Dartmouth Events

Please join us for Environmental Changemakers, a speaker series featuring individuals working on environmental and sustainable issues. We will be bringing in several guest speakers who will share the work they’re doing in energy, water, food, conservation, environmental justice, and more, while also offering students insight into their career paths and how they got to where they are today. Each event will be held over Zoom on Wednesdays at 5pm EDT, starting with a moderated Q&A before being opened up to the crowd for questions. 

Serving as the New York State Director for The Trust for Public Land (TPL) since 2017, Carter Strickland leads a team that protects open space and builds parks and playgrounds around New York. Under his leadership, TPL has tripled its development of parks within NYC; launched a 175-mile trail across Long Island; and protected key landscapes around the Appalachian Trail and Long Path. Over a 25-year environmental career, Strickland has worked as an attorney at the New York Attorney General’s office, where he prosecuted polluters and defended environmental laws. He has represented environmental groups at the Rutgers Environmental Law Clinic in New Jersey. Working for the City of New York, Strickland created campaigns that resulted in the $2.4 billion NYC Green Infrastructure program, the NYC Clean Heat initiative, and the NYC Wastewater Resiliency Plan. He oversaw programs related to natural disaster response, infrastructure planning and construction, water quality, air quality, climate change, land use, ecological restoration, and energy. Later at HDR, a national architecture/environmental engineering firm, Strickland’s projects included a resilient energy program for key sectors in the Hunts Points neighborhood of the Bronx; a study to reduce greenhouse gases from the NYC building sector; and senior consulting for cities, utilities, and clients concerned about sustainability. Strickland taught environmental and land use law at Fordham and Rutgers Law Schools and he currently teaches graduate courses on sustainability management and infrastructure development at Columbia University and New York University.