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

"The GreenMBA is a departure from Business-As-Usual. Where most business schools include the environment and CSR as electives or footnotes, they serve as our foundations. I feel honored and fortunate for the opportunity to participate in this transformative process--of myself and the business world.

Small cohort sizes are amazing--we each have a voice that is heard regularly and the instructors have the freedom to use the most creative and effective exercises with such an intimate group."

Janine Elliott,
Cohort R