Jeniffer Sams, Art Education/Art Historian/Photographer, Environmental Activist, Animal Activist, Graduate of East Tennessee State University Art History/Education, and University of Florida Masters of Art Ed 2^nd Year Student

A graduate of East Tennessee State University (ETSU) in art history and education and current student in the Masters of Art Education at the University of Florida (UF), Jeniffer Sams is also an Eco-Activist and Photographer.  Artistically, Jeniffer’s photography style has followed her internal ethical direction in her passion as an environmental activist.  She utilizes her photography to create a visual language about both the artistic beauty and the tragedy of our environmental issues.   Her Industry vs Nature series states: "Our world has moved rapidly to the information age leaving the evidence of the industrial age abandoned, forgotten, and still.  The factories, warehouses, military bases, and tools of various trades lay in ruin and scattered across the land and oceans.  Often, for many reasons such as contamination, pollutants, military land appropriation, or expense the sites cannot be used and lay empty giving a glimpse into the past by what remains.  The delicate balance of human advancements and nature is drastically and permanently altered.”  Her Industry vs Nature series is a photographic documentation of those alterations.

Jeniffer has utilized her art history and education to expand opportunities within our community for future artists expressions of their passions and environmental awareness both inside and out of the art community.   An internship this fall at the Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences will provide Jeniffer with yet another venue for expanding the skills needed to affect positive change in our community.  Jeniffer’s Eco-Artist High School Contest for local high school students created for Earth Day celebrations with the GC Art Department will re-display the top ten winners during the Shades of Green Week at GC College of Education in the Atrium giving the high school students’ work further exposure and giving budding artists more time for conversations about their own work and passion; thereby, developing what Jeniffer calls our next generation of original thinkers and inspires.

Alternative Transportation Panelist

Matthias Jacob is an exchange student from Magdeburg University in Germany.

He studies international management and is in his 5th semester. He arrived in Milledgeville in August 2011 as part of an exchange agreement Georgia College holds with his home institution. However, this is not his first trip to the US. In high school, he spent 3 weeks on exchange in Clintonville, Wisconsin, and ever since has desired to spend a semester in the US. Matthias plans to complete his degree at the conclusion of winter semester 2012 after completing an internship with Volkswagen's Marketing Department in Beijing, China. Matthias comes to GC with a variety of experiences including a year's mandatory service with the German Army, exchange service with the Illinois National Guard, and an apprenticeship with the German Police Academy.

Nigel Sanyangore, Masters of Business Administration student from Zimbabwe

Nigel Sanyangore was born and raised in Zimbabwe and came to Georgia College to further his studies. He is currently pursuing a Masters in Business Administration. He enjoys working with projects that help build today, for a better and healthier tomorrow. In every service project he engages in, whether environmental or for community enrichment, Nigel always asks himself “how will this project be of benefit tomorrow?” Nigel is playing his part, are you?

Student Event Coordinators

Abbey Benton, Senior Marketing Major, Member of the MAC and Global Business Student Leader's Association Shades of Green Student Chair.

I am thrilled to be a part of Shades of Green!  I began this semester wanting to learn more about sustainability.  So, I felt becoming more involved with this event would enhance my knowledge through experience and education.

Erin Fair, Senior Marketing major, graduating in December 2011. Shades of Green Student Chair.

I feel privileged to be part of and work for the Shades of Green event! Our survival and well being depends on how well we take care of the environment. My goal is to help others on and outside the GC campus learn about the importance of sustainability, how people can protect human health, and to improve the environment.

Jackie Hooper, Senior Marketing major, Vice President of Membership for the Marketing and Advertising Club, Member of the Global Business Student Leader's Association, Member of Delta Zeta Sorority, Shades of Green Student Chair

Courtney Kennedy, Senior Marketing Major and German Minor, Student Chair

I’m on the Shades of Green committee because I wanted to be a part of spreading the word to my fellow peers about the importance of having a sustainable world.

Zachary Tuman, Senior in Marketing, Shades of Green Student Chair, Affiliations: MAC and Intramural Sports

Reason why I am involved in SOG: I got involved in shades of green, because I realized that the "green movement" is quickly taking a major role in the world's businesses today. Not only is it beneficial to the environment, but it is helpful to the business too. When you become involved in something like this, you get to come up great ideas to help spread the green movement even further. It also gives a sense of satisfaction whenever you get to help make a change that has a long-term benefit.


Emily Scarboro, Senior in Marketing, Shades of Green Lead Student Chair, 3rd Place Team at Athgo International Competition for Sustainability in  Entrepreneurship, Washington DC 2011, Global Business Student Leaders member

I wanted to get involved in the Shades of Green week because I like to get involved in the community and sustainability practices. Sustainability is a movement that anyone can get into. We all can do our part to create a better future for our environment all we need is information and that is one of the main goals of Shades of Green.

Angel Watkins, Senior Marketing Major with a Minor in Rhetoric, Shades of Green Student Lead.