Dr. Lisa L. Greenwood is an associate professor in environmental, health and safety (EHS) management at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) with over 25 years experience in environmental and occupational health and safety management. Her teaching and research interests include EHS management system integration and implementation, environmental sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and related private governance mechanisms. Prior to joining the RIT faculty, Dr. Greenwood worked as an environmental engineer, EHS audit program manager, and international standards specialist in the aerospace sector, assisting in over 50 industrial, administrative, and academic sites with the implementation of ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, ISO 45001, R2 and E-stewards standards. She holds a B.S. in environmental management from RIT, M.S. in environmental engineering from the University of New Haven, and Ph.D. in environmental and natural resource policy from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, in association with Syracuse University. Greenwood chairs the U.S. Technical Advisory Group (TAG 207) subcommittee on environmental management systems and has been involved in ISO standard development in environmental management and social responsibility since 1999. She has served as a U.S. expert on environmental management systems at the international level since 2005, and was the lead expert for the U.S. representing ANSI in the 2015/2016 revisions of ISO 14001 and 14004.
Dr. Jennifer L. Schneider, CIH is the Eugene H. Fram Chair of Applied Critical Thinking in Academic Affairs (2015-) and a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management and Safety at RIT. She also leads the Collaboratory for Resiliency and Recovery at RIT, a multidisciplinary research group that specializes in the data-to-decision pipeline for community resilience. She earned her Sc.D. from UMASS Lowell, College of Engineering, her MS in Industrial Hygiene from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and her BA in Comprehensive Science from Roberts Wesleyan. She also has served on the local HAZMAT team and comes from a family of first responders. Her research interests include hazardous material control, critical infrastructure emergency planning and disaster management, the application of risk analysis and decision systems for community-level critical infrastructure, and the impact on emergency management systems and target capabilities. She also studies exposure assessment and the modeling of exposure scenarios, particularly hazardous material emergencies and response planning. Multidimensional sustainability and the analysis of sector-based corporate sustainability-related activities and management systems are also an area of interest.
