Leith
Sharp
Director, Harvard
Green Campus Initiative
Leith Sharp directs the Harvard Green Campus Initiative, an interfaculty effort that works to establish an integrated commitment to environmental sustainability throughout Harvard by becoming a ‘learning organization’ and a living laboratory for the pursuit of campus environmental sustainability - www.greencampus.harvard.edu. Leith is also co-instructor of a course offered through the Harvard Extension School, Sustainability – The Challenge of Changing Our Institutions.
Leith is an Australian environmental engineer who has worked with universities over the last 10 years to achieve organizational change in the pursuit of environmental sustainability. Leith recently finished her Master of Education in human development and psychology at Harvard University. In 1998 Leith was awarded Young Australian of the Year, NSW Environment Category, for her work in promoting environmental management within Australian Universities. In 1999 she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to research best practice in university environmental management throughout Europe and the USA. In 2002, Leith was awarded most outstanding paper for her contribution to the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education.