Kendon Jung
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Phone: 480-965-1128
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1551 S Rural Rd USB Zero Waste Tempe, AZ 85281
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Mail code: 5104Campus: Tempe
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Student Information
Graduate StudentDesign, Environment and the Arts (Design)
Herberger Institute
Fulbright Germany 2024/2025 Finalist;
TH Köln International School of Design, Visitng Faculty of Cultural Sciences.
Driving strategic innovation in policy, operations, communications, and design for a circular economy, social impact, resilience, and sustainability, Kendon Jung is a designer of resilient enterprises and a global futures scholar at Arizona State University. His vision is to build human potential by making sustainable futures universally accessible and tangible. Kendon has been at the forefront of desert water policy, global corporate social impact, and urban resiliency in three nationally recognized research centers, bringing extensive experience in working with local businesses, non-profits, and public agencies to achieve sustainability goals.
A versatile and driven leader, Kendon handles numerous and varied responsibilities in a fast-paced environment with over 15 years of experience in the field. He is a strategic, goal-oriented professional who thrives in building new initiatives. His detailed-oriented organization skills, capacity building through interdisciplinary stakeholder engagement, and cultivation of scalable solutions through creative problem-solving have been evident throughout his professional journey.
Notably, Kendon has led the City of Tempe's Sustainability and Resilience Commission for almost a decade, employing innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and long-term visioning to help guide Tempe towards a more sustainable future. His academic background includes a Bachelor's in Sustainable Urban Dynamics and a Master's in Higher and Postsecondary Education from ASU, and he is currently completing a Fulbright Fellowship in Germany as part of his doctorate research to explore how design can create holistic environments that elevate sustainable transitions.
Above all else, Kendon Jung is relentless in his commitment to and pursuit of sustainable solutions for all, dedicated to empowering individuals and making a positive impact on the world.
🌎 Born 350.86 ppm CO₂;📍33.4484° N, 112.0740° W.
Arizona State University
- Doctorate of Philosophy: Design, Environment, and the Arts (In progress)
- Master of Education: Higher and Postsecondary Education
- Bachelor of Arts: Sustainable Urban Dynamics
- Design and embed sustainable systems to positively impact human behavior
- Policy development to support environmental and educational governance reform
- Integrate nano-techonology capabilities to increase enterprise mobility and strengthen security
- Analyze public and organization decision making under uncertainty
- Visioning and managing change: analyzing strategic designers' approaches in salient podcast episodes (site)
- Are service designers positioned to design for sustainability? (site)
- Explore the online interdisciplinary co-design in higher education (site)
- From researching to making futures: a design mindset for transdisciplinary collaboration (site)
- Evaluating the Impacts of Zero Waste Initiatives on Fan Beliefs and Behaviors at Sporting Events (site)
- Value-based scenarios of water governance and use in Central Arizona: Possible Pathways for Future Development Poster (site)
- Envisioning water futures in the greater Phoenix area: What do we want the future to look like? Poster (site)
Fulbright Germany 2024/2025 Recipient
TH Köln International School of Design, Visiting Faculty of Cultural Sciences
- Fulbright Germany 2024/2025 Finalist
- ASU President's Award for Sustainability: Produce Rescue at ASU (May 2020)
- ACUI Excellence in Innovations in Sustainability: Produce Rescue at ASU (Febuary 2020)
- Giving is Living Fellowship (August 2015)
- Design Research Society Member: (2023 - Present)
- The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education: Member (2016 - Present)
- Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education: Sustainability Knowledge Community Member (2018 - 2021)
- Arizona Green Chamber of Commerce: Member (2013 - 2020)
City of Tempe Sustainability Commission
- Commissioner: 2024 - Present
- Vice Chair: 2023 - 2024
- Chair: 2019 - 2023
- Vice Chair: 2015 - 2018
- Water Subcommittee: 2017 - 2018
- Monarch Council: 2016 - 2021
- Sustainability Initiatives Taskforce: 2017 - 2019
NASPA Sustainability Knowledge Community
- Board Member: 2018 - 2021
ASU School of Sustainability Alumni Chapter
- Honorary Board Member: 2015 - 2016; 2017 - 2019
- Outreach and Engagement Coordinator: 2016 - 2017
- Board Member: 2017 - 2019
- Sustainability Chair: 2016 - 2017
- One Young World Representative: 2016
- Volunteer: 2011 - 2017