Valentina Rappa, E.I.T.
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Lori Flippin
Valentina and I worked together on community projects meant to inspire educators, students, businesses, and other interested partners to pledge to make sustainability a priority. Valentina worked diligently to make community collaborations more robust and was the communicator and organizer for many of the activities. She is incredibly ambitious and enthusiastic about her work. It was inspiring for youth who had interest in STEM careers to hear about her background and she is viewed as a role model for area youth who are passionate about sustainability.
Natalie O'Neil
Valentina was the Environmental, Health, Safety, and Sustainability Project Manager at Dow and my contact for our Preparing the Next Generation Workforce for Sustainable Action partnership with Dow from December 2019 to August 2021 for Beyond Benign. Valentina was the best partner, always organized and willing to learn how to best leverage each other's skills to achieve the goals at hand. Over the course of our partnership, Valentina became an amazing champion for Green Chemistry education within higher education and greatly impacted our partnership results by leveraging her team at Dow to create change through the voice of the industry. She's collaborative, insightful, and always willing to go the extra mile or change course to see a project achieve its goals!
Lori Flippin
Valentina and I worked together on community projects meant to inspire educators, students, businesses, and other interested partners to pledge to make sustainability a priority. Valentina worked diligently to make community collaborations more robust and was the communicator and organizer for many of the activities. She is incredibly ambitious and enthusiastic about her work. It was inspiring for youth who had interest in STEM careers to hear about her background and she is viewed as a role model for area youth who are passionate about sustainability.
Natalie O'Neil
Valentina was the Environmental, Health, Safety, and Sustainability Project Manager at Dow and my contact for our Preparing the Next Generation Workforce for Sustainable Action partnership with Dow from December 2019 to August 2021 for Beyond Benign. Valentina was the best partner, always organized and willing to learn how to best leverage each other's skills to achieve the goals at hand. Over the course of our partnership, Valentina became an amazing champion for Green Chemistry education within higher education and greatly impacted our partnership results by leveraging her team at Dow to create change through the voice of the industry. She's collaborative, insightful, and always willing to go the extra mile or change course to see a project achieve its goals!
Lori Flippin
Valentina and I worked together on community projects meant to inspire educators, students, businesses, and other interested partners to pledge to make sustainability a priority. Valentina worked diligently to make community collaborations more robust and was the communicator and organizer for many of the activities. She is incredibly ambitious and enthusiastic about her work. It was inspiring for youth who had interest in STEM careers to hear about her background and she is viewed as a role model for area youth who are passionate about sustainability.
Natalie O'Neil
Valentina was the Environmental, Health, Safety, and Sustainability Project Manager at Dow and my contact for our Preparing the Next Generation Workforce for Sustainable Action partnership with Dow from December 2019 to August 2021 for Beyond Benign. Valentina was the best partner, always organized and willing to learn how to best leverage each other's skills to achieve the goals at hand. Over the course of our partnership, Valentina became an amazing champion for Green Chemistry education within higher education and greatly impacted our partnership results by leveraging her team at Dow to create change through the voice of the industry. She's collaborative, insightful, and always willing to go the extra mile or change course to see a project achieve its goals!
Lori Flippin
Valentina and I worked together on community projects meant to inspire educators, students, businesses, and other interested partners to pledge to make sustainability a priority. Valentina worked diligently to make community collaborations more robust and was the communicator and organizer for many of the activities. She is incredibly ambitious and enthusiastic about her work. It was inspiring for youth who had interest in STEM careers to hear about her background and she is viewed as a role model for area youth who are passionate about sustainability.
Natalie O'Neil
Valentina was the Environmental, Health, Safety, and Sustainability Project Manager at Dow and my contact for our Preparing the Next Generation Workforce for Sustainable Action partnership with Dow from December 2019 to August 2021 for Beyond Benign. Valentina was the best partner, always organized and willing to learn how to best leverage each other's skills to achieve the goals at hand. Over the course of our partnership, Valentina became an amazing champion for Green Chemistry education within higher education and greatly impacted our partnership results by leveraging her team at Dow to create change through the voice of the industry. She's collaborative, insightful, and always willing to go the extra mile or change course to see a project achieve its goals!
Credentials
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Benchmarking Essentials
DatamaranOct, 2021- Nov, 2024 -
Scubadive into Materiality
DatamaranOct, 2021- Nov, 2024 -
Engineer In Training
NCEESFeb, 2021- Nov, 2024 -
10-hour Construction Safety and Health
US DEPARTMENT OF LABOR OSHAOct, 2016- Nov, 2024 -
TRUE Advisor
Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI)Dec, 2021- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Rheaply
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United States
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Internet Marketplace Platforms
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1 - 100 Employee
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Circular Economy Strategist
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Jun 2022 - Present
- Leads Rheaply's sustainability consulting service and circular economy expertise. - Manages consulting projects centered on building comprehensive reuse strategies for Rheaply customers across all industry sectors. - Collaborates with team members to lead circular economy thought leadership through internal company-wide trainings and external webinars on the intersection of circular economy and carbon emissions. - Working to advance Rheaply's estimated embodied carbon avoided report. - Leads Rheaply's sustainability consulting service and circular economy expertise. - Manages consulting projects centered on building comprehensive reuse strategies for Rheaply customers across all industry sectors. - Collaborates with team members to lead circular economy thought leadership through internal company-wide trainings and external webinars on the intersection of circular economy and carbon emissions. - Working to advance Rheaply's estimated embodied carbon avoided report.
