Climate Career Expo
- Feb. 19, 2025 | 12:30 - 3 p.m.
- Student Center Ballroom
Students and alumni, take the next step in your career during the FREE Climate Career Expo! Explore job opportunities, paid internships, and graduate fellowships in the environment, renewable energy, sustainability and other green industry fields amongst federal, state, and local employers looking to diversify the field.
Co-sponsored by the Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition
Registration
Pre-Expo Bonus Opportunity
Green Gateways: Expanding Access to Green Jobs for the Next Generation
Meet with Black professionals in the green field directly before the Expo.
- Feb. 19, 2025
- 11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
- Chesapeake Room, 3rd floor Student Center
Why You Should Attend
- Climate change affects all of us in the nation, and in this world. You can help!
- The shift to a greener economy has created more jobs
- Environmental & energy related jobs are increasing at local and federal agencies but there is a lack of African-Americans and people of color in these fields.
- These jobs are lucrative and not going anywhere. Agencies all over the globe are seeking employees in the field of Sustainability.
- The federal administration has pumped hundreds of billions of dollars into clean energy, green infrastructure, and environmental jobs for the coming years.
- HBCUs are molding the next generation of environmental leaders through innovative sustainability education.
- VARIETY in majors! These jobs are looking for all sorts of majors to operate their agencies, from communications to IT, to research to business, history & government, math and science.
- VARIETY in types of jobs. This career expo will feature jobs from wildlife agencies to environmental protection, electric vehicle and solar companies to advocacy groups.
- There are even internships and graduate fellowships recruiters looking for you!
- The top person & first African-American appointed by President Biden in charge of the nation’s leading environmental agency- the U.S. EPA (Michael Regan) is an HBCU graduate!
- The first woman in Maryland appointed by Governor Moore to lead the state’s Department of Environment is African-American!
- Get the chance to network with VIP political and other leaders in the field who will stop by and possibly give greetings
- Bowie State has a portfolio of alumni who are in these jobs, from Sade Dennis, Director, Market Transformation & Development for National Capital Region & Virginia Communities of the US Green Building Council, to Michelle Russell, Deputy Director for Prince George’s County Dept of the Environment to name just a couple
What People Are Saying
We truly connected with the future of our workforce, and ended up bringing on three interns from BSU, two still undergraduates, and did an outstanding job for us. The third graduated in December and was hired by Disney as a graphic designer.
- Michael Wright. Chief Business Solutions Officer, Optimize Renewables
The Climate Career Fair offered plenty of opportunities - I ended up accepting an Internship with Optimize Renewables during my last semester at BSU.
- Shane F. Massey. Visual Communications & Digital Media Arts major
I met with the Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition, and landed an internship in the summer of 2022. This internship helped me to receive an award for "Young, Gifted, & Green 40 under 40."
- Khadijah Shaw. Senior, Biology major
I have gained so much from attending specialized career fairs like this one at BSU. I get to learn about organizations I did not know much about and discover so many different job and internship opportunities.
- Toniyah McCullough. Senior, Visual Communications & Digital Media Arts major and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Summer 2023 BRIDGE intern
View the Employers
View a list of companies and organizations currently attending and those that were present at previous Climate Career Expos.
Contact
Jabari Walker, Sustainability & Energy Coordinator
Email: jswalker@bowiestate.edu