Green Gown Awards Australasia 2015 – ACTS Award of Excellence: Student - Winner

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Lucy Graham

James Cook University

Lucy has just completed her second year of university, during this time she has demonstrated a great passion and commitment to sustainability in the JCU Community and Cairns community. In her first semester at JCU Lucy completed the TropEco Sustainability Internship and professional college. During this time she was elected president of the JCU sustainability club, a student run club promoting sustainability. Since becoming president Lucy has volunteered endless hours to create connections between the community and encourage students to run projects on campus; successfully creating partnerships in which students volunteer and engage with a wide range of community groups. Lucy has played a key role in encouraging students to get involved and be leaders themselves, at the same time contributing hundreds of volunteer hours to the different groups on a regular basis.