Dr. Julie Newman is Director of Sustainability at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She also holds a lecturer appointment with the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and has co-taught a course entitled “Solving for Carbon Neutrality at MIT” for the past six years. Prior to joining MIT in 2013, she served as the founding Director of Yale University’s Office of Sustainability, where she developed one of the first comprehensive sustainability strategies in the United States. She also worked as a lecturer at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Her professional journey began at the University of New Hampshire, where she launched one of the earliest campus sustainability programs in the country in 1997. In 2004 Julie Newman established the Northeast Campus Sustainability Consortium, which has since become the longest-standing active network of university sustainability professionals in the United States. The consortium advances education and action for sustainable development on university campuses in the northeastern and maritime regions. Julie Newman holds a Ph.D. in Natural Resources and Environmental Studies. Her academic research focuses on how institutions and communities can collaborate to drive environmental change. She has concentrated her work on reimagining how energy, water, food, and mobility systems can be designed in a campus-city partnership model.