Unplastify

Organization: Unplastify

Title: Co-Founder + Director

Date: Jan 2018 - Actual

Description: Launched Unplastify, an ocean adventure to explore the misuse of plastic. Unplastify is a social enterprise on a mission to minimize the use of single use plastic in the world to fight plastic pollution and restore the oceans.

Link: Unplastify web

Greyston Bakery

Organization: Greyston Bakery

Date: Sep 2014 - Jan 2015

Description: Redesigned sustainability framework, developed new KPIs, set future targets and designed strategies to achieve ESG goals. Developed Suppliers Code of Conduct. Coordinated annual sustainability report and B-Corp certification impact assessment

Link: greyston web

Talar: Optimizing the Dairy Industry

Organization: Columbia Business School

Date: May 2016

Description: Co-authored a case study published by Columbia CaseWorks about the dairy farm Talar. Located in Uruguay, Talar is a case where the use of technology, vertically integration and a closed loop system has resulted in higher performance and efficiency.

Link: Columbia CaseWorks

Circular Economy for Buenos Aires City

Client: Buenos Aires City

Partner: Asociación Sustentar

Date: Jun 2016 – May 2017

Description: From waste management to resources administration: Proposals with a circular economy approach to improve the city´s waste management system. The project team conducted field research, analysis and mapping of the current status of recyclable materials flows in Buenos Aires including the informal streams, and developed short, medium and long-term proposals for the city to facilitate a transition to a circular economy waste management system.

Link: Asociación Sustentar

Sustainable Investing Education

Organization: RFK Center for Justice & Human Rights + Earth Institute

Date: 2013 - 2014

Description: Helped develop two editions of the Sustainable Investing Education program designed for institutional investors, asset managers, nancial planners and consultants. The program provided a comprehensive approach to ESG investment analysis based on the belief that sustainable investing is an element of risk mitigation which is at the core of fiduciary responsibility.

Sustainable Agriculture: Palm Oil

Organization: Columbia University: Sustainable Agriculture course

Date: Jun - Aug 2014

Description: Research paper developed about Sustainable Palm Oil

Links: Paper + PPT Presentation

B-CORP IMPACT ASSESSMENT TOOL (SPANISH)

Organization: B-Lab

Date: Sep - Dec 2013

Description: Supported B-Lab team with adaptation of B-Corp’s impact assessment tool for Spanish speaking countries.

Link: B-Corp web

Sure We Can: President

Organization: Sure We Can - recycling center, community space and sustainability hub in Brooklyn

Date: Jan 2015 – Jul 2016

Description: lead the board, advise Executive Director with strategic decisions, develop the organization's vision plan and work on specific projects such as the composting program and the waste-to-energy project.

Link: Sure We Can web

COLUMBIA EN EL CAMPO

Organization: Deming Center, Columbia Business School

Partner: Grupo Los Grobo

Date: Jun – Sep 2015

Description: Designed online and free program for agro-business professionals in Latin American rural areas, to talk about global issues that affect their agricultural practices: Globalization, Climate Change and Commodities. The program was broadcasted in different locations as was also available for remote participants through video-conference.

Link: D eming Center Web (Program-Videos)

People's Climate March. Now is the moment for Action!

Magazine: Ecomanía, the sustainable development magazine in Argentina, www.ecomania.org

Date: Sep - Oct 2014

Description: Article about the People's Climate March in New York. Its starts like this: "I was lucky to be one of the 400,000 people that were part of the historic Climate March last September 21st in New York. The experience was unforgettable..."

Link: Article

Liniers Cattle Market - Sustainable Operations

Client: Unit of Special Projects, Government of Buenos Aires City (Capstone Team, Columbia Universitiy)

Date: Sep - Dec 2014

Description: Consulting project to address key environmental issues associated with the Liniers Cattle Market operations. As a result the Capstone Team developed a comprehensive Manure Management System comprising three primary strategies aimed to make market operations more efficient, reduce the solid and liquid waste from being discharged into the Cildañez stream and tighten policy regulations that are either currently not in place or unenforced.

Links: Report + Video final presentation

NET IMPACT CONSULTING: STUDENT ENERGY

Client: Student Energy

Date: Sep - Dec 2014

Description: Pro-Bono consulting project for global nonprofit Student Energy, analyzing the opportunities and strategies to open a new branch in New York City.

