Contact the Career Development Office

Visit Us Early and Often

Kroon Hall
195 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511-2189, U.S.A.

Phone: 203 432-5126/8920 Fax: 203-432-5528
Email: fescareers@yale.edu
 
Peter Otis, Director
Kroon Hall (203) 432-8920
peter.otis@yale.edu

Kathy Douglas, Associate Director
Kroon Hall (203) 436-4830
kathryn.douglas@yale.edu

Mariann Adams, Administrative Assistant
Kroon Hall (203) 432-5126
mariann.adams@yale.edu

Ellen Arnstein, Peer Career Advisor
ellen.arnstein@yale.edu


Reginald Rex Barrer, Student Assistant and Employer Researcher
reginaldrex.barrer@yale.edu

Alexandra Neinast, Peer Career Advisor
alexandra.neinast@yale.edu


Teodora Stoyanova, Student Assistant and GeO expert
teodora.stoyanova@yale.edu


Howe Wang, Student Assistant and Employer Researcher
howe.z.wang@gmail.com

Wen Wang, Student Assistant and GeO expert
wen.wang@yale.edu

Meet Our Student Staff


Ellen Arnstein is a second year MEM concentrating on social forestry in Latin America (more or less). Her professional experience includes environmental education and urban forestry, with a not-too-brief foray into scientific editing. Most recently she worked as Volunteer Manager with MillionTreesNYC, a program of the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation to plant and care for one million new trees by 2017.

Reginald Rex Barrer is a first year MESc student interested in environmental financial policy, payment for ecosystem services and REDD++ in Southeast Asia. Before coming to the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, he worked with Greenpeace in Southeast Asia, handling regional organization development for each of the country offices in Jakarta, Bangkok and Manila.

Alexandra Neinast is a second year MESc focusing on primate biology and conservation. Her professional experience includes mammalian specimen preparation, science teaching positions in both the Middle East and at Yale, and ESL writing assistance.

Teodora Stoyanova is a second year MEM student interested in corporate environmental management and environmental consulting. After spending the summer in Europe doing an internship with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Teodora is happy to be back to school and working for CDO.  She is happy to help fellow FESers stay informed about all the great job and internship opportunities coming through CDO.

Wen Wang is a first year MESc interested in environmental economics and policy. Before coming to F&ES, she spent 4 years at Peking University majoring in environmental science. During undergraduate study, she also interned at China’s Academy of Fishery Sciences and United Nation Environmental Program Financial Initiative. Wen is happy to help fellow FESers stay informed about all the great job and internship opportunities coming through CDO!

CDO Staff Bios


Stanton “Peter” Otis, Jr., Director
Peter Otis is the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies’ first full-time Director of Career Development. The overall goal of the School’s Career Development Office is to assist master’s and doctoral students in charting courses that will lead them to careers fitting their interests, skills and abilities in harmony with their values. He has worked at Yale since 1994.

He has a bachelor’s degree from Trinity College, Hartford, CT and a master’s in counseling education from the University of New Hampshire. He served in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone as an agricultural extension agent.

Positions in higher education that he has held have included Director of Career Development at Lyndon State College in VT and Plymouth State College in NH. During his nearly 20 years at (now) Plymouth State University, Peter also served as Personnel Director and Director of New Student Orientation and Director of International Student Affairs. In 1986 he created the first one year administrative exchange from the University System of NH and the California State University System that allowed him and his family to live in coastal, northern California while Peter served as Visiting Associate Director at Humboldt State University in its Career Development Center.

In 2000 Peter received an award for Environmental Career Counselor of the Twentieth Century, given by the Environmental Career Center of Hampton, VA.

Family time with his wife, six small grandchildren and their parents, gardening, travel and photography are Peter’s current away-from-F&ES activities. Peter has served as a Director of the Guilford (CT) Land Conservation Trust and as a member of its Westwoods Trails Committee. Currently he is a Vestry member at his church in Branford.

The primary and most satisfying focus of Peter’s career has been the advising and counseling of students and alumni/ae and the linking of these persons with others with mutual interests. A piece of paper attached to Peter’s office door says, “If you love what you do, you get to play for the rest of your life.” He believes he has been blessed with this opportunity to get paid for playing while assisting others.

Mariann Adams, Administrative Assistant
Mariann Adams has been providing administrative support for CDO for thirteen years and has been at F&ES since 1996. She is very interested in environmentalism and the work of F&ES. Mariann is a native of Connecticut, and lives in East Haven with her husband Brian Seaman.

Kathy Douglas, Associate Director
Kathy has over nine years of experience working in Masters and PhD-level student career services at Yale University. She specializes in employer relations, office communications and career programming; and helping students individually and through workshops with job search materials writing, job search strategies, networking and interview preparation. She has expertise in a broad range of environmental careers with a special focus on business/environment opportunities. Kathy has trained as a federal career advisor through the Partnership for Public Service and is a member of NetImpact! and the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Outside of F&ES, she serves on the board of the New Haven YMCA Youth Center as a Member of the Executive Committee and Chair of the Communications Committee.

Before coming to F&ES, Kathy served as Assistant Director of Graduate Career Services at Yale Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, serving as recruiting coordinator and bringing nonacademic career opportunities to PhD and other graduate students in over 70 degree programs.

Kathy holds two MFAs, one in Museum Studies from Syracuse University and one in Creative Writing and Literature from Bennington College.