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Michelle Rogat Memo 3B - Biosketch 2020 Revised

Michelle Rogat carried out her undergraduate research on the factors for success and failure of sustainable projects at the Country Club and it's regional network. She continued to work on it over the summer of 2014 and finished before the fall of 2014. Rogat graduated Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute after the fall semester of 2014 with a Bachelors of Science in Sustainability Studies and in Economics.

To start out her professional career in the spring of 2015 Rogat traveled abroad to Denmark to work for the International Society of Industrial Ecology (ISIE). The focus of her work was on the factors needed to allow an eco-industrial park to be successful in a region, including research on communicating and reporting on waste streams. After 6 months Rogat returned to the US to work for Albany's Center for Economic Development in collaboration with other sustainability and economic researchers trying to construct an eco-industrial park in the capital region. During this time Rogat studies under LEED and becomes a LEED AP, and lines up work through them as well.

She travels abroad to Australia and works with professionals studying Burnside Park. At some point Rogat moves back to NY state to live in Troy close to her sister and nephew. Rogat reconnected with the Composting and Sustainable Food movement in Troy and helped with work and research regarding it's municipal composting facility. Rogat also got a job working for Murphy Consulting Firm, a former connection from a member at the Country Club. She works to consult businesses and organizations on sustainable practices and management strategies.