Carly is a sustainability professional and writer based in New York City. She is a Senior Sustainability Consultant at ERM with public- and private-sector experience and expertise in circularity, plastics, biodiversity, and sustainability storytelling and communications. She earned her Master's in Sustainability from Harvard University. Prior to her work at ERM, Carly developed sustainability improvement scenarios for diverse projects as a freelance consultant; provided communications and project management support for Columbia Climate School's Earth Networks; worked in brand partnerships and circularity solutions at TerraCycle; and designed and implemented biodiversity, urban greening, and heat mitigation projects as Sacramento Municipal Utility District's '21 - '22 Sustainability Fellow. Before her work in sustainability, she honed a sharp eye as an editor and content assistant at Ploughshares, interned in programs at GrubStreet, and facilitated youth creative writing workshops with the UVA Young Writers Workshop. Carly was trained in writing and communications at Emerson College, where she earned her Bachelor's in Writing, Literature, and Publishing. Her writing can be found below and on idée fixe, her personal newsletter project.