Greetings!

Hello everyone -  My name is Amrita and I'm a dual degree MBA + MS student in my 2nd year at the University of Michigan. I'm a fellow of the Erb Institute of Global Sustainable Enterprise, and am focused on findings ways by which businesses can enable positive environmental and social change happen! In particular, I'm interested in for-profit market driven solutions to our natural resource problems and I'm keen to explore the ways this can be achieved via entrepreneurship in emerging markets. 
My blog posts will be slightly unconventional as I will be writing about my experience interning with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) as a research associate with the Corporate Partnership Program. My internship was a part-time position that I was able to juggle my Winter A course load, so these posts will be based on my experiences interning during the semester. 
Environmental Defense Fund is a non profit that has a reputation of being one of the most effective organizations in engaging with businesses and corporations to make step changes in their environmental impact. I had heard about the Corporate Partnership PRogram for over a year and to finally have the opportunity to work with the group was very exciting. I was nervous about being able to perform up to expectations given my other academic and extra-curricular responsibilities, but I decided that this would be my priority for 5 weeks. I look forward to sharing my experiences!