Julie Heck
Julie Heck is a master’s candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Learning Design, Innovation and Technology.
She serves on Harvard’s Council of Student Sustainability Leaders and is a member of the Green AI Summit’s organizing team.
She is an interdisciplinary educator and consultant with a background in music, business, tech, and sustainability. She holds an MBA in Energy Management from the Technische Universität Berlin and certificates in Data Science and Data Analytics from LaunchCode.
She has worked with the Missouri Botanical Garden and its sustainability division, the EarthWays Center, as an intern, ambassador, and volunteer for 10 years. She also worked with Tesla during their 5X for the Model 3 release, and proudly set up two recycling systems there, as well as one at her Alma Mater in Berlin. Prior to moving to Cambridge, she was living in Indonesia helping organize ocean plastic pollution cleanups, and before that in Alaska as a naturalist and eco tour guide.
Currently, Julie is designing and developing an EdTech product and climate curriculum to make learning about this topic more engaging and accessible to wider audiences, including early elementary students.
Her mission is to create scalable impact in environmental conservation by raising awareness of sustainability measures, fostering cross-industry collaboration, and inspiring collective action.
Her passion is nature, and she enjoys fitness, photography, videography, music and world travel.
The Salata Institute
The Salata Institute supports interdisciplinary research that leads to real-world action, including high-risk/high-reward projects by researchers already working in the climate area and new endeavors that make it easier for Harvard scholars, who have not worked on climate problems, to do so. Faculty interested in the Climate Research Clusters program should note an upcoming deadline for concepts on April 1, 2024.