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ERM
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United Kingdom
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Business Consulting and Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Associate Consultant, Corporate Sustainability
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Sep 2021 - Jun 2022
- Developed and implemented sustainability strategies for Fortune 500 and other publicly held companies that drive measurable social and environmental impact, with a focus on the chemical, packaging, and oil and gas sectors. - Developed Annual Sustainability Reports for a major natural gas provider and a packaging company. Conducted a gap analysis using the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards to identify opportunities for strategic and transparent data disclosures. - Benchmarked clients’ ESG performance against peers to determine leading and lagging performance on topics such as DE&I, safety, and environmental operations. - Interviewed subject matter expects to collect qualitative and quantitative data on ESG targets and initiatives, and drafted Sustainability Report content. - Supported climate change experts in the development of a sustainability strategy roadmap aligned to Task Force on Climate- Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations for a major chemical company. Analyzed the client’s scenario analysis results to identify actionable and impactful items to implement into their existing climate change strategy. Show less
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Dow
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United States
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Chemical Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Environment, Health, Safety, and Sustainability Project Manager
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Aug 2019 - Aug 2021
- Global corporate ambassador for the Pulling Our Weight Program focused on strengthening external collaboration across the materials science value chain while mobilizing Dow’s +36K employees, community organizations, and local governments to remove waste from the environment and educate on the value of waste and the waste management hierarchy. - Manage partnerships with an international nonprofit to develop a global plastics circular economy working group and a national nonprofit to lead strategic engagement with colleges and universities with the goal of ensuring that by 2025, 25% of all U.S. chemistry students graduate with a background in green chemistry. - Developed EHS&S guidelines and metrics to document core competencies needed by manufacturing employees to ensure workforce aligns with plant safety and performance objectives. Show less
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NYC Center for Materials Reuse
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Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Associate Researcher
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Aug 2018 - Jun 2019
- Collected data on businesses practicing reuse in NYC and developed correlations between the reuse quantity and property storage area to estimate NYC’s total reuse tonnage. Findings were prepared for the NYC Department of Sanitation 2019 Reuse Sector Report, including a ~30% increase in businesses practicing reuse compared to 2017. - Used the US EPA Waste Reduction Model to quantify the weight and environmental impact of NYC’s reuse sector. - Collected data on businesses practicing reuse in NYC and developed correlations between the reuse quantity and property storage area to estimate NYC’s total reuse tonnage. Findings were prepared for the NYC Department of Sanitation 2019 Reuse Sector Report, including a ~30% increase in businesses practicing reuse compared to 2017. - Used the US EPA Waste Reduction Model to quantify the weight and environmental impact of NYC’s reuse sector.
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Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart
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Germany
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Higher Education
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100 - 200 Employee
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Undergraduate Researcher
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Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
- Modeled current and demand response (DR) conditions for two wastewater treatment plants, a NY plant and a German plant, using the BioWin software. - Assessed key performance indicators (KPIs) specific to energy consumption, such as the standard aeration efficiency and specific electricity consumption (SEC). - Modeled current and demand response (DR) conditions for two wastewater treatment plants, a NY plant and a German plant, using the BioWin software. - Assessed key performance indicators (KPIs) specific to energy consumption, such as the standard aeration efficiency and specific electricity consumption (SEC).
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CUNY Building Performance Lab
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United States
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Research Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Measurement and Verification Intern
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Sep 2017 - Aug 2018
Worked with a team to investigate KPIs identified by the NYC Department of Environmental Protection for energy consumption in city-wide Waste Pollution Control Plants and design energy conservation measures to improve efficiency of treatment processes in alignment with NYC’s 80X50 emissions reduction initiative. Worked with a team to investigate KPIs identified by the NYC Department of Environmental Protection for energy consumption in city-wide Waste Pollution Control Plants and design energy conservation measures to improve efficiency of treatment processes in alignment with NYC’s 80X50 emissions reduction initiative.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Cooperative REmote Sensing
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City College of New York
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Undergraduate Researcher
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Nov 2015 - Aug 2017
- Used remote sensing to analyze carbon fluxes and concentrations along the wetland-estuary interface in the Chesapeake Bay; application and modification of algorithms for chlorophyll concentration using ArcMap, Matlab and Excel. - Presented research at the 2016 NOAA Educational Partnership Program Forum. - Used remote sensing to analyze carbon fluxes and concentrations along the wetland-estuary interface in the Chesapeake Bay; application and modification of algorithms for chlorophyll concentration using ArcMap, Matlab and Excel. - Presented research at the 2016 NOAA Educational Partnership Program Forum.
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Duro UAS
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United States
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Environmental Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Sustainable and Urban Development Contributor
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Jan 2015 - Sep 2016
- Conduct interviews with professional and student researchers, as well as environmental activists throughout New York City. - The focus of the Sustainable and Urban Development Campaign is how experts, professionals, and students are utilizing STEM for urban sustainability purposes, and spans a broad range of topics from water and air quality to sanitation, transportation, green infrastructure and climate change. - Conduct interviews with professional and student researchers, as well as environmental activists throughout New York City. - The focus of the Sustainable and Urban Development Campaign is how experts, professionals, and students are utilizing STEM for urban sustainability purposes, and spans a broad range of topics from water and air quality to sanitation, transportation, green infrastructure and climate change.
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NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
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Government Administration
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700 & Above Employee
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Educational Partnership Program with Minority Serving Institution Undergraduate Scholarship Program
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May 2016 - Aug 2016
1. National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD Applied and developed a chlorophyll algorithm for high resolution satellite imagery in order to monitor and forecast harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie with the use of ArcMap and Excel. Presented project results at the 2016 NOAA Student Symposium and the 2017 ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting. 2. National Marine Fisheries Service, Honolulu, HI Developed and validated seafloor depth algorithms for bathymetry and geomorphology base maps, for the Island of Hawai’i. Presented project results at the 2017 NOAA Student Symposium. Show less
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Education
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City University of New York City College
Bachelors, Environmental Engineering Technology/Environmental Technology