Olivia is the at the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, the non-profit responsible for the management and care of The Greenway, a contemporary public park in the heart of Boston. In this role, she She began her work with the Conservancy as the Programs Coordinator, where she helped to raise funds for the park through various events, activations, and other programming. To prepare herself to this role, Olivia held an internship with the Greenway as an Events & Programs Intern, and also as a muralist for the Springfield Museums.
Olivia says, “The Sustainable Community Development major helped me to learn a wide range of knowledge that lends itself to working for an urban park. This includes community and cultural awareness, urban greening and place-making strategies, city planning, ecology, climate change resilience, and writing skills. Additionally, I recently had a paper published with professor Theodore Eisenman in an academic journal which began as my senior thesis as an Honors College student at UMass.”
While at UMass, Olivia:
• Studied abroad in Bankok, Thailand and Copenhagen, Denmark
• Worked as an Usher for the Fine Arts Center