Environmental engineer, educator and longtime activist Sarah Lynn Cunningham will visit the Hanover College campus Tuesday, March 5, to deliver the annual Cornelius and Anna Cook O’Brien Lecture.
Cunningham, co-founder and executive director of the Louisville Climate Action Network (LCAN), will present “From Smoke-Filled Skies to Smoke-Filled Rooms: Louisville’s Political Battles Over the ‘Smoke Evil.'” The address, which explores Louisville’s complex and lengthy battle for clean air, will begin at 7 p.m. in Science Center, room 137. The event is open to the public, free of charge.
Cunningham retired from civil service positions with Louisville and Jefferson County (Ky.). Metropolitan Sewer District, Jefferson County (Ky.) Board of Health and Kentucky Division of Water.
After joining The Climate Reality Project in 2007, she was licensed by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore to give her version of “An Inconvenient Truth.” She also co-founded LCAN, which serves as Louisville’s go-to source for reliable, action-inspiring information on climate change, impacts and solutions.
Cunningham’s unique blend of experience and interests allows her to offer the technical problem-solving abilities of an engineer, communication skills of an educator, creativity of an artist and passion of an advocate. She oversees LCAN’s advocacy, education and services programming. Most of their time is spent assisting other nonprofits to “spend less on utilities, more on mission” through energy efficiency and solar power.
In addition to her work with LCAN, Cunningham teaches building operator certification courses for the Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance. She also has taught graduate-level green engineering and sustainable design courses, and undergraduate introduction to environmental engineering at the University of Louisville.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in applied science in environmental engineering and Master of Science in environmental education and environmental history from the University of Louisville.
The Cornelius and Anna Cook O’Brien Lecture is sponsored by the Hanover College History Department and Environmental Stewardship Committee.
Cunningham photo courtesy of U.S. Green Building Council
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