By Madison Phelan; Edited by Sandi Ruddick I recently spoke with Rumya Velu about her experience with the Longhorn Impact Fellowship at Texas, or LIFT. Rumya is in her second cohort with LIFT and serves as the Team Lead for the EnerSys team. She was also chosen as a recipient…

Written by Madison Phelan; Edited by Sandi Ruddick I recently spoke with McCombs alum and current advisor for ESG Strategy, Governance, & Reporting for Dell, Allison Napier. Allie was heavily involved in GSLI events and opportunities during her time as an MBA student at McCombs. She was involved with MIINT…

Written by Madison Phelan; Edited by Sandi Ruddick I had the pleasure of speaking with Katrina Parkey, a consultant for TIP Strategies and a former 2019 Longhorn Impact Fellowship at Texas (LIFT) participant. Now joining LIFT again as a mentor for the teams, she is looking forward to this new…

Written by Madison Phelan and edited by Sandi Ruddick The Sustainability Investment Group (SIG) at The University of Texas at Austin is a student organization where Longhorns can come together to learn, discuss, and create impactful change through finance and business. SIG is the first sustainability investing group at UT…

by Madison Phelan, GSLI Student Communications Associate This month, I had the opportunity to chat with MBA alumnus Catalina Campos about her career. Catalina is a dedicated sustainability advocate with nearly seven years in the field, beginning with a startup in Kansas City in 2015. Now as a Senior Consultant…

By Sandi S. Ruddick Our Impact Connections blog this month is on veteran Longhorn Impact Fellowship at Texas (LIFT) Fellow and Team Lead, Naziya Ahmed. She is a third-year student at UT-Austin from Plano, Texas studying Management Information Systems, Computer Science, and Spanish. Naziya cultivates a wide variety of interests…

by Sandi S. Ruddick Throw-A-Weigh, a dynamic start-up developed by UT student Becky Xu and UT alums Rosaline Chen and Paige Livingston Lopez, was a recent top winner of the Texas Social Innovation Challenge (TSIC) final pitch competition (https://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/Centers/Social-Innovation-Initiative/TSIC). This intrepid trio took home second-place overall, along with a cash…

by Sandi S. Ruddick The Social Innovation Initiative, in partnership with Bumble, held its second annual Texas Social Innovation Challenge (TSIC) final pitch competition on April 25. TSIC is a program and pitch competition designed to prepare the next generation of innovators to create sustainable, world-changing start-ups (https://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/Centers/Social-Innovation-Initiative/TSIC) . …

by Sandi S. Ruddick This month I had the honor to sit down and chat with LIFT Scholarship recipient Dean Lawler. Dean is a junior from Grapevine, Texas pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Finance with a minor in Management Sciences and Information Systems at McCombs. He is passionate about management…