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Anisa Heming
Director, Center for Green Schools at U.S. Green Building Council

Anisa Heming is director of the Center for Green Schools at USGBC and one of the nation’s foremost experts on green schools. As director of the Center, Anisa provides strategic direction to USGBC’s work in schools and coordinates an organization-wide team to promote environmental sustainability, health and wellness, and environmental and sustainability literacy in school systems around the world. x000D x000D She began her work with USGBC in New Orleans, hired to assist with rebuilding the schools after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. After her time in New Orleans, she moved to Washington, DC and began the Green Schools Fellowship Program at the Center for Green Schools, placing and training sustainability directors in school districts and beginning the nation's first network of school district sustainability staff, which continues today. Anisa holds a B.S. in Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.Arch. from the University of Washington in Seattle.