit activist group, advocating for environmental and climate change solutions at the local level. Suzanne currently lives in Kingston, NY and hopes to work within the local food insecurity space.
![About 2 years into my first “real job” out of college, I was having a weekend visit with my mother and complaining about an executive at the energy efficiency implementation […]](https://blogs.bard.edu/cepblog/files/2019/05/blog-post-leader-e1559655645706-115x115.jpg "Life Lessons in Leadership")
![My internship with Cornell Cooperative Extension Orange County’s (CCEOC) Gleaning Program came to a close at the end of December. In the five months I spent working for the Glean […]](https://blogs.bard.edu/cepblog/files/2019/01/THR_2-115x115.jpg "Farms, Food Pantries, and Food Policy: Internship Lessons")
![“When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the alien, […]](https://blogs.bard.edu/cepblog/files/2018/10/IMG_0487-e1538448202902-115x115.jpg "Biblical Practice Serves Modern Needs")
![Communities near Superfund sites are in for a rough couple of decades. We all know that climate change is steadily intensifying extreme weather events. Sea level rise and warming oceans […]](https://blogs.bard.edu/cepblog/files/2018/04/San-Jacinto-e1525025499679-115x115.jpg "Speeding Up Superfund, Cutting Out Climate Change – by Suzanne Flaum")
![This January, Bard CEP students visited the state of Oaxaca, Mexico to study watershed management and sustainable development. While traveling to the Pacific coast, we met with Omar Gabriel […]](https://blogs.bard.edu/cepblog/files/2018/02/IMG_6690-e1518807842803-115x115.jpg "Creative Conservation in Huatulco–by Suzanne Flaum")