Lauralee Barbaria Featured

Lauralee Barbaria is the Director of the Green MBA program at Dominican University of California, overseeing curriculum, outreach, and faculty recruitment. She also serves as Senior Advisor for the Environmental Finance Center for Region 9 (EFC9).  Her work for EFC9 includes a financial analysis of alternative technologies to promote jobs and development for the Torres Martinez Indian Tribe and co-authoring  A California Green Plan: Making the Case for Business, commissioned by The Fred Gellert Family Foundation. She is currently co-authoring two chapters for a United Nations Guidebook focusing on alternative financing mechanisms to promote environmental and social justice in developing countries. Recently she has worked on projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Africa and participated as a delegate to the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen, representing the League of Women Voters.  Lauralee holds an M.B.A. in Sustainable Enterprise from Dominican, and a B.A. from San Francisco State University.

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What people are saying about the GreenMBA

"Learning how to "breakdown" a project has been a fabulous tool for me in business.  I am a Facilities/Project Manager by training and have to think "systemically" in my daily work day, however, getting fully engaged in a "project" for class and working on a "team" project takes you deeper into the process.  How to use systemics and critical thinking in determining whether a project is ready "for the street" or whether it needs to be drilled deeper to get the core of what will make it successful.  It's a study in chaos and systems planning.  I find myself thinking about who will be my next "test case" - or victim!!!"

Linda L. Schanfein
Cohort B
GYMBA