05/11/2022
This week CUCS is thrilled to spotlight our very own “Queen of Green”, Virginia Schultz!
When not celebrating April as Poetry Month, Virginia occupies her time with writing poetry, running, observing, making connections, and planning conferences. She carries on a long tradition in her family of restaurants, wine making, and hospitality. Born along the Atlantic coast in Massachusetts, Virginia has lived in 12 different states and twice outside the United States. She attended the University of New Hampshire and Oklahoma State where she received her Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (Animal Science). After a two-year stint on a Limousin Cattle Ranch in SE Oklahoma she returned to higher education and received her Master of Science (Agricultural Economics) from Purdue University. Virginia also holds a Professional
Certificate in Sustainability Management from CU Boulder.
For the last three decades, she has lived in the mixed Ponderosa Pine/Doug Fir forests of the Front Range listening to the birds and watching the change of the seasons where she built a strawbale house and where she and her husband raised their daughter. She is active in her community’s fire preparedness and resiliency planning. An active road, track, XC, and trail runner you can often find her on a summer’s night at the Boulder
Road Runners All-Comers Track Meets at CU’s Potts Field. Her poems often free-wheeling romps about living on our Big Blue Ball without regret.
Virginia is most proud of Encouraging sustainability principles throughout our planning, helping to develop the Green Meetings Checklist, and
CUCS’s 7 Rs: Rethink, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Repurpose, Recover, Reciprocate.
Thank you Virginia for guiding us to be better stewards of our beautiful planet and for your tireless dedication to Team CUCS!
