Loretto at the UN: Staff
Loretto’s NGO Representative to the UN: Beth Blissman CoL
Photo courtesy of Beth Blissman
A western Pennsylvania native, Beth currently lives in both northeast Ohio and New York City and serves as a representative to the United Nations for the Loretto Community. She brings more than 20 years of experience as a practitioner-scholar in community-engaged teaching and learning in higher education to this work, as well as a deep interest in permaculture, spirituality and shifting worldviews. Beth is a former director of both the Bonner Center for Service and Learning at Oberlin College and the University of Denver’s Service Learning Program. She has developed models for student leadership, created community service work-study programs, and supported a variety of faculty and curriculum development processes related to community-campus engagement.
Beth has served as one of the Loretto Earth Network coordinators since 2000. As a systems thinker, she’s curious about how to build connections, increase resilience and design better solutions that empower learning and creative thinking.
Current Loretto at the UN Intern
UN Intern: Emma Sandu, Student at Ohio State University
Loretto at the UN is excited to welcome Emma Sandu as our 2022 summer UN intern. Emma is a sophomore at the Ohio State University majoring in world politics with a minor in the legal foundations of society. She plans to pursue law school after graduation with a focus on environmental law. Emma has always been interested…
