Third-Year Student Appointed to BU Socially Responsible Investing Committee
October 2020 – Boston University School of Theology (STH) student Breanne MacFarland (MDiv/MSW ’22) was recently appointed to serve as the BU Graduate Student Representative on the Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing, with the Board of Trustees. This is the first time an STH student has been selected to represent their University graduate student peers on this board.
Breanne is in her third year at the School of Theology and the School of Social Work (SSW), as she pursues a dual degree in social work and theology. She is the current president of the STH Student Association. In her application, she wrote about the use fossil fuels in her state of Alaska and their detrimental effects on the environment.
This year, “the group will be working to define a process for the Board of Trustees’ reconsideration of a petition for the University to divest from fossil fuel investments in 2021,” says MacFarland. The group will be meeting at least four times this year, up from twice last year. Additional information on investment issues can be found here.