About Patrick Margherio

Patrick Margherio

GTS Mentor

“Higher Education can, and should, be more than sitting in a classroom memorizing facts. Students have the capability and creativity to be huge change makers on their campus and in the community. I want to help them develop the skills necessary to make those changes.”

-Patrick Margherio

Experience:

From 2006-2010 I was involved with, and ran, the student organization Sustain Mizzou at the University of Missouri. As part of our work on campus we focused on leadership development and student activism in sustainability. We passed a $1 per student per semester sustainability fee, hosted the first annual state-wide student sustainability conference, and worked on a variety of sustainable projects ranging from making recycled notebooks to running the recycling program at the Mizzou home football games.

In 2009 I worked with other students across Missouri to form the Missouri Student Environmental Coalition, a state-

wide network of students working on sustainability initiatives. I also began working for the Mizzou Sustainability Office in its first year helping to plug-in students to projects and conducting the first campus green house gas emissions report. During my final semester at Mizzou I ran an energy conservation competition called Mizzou Dashboard that utilized an energy dashboard to display building energy use and

educate students about energy consumption and conservation.

Currently I am working for Princeton Energy Systems, an energy consultant and engineering firm based out of Philadelphia. We work with commercial, government, and campus clients to