The Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership (IGEL) at the Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania is pleased

to announce four scholarship winners for the Wharton Leadership Venture in Tahiti December 30th, 2011 to January 7th, 2012. The winners, Christina Hung, Robbins Schrader and Jeanne Chen, will be sailing on a tall ship operated by the Sea Education Association. Together with the other trip participants, they will learn leadership skills and work in the on-ship laboratory.

Christina Hung
Christina is a first year MBA student at the Wharton School majoring in Entrepreneurial Management. Prior to Wharton, she worked at Totsy, an early-stage flash sales start-up focused on the family market in New York. There, Christina worked to expand the companys green initiative and presented the first check to partner Pure Planet which plants a tree for each first order made on the website. Prior to Totsy, she was a senior associate at Macquarie Capital analyzing infrastructure investments in North America. At Wharton, Christina aims to develop skills that will allow her to build a business where sustainability and social responsibility are key priorities.

Jeanne Chen
Jeanne is a first year student at the Lauder Institute, a dual-degree MBA and MA in International Studies program. Prior to Wharton, she did management consulting in San Francisco for two years. She left consulting to accept the Villgro social entrepreneurship fellowship in India, where she helped to build a local start-up that empowered rural women. Jeannes goal at Wharton is to learn as much as possible about traditional business marketing and management frameworks in order to explore their potential application within the social development space. Her interest in engaging with the IGEL on sustainable French Polynesian development is one step towards reaching this goal.

Robbins Schrader
Robbins is a second year MBA student at the Wharton School majoring in Finance. Prior to Wharton, Robbins spent six years with Skanska, a Swedish construction firm developing infrastructure assets in Central Europe and constructing green buildings in the US. Robbins brings experiences from the field to Wharton, where he has spent the past two years researching a clean energy financing structure (aimed at the retrofit market). He currently supports a team developing an ESG focused fund in New York. At Wharton Robbins is active in the Energy, Finance and Wildmen Hockey clubs.

Caroline DAngelo
Caroline DAngelo is a second year in the Masters of Environmental Studies program. Caroline handles web and print communications and research for IGEL. She has interned for the Nature Conservancy, handling data for a water health project, and for Friends of the Earth, working on biofuels. Before coming to Penn, she served for two and a half years as a mentor to Philadelphia-area youth with a local non-profit. At Penn, she co-founded a journal on women and water issues, which is supported by the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Global Water Initiative (PGWI). She is also active in the outdoors and is a former wilderness guide, and is an avid kayaker and backpacker.

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The Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership (IGEL) is a global initiative on business and the environment created by Wharton and other Penn faculty in consultation with leading experts in business, NGOs and the government. IGEL brings together the best academic and business minds from around the world to discuss and research cutting-edge topics concerning business and the environment. To learn more about IGEL, please see our website at http://environment.wharton.upenn.edu or contact Joanne Spigonardo (spigonaj@wharton.upenn.edu). The MBA Leadership Ventures are optional co-curricular experiential learning opportunities designed to bring participants into remote and difficult environments where they can learn from experience in confronting challenges, solving problems, and leading teams. We do this by providing a foundation for individual, small group, and community-level learning by structuring periods of personal reflection and guided discussion around specific activities. Key topics such as leadership and followership, group decision-making processes, stages of group development, and managing ambiguity are explored using daily events as the foundation for learning. In every case, students are expected to act decisively and take accountability for the outcomes of their decisions. To learn more, please see http://wlp.wharton.upenn.edu/.