Sustainable St. Louis is pleased to announce that two new board members joined the SSL team in June- Roderick Nunn and Eric Schneider.  Both were present and actively contributing at the SSL Strategic Planning session in June and we are excited to have them both as part of the organization.  Rod and Eric join the nine individuals that currently make up the Sustainable St. Louis Board of Directors.

Roderick Nunn is Vice Chancellor of Workforce and Community Development for St. Louis Community College where he serves as the chief economic development officer. Mr. Nunn provides strategic direction for the development and management of talent acquisition, talent development, resource and economic development assets in response to the needs of business and community partners.  He previously served as Missouri’s first director of education and workforce innovation and as director of the Missouri Department of Economic Development’s Division of Workforce Development. He has extensive background in leading multi-million dollar business/industry-based education and training programs in Missouri and Illinois. He also has earned national and state recognition for creating and implementing innovative workforce solutions. Mr. Nunn holds a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Illinois at Springfield, and a bachelor’s degree in music from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He also completed the Program for Senior Executives in State and local Government at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Eric Schneider is the Senior Director of Public Policy Research at the St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association (RCGA) and has been with the RCGA since 2001. He directs the activities of the St. Louis Climate Prosperity Project which seeks to evolve the St. Louis bi-state metropolitan region from a Rust Belt to a Green Belt economy that becomes home to a growing cluster of green businesses and existing companies responding to the growing green market.  Eric received a master’s degree in planning from the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota and a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Grinnell College, in Grinnell, Iowa. Eric has previously held positions as a planning and marketing manager with hospital organizations in Minneapolis and St. Louis, a city planner for Minneapolis’s suburbs and an agate clerk/sports reporter for the Washington Post.

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