About the Fund
The Edna Bailey Sussman Fund is a trust fund set up by the late Margaret L. Sussman of New York City. This fund was established to make awards for environmental internships to students focusing their studies in environmental subjects. SNRE students are eligible to apply for Sussman internship funding if they are in good academic standing, will be interning in the US, and will continue their education in the fall. Funding amounts are typically $5,800 per student.
How to Apply
The application deadline for 2010 funding is Wednesday, January 13th at 5pm. We are now accepting applications. To view what is required to apply, click Apply Now to view the application materials.
Completed Internships Supported by the Sussman Fund
Michael S. Jastremski interned with the Manlius Greenspace Coalition.
M’Lis Bartlett
M’Lis Bartlett interned with The Council on the Environment of NYC. 2007 internship
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Justin Heslinga
Justin L. Heslinga interned with the U.S. Geological Survey.
Rebekah VanWieren interned with the Genesee Institute.
Susan Lorenz
Susan E. Lorenz interned for the Environmental Protection Agency, Region 3.
Terri Schroeder interned with the Environmental Law and Policy Center.
Allison Krueger
While working for SFPT, Allison documented and analyized the environmental benefits associated with Street Parks in the city of San Francisco.
Lauren Lesch
As the Growing Hope Community Outreach and Education Fellow, Lauren Lesch was responsible for the creation and design of educational and outreach materials.
This internship provided Siddharth Nag an opportunity to practice and participate in environmental legal actions. He drafted legal documents for current actions, preformed legal research, and wrote legal memorandums for internal staff use.
Nerissa Rujanavech
Nerissa Rujanavech interned with The Nature Conservancy Colorado and was responsible for the development of a conservation plan for a 1.3 million acre grassland in southeastern Colorado.
Laura Palombi
In this internship Laura Palombi engaged and coordinated internal and external stakeholders to develop energy efficiency financing programs for the City of Ann Arbor's Energy Office.
Sarah Tomsky’s internship provided a wide variety of experiences relating to environmental policy and planning at the regional and national level.
Sara Turner interned with the City of Cambridge's Department of Public Works. Her internship allowed her to advance her planting design knowledge and skills. She designed a demonstration rain garden for the City of Cambridge and presented the design to a public committee. Besides design work she completed an inventory of park trees in GIS that helped catalog park trees for the City Arborist.
Nicholas Parker came to the Wilderness Society to work on a project that dealt with potential losses in the value of ecosystem services in the Sierra Nevada due to global warming. His principal tasks included researching the current state of the science on economic valuation of ecosystem goods and services, devising potential methods for downscaling an existing model of a few large “bioregions” across the U.S., and searching for databases that could prove useful to a downscaled model. Nicholas worked independently, for the most part, with occasional communication with a small team o
Amy Samples
Amy Samples interned with The Nature Conservancy. The internship was dedicated to analyzing the impact of recent conservation efforts on conservation outcomes.