Link: Student Energy Web + Net Impact Web

Windows from Recycled Plastic Bottles

Client: TECHO Argentina - techo.org

Partners: Bulavu

Date: Feb-Jun 2014

Description: Project developed the NGO TECHO, in which we researched and developed alternatives to replace the windows used by them in the houses that they build in slums. After 8 months, we generated a special material for the windows, that was made using plastic bottles.

The first 70 recycled windows were used in the construction of 23 houses located in a humble neighborhood near La Matanza, Argentina. The families helped with the construction and were grateful. From now on, TECHO’s windows are sustainable, 100% recycled and 100% recyclable.

Sure We Can: Bushwich Sustainable Center

Partners: Gonzalo Covarrubias + Alexander Hazbun

Date: May – Jul 2014

Description: Vision plan for recycling nonprofit located in Bushwick.

Link: Sure We Can web

Quitilipi Rural Schools

Organization: Padrinos Escuelas Rurales Quitilipi, Chaco (Godparents of Rural Schools in Quitilipi, Chaco)

Date: 2000 - 2006

Description: Active participation in group of professors, students and alumni from high school that sponsored two rural schools in the Chaco, one of the poorest areas in Argentina. Every year, a group of 50 volunteers from 13 to 70 years-old visits the communities and lives in the school for a week. The volunteers bring food and supplies and work in the facilities; but more importantly, they share the life of these rural communities visiting their homes and providing support to their needs.

Links: Quitilipi web

The India Experience

Organization: Columbia Business School

Date: Mar 2016

Description: Prepared review of experiences during study tour to India with ECLA group (founders and CEOs of Latin American companies), where we visited big companies like Tata Motors and small businesses like recycling enterprises in the Dharavi slum and social entrepreneurs from rural areas.

Link: summary

Newark Riverfront Market

Organization: Columbia University: Responsiveness and Resilience of the Built Environment course

Date: Sep - Dec 2013

Description: Urban systems design and proposal for the Newark Riverfront: group developed integrated strategies for the development and revitalization of the Newark Riverfront, a stretch of land that has enormous potential and importance for urban resilience in the future and community activism in the present.

Link: PPT presentation

Sustainable Agriculture: Water

Organization: Columbia University: Sustainable Agriculture course

Date: Jun - Aug 2014

Description: Research paper developed about water in agriculture

Links: PPT Presentation + Paper

BSD Consulting

Role: Summer Intern

Date: May - Aug 2014

Description: Researched and analyzed data for various projects in the areas of sustainable agriculture, stakeholder engagement, and farming certification systems.

Link: BSD Consulting

Cost Benefit Analysis: Organic Cotton for LBrands

Organization: Columbia University: Cost Benefit Analysis course

Date: Feb - May 2014

Description: Organic and Fair Trade Certified cotton have been successfully adopted into 6% of L-Brands apparel and the management team is considering expanding the combination equal to 50% with conventionally sourced cotton. This paper identifies current trends in price and consumer desire through a literature review and a revealed preference survey to derive a reasonable market expectation for organic or Fair Trade Certified intimate apparel. A cost-benefit analysis (CBA) was then constructed using the company’s 2013 performance and considers multiple primary costs and benefits for the L Brands shareholders

Links: Prezi Presentation + Paper

SET - Sustainability Essentials Training

Organization: The Earth Institute, Columbia University

Date: Oct-Dec 2013

Description: Content creation, curriculum design and communication efforts for Sustainability Essentials Training Program.

Pivot Goals: ESG Goals Research Analyst

Organization: Andrew Winston's Eco-Strategies

Date: Jun - Aug 2014

Description: Supported "The Big Pivot" author Andrew Winston on his project Pivot Goals, a searchable database of environmental, social and governance targets set by Fortune Global 500 companies.

Link: Pivot Goals

SC Johnson Study Tour

Organization: Columbia Business School

Date: Nov 2014

Description: Participated and prepared report on Faculty Study Tour to SC Johnson facilities in Racine, Wisconsin, hosted by Deming Cup winner Fisk Johnson.

Link: summary