Ciannat Howett
Director of Sustainability Initiatives
Emory University

Ciannat is a native of Atlanta. She attended Emory University as an undergraduate, receiving her B.A. in 1987. She then worked at Emory until 1989 as Associate Director of Alumni Giving and the first Director of the Emory Parents Fund. She received her law degree from the University of Virginia in 1992. She practiced environmental law for four years with Kilpatrick Stockton in its Atlanta and Washington, DC offices, was Senior Attorney with the Water Enforcement Division of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. for six years, and, most recently, served for four years as Director of the Southern Environmental Law Center’s Georgia and Alabama office. She is on the Board of Emory Law School’s Turner Environmental Law Clinic, the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences, the Sustainable Atlanta Advisory Board, the Grants 2 Green Advisory Board, and has served on the Georgia Attorney General’s Water Advisory Council. For the past three years, she has been named a “Georgia Super Lawyer” by Atlanta magazine. She became Emory’s first Director of Sustainability Initiatives on Sept. 1, 2006, managing a University-wide effort to ensure that the University’s actions and policies support environmental, social, and economic systems that provide a healthy, productive, and meaningful life for current and future generations.

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