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</xml><![endif]--></p><p style="text-align: justify">Kayla Barbour is launched as a candidate for the University Innovation Fellows program and an undergraduate student at Fellow in Spring 18' while attending Berea College, located in the beautiful eastern knobs of Kentucky. Working towards her B.S. in While studying as a Technology and Applied Design with a minor in Sustainability Studies, Kayla’s research is concentrated on Renewable Energy & Co-operative Utility Ownership. With aspirations of becoming a biophilic designermajor, Kayla is deeply passionate about nature and incorporating holistic methodology into the design of sustainable systems. Originally from Ironton, Ohio- she grew up worked in Appalachia on the banks Berea College Office of Sustainability as the heavily polluted Ohio River, Waste Diversion Program coordinator and was awakened to a member of cohort 14 in the Entrepreneurship for the devastating effects of fossil fuel extraction at a very young agePublic Good (EPG) program under Dr. Peter Hackbert. Since moving Recognizing an opportunity to Lexington, KY reduce food waste by digitizing the recording and management process in 1999 she has been actively involved in promoting environmental justicethe college dining hall- Kayla recruited an interdisciplinary team of students, actionstaff, and awareness in faculty dedicated to influencing student waste behaviors through learning and visual nudging. Using the local community.</p><p style="text-align: justify">At Berea CollegeInnovator's Toolkit to teach Design Thinking to students and staff, Kayla Barbour is employed at the Office led a series of Sustainability as UIF and EPG sponsored workshops to engage campus with the new WOMbat system (Waste Diversion Program CoordinatorOperations Management, behavior altering technology) while gathering insights about consumer preferences in the dining hall. In The results of this project enabled students to have more decision-making power over meal offerings, in addition to managing student participation in reducing the recycling time and compost programs, she also plans hassle of properly recording food waste. The experience of being a campus-wide events leader in green behavior as an educator, sustainability planner, and engages students through public speaking event coordinator empowered Kayla to reach out to the UIF team and educational outreachencourage a change in meal planning at the annual meetups. As President The Spring 2019 SVM was the first ever Zero Waste UIF meetup, and Kayla and Founder a crew of other Fabs worked tirelessly to educate the Berea College Students 400+ SVM attendees about composting and recycling during the daily meals. Despite the challenges of Sustainability clubcommunity planning from a distance, she strives Kayla hopes to strengthen continue impacting UIFellows in the collegiate focus on realms of sustainable behavior decision making and personal connections with resources through interactive programming online engagements and fun activities. Barbour firmly believes that an innovative entrepreneurial spirit future UIF meetups! Kayla is necessary to make currently studying for a positive impact on Masters in Community Planning at the environment, and she hopes to utilize the design thinking process to contribute meaningful solutions to the global climate change crisisUniversity of Cincinnati DAAP program.</p><p style="text-align: justify">When not busy with school talking trash or sustainability endeavors, Kayla enjoys studying Feng Shui hiking with her dog Leto and singing as living a mezzosopranoholistic lifestyle. Her extracurricular activities also professional interests include serving as Treasure to the Mortar Board Honor Societyurban design, hikingadaptive reuse building projects, collecting crystalsgreen infrastructure, and gardeninggreen-forward policy making. Please visit www.kaylabarbour.</p>com for more info or to reach out! = Related Links =