Welcome to the Minority Environmental Leadership Development Initiative (MELDI) website. MELDI is a project at the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE). The project aims to enhance the leadership and career development opportunities available to minority students and minority environmental professionals. The project seeks to provide information that will help more minority students embark on careers in the environmental field. It is also designed to help minority students and professionals in the environmental field take advantage of networking and mentoring opportunities.

Though the website focuses on minorities, it provides information that will be useful to all students and environmental professionals.

WHAT'S HAPPENING?

For more information about MELDI's National Summit on Diversity in the Environmental Field held on August 28-30, 2005, please go to http://www.sitemaker.umich.edu/meldi. View conference publications, photos, and summaries of presentations from this site.

MELDI's Program Director, Dorceta E. Taylor, was named the Bass Distinguished Scholar by the Yale Institute of Biospheric Studies. Taylor spent the Fall 2005 semester in residence at Yale University.

MELDI's Program Coordinator, Latonia Payne, participated in a leadership retreat held at the National Conservation Training Center in October 2005.

The MELDI staff is working in collaboration with the Leadership Initiative of Minority Female Environmental Faculty (LIMFEF) staff to compile a book of minority environmental faculty.

We wish to congratulate our research assistants who have recently accepted positions at the Environmental Defense, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Tetra Tech, and Sherwin Williams. Others have gone on to pursue graduate studies.

MELDI PUBLICATIONS

The MELDI staff is currently updating and expanding The Paths We Tread. This book contains profiles of minority environmental professionals.

MELDI Career Resource Guide
The MELDI Career Resource Guide to Environmental Jobs contains a variety of environmental jobs that may be listed in various organizations and agencies. More than 220 jobs are described. The guide lists the skills and qualifications required for each job, salary ranges, and years of experience desired. In some cases there are multiple job titles that are listed under one heading. The qualifications and salary ranges vary for these jobs based on seniority.

Negotiating the Job Market
The MELDI Guide to Negotiating the Job Market features articles and tips on how to write resumes, search for jobs, prepare for interviews, negotiate salaries, network, and utilize mentoring opportunities.

Summary of Presentations - 2007
The Summary of Presentations contains extracts from many of the presentations given by guest speakers and presenters during MELDI's Faculty Diversity and Environmental Justice Research Symposium held at the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources, June 7-9, 2007.

Summary of Presentations - 2005
The Summary of Presentations contains extracts from many of the presentations given by guest speakers and presenters during MELDI's National Summit on Diversity in the Environmental Field held at the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources, August 28-30, 2005.

Leading the Way: Environmental Justice at SNRE
The Environmental Justice Research Symposium was held at SNRE on April 14, 2006. The symposium was organized by the Environmental Justice Field of Study and it featured presentations by SNRE environmental justice faculty and students.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

MELDI hosted the "Faculty Diversity and Environmental Justice Research Symposium" at the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment in June 2007. This conference focused on diversity in academia s well as domestic and international environmental justice research. The conference brought together researchers who are academics, postdoctoral fellows, students, policymakers, environmental justice practitioners, and grantmakers to participate in plenaries, panels, and poster sessions. Please visit the following website Conference Page for more detailed information.

-Conference Format Conference Format page
-Conference Topics Conference Topics page
-Call for Abstracts Call for Abstracts page
-Call for Papers Call for Papers page
-For Students Information for Students page
-Submission Deadlines Submission Deadlines page Registration Deadlines Registration Deadlines page
-Registration Info Registration Information page
-Registration Form Registration Form page
-EJRD Environmental Justice Research Directory page

The results of MELDI's diversity studies were presented at the National Science Foundation on February 13, 2006.
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Latonia Payne  |  E-mail: paynel@umich.edu  |  Phone: (734) 615-2602  |  Fax: (734) 936-2195
University of Michigan  |  School of Natural Resources and Environment
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