Student and Early Career Professionals
Thank you for your interest in the Student and Early Career Professional Community (SECP)
What is SECP?
SustainFood network focuses on the development of skills for students and early career professionals (SECP). The SECP Community is a SustainFood working group that provides the following opportunities:
- Expert-facilitated lectures and workshops
- Mentorship development
- Two-week, live-in, and intensive Collaborative Learning Schools (CLS) focusing on topics related to SustainFood thematic areas.
- Online student presentations and webinars to share current or recent research projects with the community
- Collaboration and networking with others with SustainFood
- Student-led research interest groups to increase students’ interest and capability in transdisciplinary research through international collaborations.
- Collab-a-Thon in which multi-disciplinary student and researcher teams collaboratively research, ideate, and prototype new solutions addressing a significant problem in sustainable food systems, food security, etc.
Additional Opportunities:
We have leadership opportunities with the following: facilitating, webinar planning, newsletter, social media, mentorship program design, interest group leaders. If you would like to contribute to the leadership and have additional ideas, let us know!
How to get involved:
Click here to join our Whatsapp group. Feel free to introduce yourself and engage in the discussions! Check the Whatsapp group for invitations to our events, workshops, and webinars!
Check out our orientation video!
Please fill out our new membership form so that we can learn more about you and match you with the appropriate activities and resources!
If you have any questions, please contact
Johnny Musumbu – musumbuj@msu.edu
Thulani Ningi – Thulaniningi96@gmail.com
Ahmed Abi Abdi Warsame – aaydid3@gmail.com
Taiwo Bamgboye – taiwo.bamgboye@oulu.fi
Cuthbert Taguta – ctaguta@gmail.com
Lisa Grab – lkg5330@psu.edu
SECP Webinars can be found below!