Mentor: Raymond Lodato, Associate Instructional Professor, Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization (CEGU)
McKenzie Toomey is a third-year student majoring in Chemistry and Business Economics at the University of Chicago. She has previously worked as a Climate Action Planning intern with a non-profit named Sustainability Ambassadors, where she designed a video series on the City of Bellevue’s Environmental Stewardship Plan and executed an additional series on green building practices like geothermal ground loops and air-source heat pumps. McKenzie is excited to continue her work with Professor Lodato by supporting his research and preparation of an Environmental Policy textbook this summer. She plans to carry the research skills and environmental knowledge gained into her future career at the intersection of sustainability and finance.