Sarah Brylinski became fascinated with the concept of sustainability while she was a student at Ithaca College and became heavily involved in IC's sustainability efforts, speaking at national conferences before she even graduated. She put this passion together with the skills in communications strategy she learned in her CMD major, and her first job out of college was working at Dickinson College in sustainability education. She then moved on to Second Nature, a non-profit dedicated to climate resilience education, and then to MIT and later to Cornell University where she led the Sustainability Communications and Business Practices Integration.
In November 2022, she started her new position as Executive Vice-President of Climate Impact, at Cannabeta Realty, Sarah leads the development of client services, policies and strategies to ensure a climate-smart approach to the $10BN developing cannabis industry in New York, New Jersey, and across the Northeast.
Brylinski says, "As a strategic communications specialist, I bring an emphasis to systems planning, project management, and the appropriate use of communications technology and web interface to this workâeducation today happens with transformative pedagogy, resilient technology, and transmedia design. As a consultant on strategic sustainable development, I have worked with talented clients around the world including Disney, Xbox, Ebay, Paramount Pictures, former heads of state, and numerous educational institutions in the United States, Canada, and Eastern Europe."
In addition to her B.S. in CMD, Brylinski later completed our online M.S. in Communications Innovation.