Georgia Tech Sustainability Champion: August 2024

Arianna Robinson, Assistant Director, Business Operations and Sustainability Educator

Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business

Arianna Robinson, Assistant Director of Business Operations and Sustainability Educator in the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business, is the August 2024 Georgia Tech Sustainability Champion.

About Arianna

During her 10-year career at Georgia Tech, Arianna has been instrumental in the success of the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business at the Scheller College of Business. In her current role as assistant director of business operations, she executes, coordinates, and supports the Center’s strategic projects, events, and ongoing programs and initiatives. She also manages the Center’s finances, its marketing and communications strategy, and its human resource activities.

She has been involved in starting some of Georgia Tech’s most recognizable sustainable business programs and initiatives including the Drawdown Georgia Business Compact; the MBA (STEM) Sustainability Concentration; the Sustainable Business Certificate; and the Sustainability Fellows and Ambassadors Program. Arianna supports reporting of sustainability-related information for the various MBA Rankings and launched the Scheller College DEI Book Discussion Group.

Arianna also goes above and beyond as a sustainability educator and mentor. She is the staff advisor to the Blacks in Business and Net Impact graduate student organizations; she has co-taught a Sustainable Development Goal-focused course for the Global Leadership Living Learning Community at Georgia Tech; and she has served as a mentor for the Serve-Learn-Sustain Sustainable Communities Summer Internship Program. Arianna brings her passion for racial equity, social justice, and well-being to everything she does and is always willing to collaborate across the Institute.

From the nomination: “Arianna’s commitment to the Center and to making the world a better place is admirable. Her ability to think ahead and constantly look for what is needed in the long term makes her an incredible asset to our team and the Georgia Tech Community, I am honored to be her colleague.”

Q&A

Q: Title:

A: Assistant Director, Business Operations

Q: How long have you been at Georgia Tech?

A: 10 years

Q: What does sustainability mean to you and/or why is it important?

A: I look at sustainability as a desired state of well-being for people, the planet, and their peaceful co-existence. It’s important because it can guide decision making, from indiviuals to nation states, on practices and policies that balance economic goals with responsible consumption and societal benefits.

Q: What is your favorite quote (sustainability related or not)?

A: Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Q: What is your favorite daily sustainability practice?

A: My favorite daily practice would be meditation. I believe the connection between mental health and sustainability/susatinable development is grievously overlooked.

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August 2024: Georgia Tech Sustainability Champion