Jonah Nisenson

Jonah Nisenson started the Green MBA program in 2006 at Dominican University of CA as a part-time student. He studied in his undergraduate years at UC San Diego in biochemistry. He worked for six years in the analytical instrument industry for a firm in Rohnert Park in the capacity of chemist, lab manager, and applications engineer before moving on to work in a family owned business, Access Control Systems and Sonoma Overhead Doors, which installs and services driveway gates and garage doors.

He is particularly interested in travel and has spent time in India, Thailand and Laos along with Mexico. He also enjoys language and speaks French fluently and hopes to live in a country in Latin America to learn Spanish.

Along with being a student, Jonah is active as a leader in the Net Impact Chapter at Dominican University. Net Impact is an international non-profit that seeks to transform business by helping to shape business school curriculum toward a triple bottom line approach and give students the tools to be inspired change agents while they earn their MBAs or work as professionals.

What people are saying about the GreenMBA

"Learning how to "breakdown" a project has been a fabulous tool for me in business.  I am a Facilities/Project Manager by training and have to think "systemically" in my daily work day, however, getting fully engaged in a "project" for class and working on a "team" project takes you deeper into the process.  How to use systemics and critical thinking in determining whether a project is ready "for the street" or whether it needs to be drilled deeper to get the core of what will make it successful.  It's a study in chaos and systems planning.  I find myself thinking about who will be my next "test case" - or victim!!!"

Linda L. Schanfein
Cohort B
GYMBA